A group, and sound that genuinely represents the darker, truer side of Aotearoa and destroys the white picket sales pitch NZ government sells to rest of the world, the Boredom, the Stove, the Booze & Drugs, parental abuse, isolation, communal warfare, inter-generational lack of education, and the straight up ignorance of western society are all contrarily very normal aspects for many. give a fiendish kiwi musician a bag of drugs and nothing to smoke it with, this is what you get.
-Nui Whenua mangu_tahi
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