The Kiwi Animal - Mercy LP Color:Test Press [a calculator reckons]

[a calculator reckons]

"This is the neat little dog with the dainty walk that looks like a lamb and can fight like a demon"

finds the musician in his truest form: as the “screaming philosopher” he would come to be called—cynical but fair

who has been performing and producing small-run releases under this moniker for some 20 years

The Kiwi Animal - Mercy LP Color:Test Press [a calculator reckons]DR 41 Digital Regress's foray into the fabled NZ underground hops over to the North Island for two exquisite pieces of acoustic DIY and shadowy, cracked pastoralia. After a few years spleen venting at the front of Wellington art brutes Shoes This High, Brent Hayward struck out on his own, self releasing a few EPs as Smelly Feet before forming The Kiwi Animal with Julie Cooper in 1982. The duo released their first album, Music Media, on Massage Records