Flying Nun

Says Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum: “This box set will bless you with some of the catchiest and most intelligent songwriting ever conceived. Acoustic outsider poetry punk, mixed with a ‘studio as instrument’ artfulness. what more could you want?”

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from The Innocence Mission's Karen Peris, Prince Rama's Taraka Larson, and Gustaf, plus reissues from The Clean, The Charlatans and Glaxo Babies

The New Zealand vets, which includes Robert Scott of The Clean, release their 10th album in November via Flying Nun.

The video for New Zealand indie icons The Chills' 1982 debut single ”Rolling Moon” was filmed but never finished, until now.

New Zealand trio Wax Chattels make what they call "guitarless guitar music." Using bass, drums and keyboards there is an undeniable pummeling rock vibe on their debut album which was recently released via venerable kiwi indie label Flying Nun/Captured Tracks.

As Fazerdaze, New Zealander Amelia Murray makes breezy, effortlessly melodic indie rock that recalls mid-'90s alt, from Cardigans-y jazzy pop to more fuzzed-out confections. Her debut album, Morningside, came out earlier this year via Flying Nun and fits right in with the label's rich history (The Chills, The Bats, The Clean).

Martin Phillips of iconic New Zealand band The Chills is in NYC as we speak and has three free solo shows lined up...

The NZ band's signature sound, led by Robert Scott's strum and Kaye Woodward's snaky leads, remains intact and winning as ever.

She's got a sound that pulls from late '60s / early '70s loner folk and the genre's many revivalists that have popped up over the past 15 years or so. There's plenty of great stuff in this realm already, but don't let that stop you from checking out Aldous' stuff...

Clean frontman David Kilgour's terrific 1994 solo album Sugar Mouth is bright jangly guitar pop at its best. The record never got a U.S. release but that will change soon as Flying Nun is reissuing it March 18 in America and the rest of the world...