''The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake'' is the second studio album by Australian
rock
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band
Spiderbait
Spiderbait is an Australian alternative rock band from Finley, New South Wales, formed in 1991 by bass guitarist and singer Janet English, drummer and singer Kram (musician), Kram, and guitarist Damian Whitty. In 2004 the group's cover version o ...
, released in 1995. It peaked at No. 14 on the
ARIA Albums Charts.
The album was named after the real unfinished Spanish galleon built in Spiderbait's home town,
Finley, New South Wales
Finley '' Macquarie Dictionary, Fourth Edition'' (2005). Melbourne, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. is a town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest town in the Berrigan Shire local government area. At the 20 ...
, which was a "failed civic beautification project".
[McFarlane]
'Spiderbait'
entry. Archived fro
the original
on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 27 May 2017. The galleon had been partly constructed for many years, before being burnt to the water line by an unknown arsonist. It was then rebuilt in its entirety but then burnt down again and now no longer exists.
Reception
Emma MacDonald of ''
The Canberra Times
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History
''The Canberra Times'' was launched in ...
'' opined, in October 1995, that "the music is inventive and quite melodic but, be warned, what seems like a nice musical jaunt at first can turn into a thrashing, speaker-blowing experience without the slightest warning."
Australian musicologist,
Ian McFarlane
Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is the '' Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop'' (1999), which was updated for a second edition in 2017.
As a journalist ...
, felt it "found the band adding a jazzier touch (as on the title track) to the usually frantic, distortion-fuelled thrash-pop style."
Jonathan Lewis of
AllMusic
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that it "consisted of short (most songs are under three minutes) blasts of punk-pop. With their buzzing guitars and the strange vocals of lead singer Kram, Spiderbait were a kind of hybrid of the rawer moments of the Pixies and the Muffs, but less melodic than either of those two."
Track listing
Charts
Release history
References
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Spiderbait albums
1995 albums