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Soft Bait
Life Advice (Black Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 25/Jul/2025 ] Soft Bait are a four-piece from Tāmaki Makaurau making pointed, off-centre post-punk that barrels forward with restless momentum. Soft Bait's sophomore offering, 'Life Advice' is out on the 25th July, both digitally and on black or silver vinyl... |
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Soft Bait
Life Advice (Limited Edition Silver Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 25/Jul/2025 ] Soft Bait are a four-piece from Tāmaki Makaurau making pointed, off-centre post-punk that barrels forward with restless momentum. Soft Bait's sophomore offering, 'Life Advice' is out on the 25th July, both digitally and on black or silver vinyl... |
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Soft Plastics
Saturn Return [ Soft Plastics / LP - released 7/Apr/2023 ] Saturn Return is the hotly anticipated debut album from Te Whanganui-a-Tara three-piece Soft Plastics. Curating a wide range of influences, their music defies easy categorisation. Ranging from sun-bleached surf pop to swelling shoegaze, the songs are... |
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Sola Rosa
Magnetics (LP) [ Rosa Recordings / Way Up / LP - released 26/Sep/2014 ] From his humble beginnings experimenting with a 4-track recorder at the ripe age of 19, Sola Rosa frontman Andrew Spraggon has cultivated over 15 years of rich and well-crafted melodic beats. Fusing a rotating mix of hip-hop, jazz, reggae, latin,... |
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Sola Rosa
Promise feat: Oliver Daysoul (7") [ Agogo / 7in - released 30/Aug/2013 ] |
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Space Waltz
Space Waltz (LP) [ UMNZ / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] Originally released in 1975, this ground-breaking New Zealand album is reissued on CD and vinyl. Head of Otago University's Performing Arts Programme, Dr Ian Chapman (aka Dr Glam) will simultaneously release his book on Space Waltz, commissioned... |
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SPERB3R
Think On Your Feet (LP) [ Rosier Records / LP - released 14/Jun/2020 ] The latest project by Tāmaki Makaurau based musician Dan Sperber finds him in fine voice, both as the vocalist and of course for his extraordinary fretwork. Well regarded as one of Aoteroa's finest guitarists, Dan is supported by Olivier Holland... |
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Split Enz
Second Thoughts (LP) [ Chrysalis Records / Warner / 2 LP - released 27/Feb/2026 ] The next chapter in the 'Enzyclopedia' series, 'Second Thoughts (Expanded Edition)', marks 50 years since Split Enz ventured to London to record with Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera in the producer's chair. This definitive 2LP set pairs the original... |
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Split Enz
True Colours (40th Anniversary Edition Orange LP) [ Warner / LP - released 31/Jul/2020 ] True Colours, the most commercially successful album of New Zealand group Split Enz's career, will be reissued in numerous formats to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2020. Four coloured vinyl editions of True Colours will be released in sleeves... |
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Stan Walker
Te Arohanui (Limited Edition LP) [ Sony Music / LP - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Stan Walker's 'Te Arohanui', marks an important and deeply personal milestone for the award-winning Māori performing artist, as he shares his first body of work in Reo Māori. "It was inevitable that I would release a reo Māori album. It wasn't a... |
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Stellar*
Mix (Limited Translucent Blue Vinyl LP) [ Sony Music New Zealand / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] stellar* 'mix' celebrates its 25th anniversary with a limited-edition LP release on translucent blue vinyl! The multi-platinum album, produced by Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey, reached Number 1 in New Zealand's album chart, selling 80,000 copies (5x... |
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Stinky Jim
Social Awareness (LTD Edition 12" EP) [ Haymaker Records / 12in - released 2/Aug/2023 ] Stinky Jim recruits a top-shelf roster of collaborators to revisit tracks from his brilliant 2022 release "Spacial Awareness" and sprinkle their unique flavours. The resulting EP is a treasure trove of musical delights. From Aotearoa (Christoph El... |
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Straitjacket Fits
Hail (LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 24/Jul/2020 ] Formed in 1986 following the demise of the Doublehappys, Shayne Carter (vocals, guitar) and John Collie (drums) created Straitjacket Fits with Andrew Brough (vocals, guitar) and David Wood (bass). The band's debut release, Dialing a Prayer EP... |
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Strawpeople
Knucklebones (LP) [ Bigpop Records / LP - released 25/Aug/2023 ] New Zealand's electropop icons Strawpeople return in 2023 with a brand new album, Knucklebones, which sees Paul Casserly and Fiona McDonald back together as the core of the project. |
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Streets Of Laredo
Wild (Gatefold LP) [ Cooking Vinyl LP / LP - released 11/Nov/2016 ] The title track on Streets of Laredo's new album, Wild, essentially sums up their attitude since starting the band in Auckland almost five years ago. It's a gorgeous, soul-stirring ballad with a haunting trumpet line, buttery harmonies, and a chorus... |
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Sundae Painters
Sundae Painters (Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl LP) [ LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] The Sundae Painters are the creative collaboration between members of The Bats, The Clean, Tall Dwarfs & Toy Love. Beaming out mysterious sonic frequencies from a farm shed in the South Island, bandmates Kaye Woodward, Alec Bathgate, Paul Kean, and... |
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Superorganism
Superorganism (Deluxe LP) [ Domino / LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Superorganism is a sprawling collection of international musicians and pop culture junkies, numbering eight in total. Recruited from London, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, they now live together in a house-stroke-diy studio-stroke-band HQ in... |
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Superorganism
Superorganism (LP) [ Domino / LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Superorganism is a sprawling collection of international musicians and pop culture junkies, numbering eight in total. Recruited from London, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, they now live together in a house-stroke-diy studio-stroke-band HQ in... |
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Swallow the Rat
Echoes of a Tide (7") [ Headbump Records / 7in - released 9/Mar/2019 ] The latest single from Auckland Noise-Rock outfit Swallow the Rat. |
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Tall Dwarfs
Unravelled: 1981 - 2002 [ Merge Records / 4 LP - released 19/Aug/2022 ] The prized New Zealand duo of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate - announce Unravelled: 1981-2002. The 4-LP or 2-CD set compiles 55 songs from Tall Dwarfs' two decades of recordings, shining a loving light on the lo-fi pioneers. The LP edition is pressed... |