Guardian Singles - Feed Me To The Doves

Auckland post-punk group Guardian Singles return to Trouble In Mind for their follow-up to 2021’s eponymous debut with “Feed Me To The Doves”, a ten track socio-political burner addressing our collective spiritual chaos that pulls influence from across the history of punk & permeates it into something decidedly Aotearoan & uniquely their own in ways that are both personal & universal.

“Feed Me To The Doves” is the first album to feature the current, long-standing lineup of Thom Burton (SoccerPractise, Moppy), Fiona Campbell (Coolies, Coasting, Vivian Girls), Yolanda Fagan (Na Noise, Half Hexagon), and Durham Fenwick (Green Grove). The band has been playing live together now for a few years & it shows. The songs herein vary from the deeply personal, to sketches or postcards, as Burton says “…scribbled while watching the dregs of a delirious culture war play out through broken smartphones and praline vape clouds.”

The manic performances feel lived-in and the rhythms are wound TIGHT, this time expertly recorded at Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios in Auckland by engineer Steven Marr, who Burton says had a “great sense of being able to keep the urgency of the songs while adding lushness and keeping things sounding like they’re about to break at any second”.

Marr was crucial in helping the band take the album’s scrappy beginnings and mold them into something more cohesive and beautiful. The album was once again mastered by Australian legend Mikey Young. 

TRACKLIST

1. Chad and Stacey 
2. Pit Viper
3. Manic Attraction
4. Metal Fingers
5. Bleak Park
6. Com Trans
7. Nightmare Town
8. Untied, United
9. Shimmer
10. Ground Swell