Cuticles Major Works (Vinyl)

Oamaru, located about 80 miles north of Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island, might seem like the last place you expect to find a prodigious racket like Cuticles, but ain’t that a kick? You just never know.

Formed around the nucleus of Austen McMillian, Matthew Plunkett (ex Trendees) & Lisa Preston (Nux Vomica, The Portage) a couple years back, they’ve been stacking up the hits & on ‘Major Works’, it’s time to cash in.

There’s 18 tracks here & Cuticles chew through’em w/abandon. Someone just yelled out from the tree next door, “Sounds like the Pastels! With guns!” One could make a case for the South Island Sound coursing through their veins (they do live there after all), for the sheer abandon-pop that gushes off these grooves, but to these ears is heard a mutant strain of Shoe This High meets The Swingers. But there are no wrong answers, just bathe in the Cuticles hyper-mesmerizing aural swirl.|

Tracklist:
A1 Mattress 1:57
A2 Rogue Feather, Life Hunter 2:02
A3 Helping Out My Dad 1:43
A4 Architect 2:12
A5 Not What 2:47
A6 Cheese In My Brain 1:54
A7 FB Guy Is Crude 1:24
A8 Wind? 3:51
A9 Rabbit Fur Lined Glove 3:17
B1 Democracy Or Dictatorship 3:28
B2 Respect The Builders 1:36
B3 Holiday Cracks 1:34
B4 Afterlife 2:19
B5 Gasp, Aghast 2:19
B6 Pile 3:05
B7 Radio Hams 1:34
B8 Maternity/Eternity 1:21
B9 Steal My Statue 2:34