Perfume Genius
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately [ Matador / CD - released 29/May/2020 ] Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius. It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and... |
Perfume Genius
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 29/May/2020 ] Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius. It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Friend Ship [ The Phoenix Foundation / Universal Music NZ / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It's been five years since GUYD but that down time has been spent writing, recording, touring with the New... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Friend Ship (Pink Coloured Vinyl LP) [ The Phoenix Foundation / Universal Music NZ / LP - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It's been five years since GUYD but that down time has been spent writing, recording, touring with the New... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Friend Ship (Pink Coloured Vinyl LP & Turquoise 7") [ The Phoenix Foundation / Universal Music NZ / LP - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It's been five years since GUYD but that down time has been spent writing, recording, touring with the New... |
Pickle Darling
Laundromat [ Father Daughter / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] As Pickle Darling, Christchurch, New Zealand-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Lukas Mayo (they/them) zooms in on the universality of existential thought with earnest playfulness. After years of touring on previous albums, Bigness (2019, Z... |
Pickle Darling
Laundromat (BabyBlue Vinyl LP) [ Father Daughter / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] As Pickle Darling, Christchurch, New Zealand-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Lukas Mayo (they/them) zooms in on the universality of existential thought with earnest playfulness. After years of touring on previous albums, Bigness (2019, Z... |
Princess Chelsea
Everything Is Going To be Alright [ Lil' Chief / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Princess Chelsea crafted her "nervous breakdown album" Everything is Going to be Alright, at home in pastoral Aotearoa. The album is a comforting offering. These aren't wallowing sad songs, instead, they chronicle Chelsea Nikkel's recovery, and... |
Princess Chelsea
The Loneliest Girl [ Lil' Chief / CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] The Loneliest Girl is the third studio album by New Zealand musician Chelsea Nikkel, better known as Princess Chelsea. It was recorded by Chelsea between 2016 and 2017 in her home studio in West Auckland. The Loneliest Girl examines the loneliness... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies 2 & 3 B'rock Orchestra, René Jacobs [ Pentatone / CD - released 18/Sep/2020 ] Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B'Rock Orchestra continue their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer's Second and Third Symphony. Jacobs approaches these pieces as a symphonic pair revealing contrasting... |
Robert Plant
Carry Fire [ Nonesuch / Warner Music / CD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Carry Fire, Robert Plant's eleventh solo album and first full-length release since 2014's acclaimed Lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar, was produced by Plant in the west of England and Wales, at Top Cat studio in Box, Wiltshire with additional... |
Ron Samsom and the Nutrino Funk Experience
Ace Tone [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 19/Jun/2015 ] A regular sideman on numerous Rattle Jazz releases, Ron Samsom's first album as band leader is an affectionate, no-holds-barred, pumping homage to 70s jazz funk. Ace Tone bristles with energy and attitude, evident not only in the forward-leaning... |
Sharon Van Etten
Are We There [ Jagaguwar / CD - released 23/May/2014 ] Stunning Brooklyn-based songstress Sharon Van Etten follows up her third and breakthrough album - 2012's Tramp with an equally heartbreakingly beautiful release Are We There. Sharon sings heartbreaking and heartfelt songs that are intensely... |
Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Sharon Van Etten's Remind Me Tomorrow comes four years after Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present. Throughout Remind Me Tomorrow, Sharon Van... |
Solange
When I Get Home (LP) [ Columbia / LP - released 16/Aug/2019 ] This release represents the next phase in Solange's evolution as an artist, and is the follow up to her critically acclaimed 2016 album A Seat at the Table. When I Get Home was written, performed, and executive produced by Solange, and includes... |
Various Artists
Songcatcher (Original Soundtrack) [ Vanguard Records / CD - released 8/May/2001 ] 'Songcatcher' honours the emotional pureness of mountain music and the acoustic refrain of the Appalachians - featuring Rosanne Cash, Dolly Parton, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Iris DeMent and many more |
Sourakata Koite
En Hollande [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Sourakata Koité was born in 1955 in Malème, Senegal, a Malinke-speaking area. As Sourakata says, "All the Koité are musicians!" He is indeed a member of a family of djéli (or griot in french), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians... |
Stef Animal
Top Gear [ Fishrider Records / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Stef Animal (The Golden Awesome) presents her debut solo release "Top Gear" - a concept album of fifteen writing exercises, each conceived and recorded in one session. Each track was made using a different piece of obsolete or unfashionable music... |
The Strokes
The New Abnormal [ Sony Music / CD - released 22/May/2020 ] The New Abnormal is the New York band's sixth studio album, recorded at Shangri-Las Studios in Malibu, CA and produced by Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Crowes, The Cult). The album's cover artwork features a painting by... |
Tame Impala
The Slow Rush (LP) [ Modular / Universal Music / LP - released 14/Feb/2020 ] Tame Impala (Kevin Parker) has officially announced his fourth studio album, 'The Slow Rush' out February 14th, 2020. 'The Slow Rush' was recorded between Los Angeles and Parker's studio in his hometown of Fremantle, Australia. The twelve tracks were... |