Legendary New Zealand band The Bats have been playing their distinctive styleof melodic infused pop folk/rock for long enough to have drifted in and out offashion several times, without even trying. For The Guilty Office - their seventh studio album and their Mistletone debut - The Batscontinue to refine and develop their own idiosyncratic path, whilst also adding fresh sparkleand new ideas. The strings and additional instruments come to the fore, such as on the firstsingle Castle Lights, and Robert Scott's songwriting has become particularly strong. It could have been the pentagonal room they recorded in at Christchurch music doyen JohnKelcher's studio, or the proximity to Christchurch's beautiful Heathcote River, but either way, theband have come up with an album that shines among their best.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Countersign
2. Crimson Enemy
3. Broken Path
4. Like Water In Your Hands
5. Castle Lights
6. Two Lines
7. Satellites
8. Later On That Night
9. Steppin' Out
10. The I Specialist
11. The Guilty Office
12. The Orchard