Far From the Sun, by The Cakekitchen

Far From the Sun

by The Cakekitchen

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1.	Stranger than Paradise 05:34	buy track
2.	Overcited 03:20	buy track
3.	Fahrenheit 451 06:02	buy track
4.	Big Fat Mouth 06:14	buy track
5.	Greater Windmill Street Blues 03:22	buy track
6.	Man in the Mirror 05:45	buy track
7.	Far From the Sun 05:10	buy track
8.	Trouble in the Underworld 03:34	buy track
9.	Buried it in the Yard 04:38	buy track

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Written in London over a two year period and released by Homestead in 1993, this is the only studio album featuring the London incantation of the band. Recorded in bathrooms of squats and old railway sheds in Brixton (in the heart of the shoe gazer era) it has bugger all to do with Brit Pop and was engineered on a four track by Keith McLean and Graeme Jefferies. Probably the most difficult album of all to actually get finished “Far From the Sun” stands up well as the first batch of songs to be written outside of New Zealand.

There’ s a live clip on the Cakekitchen’s youtube channel of the line up that made this album playing at the Sausage Machine in London three days before their NYC debut at CBGB’s.

Far From the Sun was the first release to have different labels on each side of the Atlantic and was the group’s first record with the Bavarian label Raffmond. The songs have a strange far away aura about them and one can imagine just how cold it must have been during the English winters when most of the songs were conceived. The last of the Homestead Trilogy and a bit of a neglected classic. CD contains booklet with lyrics.

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released January 1, 1993

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Formed out of the ashes of pioneering early 80s NZ music collective This Kind of Punishment, The Cakekitchen is led by head baker Graeme Jefferies.

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