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Nicolas Jaar
Sirens [ Other People / CD - released 28/Oct/2016 ] Sirens is the highly anticipated second full-length LP from Nicholas Jaar, the Chilean-born electronic music producer, mixing engineer and DJ. A prolific artist with a wide palette of talents, Jaar spent his teenage years in dance music circles in... |
Olafur Arnalds
Found Songs [ Erased Tapes / CD - released 13/Oct/2009 ] In April 2009, Iceland's neo-classical export Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series 'Found Songs' - recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter. With artwork contributions from fans via Flickr, this... |
Om Alec Khaoli
Say You Love Me [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Re-issue on Awesome Tapes From Africa of "Om" Alec Khaoli, the musician behind Harari and Umoja. Say You Love Me wasn't "Om" Alec Khaoli's first solo recording, but the 1985 EP solidified the bass player and songwriter's standing as one of South... |
Om Alec Khaoli
Say You Love Me (12") [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 12in - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Re-issue on Awesome Tapes From Africa of "Om" Alec Khaoli, the musician behind Harari and Umoja. Say You Love Me wasn't "Om" Alec Khaoli's first solo recording, but the 1985 EP solidified the bass player and songwriter's standing as one of South... |
Parquet Courts
Wide Awake! [ Rough Trade / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Wide Awake! is New York's Parquet Courts' fifth record since their formation eight years ago. It's also their most groundbreaking. It's an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its... |
Paul Weller
On Sunset Deluxe [ Universal / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Paul Weller's 15th studio album "On Sunset" features ten classic yet modern Paul Weller songs. It's a soul album and at the same time it's also an electronic album, an orchestral album, an album packed with masterly pop songs and heart-tugging... |
Paul Weller
On Sunset (LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Paul Weller's 15th studio album "On Sunset" features ten classic yet modern Paul Weller songs. It's a soul album and at the same time it's also an electronic album, an orchestral album, an album packed with masterly pop songs and heart-tugging... |
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... |
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... |
Prequel Tapes
Inner Systems [ R'Coup'd Records / CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] There's almost no information about the person behind Prequel Tapes, but the little details tell you a lot. The artist grew up by a forest, a frequent escape during a time soundtracked by the neon melodies of The Cure. Eventually that led to an... |
Princess Chelsea
Everything Is Going To be Alright (Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl 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... |
Real Estate
The Main Thing [ Universal Music / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The new album dives even further into the musical dichotomies they're... |
Reb Fountain
Reb Fountain (LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 22/Jul/2020 ] Celebrated singer-songwriter Reb Fountain's forthcoming self-titled album marks a new chapter in the kiwi artist's career and her first full-length release on Flying Nun Records. Reb Fountain came together in the... |
The Renderers
In The Sodium Light [ Ba Da Bing / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] The seismic rumbling of The Renderers goes beyond the fiendish pastoralia of their music. Long-time Christchurch residents, Brian and Maryrose Crook witnessed the earthquakes crumble the city. That, and Maryrose's developing career as a painter (she... |
The Renderers
In The Sodium Light (LP) [ Ba Da Bing / LP - released 26/Feb/2016 ] The seismic rumbling of The Renderers goes beyond the fiendish pastoralia of their music. Long-time Christchurch residents, Brian and Maryrose Crook witnessed the earthquakes crumble the city. That, and Maryrose's developing career as a painter (she... |
Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
Mirror [ Occultation / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Following on from the success of the Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus' (RAIJ) Beauty Will Save the World - their first new album in nearly 20 years - the band's second album Mirror will appear on vinyl for the first time. Mirror is possibly... |
Rival Consoles
Persona [ Erased Tapes / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman's face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image... |
Robert Plant
Carry Fire (Double Gatefold LP) [ Nonesuch / Warner Music / 2 LP - 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... |
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Hope Downs [ Ivy League / CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] It's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Hope Downs. To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would... |
