My Top 1000 Songs #950: Fatal Flaw Of The New

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Eccentric New Zealand indie rocker Chris Knox, both on his own and as part of the duo Tall Dwarfs, can be a challenging listen. Unrelentingly lo-fi, the Knox/Dwarfs catalog is full of strangeness, yet every now and then they almost inadvertently stumble into a hook so winning you'll never get it out of your head. "Fatal Flaw Of The New," off the Tall Dwarfs' 1998 LP Fifty Flavours Of Glue, is one of those tracks: a persistent drum machine, a few sha-la-las, and a drop-dead hook I'm always humming to myself.