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01. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Love Comes Slowly Now
02. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Nothing Going Down
03. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Carousel
04. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Sweet Pea
05. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Rosicrucinn Lovers
06. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Marshall Sign
07. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Garymoy
08. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Prince of Thieves
09. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Carousel (Live)
10. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Your Williams Baby
11. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Lucy in Her Pink Jacket
12. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Holy Holy Blue
01. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Nothing Going Down At All
02. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Catnip
03. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Counting Stars
04. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Holy Holy Blue (rehearsal)
05. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Carousel (studio version)
06. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Lucy in Her Pink Jacket (studio version)
07. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Catherine Is Only Listening
08. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Prince of Thieves (bonus)
09. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Your Williams Baby (bonus)
10. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Born in the Dark, Dear
11. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Holy Holy Blue (original version)
12. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - Nothing Going Down At All (studio version)
13. THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS - No One Will Ever Know (with Merlene Chambers)
ARTIST
TITLE
Eyes Rind As If Beggars
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BONFIRE 001CD BONFIRE 001CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/19/2013

Fire Records & Bo Weavil Recordings are extremely proud to present the long-awaited re-issue of The Garbage & The Flowers' classic double album Eyes Rind As If Beggars, a sprawling collection of fragile melodies, abrasive improvisations and velvet voices. The story of The Garbage & The Flowers, by some measure Wellington's most brilliant pop band, is equal parts classic underground rock'n'roll and a hazy ramshackle history pockmarked with bursts of genius and stoned rehearsals. Rare is it for any band to garner so much underground acclaim while leading such a nebulous existence. A small handful of releases, compilation appearances and few live shows make for a curious stop/start history. Tension can produce the goods and tension was what watered The Garbage & The Flowers. Yuri Frusin (guitar, songwriting) and Helen Johnstone (viola, vocals, now bass) met in their teens sometime in the 1980s. Naming themselves after a line in Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" and taking cues from The Velvet Underground, the band has existed in some shape or form since, with help from Paul Yates, Heath Cozens, Torben Tilly, Rachel Davies, Kristen Wineera, and Stuart Porter. When asked recently about the group, original drummer Tilly offers a particularly apt description of their sound: "What I loved about the music we created is that it sounded like it had come from somewhere faraway, that it had traveled a lot of distance and gathered some dust and debris along the way. That said, despite its unhinged qualities we were never really a noise-band even though some strange and beautiful electromagnetic noise would make it to tape. Most of the time it was all deeply rooted in a song." This, of course, is one of the greatest parts of The Garbage & The Flowers' charm. They really did seem out there, on their own, absorbed in their own world, dropping gem after gem of fractal noise-pop onto slowly corroding four-track cassettes, willing these songs into existence just long enough to let them catch breath and glide away from the speakers for a few moments, before Frusin and Johnstone would knuckle down and write yet more beautiful melodies for beautiful losers. This is a rock'n'roll classic which will whip the wigs off all the crystalline clowns today. Includes a bonus full-length disc of additional material (compilation tracks, previously unreleased material, etc.), plus a 24-page booklet with notes and photos.