Mercy PSYCH “Psychedelic flower-punk” with “songs in

“Psychedelic flower-punk” with “songs in no particular hurry

With its scurrying textures and frosty drones

The creative perspective of the band has always been about unlearning the narrative and musical knowledge that shape the physical and digital formats and conceptions available

They had already added heroic doses of post-punk and other influences to the thrash-punk roots on their first full-length Catharsis

a dream-like sequence of outback minutiae

Mercy PSYCH “Psychedelic flower-punk” with “songs inDigital Regress's foray into the fabled NZ underground hops over to the North Island for two exquisite pieces of acoustic DIY and shadowy, cracked pastoralia. After a few years spleen venting at the front of Wellington art brutes Shoes This High, Brent Hayward struck out on his own, self releasing a few EPs as Smelly Feet before forming The Kiwi Animal with Julie Cooper in 1982. The duo released their first album, Music Media, on Massage Records