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Pinegrove
Marigold (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 17/Jan/2020 ] Pinegrove's new album begins with a breath and ends with a shimmering exhalation. Marigold marks their Rough Trade Records debut, offering what songwriter Evan Stephens Hall calls a "heart-first" perspective. |
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... |
Purple Pilgrims
Perfumed Earth [ Flying Nun / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] New Zealand dreamscape artists Purple Pilgrims are set to release their long-awaited, sophomore record Perfumed Earth on August 9 via Flying Nun Records. This release marks their recorded debut with the iconic independent label. To create the... |
Reb Fountain
Reb Fountain [ Flying Nun / CD - released 26/Jun/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. |
The Reduction Agents
The Dance Reduction Agents [ Lil Chief Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2006 ] Originally released In 2006 on Lil Chief Records, this is The Reduction Agents' first and only album . It is special for many reasons, but mostly because it is James Milne's (aka Lawrence Arabia's) first venture as a singer songwriter. |
Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
Mirror (LP) [ Occultation / LP - 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... |
Richard Swift
The Hex (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 7/Dec/2018 ] Richard Swift believed in and sought real beauty. And so, even at its most caustic and sardonic, his masterpiece swan song The Hex is beautiful. Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing, The Hex... |
Richard Swift
The Hex [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 7/Dec/2018 ] Richard Swift believed in and sought real beauty. And so, even at its most caustic and sardonic, his masterpiece swan song The Hex is beautiful. Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing, The Hex... |
Shannon Lay
August [ Sub Pop / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] There is an entire sub-genre of poetry devoted to rivers and their persistent, meditative flow. Emily Dickinson's "My River Runs to Thee" compares them to the cycle of life, while Alfred Tennyson's "The Brook" deems them eternal and Kathleen Raine's... |
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... |
Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - 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... |
Sir Was
Digging A Tunnel [ City Slang / CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] "Blending Tame Impala-reminiscent vocals like a beam of light with playful yet melancholy electronic production" - Stereogum Sir Was' debut full length, Digging A Tunnel, is an album that constantly bucks trends and confounds expectations.... |
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... |
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... |
Taylor Swift
Folklore - In The Trees [ Republic / CD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] Most of the things Taylor Swift had planned for the summer of 2020 didn't end up happening but…there was something magical that did happen, the surprise release of her 8th studio album, folklore. "Before this year I probably would've overthought... |
Taylor Swift
Folklore (Double Gatefold LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 27/Nov/2020 ] Most of the things Taylor Swift had planned for the summer of 2020 didn't end up happening but…there was something magical that did happen, the surprise release of her 8th studio album, folklore. "Before this year I probably would've overthought... |
Thom Yorke
ANIMA [ XL Recordings / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Thom Yorke's third solo album ANIMA, described by him in an interview as "dystopian", was written and produced in collaboration with Nigel Godrich and will be accompanied by a short film of the same name: a "one-reeler" directed by Yorke and Paul... |
Tiny Ruins
Ceremony [ Ursa Minor / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] A rare blend of eloquent lyrical craft and explorative musicianship, the songs of Tiny Ruins are etched into the memories of crowds and critics worldwide. Traversing influences that cross genre and era, the artistry of Hollie Fullbrook and her band... |
Tiny Ruins
Ceremony (LP) [ Ursa Minor / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] A rare blend of eloquent lyrical craft and explorative musicianship, the songs of Tiny Ruins are etched into the memories of crowds and critics worldwide. Traversing influences that cross genre and era, the artistry of Hollie Fullbrook and her band... |
