A cynic might say this record is a testament of personal alienation made under trade-wind tropical rainforest weather conditions

Filtering the classic romanticism of Dusty Springfield and the Shangri-Las through their own kaleidoscopic aesthetic

whose growing catalog of collaborative and solo releases range from song-based work to abstract audio collages

and the mourning cries of its fellow cattle as they see it struck down

” the album is replete with musical nods to erstwhile masters

DRESS - s/t LP garage A cynic might say thisEdition of 500 + 16 page booklet By the mid 1990s, there was a quietly thriving underground in Wellington, New Zealand, made up of a number of loosely aligned operatives Surface of The Earth and their World Resources imprint; Fever Hospital and 8 Dec, and the music made by the members of The Garbage & the Flowers after that group temporarily dissolved in 1992" One of those rather short lived groups was Dress, who on record consisted of Yuri Frusin and