Hey Spinner!

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Hey Spinner!
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Studio album by
Released10 September 1990
Recorded???
Genre Indie rock, indie pop
Length39:40
Label Flying Nun Records
Able Tasmans chronology
A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down
(1987)
Hey Spinner!
(1990)
Somebody Ate My Planet
(1992)
Professional ratings
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Hey Spinner! is an album by New Zealand band Able Tasmans. [2] It was released in 1990.

Contents

Reception

Trouser Press called the album "one of the finest records ever to emerge from New Zealand." [3] Marc Horton, in Perfect Sound Forever , wrote that it "combines chamber pop with Fairport-style pastoral underpinnings and just enough of the Dunedin jangle to get them through customs without any trouble." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Dileen"
  2. "Angry Martyr"
  3. "Hold Me I"
  4. "Michael Fay"
  5. "Hold Me II"
  6. "Wednesday (she's coming round)"
  7. "Patience"
  8. "The theory of continual disappointment"
  9. "Grey Lynn"
  10. "Hey, Spinner!"
  11. "Amelia"

References

  1. "Hey Spinner! - Able Tasmans | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
  2. "Able Tasmans | NZ Artist Directory | NZ Music Commission". nzmusic.org.nz. Archived from the original on 2 December 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  3. "TrouserPress.com :: Able Tasmans". www.trouserpress.com.
  4. "Sneaky Feelings and the Flying Nun Sound". www.furious.com.