{"product_id":"marianne-funke-pieces-of-driftwood-vinyl-lp-record-new","title":"Marianne Funke PIECES OF DRIFTWOOD Vinyl LP Record NEW","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarianne Funke PIECES OF DRIFTWOOD Vinyl LP Record NEW. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed in the past as \"Vashti Bunyan grow[ing] up on the Flying Nun catalog\", Maxine Funke inhabits a particularly delicate corner of the New Zealand DIY scene. 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. \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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. 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. 2018's \"I Dischi Del Barone\" 7\" is included in full, and features the genius drum machine improvisation 'Sandhopper', that cuts frenetic hi-BPM rhythm blasts with tape-recorded waves for a short and sharp distraction from Funke's quaint Linda Perhacs-inspired songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunke's unreleased material might be the album's greatest revelation. 'Old Lady Blues' is wonky as fuck, marrying off-kilter cello dissonance with throbbing oscillations and stifled bleeps, while 'South Dunedin' and 'Room in the City' are two of the record's most moving songs, the former sounding like a hushed, dictaphone-dubbed Elliott Smith and the latter dissolving into Broadcast-style prog-folk in its final act.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ninevolt Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019898114204,"sku":"EB-185618801524","price":28.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9925\/8012\/files\/57_7c70678a-dc14-4643-bf0c-5cb694e0a70b.jpg?v=1769500688","url":"https:\/\/ninevoltrecords.com\/products\/marianne-funke-pieces-of-driftwood-vinyl-lp-record-new","provider":"Ninevolt Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}