There is the psychedelic pop of The Chills and the noisy lo-fi of Tall Dwarfs, but for me Christchurch’s The Bats have always been the band that best epitomizes New Zealand’s alternative pop music: jangly, melodic, punky and a little bit underground — or is that down under? The band has been around for more than four decades (with a hiatus somewhere in the middle) and is about to tour New Zealand once again, but Made up in Blue is one of their earliest songs and still my favourite song of theirs.