7th studio album from New Zealand Jangle-Pop Overlords & Overlady, The Bats, led by Robert Scott from The Clean and members of Minisnap. Expect fragile but determined vocals, ringing guitars and chunky rhythms that seem quintessentially `New Zealand Indie`; remote, cool, spacious, unusual but strangely familiar. Melancholy and joyous in turns, The Bats have a unique sound that has captured the imagination of multitudes. "It`s hard to go wrong with the Bats. For more than two decades, this New Zealand foursome have been a stunning model of consistency, with their albums serving as prime examples of that much-loved kiwi pop jangle. And The Guilty Office is no exception... Just the Bats sounding as great as ever." - Exclaim Magazine. "4 stars. Though they have a new label, the band`s seventh album sounds as if it could have been released anytime in the past 25 years the band has been making brilliant music. Sure, the sound is cleaner than on their earliest records, but the fundamentals are all still there. The propulsive drums, twangling basslines, crisply strummed rhythm guitar, and the plangent lead guitar form the backdrop for Robert Scott`s autumnal songs that he and Kaye Woodward sing in sweetly fragile and human terms. It`s an instantly recognizable, sound and while cynics could claim that the band has just been repeating itself all these years, it`s more apt to say that they know exactly what works for them, and they don`t deviate from it much because they know it would be a mistake." - AMG.
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