The Bats - Daddy's Highway LP xx1960s actions and events

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As archivist Byron Coley writes

There’s something of a subdued indie folk through-line to the record that suggests the whispered gentleness of Devendra Banhart or the more sprawling arrangements of Sufjan Stevens

At some point

some of the noise gives way to a more relaxed and expansive approach

The Bats - Daddy's Highway LP xx1960s actions and eventsThe 1987 debut album from New Zealand indie pop pioneers The Bats, Daddy's Highway has now been re issued and remastered. Complete with five bonus tracks from the bands early EPs, this album is full of the haunting beauty and bittersweet melodies the four piece have become so loved for. One of the outstanding New Zealand albums from the 1980s, from the lo fi pop hook of North by North through to the gentle drone of Tragedy, Daddy's Highway displays a