New Zealand New Releases
New Zealand New Releases
Below is a list of all New Zealand titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 20 of 50
Pitch Black
Ape To Angel [ Dubmission / 2 CD - released 4/Sep/2026 ] Originally unleashed in October 2004, Ape to Angel took the momentum of Pitch Black's preceding albums to new levels, with the sound becoming fuller and the bass more driving. The duo tweaked the sounds of club culture around the dub heart of the... |
Smart Alec & Cleffor Cloggs
Like It Here (10") [ Digidub / 10in - released 4/Sep/2026 ] RELEASED SEPTEMBER 04. The third in a series of releases from the Digi Dub archives, Like it Here is a tribute to the poet laureate of Special Brew, the late Iffor Clarkson-Denbigh, who sadly departed us in 2021 to drink in the great park in the... |
Jonathan Bree
Don't Call It Love [ Lil' Chief Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2026 ] The man behind the mask, Jonathan Bree, returns with his sixth studio album. This seventeen-track double album is Bree's most ambitious project to date - an erotic, concept-driven epic that brings the sexual and sensual themes of his earlier records... |
Jonathan Bree
Don't Call It Love (LP) [ Lil' Chief Records / 2 LP - released 28/Aug/2026 ] The man behind the mask, Jonathan Bree, returns with his sixth studio album. This seventeen-track double album is Bree's most ambitious project to date - an erotic, concept-driven epic that brings the sexual and sensual themes of his earlier records... |
Reb Fountain
Water For Gasoline [ Fountain Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2026 ] Water for Gasoline marks a significant creative departure for Reb Fountain. Written and recorded in Fountain's own garage studio this year, this new album captures the spontaneity and vulnerability of her creative process. Recorded live, most... |
Mārama - Original Soundtrack (LP)
[ Impressed Recordings / LP - released 21/Aug/2026 ] A Haunting collision of taonga pūoro, orchestral dread and gothic atmosphere - a powerful sonic companion to one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinctive cinematic works. "The greatest horror is always colonisation" - The Spinoff Pressed on... |
Brandon De La Cruz
Blue Irises In Hologram (LP) [ Brandon De La Cruz / LP - released 21/Aug/2026 ] Blue Irises in Hologram is a new album by Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa-based folk artist Brandon De La Cruz. The album is comprised of eight songs born of a wide range of inspirational nexuses including a 10-day silent Vipassana retreat, an afternoon in... |
Greatsouth
Hellhole of the Pacific (LP) [ Drops / LP - released 21/Aug/2026 ] Hellhole of the Pacific (HOTP) is a concept EP and multimedia storytelling project that reclaims and reimagines Aotearoa's narratives through an urban Māori lens. It draws its name from the infamous label given to Kororāreka (Russell)in the 1830s-a... |
Lontalius
Real Fruit Ice Cream (LP) [ Drops / LP - released 14/Aug/2026 ] Real Fruit Ice Cream is the seventh album from New Zealand singer-songwriter and producer Lontalius. Drawing on classic pop, country and '80s production, it captures the feeling of a perfect summer already beginning to fade. |
Reb Fountain
Water For Gasoline (LP) [ Fountain Records / LP - released 14/Aug/2026 ] Water for Gasoline marks a significant creative departure for Reb Fountain. Written and recorded in Fountain's own garage studio this year, this new album captures the spontaneity and vulnerability of her creative process. Recorded live, most... |
Reb Fountain
Water For Gasoline (Smokey Clear / Black Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Fountain Records / LP - released 14/Aug/2026 ] Water for Gasoline marks a significant creative departure for Reb Fountain. Written and recorded in Fountain's own garage studio this year, this new album captures the spontaneity and vulnerability of her creative process. Recorded live, most... |
Mel Parsons
Castle Hill [ Cape Road Recordings / CD - released 7/Aug/2026 ] Named after the remote mountain village in New Zealand's Southern Alps where it was recorded, CASTLE HILL is the Lyttelton-based artist's seventh album. Across 10 tracks, the album explores resilience, grief, self-doubt, nostalgia, presence and... |
Mel Parsons
Castle Hill (LP) [ Cape Road Recordings / LP - released 7/Aug/2026 ] Named after the remote mountain village in New Zealand's Southern Alps where it was recorded, CASTLE HILL is the Lyttelton-based artist's seventh album. |
Sheep, Dog & Wolf
Ceiling Waves (LP) [ Nacre / LP - released 7/Aug/2026 ] The layered, undulating sound of Sheep, Dog & Wolf has always defied categorisation. Auckland-born, London-based avant-pop polymath Daniel McBride creates mind-bending, genre-hopping compositions that meld experimentalism, math-rock, emo-folk,... |
Various Artists
Fully Nowhere: A World Resources Archive (Limited Edition LP) [ World Of Echo / 2 LP - released 7/Aug/2026 ] A major archival release from World Resources, the Aotearoa/New Zealand imprint responsible for some of the rarest lathe‑cut experimental records of the 1990s. Fully Nowhere compiles material from the original 7" singles and LPs - plus unreleased... |
Hina
Descending Dreams (LP) [ Hina / LP - released 31/Jul/2026 ] After six years shaping her sound and presence across the Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Tāmaki Makaurau music scenes, HINA presents Descending Dreams. Emerging from a period of personal turbulence, the album explores complex relationships and the... |
The Broken Heartbreakers
Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving [ Slow Time Records / CD - released 17/Jul/2026 ] After more than ten years between albums, Ōtepoti-based indie-folk songsmiths The Broken Heartbreakers return with Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving - their fourth studio album, released via Slow Time Records. Led by songwriters Rachel Bailey... |
The Broken Heartbreakers
Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving (Black Vinyl LP) [ Slow Time Records / LP - released 17/Jul/2026 ] After more than ten years between albums, Ōtepoti-based indie-folk songsmiths The Broken Heartbreakers return with Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving - their fourth studio album, released via Slow Time Records. Led by songwriters Rachel Bailey... |
The Broken Heartbreakers
Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving (White Vinyl LP) [ Slow Time Records / LP - released 17/Jul/2026 ] After more than ten years between albums, Ōtepoti-based indie-folk songsmiths The Broken Heartbreakers return with Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving - their fourth studio album, released via Slow Time Records. Led by songwriters Rachel Bailey... |
Gin Wigmore
Beautiful Mess [ Universal Music NZ / CD - released 17/Jul/2026 ] Capturing the contrast of life's highs and lows, light and darkness, softness and grit, Beautiful Mess marks Gin Wigmore's most personal and powerful body of work to date. Moving between tender, country-leaning introspection and raw, high-energy... |
