The Body Corporate
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About The Body Corporate from Auckland
Well-drilled from years of paying their dues on the live scene and keeping bands like HDU, Trans Am, Die! Die! Die!, Shocking Pinks and Blam Blam Blam company on stage, The Body Corporate are a band made up of thunderous noiseniks, errant rock maestros, and shifty songwriters.
Fiendish vinyl addicts to a man and fans of both listening to and
cranking out effects-laden jammage, they cram decades of your favourite bands into the tight winding grooves that make up their recorded output to date – a seven inch released earlier this year, and an appearance on the Kingsland Vinyl Appreciation Society’s A Flip and Two Twisters. That double LP compilation of NZ guitar greats past and present saw The Body Corporate share hi-fi needles with the likes of Shihad, Straitjacket Fits, and The Mint Chicks, and now they take
their predilection for the supposedly archaic medium one step further with the unveiling of their debut album Howlaround.
Forget about CDs and shitty quality downloads, Howlaround is only available on long-playing vinyl, and that’s the way The Body Corporate like it. This isn’t some deliberately difficult and wilfully obscure move on their part, but the product of honest assessment about the music industry and what it means to be a working band in this post-record company era. The members of The Body Corporate and their credit cards know full well that a vinyl LP represents a real investment in a band, rather than the shoddy cracked jewel cases and ripped and traded CDs populating second hand stores – not to mention that they’re keen to buck the trend of lower and lower fidelity caused by low bitrate mp3s flying around the internet. A weighty slab housed in the sort of intricate artwork only a twelve-inch sleeve can do justice, and packing the sort of punch that only an honest-to-god record can, Howlaround is the first vinyl-only album in New Zealand to come complete with unique download codes in each copy so listeners aren’t forced to take their turntables to the spare room, beach, gymnasium, or anywhere else they’re going to want to turn it up to eleven. Considerate, huh
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