| The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Spiderbait |
| Cover: | The_Unfinished_Spanish_Galleon_of_Finley_Lake.jpg |
| Recorded: | September 1994March 1995[1] |
| Label: | Polydor/Universal |
| Producer: | Spiderbait |
| Prev Title: | Run |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Title: | Ivy and the Big Apples |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake is the second studio album by Australian rock band Spiderbait, released in 1995. It peaked at No. 14 on the ARIA Albums Charts.[2]
The album was named after the real unfinished Spanish galleon built in Spiderbait's hometown, Finley, New South Wales, which was a "failed civic beautification project".[3] [4]
The Unfinished Spanish Galleon Of Finley Lake did well for the band, picking up two ARIA nominations and drawing industry attention.
Emma MacDonald of The Canberra Times opined, in October 1995, that "the music is inventive and quite melodic but, be warned, what seems like a nice musical jaunt at first can turn into a thrashing, speaker-blowing experience without the slightest warning."[4] Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane felt it "found the band adding a jazzier touch (as on the title track) to the usually frantic, distortion-fuelled thrash-pop style."[3] Jonathan Lewis of AllMusic wrote that it "consisted of short (most songs are under three minutes) blasts of punk-pop," adding that "[w]ith their buzzing guitars and the strange vocals of lead singer Kram, Spiderbait were a kind of hybrid of the rawer moments of the Pixies and the Muffs, but less melodic than either of those two."