June 2013
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IN STORES THIS WEEK!
IN STORES THIS WEEK!
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Album results for L
Cast a Line
Not Food Hungry
Show Pony
The Onus of Sand
#2 EP
A New World
Acid & Alkaline
Aftershock EP
All Moments Leading To This
An Implied Desire
Anxiety
Chanteuses and Shotguns
Clean Break
Composing Motion
Dawn Planes
Debut
Debut
Degrees K
Electric Animal Empire
Everything Unwinds
FOMO
Goddess of Love
Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between (EP)
Here on the Ground
High Risk
Hybrid Flower
I Can Still Do It!
In The Land Of Music
Ladyhawke
Landlines
Last Man Standing
Lawrence Arabia
Leeches EP
Legacy of Disorder
Letter From My Heart
Linn Lorkin's Kiwiana
Listen Up
Live At The Matterhorn
Live In Concert With The NZSO
Los Muertos
Lost Earth
Lost Rockets EP
Love Blood
Love Will Find A Way (EP)
Luckless EP
Me and Moon
Mississippi2Mauao
Mutate Or Die
New Hot Nights
Noodlehouse
Now And Then
Nuggety
One Feather at a Time
Out Of The Blue (Apollodorus Music)
Parallax
Pendulum
Postcards From West Auckland
Pow Bang
Running Down The Keys
Shimmer
Sometimes
Special Surprise
Spiritual People
State House Kid
Stolen Moments
Stop! The Music is Over - The HMV Recordings
Stuff Like That
Sunset Over Cairo
Syntheology
The Best Of
The Electric Forest
The Night's Plutonian Shore
The Sparrow
The Water EP
There’s Still Time
Think Outside
Tinpot Guru
Tsunami Sound Chill
Vesuvius
Wake
Wasted Youth
Last Man Down: State House Kid
By Renee Jones
Songwriter/keyboardist Ross Mullins’ landmark 1985 album is reissued here with its 1986 successor ‘This Sporting Life’ on the one disc. I bought ‘State House Kid’ when it was first released, intrigued by Mullins’ short story-like songs, peopled with elderly uncles, urban teenagers, rugby heroes, beneficiaries and a varied cast of others. Each song is a vignette, set to slick jazz/pop arrangements. The roll-call of musicians isimpressive: Steve Garden, the late Mike Farrell, the Newton Hoons‚ Mike Russell and Chris Green, Annie Crummer – to name but a few. The music is
smooth and stylish – of its time certainly, but really not dated. Mullins’ vocals are understated and far from flashy, but lend themselves well to the
stories he spins. There are gently humourous tracks, but the strongest songs are the sombre numbers – State House Kid, Featherston and Missing are genuinely moving, as is the interpretation of James K. Baxter’s poem The
Bay. Strongly recommended to fans of NZ jazz, and those who enjoy well-crafted lyrics.
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