The Puddle - No Sequels

"No Sequels" is the opening song on The Puddle's new album "No Love - No Hate" released October 2007.
The Puddle, a revolving line-up of musicians assembled around the unstable core of George D. Henderson, have been around, in one form or another, since 1984. Three albums and a 7" single on Flying Nun between 1986 and 1993 attracted critical appreciation and notoriety in equal measures for "pop as shambling and sweet as you could possibly imagine". In 1993 The Puddle toughened up and recorded the definitive brainy outsider rock album, "Songs for Emily Valentine", but, apart from a 1995 single on a French label, the SFEV recordings were not released until 2005. "No Love -- No Hate" is the perfect prequel to their next great album and adds a further unexpected twist in the long, strange and frequently derailed odyssey of this unique NZ musical institution. More "Psych-pop from below the underground..." brought to you by Fishrider Records in Dunedin NZ.

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Music

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• Dunedin
• kiwi
• psychedelic
• Chills
• Flying
• Nun

[Lanarkish]

The "No Love - No Hate" album is truly a thing of wonder. A gift from the gods at Fishrider which dropped through my letterbox last year. It gets better every time I listen to it. "Love In Blues Minor" is just superb.

At points the whole thing seems held together with bits of string, sellotape and buckled staples. But hold together it certainly does and drags you along with it. It has charm, verve and edge in abundance.

Glad to find a Puddle presence here on Youtube.

[insanitywetrust]

The album gets better every time I listen to it.

[fourteenbellbirds]

What a thoroughly charming song! Thanks to Beaksa, I have 20 years of The Puddle to awaiting to discover - I don't quite know how I have managed to miss their music until now?

[puddleg]

That's Randall worm-dancing at the front. He wrote the groovy lyrics on the Mink albums.

[PapaHem1]

Ka pai Ian

Think I've heard it before but can't place it, I assume that this is the studio recording and live footage - e hika there are more dancing at The Dark Beaks on a rainy day outside at the uni - heathens