Bailter Space - Wammo

Wammo is the fifth studio album by New Zealand shoegaze and noise rock band Bailter Space, originally released in 1995 via Flying Nun and Matador Records.

This year Matador’s Revisionist History has surfaced a number of outstanding and era-defining catalogue items including Bailter Space’s Wammo, now celebrating its 25th anniversary. Wammo has been remastered from the original tapes and returns for the first time on vinyl since 1995 in a translucent orange pressing.

Formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1987 as Nelsh Bailter Space, the band’s musical family tree touches on some of the nation’s most revered weirdo luminaries–including Flying Nun mainstays like The Skeptics, The Clean, and The Gordons.

Wammo was the trio’s third and final full-length with the label (their fifth album overall) and was among its most tuneful efforts. At the time, music scribes were a bit puzzled by the record’s “accessibility”.

In the rear view, though, we can recognize Wammo for the perfectly melancholy and drone- laced brain-zap that it is.

This album is a 25^th Anniversary limited edition 2021 reissue on transparent orange coloured vinyl, pressed the US via Matador Records.