CINDY - The Way I Do - RED/WHITE vinyl LP PRE-ORDER

Full digital release and shipping on or before 4th September 2026

After more planning, procrastination and barely justified carbon emissions than we care to admit, we finally have Cindy's brilliant debut vinyl for you. Co-released with the beloved Sunreturn and with a limited first pressing of 300 copies of spunky smoky-red vinyl.

Birthed straight outta thee demise of Pt Chev stutter nutter blitz wave kids DHDFDs, half the band, that being Scoot McBroon & Wee JK, launched theirselves late 2010s, straight into assembling the next project, that being CINDY. As with the DHDFDs, drummers came & went at an alarmingly pace. The bass place got cemented by Saint Gloria, who also brought a stash of her own tunes, & bv & leading vox skills. The creative noodlings betwixt Wee James actual guitar noodling prowess, Scott’s manic panic power punch vox chants & Gloria’s rhythmic glue keeping MESSRS Broon & King hitched to the songs, & previously Jordan now currently Arlo, company in the percussive stakes.

There’s 11 tunes on this plastic pancake. Detailing bunch of the absurd, the quaint, the mad, bad & glad about Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland. Cheap dining, bad sunset strip trips, debauched humans, troubled love affairs, ya know life & all its tricks & twists.
Its schizo MINT CHICKS pop, 22nd Century CHEAP TRICK guitar histrionics, punked melodic hooks the size of pumpkins, not smashed. There’s runaway DEAD KENNEDYS hyper hits, BUZZCOCKS styled sneering pop. Broken fuzzed indie slacker melodies, RAMONES-esque bandwidth dominating three chord chunk & splat. Stratospheric guitar leads, bittersweet nihilistic harmonising gang vox. Songs will flip betwixt doo wop/girl group singing one moment (albeit w/demented vocal smatterings - Mr Brown’s forte), then ramp up thru the volume settings & intensity. It’s the BEACH BOYS meets Keith Morris-era BLACK FLAG. Sunny hooks caught up in all the weirdness Californian punk rock history has to offer. But transplanted to Point Chevalier, & littered w/the awkward & absurd humour only NewZild can supply.
This whole album is some kinda schizo sugar sweet fuzzed manic popped rok monsta flipping between speeds, light & shade, lullabies & nightmares. It’s a sonic audio trip, a curiosity & a mystery of both magic & madness, a trip that once you start, you ain’t gonna be able to stop. - A. Tolley

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Cover artwork by Roy Irwin