Every once in a while a record comes along that it is so perfect it almost defies description.
The Clean's first full-length record Vehicle - falls into that bracket. Released in 1990, it is one of the catchiest, most insistent pop records from the Flying Nun discography. Melody Maker at the time described it as; so joyous, so completely unaffected and unpretentious its absurd. And that pretty much sums it up.
Recorded in London's Black Wing Studios, following the New Zealand trios re-union tour in the late 1980s, Vehicle is The Clean at their brilliant best. Right from the opening Drawing To A Whole to the beautiful Diamond Shine, these 13 tracks show a band coming back together in a celebration of noise.
Now available again on Flying Nun Records on double 12 LP and CD, the re-issue also includes the bonus live EP In-A-Live a recording of the one-off 1989 London gig that led to the reformation.
TRACK LIST:
- Drawing To A Whole
- I Wait Around
- Bye Bye
- The Blue
- Dunes
- Some One
- Home
- Diamond Shine
- Getting To You
- Big Soft Punch
- Big Cat
- I Can See
- Gem
