Hey Spinner! Explained

Hey Spinner!
Type:	Album
Artist:	Able Tasmans
Cover:	AbleTasmansHeySpinner.jpg
Released:	10 September 1990
Recorded:	???
Genre:	Indie rock, indie pop
Length:	39:40
Label:	Flying Nun Records
Prev Title:	A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	Somebody Ate My Planet
Next Year:	1992

Hey Spinner! is an album by New Zealand band Able Tasmans.^[1] It was released in 1990.

Reception

Trouser Press called the album "one of the finest records ever to emerge from New Zealand."^[2] Marc Horton, in Perfect Sound Forever, wrote that it "combines chamber pop with Fairport-style pastoral underpinnings and just enough of the Dunedin jangle to get them through customs without any trouble."^[3]

Track listing

1. "Dileen"
2. "Angry Martyr"
3. "Hold Me I"
4. "Michael Fay"
5. "Hold Me II"
6. "Wednesday (she's coming round)"
7. "Patience"
8. "The theory of continual disappointment"
9. "Grey Lynn"
10. "Hey, Spinner!"
11. "Amelia"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Able Tasmans | NZ Artist Directory | NZ Music Commission. nzmusic.org.nz.
2. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Able Tasmans. www.trouserpress.com.
3. Web site: Sneaky Feelings and the Flying Nun Sound. www.furious.com.