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"Direen’s masterpiece, Beatin Hearts (1983), was recorded in Auckland’s Progressive studios with prize money from the 1982 Battle of the Bands in Christchurch.
The album is chock-full of smoky beat musings; deftly soundtracked Denis Glover poetry; vital re-readings of Direen’s spooked ballad ‘Alien’ with Toy Love’s Chris Knox on organ and Mike Dooley playing drums; the sublime ‘Dirty and Disgusting’ and ‘Moderation’; and gritty, literate Velvets-influenced rockers ‘Kicks’, ‘Outer Date World’ and ‘Bedrock Bay’. The core group – called Urbs while playing in Wellington and Auckland and supporting The Fall in mid-1982 – was Direen, Campbell McLay (bass) and Malcolm Grant (drums)." Andrew Schmidt