The Clean’s first full-length album released in 1990, is one of the catchiest, most insistent pop records from the Flying Nun discography. Melody Maker at the time described it as; “so joyous, so completely unaffected and unpretentious it’s absurd.” And that pretty much sums it up.
Recorded in London’s Black Wing Studios, following the New Zealand trios’ re-union tour in the late 1980s, Vehicle is The Clean at their brilliant best. Right from the opening "Drawing To A Whole" to the beautiful "Diamond Shine", these 13 tracks show a band coming back together in a celebration of noise.
Now available again on double CD, the re-issue also includes the bonus live EP In-A-Live – a recording of the one-off 1989 London gig that led to the reformation.
Tracks -
Drawing To A Whole
I Wait Around
Bye Bye
The Blue
Dunes
Some One
Home
Diamond Shine
Getting To You
Big Soft Punch
Big Cat
I Can See
Gem
In-A-Live -
Fish
Anything Could Happen
Flowers
Point That Thing Somewhere Else
Whatever I Do Is Right