The Auckland-based 'Dead Famous People' first emerged in the 1980s but never go round to releasing a proper LP. Fire Records come to the rescue to enable Dons Savage and friends a second chance.
Unsurprisingly, given their band name, they don't specialize in serious, soul-searching songs. Instead, we get ten jangly pop tunes that seem blissfully unaware that the last three decades ever happened.
The tone is set by the tongue-in-cheek Looking At Girls in which a man's wandering eye causes a car crash.
Dead Bird's Eye is described as "a parable of environmentalism through the misdeeds of a small child" but the hey-ho, let's go retro mood means that big issues are, at best, marginal distractions.
hear 'Harry' at Bandcamp
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