{"id":1062,"date":"2009-10-28T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/the-clean-vs-new-zealand-pop.html"},"modified":"2009-10-28T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:37:00","slug":"the-clean-vs-new-zealand-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/the-clean-vs-new-zealand-pop.html","title":{"rendered":"The Clean vs. New Zealand Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SuiD8KnE7kI\/AAAAAAAAAdw\/quHQckS0hyM\/s1600-h\/theclean.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SuiD8KnE7kI\/AAAAAAAAAdw\/quHQckS0hyM\/s320\/theclean.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>A  HIPSTER friend, back in the 80s, turned me on to the new zealand sound &#8212; the clean, the chills, the verlaines &#8212; bands that made what was coming out of the US a the time sound pedestrian indeed. this stuff was pastoral, punk, lo-fi, hooky, and weirdly random all at once. i hadnt heard guitars tuned that way since the third velvet underground record. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/presskits\/MRG325\/\">the clean<\/a> is back with a new record, &#8220;mister pop,&#8221; on merge: it sounds nothing like their heyday, but takes them to a new and fascinating place. it&#8217;s probably my favorite release since their original output from the late 70s\/early 80s. (the first song, &#8220;loog,&#8221; with its dreamlike drone and female vocals, is especially enchanting.) <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7183323\">here<\/a> is a video, &#8220;in the dreamlife you need a rubber soul,&#8221; from the new LP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>a few years ago i spoke to the clean&#8217;s robert scott, who is also in the bats &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2003\/jun\/19\/news\/wk-pop19\">here<\/a> is my piece, which tries to give an overview of the whole scene on the flying nun label.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/presskits\/MRG325\/\">Merge Records<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A HIPSTER friend, back in the 80s, turned me on to the new zealand sound &#8212; the clean, the chills, the verlaines &#8212; bands that made what was coming out of the US a the time sound pedestrian indeed. this stuff was pastoral, punk, lo-fi, hooky, and weirdly random all at once. i hadnt heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,413,417,127,38,416,414,415,418],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-indie","7":"category-lo-fi","8":"category-new-zealand","9":"category-punk","10":"category-rock-music","11":"category-the-chills","12":"category-the-clean","13":"category-the-verlaines","14":"category-velvet-underground","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}