New Zealand Music Features — Subliminals

POWERED UP ON SIPHONED PETROL - THE STORY OF THE SUBLIMINALS 'UNITED STATE'

POWERED UP ON SIPHONED PETROL - THE STORY OF THE SUBLIMINALS 'UNITED STATE'

Described by music afficionado Grant Smithies in his 2007 book ‘Soundtrack. 118 Great New Zealand Albums’ as a "brisk, exciting, highly addictive record and a classic of the Nun canon", the 2000 release of the Subliminals debut (and only) album ‘United State’ was the realisation of the musical vision of an unlikely collaboration who bonded as a formidable unit, albeit for a far too brief period of time. The Subliminals were a natural product of Flying Nun in the second half of the 1990's. Three of the band members had been in or were currently in other Flying Nun bands...

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