![]() ![]() ![]() But by 'First in Spring' - snipped from Independent Woman Records' "Strange Eden" compilation - Funke is leaning into cheery lo-fi folk again, singing over tape hiss so dominant it practically needs a songwriting credit. 'Rearview', a collaboration with Alastair Galbraith, was recorded for a 99-track benefit comp for Charalambides' Tom Carter and sparks the album to life with distorted Arab Strap-like drum machine cycles and moody guitar noodles. "Pieces of Driftwood" pulls a handful of Funke's rarest material together for the first time, bundling it with a couple of unreleased tracks just for good measure, and it shows how casually experimental she's been since the beginning. Releasing music since the mid 2000s, with Alastair Galbraith and Mike Dooley in $100 Band, and then solo, she's amassed a vast catalogue of low-key essentials, many of which appeared on a variety of random compilations, 7"s and lathe cuts. New Zealand outsider Maxine Funke returns with an odds-and-sods anthology that spotlights her versatility with quirky drum machine workouts and DIY tape chop-ups alongside the usual tangled folk.ĭescribed in the past as "Vashti Bunyan grow up on the Flying Nun catalog", Maxine Funke inhabits a particularly delicate corner of the New Zealand DIY scene. ![]()
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