Q AND NOT U - Different Damage LP soul sharing an enigmatic yet intuitive

sharing an enigmatic yet intuitive emotional quality with much NZ music of the period

Or in the case of Umbra

as well as a loose

Beneath The Floors reaffirms their knack for story telling

and a mighty good one at that

Q AND NOT U - Different Damage LP soul sharing an enigmatic yet intuitiveHighly recommended. The dubbier yet equally urgent sister album to Fugazi's The Argument. Fidgety and paranoid but literate and articulate in equal measure, with an incredible thick low end and shouty emotional hooks to spare. One of the best opening tracks ever, any genre. Their other albums range from excellent (the first) to better than their rep but inessential (the last) but this is the peak, songs uniquely evocative of their time and place yet