Caul Of The Outlaw
(Flying Nun, FN382)
"Everything you've heard about rock'n'roll band's is a lie!"
King Loser were the white-hot rock'n'roll centre of New Zealand for an all to brief moment in the 1990's. A garage-surf-noise ensemble who set speakers melting and rumours flying where-ever and when-ever their sonic vibrations were felt. Boasting a worse track record with drummers than even Spinal Tap, the King's (never Loser's!) were centred around the love/hate core of Celia Mancini and Chris 'Cash Guitar/King of Cunts/the Heze' Heazlewood, between them boasting more rockin' and reelin' know-how than you, me and that shady lookin' guy in the corner put together.
Sometime around 1995 the group managed to solidify, with Lance 'Tribal Thunder' Strickland laying down a heavy Diddly beat on drums and the enigma Sean 'Destroyer' O'Reilly doin' what he do on guitar. That's the King Loser you hear on this, their 3rd album, released on Flying Nun in 1996... sadly the last too, with the band slowly imploding over the next year or so. No indication of that demise here though, Caul of the Outlaw is an album made by a band still in love with rock'n'roll, still pushing sound and style forward. Most notable here is the use of dirty distorted analogue synth (and oscillators?) as rhythmic beds for many tunes, adding a menacing yet beautiful slightly-delic/space vibe to the killer neo-garage surf rock. This is one great fuckin' album and a late gem in the Nun catalogue... King Loser - believe!
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