Campbell Kneale of Birchville Cat Motel speaks in an interview from 2002 on the influence of suburbia on his music.

I’ve always sought to find inspiration in my location. Currently that location is suburban Lower Hutt. Suburbia has a nasty reputation for being a congregation point for soullessness but I have come to disagree. I have seen brief glimpses of a very deeply ingrained spirituality here, not connected with any obvious religious affiliation, but connected with the big patterns of human existence. Work, sleep, travel, children, hospitality, home decorating… what would probably pass as ‘boring’ or ‘significant’ to your average E-popping, superficially urbanite, ravebunny, again links people with a much larger pattern of life that has continued unchanged, other than on the surface, for countless generations. I find the mundane very beautiful and very grand.

I admit to being simultaneously moved and repulsed by what Kneale says here. I’ll come clean: I am moved and want to be repulsed. I think I wanted to say something similar here, say and here (here, too) but I know, too I haven’t said a thing.