Unknown Country
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=October 2014}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Unknown Country
| type = studio
| artist = The Clean
| cover = Unknown_Country_Cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 1996
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Alternative rock, indie rock
| length = 44:36
| label = Flying Nun
| producer =
| prev_title = Modern Rock
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = Getaway
| next_year = 2001
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|2|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/unknown-country-mw0000616525|title=Unknown Country – The Clean | Songs, Reviews, Credits|publisher=AllMusic}}
| rev2 = Robert Christgau
| rev2Score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1401|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 1401|publisher=robertchristgau.com}}
| noprose = yes
}}
Unknown Country is an album by New Zealand group The Clean, released in 1996.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=Unknown+Country+the+clean&pg=PA274|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=19 October 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fie47qSuTsoC&q=Unknown+Country+clean+1996&pg=PA1992-IA34|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|first=Rough|last=Guides (Firm)|date=12 June 2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781858284576}}
Critical reception
CMJ wrote that "it's incredibly easy to be struck by how peculiar this record is, and easier still to forget that The Clean has been doing inventive, experimental, and, well, strange things in its music all along."{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mi0EAAAAMBAJ&q=Unknown+Country+clean+1996+flying+nun&pg=PA32|title=Reviews|work=CMJ New Music Monthly|author=CMJ Network Inc|date=12 January 1997|publisher=CMJ Network, Inc.}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| headline =
| title1 = Wipe Me, I'm Lucky
| length1 = 3:14
| title2 = Champagne & Misery
| length2 = 2:45
| title3 = Changing Your Head
| length3 = 3:14
| title4 = Balkans
| length4 = 1:18
| title5 = Clutch
| length5 = 2:14
| title6 = Franz Kafka at the Zoo
| length6 = 1:58
| title7 = Whisk
| length7 = 1:29
| title8 = Indigo Blue
| length8 = 2:34
| title9 = Chumpy
| length9 = 3:47
| title10 = Get the Liquid
| length10 = 2:51
| title11 = Happy Lil Fella
| length11 = 2:12
| title12 = Tweezer
| length12 = 0:47
| title13 = Rope
| length13 = 2:59
| title14 = Twist Top
| length14 = 2:04
| title15 = Cooking Water
| length15 = 3:58
| title16 = Valley Cab
| length16 = 2:07
| title17 = Wall Walk
| length17 = 3:38
| title18 = Balkans
| length18 = 1:26
}}
Charts
| class="wikitable" |
| Chart (1996–2021)
!Peak |
|---|
| {{album chart|New Zealand|39|artist=The Clean|album=Unknown Country|accessdate=21 August 2021}} |
References
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External links
{{MusicBrainz release|mbid=139cc77a-d4ae-4836-a96d-459be1bccc4d|name=Unknown Country}}
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