Nadia Reid
Preservation (5th Anniversary Edition LP) [ Slowtime / LP - released 1/Jul/2022 ] In light of its 5th loop around the sun Nadia Reid is pleased to announce a long-awaited repress of her Taite Prize and Silver Scroll nominated album, Preservation. The pressing is on heavy-weight traditional black vinyl and include un-seen photo... |
The Naked And Famous
Recover (Red Vinyl LP) [ Universal Music / 2 LP - released 24/Jul/2020 ] NZ indie pop progenitors The Naked and Famous return with Recover. Featuring singles 'Bury Us', 'Come As You Are and 'Sunseeker'. Re-formed as a duo (founding members Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers), Recover reasserts the group as one of modern... |
Negative Nancies
Heatwave (LP) [ Occultation / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Negative Nancies exist in their own universe. The songs evolve organically through rehearsal room experimentation. Amid the art-punk chaos an irrepressible undercurrent of pop melodicism and moments of eerie psychedelic calm shine through the... |
Newmatics
Newmatics (LP) [ Furtive / LP ] Newmatics came out of a fertile post-punk early-80s Auckland music scene that also spawned Blam Blam Blam and the Screaming Meemees. Taking their cues from ska, r'n'b and soul, they were a fearsome live act - but managed to release only nine songs... |
Niko Walters
Escape (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Niko Walters has been feverishly readying his first body of work throughout this tumultuous year, but he's been waiting for this moment all his life. The debut album, featuring singles 'Not My Neighbour', 'Close My Eyes' and 'Escape', will give... |
No Cigar
The Great Escape (LP) [ LP - released 28/Jun/2024 ] After a string of captivating singles, Auckland five-piece NO CIGAR have unveiled their second album, THE GREAT ESCAPE. Since they were formed in 2019, NO CIGAR have established themselves as one of New Zealand's most promising musical acts -... |
Odyssey
Rock & Roll's Alright!! (Black Vinyl LP) [ Frenzy / LP - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Formed in Christchurch in 1973 by guitarist Ronnie Harris & drummer Jeff Stribling, Odyssey absorbed the BIG teenage beat of the time infusing it with their own Kiwi DIY attitude. What their garden city predecessors Chants R&B were to savage R&B,... |
Office Dog
Spiel (Limited Edition Clear LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Introducing Office Dog, hailing from Ōtepoti/Dunedin and residing in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. The trio, led by Kane Strang on guitar/vocals, alongside Rassani Tolovaa on bass and Mitchell Innes on drums, present their debut album Spiel. Assembling... |
Office Dog
Spiel (LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Introducing Office Dog, hailing from Ōtepoti/Dunedin and residing in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. The trio, led by Kane Strang on guitar/vocals, alongside Rassani Tolovaa on bass and Mitchell Innes on drums, present their debut album Spiel. Assembling... |
PUCCINI / GOUNOD / MASSENET / MASCAGNI / VERDI / BERLIOZ
Nessun Dorma (LP) Pene Pati (tenor) / Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Emmanuel Villaume [ Warner Classics / LP - released 20/Sep/2024 ] Taking its title, Nessun Dorma, from the greatest tenor hit of them all, Pene Pati's second album balances favourite numbers with operatic rarities - one of them in world premiere recording. In addition to Puccini, the Italian composers are Verdi,... |
Peter Jefferies
Last Ticket Home (LP) [ Grapefruit Records / LP - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Grapefruit releases Jefferies' latest, which leaves the station early in his career when "The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World" left off and takes us on a guided tour of a fascinating side street via rare singles, both released and unreleased,... |
P.H.F.
New Metal (LP) [ Danger Collective Records / LP - released 13/Nov/2020 ] P.H.F.'s release schedule has been prolific as ever in 2020. His career spanning Anthology compilation & killer singles 'Good Girl' and 'Sorry'. But it's been a minute since we've heard a full blown studio album from iconoclastic Tāmaki songwriter... |
P.H.F.
Purest Hell (Baby Pink Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Danger Collective Records / LP - released 27/May/2022 ] P.H.F. is the recording project of Auckland, NZ songwriter and producer Joe Locke. From its origins in Locke's 2008 bedroom productions, P.H.F. has gone on to collaborate with artists like Clairo and ARTHUR, toured globally, and had music released on... |
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... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Give Up Your Dreams (Ltd Edition Gold Coloured LP) [ Memphis Industries / LP - released 7/Aug/2015 ] Phoenix Foundation's latest offering Give Up Your Dreams on 180gram GOLD vinyl, with a high gloss cover, a fully printed inner-sleeve and download code. |
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... |
Poisoned Livers
How the Poor Feel Rich (Green Vinyl EP) [ LP - released 9/Apr/2021 ] How the Poor Feel Rich - the debut EP from Auckland's Poisoned Livers catch the incredible energy of their live performances. Formed in 2015, Poisoned Livers fast became an institution on the New Zealand punk scene. They've shared the stage with... |
Princess Chelsea
Everything Is Going To be Alright (LP) [ Lil' Chief / LP - released 7/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 Great Cybernetic Depression (LP) [ Lil' Chief / Flying Nun / LP - released 1/May/2015 ] Building upon the success of her 2011 debut Lil Golden Book, which spawned the internet sensation "Cigarette Duet" (which has racked up nearly twenty million hits on Youtube), Princess Chelsea's new album is a sparkling, glittering epic, weaving... |