The Children's Zoo's musical menagerie blended intricate, gliding bass work, echoing guitar filigrees, and elaborate, highly dramatic male vocals, all set to the demure rhythmic pulse of the drum machine, for an effect reminiscent of the golden age of the 4AD label. The Children's Zoo coalesced in NYC in summer 1986 around the nucleus of Christopher Bollman (former bass prodigy for goth-punkers The Naked and the Dead), archly poetic frontman Robert Conroy (late of Burning Rome)...

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