Salad Boys – This Is Glue

Salad Boys show enough diversity to stand out from their country & the commonwealth....
Salad Boys : This Is Glue
7.4 Trouble In Mind
2018 

Salad Boys : This Is GlueTucked in the south end of the Pacific, New Zealand is a little slice of Britannia on the other side of the world, the polite, less populated Canada to Australia’s rowdy America. Like Britain, it has punched above its weight in culture, from Xena to Peter Jackson’s Tolkien movies to Flight of the Conchords to indie-pop, the last of which going back decades. The most recent to strum the indie-pop spell is Christchurch’s Salad Boys, on their enjoyable debut LP, This Is Glue.

Glue opens with the Anglo-incisive “Blown Up”, but for the most part the record is a relaxed and fuzzy one, with such pieces as “Right Time”, “In Heaven”, and “Dogged Out”. There is also some R.E.M.-esque jangle-rock in “Psych Slasher”, and even a colloquial, conversational “Scenic Route To Nowhere” more akin to lower-class London (accent included).

While not the next coming of Crowded House or Straitjacket Fits, on This Is Glue Salad Boys show enough diversity to stand out from their country & the commonwealth.

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