Chris Knox-- Yes!!

(Flying Nun 400)

Have Here Come The Warm Jets-era Brian Eno write some songs with Eugene Kelly of Eugenius, record them lo-fi style, and you'll come out with something like this sixth solo album by Chris Knox, the former member of the Tall Dwarves and a founding member of the New Zealand underground scene that birthed the Chills, The Verlaines and The Clean, among others.

Knox is a man in his '40's who sound like a teenager that just got his first Four Track. Repeated listens to this disc reveal a 20-year music veteran who knows how to make a well-crafted song sound like a tossoff.

Sometimes you do wish Knox would grow up, like on the 17-minute noise-fart experiment that closes this otherwise enjoyable pop album (which you don't have to listen to if you don't want to).

--- Brian Greene