Major Works
(Siltbreeze) LP $17.00
Formed a couple years back around the nucleus of Austen McMillian, Matthew Plunkett (ex-Trendees), and Lisa Preston (Nux Vomica, The Portage), Cuticles chew through the 18 tracks here with abandon. Someone just yelled out from the tree next door, “Sounds like the Pastels! With guns!” One could make a case for the South Island Sound coursing through their veins (they’re from Oamaru, about 80 miles north of Dunedin, after all), for the sheer abandon-pop that gushes out of these grooves, but you can’t ignore a mutant strain of Shoe This High meets The Swingers either. Plus, when bathing in hyper-mesmerizing aural swirls, no one can hear you answer wrong.