FN550 Superette – Tiger (2018)

I read a review once where a guy said they played this album every day at a cafe he worked for six months, and never got sick of it. So says Big Ross from the Bird Nest Roys in the liner notes for the deluxe reissue of Superettes inimitable, standalone 1996 album Tiger.

Emerging from the dissolution of Jean Paul Sartre Experience in 1993, Dave Mulcahy and Greta Anderson found themselves in New York with a handful of song skeletons. Recruiting childhood friend Ben Howe back in Auckland, Superette was born. The band combined Mulcahys signature sound-bending guitar and melodic ear for a pop hook with Andersons muscular drumming, triangulated by Howes energising, sinewy bass and guitar lines.

One of Flying Nuns mid-90