The Bats

The 1987 debut album from New Zealand indiepop pioneers The Bats, Daddy’s Highway has now been re-issued and remastered. Complete with five bonus tracks from the band’s early EPs, this CD is full of the haunting beauty and bittersweet melodies the four-piece have b...

If Couchmaster did one thing, it was cement The Bats as one of New Zealand’s great bands. Alongside that, this 1995 release, which has now been re-mastered by bassist Paul Kean, sees the band exploring and experimenting with the folkishpsychedlic pop they have become i...

Originally released on cassette in 1987, Compiletely Bats gathers together this great New Zealand band’s first three EPs - ‘By Night’ (1984), ‘And Here Is “Music for the Fireside’ (1985) and 1986’s ‘Made Up in Blue’. Releas...

For their seventh studio album -- 'The Guilty Office' -- The Bats continue to refine and develop their own idiosyncratic path, whilst also adding fresh sparkle and new ideas. The strings and additional instruments come to the fore, such as on the first single "Castle Lights", and Robert Sc...