The Law of Things is the second album by the New Zealand band The Bats, released in 1990.[6][7] It was released by Mammoth Records in the United States.[5]
The track "Smoking Her Wings" was released as a single, and the album peaked at #38 in the New Zealand charts.[8][9]
Production
The album was recorded at Writhe Recording in Wellington, New Zealand, toward the end of 1988.[10] It was produced by Brent McLachlan and the band.[4]
Critical reception
Trouser Press called the album "monumental," writing: "Capturing all the hooky appeal and personal charm of their first records, it updates the recipe with seven years of instrumental mastery and superior sonics."[11]The New York Times wrote that "the production is raw; the song structures are almost self-consciously unsophisticated - just jaunty guitar riffs, roughshod 4/4 rhythms and, in the more aggressive tracks, base lines that rumble and swell and even drown out the other instruments."[12]
