''Hey Spinner!'' is an album by

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band

Able Tasmans Able Tasmans were an indie pop band from Auckland, New Zealand, initially formed as a duo in 1983. They released four albums and two EPs on Flying Nun Records before splitting up in 1996. History The band formed in 1983, named after the Dutch e ...

. It was released in 1990.

Reception

Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference ...

'' called the album "one of the finest records ever to emerge from New Zealand." Marc Horton, in '' Perfect Sound Forever'', wrote that it "combines chamber pop with Fairport-style pastoral underpinnings and just enough of the Dunedin jangle to get them through customs without any trouble."

Track listing

#"Dileen" #"Angry Martyr" #"Hold Me I" #"Michael Fay" #"Hold Me II" #"Wednesday (she's coming round)" #"Patience" #"The theory of continual disappointment" #"Grey Lynn" #"Hey, Spinner!" #"Amelia"

References

Able Tasmans albums 1990 albums Flying Nun Records albums {{1990s-indie-rock-album-stub