Cyclops "Goat Volume" 1994

Bruce Blucher is a maverick with a Marshall amp, a player of dirty chords, a singer who underrates himself, and a songwriter of considerable skill. He has released some of the most enduring, but somehow obscure, songs to come out of New Zealand...

...Beginning sometime in 1984 he teamed up with Nick Wilkinson (bass) and Steve Cournane (drums) to form the Alpaca Brothers. Bruce himself was on guitar, and provided most of the vocals. More the singer by default than by actual choice, he surrounded his vocals with a considerable amount of high amp volume. The band played around Dunedin, made several trips to Auckland, released Legless, a 12-inch EP on Flying Nun, and added more guitar to the sound by adding Paul Cahill to the line-up somewhere along the way.
By late 1986 the alpacas were over, and blucher and cahill, who both remained on guitar, dispensed with bass and went on to form trash.
The american shows, undertaken with peter jefferies and mecca normal in 1994, earned the band considerable praise. - audioculture

trax:
01 Simpleton 02 Lunar Fall 03 Infinite Tick 04 Gurgie Throa 05 Alice 06 Top of the Stairs 07 Steel White Bed 08 Falling Golden 09 Uneasy Trail 10 9 Unknown Men 11 Light 12 Spolcyc 13 Push Me Pull You. 14 Don't You Be A Stranger
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