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JOHN WHITE: The Inkadies

Former Dunedinite (now Wellington-based) John White fronted well known fuzz-pop band Mëstar, has toured with the sadly defunct Cloudboy, and released two solo albums in a musical career that has been going for over a decade. Seven years after 2003’s ‘Mogwash’ comes the latest album of White’s ethereal dream pop, a continuation of his stories of the title characters, who are creatures from an otherland. Recorded by Tom Hanson in Madison, Wisconsin, ‘The Inkadies’ often sounds murky but is full of pretty synth bells, mellotrons, folky acoustic guitars and broken pianos, paired with some of the disturbing lyrical images that provide sinister undertones, as in The Boy That I saw That Day and Ashes Grey. White’s music has always had a mark of folkiness but songs like Juvendee Hill and Golden Anchor point to him becoming more of a storyteller, with vivid images in his lyrics. ‘The Inkadies’ is a short, but welcome return, out on Monkey Records’ label, and we can all hope it won’t be another seven years before he completes his next solo record.

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