| The Law of Things | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Bats |
| Cover: | Lawofthings.jpg |
| Released: | 1990 |
| Recorded: | Sept–Oct 1988 |
| Genre: | Dunedin sound, indie pop, alternative rock |
| Length: | 38:56 |
| Label: | Flying Nun Records[1] |
| Producer: | The Bats, Brent McLachlan |
| Prev Title: | 4 Songs |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Fear of God |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
The Law of Things is the second album by the New Zealand band The Bats, released in 1990.[2] [3] It was released by Mammoth Records in the United States.
The track "Smoking Her Wings" was released as a single, and the album peaked at #38 in the New Zealand charts.[4] [5]
The album was recorded at Writhe Recording in Wellington, New Zealand, toward the end of 1988.[6] It was produced by Brent McLachlan and the band.
Trouser Press called the album "monumental," writing: "Capturing all the hooky appeal and personal charm of their first records, it updates the recipe with seven years of instrumental mastery and superior sonics."[7] The New York Times wrote that "the production is raw; the song structures are almost self-consciously unsophisticated - just jaunty guitar riffs, roughshod 4/4 rhythms and, in the more aggressive tracks, base lines that rumble and swell and even drown out the other instruments."[8]
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