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Product Code: FN 009
Artist: This Sporting Life
Origin: New Zealand
Label: Flying Nun Records (1983)
Format: 12 inch
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Condition:
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
Genre: Rock U

In Limbo

Stunning very rare album, vinyl looks unplayed with a very smart clean cover and insert.

This Sporting Life was a souped up extension of Alms For Children, Auckland city boys with a cut down amped up sound who left their mark with a landmark indie single and minor chart hit on the truly independent REM Records in August 1981.

Paul Fogarty (guitar), Ben Hayman (bass), Daron Johns (drums) and Gary “Rodent” Charlton (vocals) had been at the innovative edge of the early 1980s New Zealand indie boom for nearly two years by then.

When In Limbo arrived in early 1984, having been lost for over a year amid the clutter of Chris Knox’s living room, it sported four new songs (‘Paper Chase’, ‘Difference’, ‘Too Proud’, ‘Patience’) .

“The four songs here range from spritely and cheeky (‘Difference’) to hackneyed (‘Too Proud’), but it couldn’t be described as inspired, Ok?” RipItUp fudged. This Sporting Life was happy with the recording, which was a conscious attempt to make the sound “poppier.”