Where to buy the album

If you’re a contemporary Kiwi you’ve heard of Supergroove, in which case you’ve also inadvertently heard of two thirds of Svelte and the other third is usually mentioned in the shadow of his father - any one who’s watched Outrageous Fortune has heard the band Hello Sailor before, but they probably did not know it was his father that played bass on track 8 of their 2006 acoustic album. He’s also known as the cousin of Nicky Watson’s Ex, who is also famous for being the drummer in an underground New Zealand band, Blindspott. Let not the background of this supergroup sway you; when this album drops Svelte will be famous for their own merits.

The first track ‘Grind your Bones’ announces the album like a 4’’ by 2’’ of driving Southern Rock n’ Blues, riddled with earworms and commanding you to tap your foot or in the very least get up and start swinging You’ve probably heard this song before on the student radio stations, maybe even on the mainstream, but you probably didn’t realise who or what it was, or how addicted to the line “Time is running out” you were about to become.

The music and the lyrics compliment each other in such a way that the each song paints a vivid images of a unique visual landscape from a Mississippi chain gang in ‘Rock Song No. 1’ to the interior of a Mexican abode in Tijuana to an emptying Auckland pub on a Friday night / Saturday morning in ‘Friday.’

Read the full review here.

 

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