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Borderline
Borderline (LP) [ Drops / LP - due 26/Jun/2026 ] New Zealand indie-pop four-piece Borderline deliver a debut album built for repeat listens, packed with shimmering guitars, funk-leaning grooves, huge choruses, and the kind of songwriting that turns late-night feelings into instant anthems. Shaped... |
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The Broken Heartbreakers
Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving (Black Vinyl LP) [ Slow Time Records / LP - due 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... |
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The Broken Heartbreakers
Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving (White Vinyl LP) [ Slow Time Records / LP - due 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... |
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Delaney Davidson
Baby Heavyweight (LP) [ Rough Diamond / LP - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Baby Heavyweight born in a kitchen in Switerzerland, is Delaney Davidsons 11th solo album. Somewhat more groovy than his previous releases this is the second album he has made with Merk. Building on the smooth depth off the previous work and taking... |
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Enzso
Enzso (LP) [ Sony Music New Zealand / 2 LP - due 26/Jun/2026 ] In 1996 two great New Zealand music institutions joined forces to produce a unique project. ENZSO was an album of classic Split Enz songs arranged by former Split Enz keyboardist and sound engineer Eddie Rayner. The music was performed by the New... |
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Gin Wigmore
Beautiful Mess (LP) [ Universal Music NZ / LP - due 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... |
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Hina
Descending Dreams (LP) [ Hina / LP - due 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... |
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Jonathan Bree
Don't Call It Love (LP) [ Lil' Chief Records / 2 LP - due 28/Aug/2026 ] The man behind the mask, Jonathan Bree, returns with his sixth studio album Don't Call It Love, out August 6. This seventeen-track double album is Bree's most ambitious project to date - an erotic, concept-driven epic that brings the sexual and... |
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Mint Chicks
Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! (Limited White Vinyl LP) [ Festival / Warner / LP - due 3/Jul/2026 ] Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! is the second full-length album released by The Mint Chicks and was originally released in New Zealand on Flying Nun. The album dominated the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards 2007, earning five awards as well as achieving Gold... |
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Te Wehi
I'm Home (LP) [ Herepuru Records / LP - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Rooted in real-life stories, cultural pride and deep whakapapa, Te Wehi has built a connection with audiences through music that feels honest, relatable and unmistakably his own. What began as a creative outlet has grown into one of Aotearoa's most... |
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Daffodils (LP)
[ Mind Your Music / LP - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Daffodils is a heart-aching drama of a quintessential New Zealand marriage, told with iconic New Zealand music. Leaving her dying father's bedside, singer Maisie rushes to perform at an indie music gig in town. But as she sings the opening song,... |
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Aldous Harding
Train On The Island (Red Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 8/May/2026 ] Aldous Harding's fifth studio album was co-produced by long-time collaborator John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning) at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where the pair recorded the New Zealander's previous bodies of work, Party (2017), Designer... |
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Andrew Keoghan
Every Orchid Offering (LP) [ LP - released 29/Jul/2016 ] 'Every Orchard Offering' is a collection of 10 songs that seek to make sense of a peripatetic existence between New Zealand and New York, where Keoghan relocated in 2013. It's a series of personal vignettes about transience, sexuality, conceived... |
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Bad Hagrid
Bad Hagrid And The Planet Of The Androgynites (LP) [ Bad Hagrid / LP - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Alternative-Progressive-Regressive-Banana Brained-Ankle Sprained-Hipster Sister-SYNTH-Pop four-piece band Bad Hagrid are here to take you on a sonic journey to the synthetic planes. Bad Hagrid and The Planet Of The Androgynites takes you on a... |
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The Bads
Losing Heroes (LP) [ The Bads LP / LP - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Created under the fiery skies of Waitakere, Aotearoa, The Bads is a vehicle for the musical escapades of Brett Adams and Dianne Swann. This 11-song album was recorded across the summer of 2016 with Ben Edwards at The Sitting Room Studios in... |
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Beastwars
Tyranny of Distance (Transparent Blue Vinyl LP) [ Destroy / LP - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Wellington heavy rock band Beastwars have announced their long-awaited fifth studio album. Tyranny of Distance is a collection of songs sharing the common themes of despair, loneliness and existential... |
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The Bend
We Disappear (LP & 10") [ Armchair Records / 2 LP - released 4/Jun/2021 ] After thirty 'odd' years, The Bend (Fane Flaws, Tony Backhouse and Peter Dasent- all ex-Crocodiles) present We Disappear, an album of songs written from selected poems by legendary NZ poet Sam Hunt. This strange project began in 1987 with iconic... |
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The Black Seeds
Fabric (LP) [ Proville / 2 LP - released 8/Sep/2017 ] While firmly based in the island grooves that inspired the birth of the band nearly two decades ago, New Zealand's The Black Seeds create a sound that casts a wide net, layering funk, soul, Afrobeat, and other eclectic elements over their dub/reggae... |
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The Black Seeds
Into The Dojo (2026 Reissue LP) [ Black Seeds / LP - released 6/Mar/2026 ] The recording of Into The Dojo began in May 2005, when band members Barnaby Weir (lead vocals/guitar), Daniel Weetman (percussion/vocals), Mike Fabulous (guitar), Bret McKenzie (keys), Lee Prebble (sound engineer) and new rhythm section Jarney Murphy... |
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The Black Seeds
Keep On Pushing (20 Year Anniversary Limited Edition Red Vinyl LP) [ The Black Seeds / LP - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Twenty years on, The Black Seeds mark the anniversary of their platinum debut album with a limited red coloured vinyl release. Keep On Pushing's bold themes of love, optimism and solidarity has resonated with fans across the world, shaping them as... |