Hopetoun Brown
Look So Good [ CD - released 28/Oct/2016 ] Just 12 short months after the success of their first album "Burning Fuse", Tim Stewart and Nick Atkinson have come up with something special for their second Hopetoun Brown album. They've pulled in dynamite guests and they've splashed more time in... |
House of Shem
Island Vibration [ House of Shem Music New Zealand / CD - released 17/Feb/2011 ] Following on from the phenomenal success of Keep 'Rising' (2008), local reggae pioneers House of Shem present their hugely anticipated sophomore album 'Island Vibration'. |
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... |
Julien Dyne
Glimpse [ Wonderful / CD - released 7/Feb/2012 ] Dyne's second album, 'Glimpse' offers studies in shimmering melodies, woozy beds of rich harmonic sounds that pulsate over thick percussive backdrops. |
Kate Owen
Not A Proper Girl [ Spinstir Records / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] A singer with a poetic, restrained intensity, Kate Owen has been songwriting for twenty years and performing live for a decade, but until now has never recorded an album. Her sound ranges from stripped-back laments to 90's pop anthems. Her debut... |
Latinaotearoa
Influencis Et Collabis [ Mucho Aroha / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Influencis et Collabis is a collection of original songs that Brazilian band leader Bobby Brazuka and Venezuelan front woman Jennifer Zea selected to be given the Latinaotearoa treatment, alongside a host of handpicked collaborators. The new album... |
Latinaotearoa
Influencis Et Collabis (LP) [ Mucho Aroha / LP - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Influencis et Collabis is a collection of original songs that Brazilian band leader Bobby Brazuka and Venezuelan front woman Jennifer Zea selected to be given the Latinaotearoa treatment, alongside a host of handpicked collaborators. The new album... |
The Leers
Are You Curious? [ CD - released 4/Mar/2016 ] The Leers are a four piece from The Mount (relocated to Auckland). Their debut EP was released in 2011 and featured the b.Net hit Shame Shame Shame. Their second EP entitled "Pockets" Was recorded in their make-shift practice space over a weekend... |
Little Bark
USB [ XX Records / CD ] Having spent the last three years readying herself for her second album, Little Bark now returns with USB (Unique Sonic Broadcast). A synth-based album, laid out like a film soundtrack, USB follows on from Little Bark's critically acclaimed 2010... |
Little Bushman
Live in Concert With the NZSO [ Little Bushman Music New Zealand / CD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] Warren Maxwell and friends are joined on the concert stage with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hamish McKeich, with arrangements by John Psathas. |
Little Bushman
The Onus of Sand [ Little Bushman Music New Zealand / CD - released 28/Nov/2006 ] This NZ group - led by local hero, Warren Maxwell (previously of Fat Freddy's Drop & Trinity Roots) - use influences from the experimental, psychedelic rock era of the 60s and 70s: Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, The Who and others, to create a journey... |
Little Bushman
Te Oranga [ Little Bushman Music New Zealand / CD - released 4/Apr/2011 ] From a delta-esque hoedown recitation of the cycle of life, to an alternative cosmic take on Creation - 'Te Oranga' is a tour de force from Aotearoa's magnanimous psych-rock-blues quartet. |
Lorde
Melodrama (LP) [ Universal Music / LP - released 6/Apr/2018 ] "Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this record - well, this one is about what comes next. ...The party is about... |
Midge Marsden
Back To The Well [ SDL Music / CD - released 18/Apr/2014 ] Midge Marsden has enjoyed a well-documented music career spanning four decades in New Zealand, Australia, The UK and America. An early career change and passion for rhythm and blues and roots music led a sixteen-year-old Midge to join the 1960's... |
The Nudge
Big Nudge Pie [ Nudge / CD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] Describing their sound as many fingers in many pies, The Nudge Pie is a concoction of a blues and rock base, with a deep swamp filling, and a raucous party crust. |
Opensouls
Kaleidoscope [ From the Crates / CD - released 17/Aug/2009 ] This is the long awaited debut album from a gathering of Aotearoa's finest musicians, Opensouls - featuring members of Fat Freddy's Drop, plus Holly Smith and Che Fu's bands. Songs include the gorgeous slice of soulful hip hop "In Your Hands", their... |
Orchestra Of Spheres
Mirror [ Fire / CD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] Orchestra of Spheres welcomes you on a journey through the looking glass. Mirror, the band's 4th release on Fire Records, is an exploration of energies and atmospheres, from intense futuristic funk and sonic tape assemblages to windswept reflections... |
Pikachunes
Pikachunes [ Lil Chief / CD - released 22/Nov/2010 ] Former Tiger Tones member Miles McDougall has emerged with a compelling blend of atypical disco beats, grooving synth lines and a strong pop sensibility. |
Pitch Black
Rarities & Remixes [ Remote / CD - released 13/Jun/2011 ] A package of rare tracks and lovingly crafted remixes of other artists' music, chosen by Paddy Free and Mike Hodgson to represent their 15 year reign as NZ's favourite electronica act. |
Poetik
Poetik Justice [ For The Ville / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] An album of hip hop collaborations featuring Melodownz, Sammy Johnson, Chong Nee, Lion Rezz, Raggadat Cris, Flowz, Lucky Lance, Raka, Chevvy, Yung LB, MC Eiht and Kokane. From humble beginnings recording tracks in a chicken shack in Samoa, to... |