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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... |
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Rhian Sheehan
Stories From Elsewhere - Double LP + Bonus Tracks [ LP - released 26/Mar/2013 ] Sheehan is an award winning NZ-based composer and producer of cinematic music, known for his unique melding of experimental soundscapes with emotive orchestral arrangements and environmental sound recordings. |
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Ringlets
New Life (7") [ Leather Jacket Records / Flying Nun Records / LP - released 3/Apr/2023 ] Ragingly bright post-punk quartet Ringlets emerged from Aotearoa's musical ether in 2021; carving out space with their distinct blend of delicate wit, grit and evident sonic technicality. With a highly durable, machine-tested rhythm section (Arabella... |
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Ripship
Fearsome Engine (LP) [ 1:12 Records / LP - released 12/Dec/2022 ] Fearsome Engine is the debut LP of sci-fi psych-rock duo Ripship (Callum Lincoln and Eva-Rae McLean). The nine-track album is an evolution of their genre-bending 2020 EP Greebles, expanding on themes of space exploration, technological anxiety and... |
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Rodney Fisher + The Response
Art School Drop Out (Blue Vinyl LP) [ Bigpop Records / LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] Rodney Fisher is best known in New Zealand as the singer of Alt-Pop Rock band Goodshirt, who had a string of hit songs in the early 2000s, such as; 'Sophie,' and 'Fiji Baby.' Rodney's solo career began in 2005, when he recorded the 'Songs From... |
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Roy Montgomery
H Bender (LP) [ Grapefruit / LP - released 4/Nov/2016 ] H: Bender harkens back to Roy Montgomery's nineties work, where guitar riffs ensconced themselves in dynamism. Montgomery's trademark reverb-laden guitar offers a fluidity like pulsing blood, colouring in each motif's corners and rewarding every... |
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Roy Montgomery
M Darkmotif Dancehall (LP) [ Grapefruit / LP - released 4/Nov/2016 ] M: Darkmotif Dancehall is the most experimental of the four albums making up the R M H Q series. Montgomery explores new guitar tones and song construction, allowing thick distorted murk and overdriven sharpness to guide the melodies' paths. It's... |
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Roy Montgomery
Q Transient Global Amnesia (LP) [ Grapefruit / LP - released 4/Nov/2016 ] Q: Transient Global Amnesia concentrates on hope and despair, sinking singular guitar lines into dark passages. It dissects the personal politics of sadness, revelling in the honesty of depression while seeking to fully explore its facets.... |
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Roy Montgomery
Rhymes Of Chance (LP) [ Grapefruit / LP - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest series of albums for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he's managed to navigate disparate genres,... |
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Roy Montgomery
Suffuse (LP) [ Grapefruit / LP - released 17/Aug/2018 ] Despite praise and acclaim throughout his career, Roy Montgomery hates his singing. From his point of view, it's done out of necessity, when he doesn't have anyone else around to substitute. So it goes, when you live on the side of a mountain just... |
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Roy Montgomery
Temple IV (LP) [ Kranky / 2 LP - released 31/May/2024 ] This is the first vinyl issue for what is arguably Roy Montgomery's finest solo album, originally released in 1996 on CD. The original album has been enhanced with two newer tracks that constitute side 4 of the album. The album was recorded by... |
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Ruby Suns
Sprite Fountain (LP) [ Sellout! / LP - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Ryan McPhun takes the weather with him. It doesn't seem to matter if he's in North America, New Zealand or Norway, his music always conjures up the same tropical tones. Sprite Fountain Sprite Fountain is the new album McPhun has made, under... |
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The Ruby Suns
Christopher (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 25/Jan/2013 ] There's a sense of liberation in Christopher, the fourth release from The Ruby Suns. It's a break up album, dealing with unresolved feelings and regrets against a free-wheeling, optimistic aural backdrop. |
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Salad Boys
Metalmania (LP) [ Trouble In Mind / LP - released 31/Oct/2016 ] Salad Boys came together at the end of 2012 with members from other illustrious Christchurch groups T54, Bang! Bang! Eche! and the Dance Asthmatics. Recorded, the Salad Boys are deceivingly charming, presenting a careful but curious balance of... |
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Sam Bambery
Rubricator (Limited Edition LP) [ Under Underground Records / LP - released 17/May/2024 ] 'Rubricator' is a newly minted set of songs produced with De Stevens (Marlin's Dreaming, Asta Rangu) and recorded in houses, old photography studios and lounge rooms across Aotearoa/New Zealand. The album releases via Under Underground Records, a... |
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Sam Hamilton
Intergrifolia LP [ NZ Creative / LP - released 26/Apr/2013 ] |
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Sandra Bell
Dreams Of Falling (LP) [ Straight To Video / LP ] Recorded 10 Oct. 1990 - 18 Nov. 1991 at Maitland St., Fish St., and Studio 13 Original Release: Turbulence Records (Belgium) 1992 Licensed From - Xpressway (Tape-Release) 1991 Drums, Percussion - Peter Jefferies Electric Guitar - Sandra Bell... |
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Sarah Mary Chadwick
Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby (LP) [ Rice Is Nice / LP - released 19/Feb/2021 ] Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby is the latest full-length from New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter, Sarah Mary Chadwick, whose brutally honest songwriting has cast her contrary to the gentleness of most current music. |
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Sarah Mary Chadwick
Please Daddy (LP) [ Inertia / 2 LP - released 24/Jan/2020 ] New Zealand singer / songwriter Sarah Mary Chadwick returns with Please Daddy, the follow up to her critically lauded 2018 live album 'The Queen Who Stole The Sky'. Multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Sarah Mary Chadwick is not a new face to... |
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Shapeshifter
Delta (LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 14/Jun/2024 ] In the words of Spinal Tap: "This one goes up to 11". Shapeshifter's fifth LP is explosive, pulsating, and vividly colourful. They seem to have shrugged off notions of genre conformity, embraced the anthemic, and pulled synths and sax melodies... |