Auckland New Zealand's Garageland made a big splash with their debut record Come Back Special in August 1995. The BFM favourites came out with five fresh pop songs that suggested a new wave of musicians were clutching the classic Flying Nun catalogue for inspiration and taking off to the garage to jam. With their guitars turned up to warm reverb and tossing off words not just with the lazy abandon so favoured by the modern American underground but in Garageland – Last Exit To Garageland the way that great NZ bands have always mumbled their way through a catchy tune, Garageland were July 14, 2017 mining a rich musical vein. CATLOGUE: FN350 FILE UNDER: INDIE, POP In order of appearance, these songs also suggest that WORLD EXCL. AUSTRALIA, NZ LP BOX LOT: 20 (1) the line "come back, all is forgiven" is something LP BARCODE: 942190363483 worth shouting at the rooftops if you truly believe a former loved one doesn't know what they're missing, (2) Billy Joel is an arsehole, (3) you can't go wrong if you try and write thundering VINYL NON-RETURNABLE riffs like The Clean. (4) ditto on the riff -- but add some guitar squall for TRACK LIST: tasty spicing, and 1. Fingerpops (5) Sonic Youth should maybe lay off the weed and try 2. Classically Diseased a pop cigar if they really want to stay young. 3. Beelines To Heaven 4. Come Back The band's released their full-length debut in 1996, 5. Nude Star Last Exit to Garageland, and broke into the Top Five 6. Fire Away on the country's charts. The Auckland-based band 7. Tired and Bored moved to England in early 1997, but Debbie Silvey 8. I’m Looking For What I Can’t Get chose to stay behind. Once the group settled in, they 9. Never Gonna Come Around Here Again 10. Return To You met guitarist Andrew Claridge, who promptly joined 11. Jesus I'm Freezing on for several tours that year. 12. Underground Nonsense 13. Struck The group returned to New Zealand for a tour in early 14. What Will You Do 1998 and the US, but it wasn't till early 1999 that 15. Fay Ray second album Do What You Want was recorded and 16. Pop Cigar the band relocated home. Repeating their debut's 17. Bus Stops success, it went gold in New Zealand, and was 18. Something Got A Hold release in the US and picked up by U.K. music 19 The Floribunda Impetigo Experience 20. Cherry Cola Vodka (Hold The Ice) publications including Melody Maker and NME. 21. Feel Alright 22. One Shot The band released their third and final album Scorpio Righting in 2002 before calling it a day, however they LABEL CONTACT: did re-form for a one-off gig in Auckland in November Flying Nun Records USA: 2007 and then for a one off show in 2015. Josh Burgess [email protected] [email protected] .