A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down

by Able Tasmans

A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down cover art

Standing out from their guitar-heavy Flying Nun contemporaries, the Auckland collective prominently integrated keyboards, cello, and woodwinds into their idiosyncratic jangle pop. The resulting debut is a remarkably warm, pastoral collection of psychedelic pop songs characterized by its playful complexity and eclectic instrumentation.

Genres

  • Indie Pop
  • Dunedin Sound
  • Neo-Psychedelia

Tracklist

  1. Inside The Modern
  2. What Was That Thing
  3. Little Hearts
  4. And Relax
  5. Rainbow
  6. I See Now Where
  7. And We Swam The Magic Bay
  8. Fa Fa Fa Fa
  9. Sour Queen
  10. New Sherriff
  11. Virtues Asunder
  12. Evil Barbeque