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 40 of 54
Che Fu
Navigator (LP) [ Sony Music NZ / LP - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Released in September 2001, Navigator features the top 20 hits 'Fade Away' (#2), 'Random' (#19) and 'Misty Frequencies' (#10). The album debuted at number one in the New Zealand charts, spending 3 weeks in the top spot and 27 weeks in the Top... |
Joe Kaptein
Live at The Upside Down Lounge Vol.1 (LP) [ Holiday Records / LP - released 16/Oct/2026 ] Music First and Jandal Records are delighted to present "Live at The Upside Down Lounge Vol.1" by Joe Kaptein, one of the hottest talents in the NZ Jazz scene. Recorded live at Goblin in the heart of Ponsonby on 26 May, the album features Hank... |
Em
Phases (LP) [ Em / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] Phases is a deeply personal work that documents Em's journey through loss and self-reflection. The album merges the sounds of indie, pop, and folk, blending mesmerising guitar patterns, moody synths, and rich vocal layers with Em's signature... |
Flamingo Pier
Woven Together (LP) [ Drops / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] Flamingo Pier, the New Zealand-born, London‑shaped trio of Luke Walker, Dominic Jones and Brad Craig, step confidently into a new chapter with the announcement of their second album 'Woven Together' arriving in October. Long celebrated as one of the... |
Greg Johnson
Some Night, Somewhere (LP) [ JMA / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] Greg Johnson looks out the Pacific Ocean from the Santa Monica pier and ponders that his new album Some Night Somewhere is "a collection of vignettes, some real, some not." "My songs are almost always imaginary trailers for non existent short... |
Louis Baker
Trouble [ Louis Baker / CD - released 9/Oct/2026 ] One of Aotearoa's most distinctive voices - singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Louis Baker announces his second album, Trouble. Across nine songs, Trouble unfolds as Louis Baker's most assured work to date. Taking shape during a time of... |
Louis Baker
Trouble (LP) [ Louis Baker / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] One of Aotearoa's most distinctive voices - singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Louis Baker announces his second album, Trouble. Across nine songs, Trouble unfolds as Louis Baker's most assured work to date. Taking shape during a time of... |
Midwave Breaks
Echo. Tide. Awake [ Small World Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2026 ] Echo. Tide. Awake. is the first full-length studio album from Midwave Breaks, featuring 13 new tracks for 2026 - all written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by the band themselves, in the spare room of a farmhouse, overlooking the Bay of Plenty... |
Midwave Breaks
Echo. Tide. Awake (LP) [ Small World Records / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] Echo. Tide. Awake. is the first full-length studio album from Midwave Breaks, featuring 13 new tracks for 2026 - all written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by the band themselves, in the spare room of a farmhouse, overlooking the Bay of Plenty... |
Son & Water
Still Burning [ Son & Water / CD - released 9/Oct/2026 ] Hamilton father-and-son duo Son & Water make their album debut with Still Burning, a nine-track collection grounded in whānau, whakapapa and the musical legacy shared between vocalist Daimond Porima-Ferguson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngāti... |
Son & Water
Still Burning (Orange Splash Vinyl LP) [ Son & Water / LP - released 9/Oct/2026 ] Hamilton father-and-son duo Son & Water make their album debut with Still Burning, a nine-track collection grounded in whānau, whakapapa and the musical legacy shared between vocalist Daimond Porima-Ferguson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngāti... |
Home Brew
Last Week [ Years Gone By / CD - released 2/Oct/2026 ] One of, if not the, most beloved Aotearoa hip-hop groups, Home Brew, are finally reissuing their classic 2008 release, Last Week. Last Week - seven songs written and recorded over seven days - celebrates the halcyon days when Home Brew's core crew... |
Home Brew
Last Week (LP) [ Years Gone By / LP - released 2/Oct/2026 ] One of, if not the, most beloved Aotearoa hip-hop groups, Home Brew, are finally reissuing their classic 2008 release, Last Week. Last Week - seven songs written and recorded over seven days - celebrates the halcyon days when Home Brew's core crew... |
Church & AP
Teeth (LP) [ Drops / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] When Auckland duo Church & AP released their debut radio single 'Ready Or Not' in 2018, the Aotearoa hip-hop scene was in the depths of a commercial lull. Buoyed by high-rotation plays on New Zealand's biggest hip-hop and RnB radio station Mai FM and... |
Jess B
Matters Of The Heart (LP) [ Drops / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] After drip feeding fans with two killer new tracks, hip-hop powerhouse JessB has revealed her highly anticipated new album - Matters of the Heart. With Matters of the Heart, JessB continues to explore authenticity, personal growth, and... |
The Veils
Nux Vomica (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] The Runaway Found (2004), Nux Vomica (2006) and 2009's Sun Gangs established the New Zealand band as purveyors of lush, romantic indie, able to sweep through cinematic vistas into intimate emotional corners, via gothic orchestration and atmospheric... |
The Veils
The Runaway Found (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] The Runaway Found (2004), Nux Vomica (2006) and 2009's Sun Gangs established the New Zealand band as purveyors of lush, romantic indie, able to sweep through cinematic vistas into intimate emotional corners, via gothic orchestration and atmospheric... |
The Veils
Sun Gangs (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 25/Sep/2026 ] The Runaway Found (2004), Nux Vomica (2006) and 2009's Sun Gangs established the New Zealand band as purveyors of lush, romantic indie, able to sweep through cinematic vistas into intimate emotional corners, via gothic orchestration and atmospheric... |
Dion Lunadon
Rare Gems Volume One (LP) [ Beast Records / LP - released 18/Sep/2026 ] "I don't think there's a single track that Mr. Lunadon has done that is not worth checking out… and live? Forget it! So cool." - Henry Rollins Rare Gems Volume One is comprised of 10 sick as fuck rare and unreleased studio tracks recorded between... |
The Nomad
ReGenerate [ Nomad Audio & Video / CD - released 18/Sep/2026 ] ReGenerate marks a 30-year milestone for Aotearoa electronic pioneer The Nomad. Beginning in 1996 with Locust and evolving into The Nomad in 1998, the album revisits unreleased ideas, reshapes past favourites, and introduces new material that bridges... |
The Nomad
Regenerate (Limited Edition LP) [ Nomad Audio & Video / 2 LP - released 18/Sep/2026 ] ReGenerate marks a 30-year milestone for Aotearoa electronic pioneer The Nomad. Beginning in 1996 with Locust and evolving into The Nomad in 1998, the album revisits unreleased ideas, reshapes past favourites, and introduces new material that bridges... |
Peter Jefferies
The Day They Let You Out Is The Day They Might Not Let You Come Back (LP) [ Grapefruit / LP - released 18/Sep/2026 ] Grapefruit is proud to release the first new album in 25 years from the legendary New Zealand singer-songwriter, Peter Jefferies. Known for his seminal post-punk bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment as well as his equally... |
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... |
