Man on The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown - by Roger Shepherd — Man on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

To me, Fazerdaze’s album, Morningside, oozes the languid heat and fuggy humidity of Auckland late in summer. It's an album of  beautiful restrained modern pop songs. Songs that are dreamlike fuzz guitar masterpieces.

This is an album of beautiful variation and surprise. Reflective and soulful as well as driving and spontaneous, this is an ambitious album showing a deceptively complex, broad and mature musical vision at work...

Schwimmen in der See is an integral part of Bill Direen’s oeuvre and sits at the heart of a substantial body of recorded work that stretches from Six Impossible Things right through to 1983’s Beatin Hearts album and beyond. These are songs that are both complex and unique in themselves, but are also a part of a cohesive timeless body of work.

The band were back with Flying Nun and no one there knew what was coming, apart from a few good but vague words from people in the know. When Skeptics III arrived back from the pressing plant, everyone knew from the opening bars of 'Affco' that this immense musical noise was something special.