Wammo Explained

Wammo
Type:	studio
Artist:	Bailter Space
Cover:	Bailter Space - Wammo.png
Released:	1995
Length:	38:35
Label:	Flying Nun Matador^[1]
Producer:	Rod Hui Bailter Space
Prev Title:	Vortura
Prev Year:	1994
Year:	1995
Next Title:	Capsul
Next Year:	1997

Wammo is an album by New Zealand band Bailter Space, released in 1995.^{[2] [3]} It reached number 31 in New Zealand upon original release. Matador Records reissued the album on vinyl in 2021 for its 25th anniversary,^[4] after which it reached a new peak of number 23 in New Zealand.

Critical reception

Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996, wrote that "Bailter Space's final album for Matador (fifth overall) finds the band showing everyone how skilled it was at erasing any lines of demarcation separating wickedly catchy pop songs and washes of guitar noise and toothy dynamics."^[5] Dave Thompson, in Alternative Rock, called it "their most conventional hook-laden missive yet."^[6]

Track listing

1. "Untied" – 3:28
2. "Splat" – 3:49
3. "At Five We Drive" – 3:08
4. "Zapped" – 2:11
5. "Colours" – 3:58
6. "Retro" – 4:29
7. "Glimmer" – 4:07
8. "Voltage" – 4:36
9. "D Thing" – 6:24
10. "Wammo" – 2:25

Charts

Chart (1995)! scope="col"

Peak position
Chart (2021)	Peak position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[7]	23

Notes and References

1. Reviews & Previews. Billboard. 25 November 1995. Google Books.
2. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Bailter Space. trouserpress.com.
3. Web site: Lost Classics: New Zealand Rock. Magnet Magazine. 18 April 2009.
4. Web site: Guided By Voices to Reissue 'Alien Lanes' for 25th Anniversary. 2 April 2020. Spin.
5. Book: Earles, Andrew. Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. 15 September 2014. Voyageur Press. 9780760346488. Google Books.
6. Book: Thompson, Dave. Alternative Rock. 24 May 2000. Hal Leonard Corporation. 9780879306076. Google Books.
7. Web site: NZ Top 40 Albums Chart. Recorded Music NZ. 22 February 2021. 26 February 2021.