The Chills
Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (LP) [ Fire Records / LP - due 28/Feb/2025 ] 'Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs' is a Martin Phillipps passion project. A dedicated reimagining of his earlier unreleased songs that became his artistic farewell, a lasting legacy, and a reminder of his huge, underappreciated talent. The... |
The D4
Out Of My Head (LP) [ Warner / LP - due 7/Feb/2025 ] Louder, wilder, and more combustible than ever, NZ's finest punk n' rollers, The D4 are celebrating the FIRST EVER VINYL pressing of sophomore album Out Of My Head. The D4 was assembled by vocalist/guitarists Dion Lunadon and Jimmy Christmas who... |
Reb Fountain
How Love Bends (LP) [ Fountain Records / Flying Nun / LP - due 7/Mar/2025 ] Love is a first kiss, a late night call, an ache of longing that can break your heart or a long drive with the top down to anywhere but here. Love can equally be contained, repressed and longed for as much as it can save, nurture and embolden. Love... |
Reb Fountain
How Love Bends (Special Edition LP & 7") [ Fountain Records / Flying Nun / LP - due 7/Mar/2025 ] 180 gram vinyl LP with bonus 7" (featuring 'How Bizarre' & 'The Gambler'), packaged in a gatefold sleeve. Love is a first kiss, a late night call, an ache of longing that can break your heart or a long drive with the top down to anywhere but here.... |
The Adults
Haja (LP) [ Warner Music NZ / LP - released 20/Jul/2018 ] 2011 saw the first collaborative project from Shihad's Jon Toogood under the moniker The Adults. He and Tiki Taane produced the self-titled, Top 5 critically acclaimed album, which also received a nod for Album of the Year at the NZ Music Awards in... |
Albi & The Wolves
Light After Dark (LP) [ Triple A Records / LP - released 1/Dec/2023 ] On their new album, Light After Dark, three-piece Aotearoa indie folk stars Albi & The Wolves add horns, strings and drums for a bigger sound. Chris Dent (the proud albino front man Albi), Pascal Roggen and Micheal Young are still at the centre here... |
Aldous Harding
Warm Chris (LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 25/Mar/2022 ] An artist of rare calibre, Aldous Harding does more than sing; she conjures a singular intensity. The artist has announced details of Warm Chris a new studio album, the follow-up to 2019's acclaimed Designer. For Warm Chris, the Aotearoa New... |
Ballon D'Essai
"Woot!" is the Word (Limited Blue Vinyl LP w/ Comic & Sticker) [ Leather Jacket Records / Flying Nun / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Leather Jacket Records, in association with Flying Nun Records are proud to present Ballon D'Essai' - "Woot!" is the Word; the band's classic hits remastered and back on vinyl for the first time in 40 years. Teenage Music and Comix from the early... |
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... |
The Beths
Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 (Double Gatefold LP) [ Carpark / 2 LP - released 1/Oct/2021 ] NZ Exclusive, 180g Translucent Light Blue Vinyl. In March 2020, everything seemed on track for another huge year for The Beths. Home after an 18-month northern hemisphere tour, they had just finished recording sophomore album Jump Rope Gazers and... |
The Beths
Expert In A Dying Field (Aotearoa / Australia Exclusive Limited Edition Deluxe Double Blue/Green Marbled LP) [ Carpark Records / 2 LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] In September 2022, The Beths released their third studio album, Expert In A Dying Field, following two award-winning albums, Future Me Hates Me and Jump Rope Gazers, and their live album, Auckland, New Zealand, 2020. One year later, the band release... |
The Beths
Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe LP) [ Ivy League Records / LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] On The Beths' third studio album, Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes' songwriting places her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs are autobiographical, but they're also character sketches of relationships and, more... |
The Black Seeds
Love & Fire (LP) [ The Black Seeds / LP - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Yellow vinyl, custom dye cut outer jacket with full printed inner sleeve includes download code. |
Bruce Russell & Luke Wood
Visceral Realists (LP) [ VHF / LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Debut LP by the New Zealand duo of Bruce Russell (Dead C, Handful of Dust, etc) and Luke Wood. Visceral Realists is a high-concept commentary on the state of vinyl, analogue recording, music culture, art, etc. A 45-rpm bullet of short bursts of... |
The Chills
Kaleidoscope World (Limited Edition Double Blue Vinyl LP) [ Fire / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] The Chills reissue their celebrated early singles compilation, this 24-track expanded version of Kaleidoscope World gathers together tracks from the 'Dunedin Double' compilation, live recordings, Doledrums' single and the band's seminal 'Pink Frost'.... |
The Chills
Scatterbrain (LP) [ Fire / LP - released 1/May/2021 ] New studio album from the Dunedin songsmiths helmed by the enigmatic Martin Phillipps with artwork by Trees' David Costa. Dunedin's finest, The Chills release their seventh studio album 'Scatterbrain', a glorious self-examination of Martin... |
Cimeron
46 Years (LP) [ Zodiac / LP - released 30/Jul/2023 ] Rising from the embers of Auckland band Hot Ash, Cimeron started work on their debut album at Stebbing Recording Studios in 1977 with Rob Aickin and Ian Morris on production duties. Due to circumstances outside of the band's control, production was... |
Corben Simpson
Corben Simpson 3 (LP) [ Frenzy / LP - released 11/Oct/2024 ] A collection compiled from tracks recorded before and during the infamous 'Get Up With The Sun'sessions during 1973, where Corben dragged his sofa into the studio. The session's producer Alan Galbraith recalled: "at times I would be sitting in the... |
Crowded House
Dreamers Are Waiting (Limited Edition Blue/Black Coloured LP) [ EMI Music Australia / LP - released 4/Jun/2021 ] 'Dreamers Are Waiting' is the first album in more than 10 years from this iconic band led by Neil Finn. Crowded House's timeless songs continue to resonate for new audiences and long-term listeners alike. Players on the album are Neil Finn,... |
Crowded House
Gravity Stairs (Blue Vinyl LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 31/May/2024 ] Crowded House's eighth studio album. It's the act of climbing those figurative "gravity stairs," inspired by a heavy stone staircase near where Neil Finn vacations that he likens to his mindset as a creator. "It's a metaphor for getting a little... |