Song title: Down in Splendour
Artist: Straitjacket Fits
Year: 1990
Why I like this song:
Here's something I've been listening to recently: Early nineties New Zealand band Straitjacket Fits.
It is always fascinating to hear alternative music from the early-nineties/pre-Nirvana because much of it has since been forgotten. But hearing it now is hear a document from something that did exist - and still continues to exists even it got pushed aside.
It is been a frequented observation that when a new sound comes along and/or someone becomes successful, one can expect a whole of soundalikes suddenly emerge. And upon hearing this, I kind of get the impression that is a bunch of Kiwis hearing the shoegaze movement n the U.K. and putting their own spin on it - although honestly it sounds more indebted to Ride than My Bloody Valentine.
And it's that Antipodean take on a movement half a world away that makes this so compelling.
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