[{"id":399999205614,"handle":"flying-nun-records","updated_at":"2024-11-04T08:40:05+11:00","published_at":"2022-02-08T16:04:47+11:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"web","title":"Flying Nun Records","body_html":"","image":{"created_at":"2022-02-08T16:04:46+11:00","alt":null,"width":300,"height":300,"src":"\/\/flyingnunaustralia.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/L-20365-1498236818-5866.jpg?v=1644296686"}},{"id":400005693678,"handle":"robert-scott","updated_at":"2023-08-08T01:47:05+10:00","published_at":"2022-02-08T20:23:40+11:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"web","title":"Robert Scott","body_html":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobert Scott's list of music projects over the years reads like a who's who of alternative New Zealand rock for the past 3 decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHis main role of course has been as bass-player, song-writer and non-Kilgour in legendary New Zealand noisy jangle-pop pioneers The Clean. He's just as well-known as singer, guitarist and songwriter for his equally enduring band The Bats, and helmed the acclaimed Magick Heads for their brief but productive time on earth in the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn amongst those commitments he's been involved in a bewildering variety of less well-known groups from the long running family \u0026amp; friends cassette band Electric Blood to the short-lived Gina Rocco \u0026amp; the Rockettes, while contributing to various Flying Nun Records super-groups like The Weeds along the way and drawing or painting the cover art for many memorable Flying Nun Records album sleeves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobert has a long history as a self-taught artist. Starting off drawing his own war comics because his parents wouldn't let him buy them, he soon progressed to a cartoon-illustrated music fanzine Every Secret Thing in the 1980s. He still contributes comic art to various underground publications. He paints strange and exotic art, in a distinctive \"comic-realist\" style and often with a surreal sci-fi bent, which he sells when travelling the world playing with The Clean and The Bats. In his spare time Robert works as a teacher-aide at his local school, often involving song-writing and art-making projects with the kids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSurprisingly Robert has also found time to release some solo albums. The largely instrumental, experimental The Creeping Unknown came out in 2001 and in 2010 he released the brilliant Ends Run Together (both on Flying Nun Records). In between times he has released some low-key solo albums including Songs of Otago's Past (an album of local folk songs), Tascam Hits and an EP Tudor Gates all on Powertool Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobert lives in Port Chalmers, a charming but oddly paradoxical blue-collar artistic harbour town squeezed between the hills and the sea 10 minutes drive from Dunedin. The century-old buildings on the main street are dwarfed by the triffid-like cranes of the container port down the end of the street. If you visit Port Chalmers you may even find Robert out and about, or dancing under the mirror-ball at Chicks Hotel at 1am, or playing solo, or with his occasional solo band The Moreporks (who cover The Bats and The Clean), or with his even more occasional real covers band The Club Swingers (Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Devo etc. played Scott-style).\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2022-02-11T10:42:19+11:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"\/\/flyingnunaustralia.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/Robert_Scott_Flying_Nun_Chris_Reid_1_SQUARE.jpg?v=1644536539"}},{"id":400792649966,"handle":"vinyl","updated_at":"2024-08-27T12:25:16+10:00","published_at":"2022-02-21T19:43:05+11:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"web","title":"Vinyl","body_html":""}]
The third solo album fromRobert Scott(The Clean,The Bats) is an outstanding album of 13 engaging songs, as likely to appeal to any fan of great alternative pop as much as to those already familiar with his past projects. ToRobertsguitar and voice (which has never sounded better) are added the talents of fellow Clean-erDavid Kilgour, and miraculously, evenLesley Paris(Look Blue, Go Purple) has been coaxed back onto a drumkit for some of the songs.
Jam-packed full of pop hooks,Ends Run Togetherfeatures everything from squalling guitar rock (On the Lake,Too Early), dreamy pastoral folk (Days Run Together), through to the driving krautrock-ish pop ofDaylight.
Scott does one thing and he does it well: writes beautifully crafted, folk-influenced pop songs.THREE THOUSAND
Ends Run Together takes me to places I need to check into more often. -UNDERTHERADAR
"...it is Scott's show and again you are in awe of the breadth of his musical vision....Scott, by virtue of those pivotal bands he has been in, is a mainstay of Flying Nun so it is only right he should be back on the resurrected label. With this quiet-loud collection he's done them and himself proud. Wonderful stuff."
-GRAHAM REID - ELSEWHERE
Tracklisting
On The Lake
Carmilla
Days Run Together
Too Early
Messages
The Moon Upstairs
Greenwood Tree
Born In A Tent
The Rising Tide
Some Other Time
Daylight
Tuscan Nights
Terminus
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