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The Kiwi band has come back all the way on this, its first release since 's underwhelming return from a decade-long hiatus, At the National Grid. Whether they know Christchurch from Cleveland or were alive in when Daddy's Highway made small but far-reaching ripples, indie rock fans have been absorbing strains of the Bats' and fellow "New Zealand sound" evangelists such the Clean and the Chills via osmosis for a couple of decades.

The chugging, scrappy, Velvets-indebted aesthetic is so finely woven into "classic" indie rock's DNA thanks largely to 90s uber-fans like Pavement and Superchunk , that it's easy to take a new album from one of the key Kiwi bands for granted-- even to write it off as quaint and anachronistic.

So inevitably, nostalgia nags The Guilty Office , the Bats' first release since 's At the National Grid , their respectable but underwhelming return from a decade-long hiatus. Despite introducing a few upgrades over the years-- actual sound engineering, a greater vocal role for guitarist Kaye Woodard, and the occasional harp-- the band hasn't tinkered with its signature chiming guitars and surging straight-ahead rhythms.

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