SHOCKING PINKS
In early 2004, Christchurch, New Zealand’s Nick Harte releases Dance the Dance Electric, his first album as Shocking Pinks ona small part-time record label Pinacolada Records. Buzz about the record makes its way to the offices of Pitchfork in America, who issue a glowing review, still to this day one of the highest album reviews of any New Zealand artist ever
Describing the record as “cavorting from unabashed disco revivalism to scuzzed-out new-wave to reggae-tinged psychedelia in a mottled kaleidoscope of brazen idealism.” The review gushed about the album, though one line would make a profound difference in Nick Hartes life.
At the end of the first paragraph, Pitchfork issue a bold statement stating that the album “far outshines most of the bilge spawned from James Murphy's Chernobyl-like fallout.” In reference to the extremely popular, at the time, New York label DFA Records. Well, word of this spread to DFA and they as you would expect took a listen to the record.
DFA were as taken with the record as Pitchfork and courted Nick, eventually signing him to their roster and releasing his later material worldwide, gaining him significant profile in the process:
Ten years later, cult album, Dance the Dance Electric will be finally be available physically again as well as digitally for the very first time as it gets the full reissue treatment from legendary label Flying Nun, as the band tour the world for the first time. (China, Japan, Europe, UK, NZ, Australia and North America)
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Live performance videos
Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats Festival, France
Slottsfjellfestivalen Festival, Norway
Rippon, New Zealand
Truck Festival, UK
Wilsonic, Slovakia
Pôle Etudiant, France
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Music Videos
Gravy Rainbow (800,000+ views)
Songs
Links
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