Robert Scott Creeping Unknown
Format: CD.
Label: Thirsty Ear.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M7011
Approximate release date: February 6, 2001.
Genres: Rock/Pop
Price: $14.93 [Out of Stock]
List price:$15.97
Track listing:
1. "Harmonic Deluxe"
2. "Shelf Control"
3. "Details At Play"
4. "Last Outlaws"
5. "International Lost Adjuster"
6. "Fog And Wind"
7. "Extinguisher"
8. "Footbridge"
9. "The Creeping Unknown"
10. "2nd Hand Air"
11. "Somewhere On The Coast"
12. "The Wick Effect"
13. "The Slow Room"
14. "When Shade Was Made"
15. "Morepork Make It Home"
16. "Creek Country"
17. "Navigator"
18. "Upper Lab"
19. "Near To A Beautiful Park"
Twee Kitten review of Creeping Unknown
by Keith McLachlan
Maybe all of the legendary NZ pop songsmiths are starting to feel their age but the recent need to unload all of the scraps hanging around in their pop star garages might seem a bit desperate. Martin from the Chills is releasing a box set of what could have beens and here Robert Scott is releasing a bunch of almost weres. Actually that is a bit off cause most everything on display here is delightful. It is Robert Scott after all so how could it not be? Right.
Robert's role in the Clean has never been clear to me. He is the most prolific songwriter of the three but often the music in the Clean veered long distances from Robert's dominant strain of pop that he expresses so gracefully in the Bats and Magick Heads. The Clean were chugging where Robert was so often dreamy and pastorally effervescent. Most of this is wintry and desolate and vocal-less. A few cuts do actually remind of Roy Montgomery's 'Scenes From The South Island' but mostly it is a dissection of all of the best elements of a Bats album that are usually not taken in this piecemeal fashion and thus sometimes left unappreciated.
This is the problem with hemispherics though. As was noted before this is a wintry record surely cherished by we here in the Northern Hemisphere but what of our compadres in the South where it is only now turning to summer? And what of the sad Ecuadorians? One day they may be of the north and next of the south where there toilets are as alien as the concept of wind chill. Of course toilet flow is a function of volume and not geography oh but then they don't even have seasons, being tropical and having the average highs not waver more than 10 degrees annually, and neither really does Auckland where this record originates (home of the now terribly sick and bed-ridden, at least creatively, flying nun records). It is very nearly tropical itself so maybe they have lost their bearings when it comes to meteorological affectations of pop music and released this record in a state of financially effulgent bliss.
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Format: CD.
Label: Thirsty Ear.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M7011
Approximate release date: February 6, 2001.
Genres: Rock/Pop
Price: $14.93 [Out of Stock]
List price:
Track listing:
1. "Harmonic Deluxe"
2. "Shelf Control"
3. "Details At Play"
4. "Last Outlaws"
5. "International Lost Adjuster"
6. "Fog And Wind"
7. "Extinguisher"
8. "Footbridge"
9. "The Creeping Unknown"
10. "2nd Hand Air"
11. "Somewhere On The Coast"
12. "The Wick Effect"
13. "The Slow Room"
14. "When Shade Was Made"
15. "Morepork Make It Home"
16. "Creek Country"
17. "Navigator"
18. "Upper Lab"
19. "Near To A Beautiful Park"
Twee Kitten review of Creeping Unknown
by Keith McLachlan
Maybe all of the legendary NZ pop songsmiths are starting to feel their age but the recent need to unload all of the scraps hanging around in their pop star garages might seem a bit desperate. Martin from the Chills is releasing a box set of what could have beens and here Robert Scott is releasing a bunch of almost weres. Actually that is a bit off cause most everything on display here is delightful. It is Robert Scott after all so how could it not be? Right.
Robert's role in the Clean has never been clear to me. He is the most prolific songwriter of the three but often the music in the Clean veered long distances from Robert's dominant strain of pop that he expresses so gracefully in the Bats and Magick Heads. The Clean were chugging where Robert was so often dreamy and pastorally effervescent. Most of this is wintry and desolate and vocal-less. A few cuts do actually remind of Roy Montgomery's 'Scenes From The South Island' but mostly it is a dissection of all of the best elements of a Bats album that are usually not taken in this piecemeal fashion and thus sometimes left unappreciated.
This is the problem with hemispherics though. As was noted before this is a wintry record surely cherished by we here in the Northern Hemisphere but what of our compadres in the South where it is only now turning to summer? And what of the sad Ecuadorians? One day they may be of the north and next of the south where there toilets are as alien as the concept of wind chill. Of course toilet flow is a function of volume and not geography oh but then they don't even have seasons, being tropical and having the average highs not waver more than 10 degrees annually, and neither really does Auckland where this record originates (home of the now terribly sick and bed-ridden, at least creatively, flying nun records). It is very nearly tropical itself so maybe they have lost their bearings when it comes to meteorological affectations of pop music and released this record in a state of financially effulgent bliss.
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