Transistors - Everything Will Never Happen Again

When Rangiora heroes  melted back into the pastures, forests, and illegal dump sites of North Canterbury in 2016, it seemed that the public would be left with only a couple of albums and EPs to remember them by. Luckily for us, the band has had a radioactive half-life, emerging for sporadic shows and now a new single and the promised release of their great lost album.

Following the release of ‘High Hopes’ and ‘Seagull’, the third single from this storied record has been catapulted from its crusted-over crypt into the present day pinball machine. ‘Ogden City Mall’ is the kind of ragged and jagged garage punk anthem that has earned the plucky three-piece fans both at home and abroad.

Forget the Hanging Gardens of Babylon or the Pink and White Terraces, ‘Ogden City Mall’ is a homage to the world’s greatest lost landmark, the now demolished shopping centre for the rich and famous in cosmopolitan Ogden, Utah. The site’s hallowed halls were the setting of the 20th Century’s single most significant moment, the music video for Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now”.

The power trio pays loving tribute to this humble hub of heartland America from all the way down in its antipodean “sister city” of Rangiora. With a relentless rhythm section and lacerating guitars, the song casades to a caterwauling conclusion after three and a half chaotic minutes, leaving listeners gasping for breath. Sit back, turn it up and travel back in time to when callous consumer capitalism was still experienced collectively by the callow and curmudgeonly alike within the confines of bricks and mortar.

Conceived at the height of their powers, Everything Will Never Happen Again was thought to have been just a rumour...until now. Better still, pre-orders are now open for the extremely limited edition vinyl. Get in quick because this is sure to disappear faster than the Roanoke Colony.

Recorded atop a crumbling cliff at Mānuka Bay with Salad Boys’ Joe Sampson at the helm, the album was given its finishing touches and mixed and mastered by Brian Feary at DSF in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Falling somewhere between the gritty gunk of their debut Shortwave and the hi-fi polish of second album Is This Anything?, the third Transistors full-length is a punky garage power pop party not to be missed.  

Tracklist:
    Country Music
    Seagull
    Never
    Paradise
    High Hopes
    Soft Drink
    Man I Was Hungry
    Consolation Prize
    Persuasion
    Ogden City Mall
    Empty Space
    Same Mistake
    Why Aren't You Smiling?
    Last Century, This Century, Next Century