Dunedin Sound
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Dunedin is a southern New Zealand University Town that spawned "The Dunedin Sound". Similar in many ways to the traditional indie pop sound, the Dunedin Sound uses "jingly jangly" guitaring, minimal bass lines and loose drumming. Seemingly influenced by bands like The Velvet Underground, keyboards are often prevalent. Amateur recording techniques also gave this genre a lo-fi sound that endeared its earnest music, but occasionally hard to understand vocal accompaniment, to university students worldwide.
New Zealand based Flying Nun Records championed "The Dunedin Sound", starting with their earliest releases (including The Clean's single Tally ho! and the four-band compilation Dunedin Double EP), and many artists gained a dedicated "college music" following in the USA and Europe. The heyday of the movement was in the mid-to-late 1980s, although music in the style is still being recorded and released.
California's Pavement is but one overseas band that claims the Dunedin sound as a major influence.
Though the bands themselves tend to eschew the genre title, "Dunedin Sound" bands include:
- The Bats
- The Clean
- The Chills
- Look Blue Go Purple
- Sneaky Feelings
- Straitjacket Fits
- The Tall Dwarfs
- The Verlaines
External links
- Flying Nun History 1980-1995 (http://flyingnun.co.nz/history.cfm)
- Martin Phillipps & The Chills' Official Homepage (http://www.softbomb.com/)