The sixth release on Die Slaughterhaus Records - started by friends the famed Black Lips - "Beware of Falling Rock" is the first full-length album by The Kiwis, known at the time of recording this as The Kiwis Of the South Pacific. The band was started by Andrew Nicholson and all of the songs were written by him as well. 

He and Adam Bruneau both decided to compile as many songs as possible and this record is the result, recorded at Andrew's home in Dunwoody, the Kiwis house in midtown Atlanta, and the second Die Slaughterhaus in East Atlanta. Band members at the time also included Brent Nicholson, Ben Crum, and Julie Elledge and this CD also features performances by Jack Hines, Derek Pressnall, Cori Ray, and Jessica from Alabama.

Tracklisting (with notes from Andrew):

1. 12 Mirrors (I used to play this song in science class for Ellen all the time - it was her favorite song)
2. Neon Money (Written in New Orleans after an unsuccessful attempt to buy some liquor off of Quintron)
3. Sea Song 1
4. Hotel Party (this song inspired the song "Holiday Inn" done by Chingy and Snoop. Chingys producer was telling me about an idea they got for a song from Stereo Total ("Holiday Inn").. and I mentioned our song "Hotel Party".. It's in the first verse that Chingy sings and I had to sign a waiver saying it was O.K. for them to use it, pretty cool ehh?)
5. What the hell happened to Weezer (This is why Weezer wrote the song "We are all on drugs" because I spoke with Matt Sharp a few weeks before we released the first album and told him about the song - Which I later found out he told Rivers about - after the album came out and received a lot of radio play in L.A. I heard Rivers got really pissed about the lyrics and decided to write a response to it - - 6 months later their song hit the charts)
6. Making up a song about nothing
7. Sweet as Lime Disease
8. Carolines Tripping
9. Jessica (Jessica actually sings on this song which was her 22nd birthday present)
10. The Tree Song
11. ??????????
12. Sleeping on the sidewalk (The 'acid' bit always reminded me of early Flaming Lips, especially the really low vocal (you can't hear it too well, but its there). The trumpet at the end is by Corey, who we asked to play something, anything that came to mind. We ran it through a Fischer Price vocoder and edited it onto the end more or less randomly; it sounds like a marching band lost in the woods.)
13. Mother Timepod (this was written on the spot with jessica at her house it was the first of many wonderful recording sessions)
14. Sea Song #3: A Pirates Lullabye
15. Let's watch television with our third eye
16. Kelly
17. The Sad Machine will cease to function
18. Steve Wilkinson/Ellen Black(Steve Wilkinson was one of my best friends in Jr. High who died of a heart complication/Ellen was one of our biggest fans in high school - one time I saw her crying and it inspired me to write this song..)
19. Mexico(This song changed our entire approach to song writing every thing after this song will sound completely different than what came before - I recommend our Limited Edition release "3 inch kiss" It starts off with the sequel to "Mexico" entitled "Suspicious")
 
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---note from Adam---
I torrented this because it sold out several years ago and I had a hell of a time finding any real copies of the CD myself. It's actually for download on the Kiwis website but this release includes all the artwork and the whole album is in one folder. A few further releases have come out over the years but nothing as major as this due to the many sideprojects we get involved in. We are working on our second full-length record, hopefully to come out by the end of 2008.