Strawpeople

Formed in the early '90s as New Zealand's premier electro-pop band. Paul Casserly and Mark Tierney fuse electronics with strings, trumpets, and double bass that add finesse to the music and greater support to the weighty selection of female singers which to date have included: Stephanie Taueuihi, Fiona McDonald, Leza Corban, and then unknown Anika Moa. Their classy production is born out of Casserly's day job as a jingles man but the style is far from vapid muzak as their covered material name checks the Church, whose "Under the Milky Way" provided one of their biggest hits in...