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Half A Cow founder releases latest collection of vintage ‘80s recordings

Nic Dalton is one of the longest-working identities in Sydney music, not only founding the famous Half A Cow label, but also penning and performing songs with The Love Positions, The Plunderers, Godstar and others, as well as even playing with The Lemonheads. He has previously chronicled his earlier years on the Romolo 86-88 collection of home recordings and now issues a second compilation, recorded between the years of 1987 and 1989, with full band performances of embryonic Plunderers songs such as Muffin and Lena Lee, amongst 15 other slices of lo-fi fuzz pop. The raw but melodic Anniversary Song and Numbered Days show how the Sydney underground had spiritual attachment to the lo-fi American rock of Pavement, Guided By Voices and Sebadoh, though if Last Seen Near Trafalgar… were a Sebadoh record, you’d have to imagine it was an all-Lou Barlow Sebadoh record, brimming with dazed vocals, melodic pop hooks and fuzz pedals cranking. These 17 songs, despite chronicling an already-DIY performer in home recording mode, provide a thoroughly entertaining collection of songs and an interesting little time capsule of vintage ‘80s indie rock to boot.

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MATT THROWER

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