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Dudley Benson
Zealandia (LP) [ Golden Retriever Records / 2 LP - released 10/Aug/2018 ] Composer and performer Dudley Benson's long-awaited third album Zealandia is a love record to a drowned continent. An album that explores our identity through twelve meticulously arranged pop songs, Benson's most accomplished work yet was eight years... |
Emily Fairlight
Mother Of Gloom [ Emily Fairlight / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] Taking its title from a line by Martha Wainwright and with song titles like Body Below, Drag The Night In, Private Apocalypse, Sinking Ship and Loneliest Race you'd expect a fairly dark ride on the second album by this Wellington-based alt.folk... |
Faye Webster
Atlanta Millionaires Club [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 24/May/2019 ] On Atlanta Millionaires Club, the omnipresence of pedal steel eschews bluegrass trappings, flexible under Faye Webster's genre-bending direction. Webster didn't set out to make her new album sound like any artist in particular - in fact, she says the... |
Faye Webster
Underdressed At The Symphony [ Secretly Canadia / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Late last year Faye Webster released two of the album singles, teasing the forthcoming project. "But Not Kiss" was a tension-filled first peek at the record. "It's damn near ecstatic in ambiguity, but it's not a song about indecision. Webster knows... |
Fenne Lily
Big Picture (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 14/Apr/2023 ] A gorgeous and gripping portrait of Fenne's last two years, Big Picture was pieced together in an effort to self-soothe. Tracked live in co-producer Brad Cook's North Carolina studio, the album delineates the phases of love and becomes a map of... |
Fiona Apple
Fetch The Bolt Cutters (LP) [ Epic / 2 LP - released 17/Jul/2020 ] 180g vinyl. Fetch The Bolt Cutters is the fifth studio album and her first release since 'The Idler Wheel' in 2012. The album was recorded from 2015 to 2020, largely at Apple's home in Venice Beach. It was produced and performed by Apple alongside... |
FKA twigs
Magdalene (LP) [ Young Turks / LP - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Magdalene is the follow up to FKA twigs' critically acclaimed Brit Award and Mercury Prize nominated debut LP1 The album was produced by FKA twigs and, as with LP1, the recording process has been directed by her at every stage. It was recorded... |
GRG67 & Roger Manins
Happy Place [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] GRG67 follow their Jazz Album of the Year (2019) release, "The Thing", with an album of equally vibrant new compositions. |
Gruff Rhys
Pang! (Limited Edition LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Pang! is a futuristic psychedelic world pop album, a cross-cultural collaboration between Welsh musician and Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys and South African electronic producer Muzi. Having met while recording the track "Vessels" for... |
Jarv Is
Beyond The Pale [ Rough Trade / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] This is the first original music from Jarvis Cocker since the "Further Complications" album in 2009. JARV IS… a band featuring Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar, percussion), Serafina Steer (harp, keyboards, vocals), Emma Smith (violin, guitar... |
Jarv Is
Beyond The Pale (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 17/Jul/2020 ] This is the first original music from Jarvis Cocker since the "Further Complications" album in 2009. JARV IS… a band featuring Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar, percussion), Serafina Steer (harp, keyboards, vocals), Emma Smith (violin, guitar... |
Jonathan Bree
After The Curtains Close [ Lil Chief / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] 'After The Curtains Close' sees Jonathan Bree's trademark orchestral pop take a few unexpected turns into the experimental and sometimes kitschy territory populated by some of his French heroes of the 1960s. The end result is an album that retains... |
Jonathan Bree
A Little Night Music [ Lil Chief Records / CD - released 23/Oct/2015 ] Roughly two years since his first solo album 2013's Primrose Path, "A Little Night Music" sees Bree taking a more free-form approach to his usually more rigid and pop-minded style. This is partly due to a new interest in classical music, more... |
Jonathan Crayford
East West Moon [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] Teaming up once more with the same killer rhythm section on the critically acclaimed Dark Light (2014), Jonathan Crayford returns with another beautiful album. Recording again with engineer Mike Marciano at Systems Two Studio in New York, East West... |
Jordan Rakei
Wallflower [ Ninja Tune CD / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] A phenomenal talent, Jordan Rakei is a 25 year old New Zealand born and London based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer whose distinct take on Soul captures a sonic and emotional awareness many artists spend their entire careers... |
Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider
Sun On Sand [ Nonesuch / Warner / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Sun On Sand comprises eight compositions from a suite by composer Patrick Zimmerli. Each piece in the suite, which premiered at London's Wigmore Hall in 2014, represents a different expression of light. Bassist Scott Colley and drummer Satoshi... |
Kacey Musgraves
Pageant Material [ Lost Highway / CD - released 25/Jun/2015 ] Pageant Material is the much anticipated follow-up to Grammy Award winning debut album Same Trailer, Different Park. Kacey Musgraves worked with the same creative team as on her 2013 debut, which she co-produced with Shane McAnally and Luke Laird.... |
Kamasi Washington
Harmony Of Difference [ Young Turks / CD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] Harmony of Difference originally premiered as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art 2017 Biennial alongside a film by A.G. Rojas and also featuring artwork by Kamasi Washington's sister, Amani Washington. The new music is an original six-part... |
Kamasi Washington
Heaven & Earth [ Young Turks / 2 CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] The follow up to Kamasi Washington's debut The Epic, Heaven & Earth is comprised of two halves, which find him confronting quotidian realities with cosmic themes. A further investigation of Washington's world building ideas, the new album explores... |
Khruangbin
Mordechai [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it's finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals... |
