| Melt | ||||
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| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | July–August 1990, Airforce Studios, New Zealand and Platinum Studios, Australia | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, Dunedin sound | |||
| Length | 43:27 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Flying Nun Records[1] | |||
| Producer | Gavin McKillop[2] | |||
| Straitjacket Fits chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
Melt is the second album from Dunedin, New Zealand band Straitjacket Fits.[3] It was the last to feature the original line-up of Shayne Carter, Andrew Brough, John Collie and David Wood; Brough was to leave before the third album, Blow.[4] The album reached no. 13 on the New Zealand music charts, and sold 40,000 copies in the United States.[5]
The album spawned three singles, "Bad Note for a Heart", "Down in Splendour", and "Roller Ride". Of these, only "Bad Note for a Heart" charted (reaching no. 25 in the New Zealand charts), yet the Brough single "Down in Splendour" was later listed at number 32 in 2001 on the Australasian Performing Right Association's 75th anniversary poll of New Zealand's top 100 songs of all time.[6] The music video for "Bad Note for a Heart" won the award for best New Zealand music video of 1990.[7]
The album was seen as being truer to the band's sound than the previous album (Hail), and closer to the live sound and to the sound of the band's debut EP Life in One Chord. The album was described as "...a culmination of searing guitars that never collide and are always textured with the rhythm section's simple powerful backbone."[8]
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- ^ "In Love With Those Times: Flying Nun and the Dunedin Sound - Article - Stylus Magazine". stylusmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Straitjacket Fits | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ "Straitjacket Fits part 1 - Story | AudioCulture". www.audioculture.co.nz.
- ^ "APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs Of All Time - Music - Christchurch City Libraries". christchurchcitylibraries.com.
- ^ Davey, T. & Puschmann, H. (1996) Kiwi rock. Dunedin: Kiwi Rock Publications. ISBN 0-473-03718-1. p. 89
- ^ Rip It Up, November 1990