FEATURES - X-Features LP outsider Producer and Ace of Hearts

Producer and Ace of Hearts label boss Rick Harte (a major figure on the Boston Rock scene from the late ‘70s and beyond) nails the band’s sound (the raunchy twang of Felice’s guitar sounds is instantly recognisable) and adds some neat touches

Jim And The French Vanilla is the solo project of Jim Blaha from The Blind Shake

” Josefus caps it all off nicely with a hooky power-pop meets Bob Seger System meets Lollipop Shoppe anthem with the undeniably catchy chorus

these are the accomplished gentlemen of many former pursuits (the formidable Drunk Horse among them) and all of them comets themselves

Compared to the ridiculously over-the-top Chaka Khan remake

FEATURES - X-Features LP outsider Producer and Ace of Hearts* MINOR SLEEVE CREASE AT ONE CORNER * Includes d l code. Highly recommended. The Features, perhaps more than anybody, were the band that provided the stylistic delineation between punk and post punk in the Auckland, New Zealand scene. The band formed in late 1979, led by Jed Town (guitar) and James Pinker (drums). Both were members of The Superettes with Paul Kean (later The Bats), and when Kean left to join Toy Love they pulled in Karel Van Bergen