Thin Red Line – Thin Red Line EP

Thin Red Line
Thin Red Line EP
1985 Ode Records
Auckland, New Zealand

Dave White
John Kennedy
Karen Rush
Steven Thomas

Side 1:

1. Life Blood
2. Daddy’s Song

Side 2:

1. Ethiopian Dream
2. Spectre

So the collection I am digitizing has a tape that was a dub of three of the Thin Red Line demos. But it was a weird copy that had the left channel nearly muted. If you listened closely, there were distinct instruments on the left side that should be heard. So I had to crank up the left channel, remove the massive hiss that this created, realize that the music sounded funny, and then copy the left and right channel over to the other channel. The result was… okay. There is some digital distortion from removing the hiss. Not too much. I may also make a mix without cranking up the left channel. But anyways, this is the third demo by Thin Red Line, a year after Seclusions Paradise and a year before Simplicity. Simplicity and Lie of the Land were also on this mix tape, but I have a real copy of Lie of the Land that digitized well. The sound here is the same as the others – male and female-fronted alternative rock with some experimental and indigenous influences along with socially conscious lyrics. Dave White went on the form The Clear and Lung, both of which sound different from this. The image above is from the vinyl version of this release.