Trace the history of independent music in New Zealand and you’ll be astounded how many roads lead back to Peter Gutteridge. He was a founding member of both The Clean and The Chills, and played with The Great Unwashed, The Puddle, and more. While Gutteridge’s own band Snapper have endured as perhaps his most notable legacy, his lone solo album Pure has retained cult status, mentioned in hushed whispers as perhaps his most raw and revealing work. Originally released on Xpressway in 1989, Superior Viaduct are plucking it from obscurity and giving it the vinyl reissue it deserves - thank goodness. - Flying Out
In the swirl of underground music emerging from Dunedin, New Zealand in the 1980s, Peter Gutteridge stands as one of the era's most intense and shadowy figures. Despite being a founding member of The Clean and The Chills, Gutteridge would eschew indie-rock fame for the hypnotic and driving sounds of his later bands such as Snapper.
Fittingly, it is Pure – Gutteridge's lone solo album of intimate home recordings – that serves as the most revealing and celebrated release of his career. As Peter Jefferies writes in the liner notes, "That's what's so good about Pure. Not only the songs, but the name, the name for the recording. It is as pure as you can get. That's the real deal, when it goes from nothing to something and he catches it on his machine."
Originally released on cassette in 1989 on Xpressway, Pure documents Gutteridge's stunning use of 4-track as instrument. Featuring lo-fi pop gems and interstitial sketches, the LP combines densely layered keyboards and guitars, distorted drum machines and possessed-sounding vocals to create a truly singular work of undistilled artistic vision.
Tracklist
Fittingly, it is Pure – Gutteridge's lone solo album of intimate home recordings – that serves as the most revealing and celebrated release of his career. As Peter Jefferies writes in the liner notes, "That's what's so good about Pure. Not only the songs, but the name, the name for the recording. It is as pure as you can get. That's the real deal, when it goes from nothing to something and he catches it on his machine."
Originally released on cassette in 1989 on Xpressway, Pure documents Gutteridge's stunning use of 4-track as instrument. Featuring lo-fi pop gems and interstitial sketches, the LP combines densely layered keyboards and guitars, distorted drum machines and possessed-sounding vocals to create a truly singular work of undistilled artistic vision.
Tracklist
- Lonley
- Exhibition I
- First Instrumental
- Hang On
- Ocean
- Dead Pony
- Fuck Your Mother to Hell
- Suicide
- Oil
- Pure (No. 1)
- Thumbaline
- Cause of You
- Rubout
- Planet Phrom
- Sand
- Exhibition Ii
- Having Fun
- Bomb
- Fifty-Seven Seconds
- Chinese Garden
- Pure (No. 2)
