Debuting in 1981 as one of the first two releases on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Flying Nun Records, The Clean helped to launch both that label’s fabled run and the so-called “Dunedin sound” (named after their sleepy city of origin). That’s all thanks to “Tally Ho!” a snide and distorted salvo that presaged so much of America’s 1990s lo-fi indie rock. But that was just the start of a multidecade, on-and-off-again run for The Clean, who featured brothers David and Hamish Kilgour and Robert Scott (also of The Bats). After collecting their scrappy early singles and EPs in the widely influential 1986 set Compilation, the trio reconvened for a string of albums that gradually grew less prickly and more melodic while sprawling into unexpected territory. That means the sunny jangle of 1990’s “Drawing to a Whole” eventually gave way to the low-key piano and spoken word of 1996’s “Franz Kafka at the Zoo,” the hushed bedroom twang of 2001’s “Crazy” and the surreal psych-pop of 2009’s “Are You Really on Drugs.” Hamish Kilgour’s death in 2022 drew the band to a close, but reissues and anthology releases have kept The Clean’s word-of-mouth legacy circulating among new generations of DIY upstarts.