Wurld Series hail from Christchurch New Zealand. Not perhaps the city in that wonderful country that the music fan might think of first. That would be Dunedin. But they're a trio that live and breathe the musical values of that fair country.
They're certainly present and correct on The Giant's Lawn. This is not released on Flying Nun Records, but it should be really as it embodies its DNA. By that I mean, melody, guile and a refusal to embrace the obvious and nondescript.
This has influences. As so often I thought of Syd Barrett. I love to recognise the continuing influence of Syd. These are songs that explore the undergrowth of Giant's Lawn and find it verdant. There's a lot of utopian thinking at work here. An awareness of the darkness, a refusal to embrace it.
There's something of the Canterbury Scene perhaps here as well as the Dunedin one. Idiosyncracity and oddness. The qualities that make us all unique despite all the worst efforts of the world to make us the same. . I fell in love with the record on its first play. Wutld Series have always been a fine band but I'd say The Giant's Lawn sees them becoming a remarkable one.
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