The Kiwi Animal - Mercy LP xx2007 If Wishes Were Horses embodies

If Wishes Were Horses embodies a level of songwriting

Honey Soundsystem

helmed by mainman Satyrign

Notorious in their home town of Cleveland for their explosive and often violent live performances

a few other GBV personalties appear on the record

The Kiwi Animal - Mercy LP xx2007 If Wishes Were Horses embodiesAfter a few years spleen venting at the front of Wellington art brutes Shoes This High, Brent Hayward struck out on his own, self releasing a few EPs as Smelly Feet before forming The Kiwi Animal with Julie Cooper in 1982. The duo released their first album, Music Media, on Massage Records (their own imprint) in 1984. With the addition of Patrick Waller on cello and sundry other instruments, 1985's MERCY finds an augmented Kiwi Animal trying on what