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Yep, Birchville Cat Motel are from NZ and are probably one of my favorite bands of the last five to six years. It's basically one guy, Campbell Kneale, who also runs one of the best labels around, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. Check out anything on his label cuz it's all great. I would recommend "Beautiful Speck Triumph" as start off point (Speck was the name of his unborn child at the point of recording which is really cute) but he's released a new killer album called "Chi Vampires" which catalyzes a lot of his more Sunn0)) tendencies as of late. There's a ton of hard to get Cdrs he's put out on CPP which are all worth hunting down.
Then there's Antony Milton from NZ. He concentrates mostly on droney Dead C type of stuff but his stuff is more diverse. He's got a band with Campbell Kneale called With Throats as Fine as Needles which is great drone-synth-weird-shit. He also collaborates with the likes of Stephen Neville and Clayton Noone (sic?) who are in the great avant rock NZ bands, Pumice, and CJA (respectively). The amount of bands these guys all play in is immense, ranging from gutter/synth punk called The Futurians to sprawling avant rock instrumental stuff from The Stumps. Almost all of it has merit and is really exciting.
Dean Roberts is from NZ but I think he's living in Austria the last time I've heard so I'm not sure if he counts. He was in the NZ band, White Winged Moth and he's put out a couple of good albums on Kranky if you want more contemporary stuff of his. He has a nice, soothing but dynamic band called the Autistic Daughters with Martin Brandlmyr (Radian, Trapist) on percussion and Werner Dafeldecker (Efzeg, Poire_Z, etc) on bass, as well. Robert's stuff can range from static drones to pleasent indie rock and I'm always surprised more people don't know about him and his bands. Worth checking out if you lean to more polished work than the guys above. |
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