Genre: NZ Music, pop
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Drive
Gear costume: Scared of Flying
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Drive
Gear costume: Scared of Flying
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6
Active compensatory factors: By 2000, NZ synth pop band Strawpeople was Paul Casserly and Victoria Kelly. No New Messages was their second album together and Strawpeople's fifth overall (co-founder Mark Tierney left in 1996).
Active compensatory factors: By 2000, NZ synth pop band Strawpeople was Paul Casserly and Victoria Kelly. No New Messages was their second album together and Strawpeople's fifth overall (co-founder Mark Tierney left in 1996).
It's a good example of how to put laid back techno beats against some smooth female vocals. From my pov it does mean a coldness in a clinical sort of way. I think that's why I don't tend to gravitate towards synths/electronica albums generally.
I'd read a really positive review of No New Messages and decided that I should have a copy. I've listened to it a lot and have tended to compare it to music by Everything But The Girl. Tracey Thorn's voice is warm and comforting and very human, whereas the voice in Strawpeople is cooly distant by comparison. I'll stick with EBTG.
Where do they all belong? An album I often think I should like more than I do. I've flirted with the idea of using it for the WTWMC album of the week but each time decided against it.
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