Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Blue Record (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 20/Dec/2013 ] "I only started playing the acoustic guitar last year. I'd always preferred the idea that the guitar converts a sound into voltage and then becomes really loud. I thought the acoustic guitar was a little bit too twee for me or something. But after... |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
IC-01 Hanoi (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 26/Oct/2018 ] While recording Unknown Mortal Orchestra's latest release, Sex & Food, Ruban Nielson, his long-time collaborator Jacob Portrait and his brother Kody Nielson, found themselves in the Vietnamese city of Hanoi playing and recording with local musicians... |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
II (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 15/Feb/2013 ] Emerging from rampant hedonism and isolation is II, the new album from Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The musical vision of Portlander-via-New Zealand Ruban Nielson started as an anonymous home-recording project that fused psychedelia, soul, choppy... |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
V (Limited Edition Golden Nugget Vinyl LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] Created between Palm Springs, California and Hilo, Hawai'i, V is the first double album from the Hawaiian-New Zealand singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Ruban Nielson's Unknown Mortal Orchestra band. Designed to play as one... |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
V (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] Created between Palm Springs, California and Hilo, Hawai'i, V is the first double album from the Hawaiian-New Zealand singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Ruban Nielson's Unknown Mortal Orchestra band. Designed to play as one... |
Various Artists
Kono Toru | 003 (LP) [ Loop / LP - released 17/Dec/2021 ] Kono Toru | 003 is a compilation with the focus on celebrating the use of te reo Māori in waiata and everyday life. Kono Toru | 003 features tracks presented in te reo for the first time. Created with the support of APRA, Creative NZ, Te Māngai... |
Various Artists
True Colours, New Colours - The Songs Of Split Enz (Limited Edition LP) [ Warner Australia / LP - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Hot pink coloured vinyl! True Colours, the most commercially successful album of New Zealand group Split Enz's career, celebrated its 40th anniversary earlier in the year. To commemorate the milestone, the... |
Various Artists
Waiata Anthems (LP) [ Unviersal Music NZ / LP - released 13/Sep/2024 ] This fifth anniversary edition celebrates a milestone in Aotearoa's cultural renaissance. Featuring 11 legendary New Zealand artists including Six60, Benee, Stan Walker, Tiki Taane, Bic Runga, Teeks and more performing their hit songs in Te Reo... |
Various Artists
Wild Things: Social End Products of the World Unite - 16 Kiwi Freakbeat Nuggets From 1966 to 1968 (LP) [ Vostok / LP - released 25/May/2018 ] Limited Edition! In mid 1966 John Harris of The Bluestars penned NZ's first punk single Social End Product released by Allied International in September that year. Now considered the holy grail of NZ freakbeat and sixties punk, the single is... |
The Veils
...And Out Of The Void Came Love (Limited Edition Transparent LP) [ Banished From The Universe / 2 LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] It's been seven strange years since The Veils' last studio album. Since then Finn Andrews has toured the world twice over, appeared in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return, made an acclaimed solo album, broken his wrist on stage, and had a... |
The Veils
...And Out Of The Void Came Love (LP) [ Banished From The Universe / 2 LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] It's been seven strange years since The Veils' last studio album. Since then Finn Andrews has toured the world twice over, appeared in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return, made an acclaimed solo album, broken his wrist on stage, and had a... |
Vera Ellen
It's Your Birthday (Orange LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Flying Nun Records' latest signing, Vera Ellen, is a Wellington/Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist and wildly prolific songwriter, who some may recognise from LA band Girl Friday (Hardly Art), or grungy NZ 4-piece Maple Syrup. This 2021... |
Verlaines
Way Out Where (RSD 2024 LP) [ School Kids Records / LP - released 14/Jun/2024 ] After a run of acclaimed albums released via New Zealand's Flying Nun label through the 1980's, The Verlaines signed a deal with Los Angeles based Slash Records. By mid 1992 the band were regrouping after touring in support of Ready To Fly, their... |
Vietnam
This Quiet Room (LP) [ Vietnam / LP - released 28/Jan/2022 ] This Quiet Room is the final, definitive statement from New Zealand post-punk/ new wave/dark indie band Vietnam, who formed at high school in Wainuiomata some forty years ago. Initially active from 1981-85, and reforming in 2017 to celebrate the... |
Vincent H.L.
Golden Sun (LP) [ 1:12 Records / LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] "Moving at his own speed to whittle his latest solo creation, Golden Sun is the first new bunch of tunes from Vincent H.L (Magic Factory, Teen Wolf, Whipping Cats) since the Tāmaki Makaurau artist's accurately titled 2018 debut album Weird... |
Voom
Hello, Are You There? (Pink Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 26/Mar/2021 ] This 15th anniversary reissue of Hello, Are You There? contains 17 short, sharp slices of life; the 16 remastered album tracks, plus bonus track 'Jimmy's Boner', that fans of the band will recognise from live performances. The album swings from... |
Vorsen / John Halvorsen
A World On Fire (Black Vinyl LP) [ Leather Jacket / LP - released 12/Sep/2023 ] From the mind of John Halvorsen (The Gordons, Skeptics, Bailter Space) comes A World on Fire, capturing three decades of solo material released for the very first time. Influenced by retro-futurist science fiction themes and the flashpoint of... |
Wax Chattels
Clot (Blue Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Baby blue coloured vinyl. Wax Chattels announce their cathartic sophomore album, Clot. After a knock-out entrée with 2018's self-titled LP, the anticipation that surrounds Clot is immense. Much like Wax Chattels, the writing process for Clot took... |
Wax Chattels
Wax Chattels (Ltd Edition White LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 18/May/2018 ] Guitarless Guitar Music. This is the self-imposed one-line descrip- tion chosen by Auckland, New Zealand's Wax Chattels. The keyboard, bass and drums trio don't have a guitar player, but their overwhelming sound and energy create an atmosphere akin... |
Weta
Geographica (Double LP) [ Warner Music NZ / 2 LP - released 19/Feb/2021 ] Geographica is the debut album by critically acclaimed New Zealand rock band Weta. The album has been newly remastered by Steve James and is being released on vinyl for the very first time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the... |