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Fire Records & Bo Weavil Recordings are extremely proud to present the long-awaited re-issue of The Garbage & The Flowers' classic double album Eyes Rind As If Beggars, a sprawling collection of fragile melodies, abrasive improvisations and velvet voices. The story of The Garbage & The Flowers, by some measure Wellington's most brilliant pop band, is equal parts classic underground rock'n'roll and a hazy ramshackle history pockmarked with bursts of genius and stoned rehearsals. Rare is it for any band to garner so much underground acclaim while leading such a nebulous existence. A small handful of releases, compilation appearances and few live shows make for a curious stop/start history. Tension can produce the goods and tension was what watered The Garbage & The Flowers. Yuri Frusin (guitar, songwriting) and Helen Johnstone (viola, vocals, now bass) met in their teens sometime in the 1980s. Naming themselves after a line in Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" and taking cues from The Velvet Underground, the band has existed in some shape or form since, with help from Paul Yates, Heath Cozens, Torben Tilly, Rachel Davies, Kristen Wineera, and Stuart Porter. When asked recently about the group, original drummer Tilly offers a particularly apt description of their sound: "What I loved about the music we created is that it sounded like it had come from somewhere faraway, that it had traveled a lot of distance and gathered some dust and debris along the way. That said, despite its unhinged qualities we were never really a noise-band even though some strange and beautiful electromagnetic noise would make it to tape. Most of the time it was all deeply rooted in a song." This, of course, is one of the greatest parts of The Garbage & The Flowers' charm. They really did seem out there, on their own, absorbed in their own world, dropping gem after gem of fractal noise-pop onto slowly corroding four-track cassettes, willing these songs into existence just long enough to let them catch breath and glide away from the speakers for a few moments, before Frusin and Johnstone would knuckle down and write yet more beautiful melodies for beautiful losers. This is a rock'n'roll classic which will whip the wigs off all the crystalline clowns today. Includes a bonus full-length disc of additional material (compilation tracks, previously unreleased material, etc.)
- Bo Weavil Recordings, in conjunction with Fire Records, presents the long-awaited re-issue of The Garbage & The Flowers' classic double album from Wellington, NZ band Eyes Rind As If Beggars (1997).
- Lo-fi Velvet Underground-summoning psychedelia from the '90s.
- Comes with a bonus full-length CD of additional material.
Tracks on this Double LP + CD edition are as follows:
- A1: Love Comes Slowly Now
- A2: Nothing Going Down
- A3: Carousel
- A4: Sweet Pea
- B1: Rosicrucian Lovers
- B2 Martial Sign
- B3 Garymoy
- B4: Prince Of Thieves
- C1: Carousel (Live)
- C2: Your Williams Baby
- D1: Lucy In Her Pink Jacket
- D2: Holy Holy Blue
- D3: Nothing Going Down At All
- CD1: Nothing Going Down At All
- CD2: Catnip
- CD3: Counting Stars
- CD4: Holy Holy Blue (Rehearsal)
- CD5: Carousel (Studio Version)
- CD6: Lucy In Her Pink Jacket (Studio Version)
- CD7: Catherine Is Only Listening
- CD8: Prince Of Thieves (Bonus)
- CD9: Your Williams Baby (Bonus)
- CD10: Born In The Dark, Dear
- CD11: Holy Holy Blue (Original Version)
- CD12: Nothing Going Down At All (Studio Version)
- CD13: No One Will Ever Know (with Merlene Chambers)