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

"...All the songs brim with individual otherworldly invention and collectively transport us to an uncanny parallel universe. A universe that in some ways might be a grossly distorted and amplified view of late 1980s Dunedin as glimpsed at by sane and sober visitors..."

Louis Likes His Daily Dip is a remarkable record, a marker of Tall Dwarf musical ambition and the blueprint of the record making methodology that they would follow over the subsequent years when making their best recordings.

This Sporting Life were the necessary disrupting outsiders that helped mix and mess things up. They made Show Me to the Bellrope and helped to make Flying Nun a more interesting musical place.

The Able Tasmans debut release, The Tired Sun 12” was considered a bit of an oddity at the time with its keyboard led quirky full sound. And with the term “oddity” comes the unspoken implication that this is a one-off novelty.