Best Bets – On An Unhistoric Night (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP Colour Miss Jamaica - Jimmy Cliff3

Miss Jamaica - Jimmy Cliff3

and side one continues with an amusing shaggy-dog story set to a slab of lurching mutant R&B ("The Gift")

Times Like These

Ex:Re - 'Misery Is a Butterfly' (Blonde Redhead)

D2 Crosseyed And Painless

Best Bets – On An Unhistoric Night (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP Colour Miss Jamaica - Jimmy Cliff3We used to talk a lot about tall poppy syndrome in this country, but my sense is that might be fading. I think generally were just more comfortable seeing ourselves on the world stage. What still does run through our music scene is a good amount of humbleness and self deprecation. No one wants to get too big for their boots, until they do. That spirit runs through On An Unhistoric Night, the debut album by Christchurch band Best Bets. They trade in