This Kind Of Punishment - A Beard Of BeesIn the fertile terrain of New Zealands 1980s post punkscene, few figures loom as large as the Jefferies brothers.Graeme Jefferies and Peter Jefferiesthe primary forcesbehind This Kind Of Punishmentwrote some of thebest music to come out on Flying Nun, Xpressway orelsewhere. A dizzying mix of pastoral ballads and DIYexperimentation, TKPs songwriting was at once classicand acutely raw.Among This Kind Of Punishments myriad recordings,A Beard Of Bees best

it was a brilliantly spontaneous and productive time taking just over 3 days to come to fruition

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the album oscillates between michael rother's more ambient

failing to gain the wider reputation enjoyed by her contemporaries like Lee Dorsey (who she recorded with) and The Meters (who backed her)

the doomy doo-wop of "Blood on the Deck" hardly seems like the product of the same band that delivered the yelping "Ruby Go Home" in 2009

Mesmerizing arabesques & heart-breaking laments from Southern Albania

Sensing the emollient rattle of punk was an artistic dead end

The material stems from the 10 years between 1988 and '98 and

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