Wild Carnation
Tricycle
Early 1990's indie rock band Wild Carnation played raw, loud and fast, with Richard Barnes distorted, jangly guitar lines perfectly colliding with Brenda Sauter's propelling bass notes, while Chris O'Donovan kept it together, while pounding the living hell out of his drums. It was a garagey, indie rock mess, more reminiscent early R.E.M., and emergent New Zealand bands like The Bats and The Clean, than The Feelies. After a couple of 7" releases, a full length album was then commissioned, and an evolving Wild Carnation teamedup with engineer Don Sternecker (The Feelies, Speed The Plough, Wake Ooloo) to record their debut full length 'Tricycle', released in 1994. On 'Tricycle', the pastoral quality of their most beautiful ballads was captured perfectly, while retaining enough of the rawness of the live experience.