DEAD C DR503 LP flying nun RARE MINT
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Description
very rare first vinyl album by the DEAD C from 1987 on FLYING NUN DR503, not to be confused with the later DR503b or DR503c releases. cover has some small spine creases, vinyl is in mint condition/unplayed.
tracklist:
max harris / speed kills / the wheel / three years
mutterline / country / I love this / polio
the dead c: robbie yeats / bruce russell / michael morley
engineered by Michael Stoodley and Peter Jeffries
the trouser press guide says this, although it seems to refer to 2 tracks not on this record. guh!
"You could be forgiven for thinking of New Zealand as one of those pastoral spots where the sun always shines and the natives are given to the creation of cordial jangle-pop. Every stretch of terra firma has its less-illuminated stretches, however, and few Kiwis have probed their motherland's darker side more effectively than this prolific (yet shadowy) combo. Formed in 1987 by Bruce Russell (founder of the influential Xpressway label), avant-noise veteran Michael Morley and former Verlaines drummer Robbie Yeats, the Dead C has created an uncompromising (some might say undifferentiated) corpus of work that exists in the shadowlands between hell-spawned noise and fallen-angel beauty.
The trio's earliest work was issued in micro-mini editions on cassette only-an appropriate state, given the grit-encrusted lo-fi recordings. By the time DR503 saw the light of day, there had been a moderate upgrade, but not so much as to frighten off unreconstructed Luddites: "Sun Stabbed" (which turns up in a longer version on the subsequent EP) is carried by a skittering, highly caffeinated rhythm, overlaid by harsh guitar scrapings, while "Angel" buries whatever structure might be present under brittle sheets of electronic discord. A brutal prologue."
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