To celebrate the 20th anniversary of I Believe You Are A Star, Sony Music is reissuing Dimmer’s I Believe You Are A Star on translucent blue vinyl.
Dimmer’s I Believe You Are A Star, released in 2001, is rightly regarded
as a classic and one of the great New Zealand records of the 2000s. Written and
nearly entirely performed by Shayne Carter, the album was five years in
gestation and Carter’s first album following the demise of his most
well-known band Straitjacket Fits.
Carter writes ; “My main inspiration when writing and recording Star was to
make a record entirely different from the rock n roll glory of the Straitjacket
Fits. I wanted to make a beautiful record that didn’t need to beat
it’s chest or prove that it could ‘rock’. It was influenced by the drift
and throb of ambient music, krautrock, electronica, outsider pop and the dark
funk of Sly Stone, James Brown and Funkadelic. It was also influenced by a
totally naive approach to the then relatively new digital recording
process.”