Loves Ugly Children "Cakehole" 1995

The initial quartet’s life was short, taking in local live shows and the release of the five-song Stagger tape on Failsafe Records.
Purge finally arrived in 1993 and listeners finally heard what fans had been witnessing at live shows.
They returned to Dunedin in April 1995 to record debut album Cakehole in Fish Street Studios with Tex Houston.
RipItUp described Showered In Gold as, “a feast of furies, where heavenly melodies inhabit massive power-chord driven songs."..

...In the early to mid 1990s, Christchurch was a city flush with guitar-driven groups marshalled on record by the short-lived Flat City Records and more comprehensively by Failsafe Records. Despite the flurry of live activity and some enduring recordings, few of the active groups transcended their spirited beginnings.
Fiery trio Loves Ugly Children, comprising Simon Maclaren (guitar, vocals), Angela “Floss” Leslie (bass, vocals) and Jason Young (drums, vocals), were the most prominent and enduring group on the rising scene.
The hard alt-rocking trio went on to release two powerful albums (Cakehole – 1995, Showered In Gold – 1997), several significant EPs and a handful of singles on Flying Nun Records. They toured New Zealand repeatedly and spend time in the United Kingdom before hitting the highway to hell in Australia and calling it a day in late 1998. - https://www.audioculture.co.nz

trax:
01. Messing Things Up 02. Here Comes Stupid 03. Superficial Semi Automatic 04. Hothead 05. I Couldn't Help You 06. Totally Down 07. Surf Nazis Must Die 08. Mind Control 09. Alter-Ego 10. Fear and Loathing 11. Latest Product 12. Personal World 13. Get the Facts Right 14. I Found My Thrill 15. Day of the Dogs
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