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Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color [ Rough Trade / CD - released 17/Apr/2015 ] 'Sound & Color' demonstrates the tremendous strides made by a group of young musicians who had only been playing together for a few months when they recorded their first album,... |
Anika Moa
Anika Moa [ Universal Music / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] Eighteen years after her debut recording on American soil, Anika Moa headed to the vibrant musical hub of New Orleans to record her sixth studio album, the self-titled, Anika Moa. The result is a 10-track collection of some of Anika's clearest and... |
Enya
Dark Sky Island [ Warner Music / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Enya embarks upon a new chapter in her spectacular career with the release of her new album Dark Sky Island. Sonically, Dark Sky Island is a collection that's both incredibly diverse and innately unified by the production: almost Spector-esque in its... |
Leonard Cohen
Popular Problems (Gold Series) [ Columbia CD / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Leonard Cohen is a master songwriter, musician, poet, novelist and visual artist whose stunning body of original work has touched the lives of millions with a career spanning six decades. On Popular Problems, his thrilling new studio album,... |
Marlon Williams
Make Way For Love [ Caroline / Universal Music / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Known for his effortlessly distinctive voice, Make Way For Love, Marlon Williams' second album, marks his exponential growth as a songwriter. Throughout 11 original songs, he explores new musical terrain and reveals himself in an unprecedented way in... |
Marlon Williams
Marlon Williams [ Marlon Williams / CD - released 24/Apr/2015 ] Marlon Williams was set on a musical path early by his parents. "My dad's definitely taught me a lot about music in all it's various forms; so has Mum. I sang a lot as a kid on the... |
Nadia Reid
Preservation [ Slowtime / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] An ode to self-reflection and self-betterment, Nadia Reid's 'Preservation' is the sound of Nadia showing her true colours, taking back a bit of power, and learning more about herself. Deeply intellectual but felt by all, it punches harder than... |
Paul Simon
Stranger To Stranger [ Concord / CD - released 3/Jun/2016 ] Full of thrilling, imaginative textures, Stranger to Stranger conjures a vivid and vital new context to Simon's well-established virtuosity as a singer and songwriter. The record - his first since 2011's acclaimed So Beautiful or So What - ushers the... |
Phoenix Foundation
Give Up Your Dreams [ Universal / CD - released 7/Aug/2015 ] The Phoenix Foundation return with their new and sixth studio album Give Up Your Dreams. It's a shrewd and vibrant reminder that in The Phoenix Foundation's gloriously absurd world of Technicolour pop, it's the challenges you set yourself that reap... |
Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A Brand New Me [ Warner Music / CD - released 10/Nov/2017 ] A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) pairs classic vocals from some of the most iconic songs that the Queen of Soul recorded for Atlantic Records with new arrangements performed by The Royal Philharmonic... |
Belle & Sebastian
Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance [ Matador / CD - released 16/Jan/2015 ] Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance is the long-awaited follow-up to 2010's Write About Love. Produced and mixed at Maze Studios in Atlanta by Ben H. Allen III, best known for his work with Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, and Raury, among others, the... |
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... |
Julia Deans
We Light Fire [ Julia Deans / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] With the release of bold first single Walking In The Sun in September 2017, Julia Deans whet the appetite of fans and critics alike for her new album. It had been seven years since we were last seduced by her songwriting, when her acclaimed first... |
Fazerdaze
Morningside [ Flying Nun / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] The brainchild of Amelia Murray, Fazerdaze began as a string of bedroom recordings created late in the night, emerging fully-formed in 2014 as her debut eponymous EP. A succinct collection of intimate, beautifully produced dream-pop written, produced... |
Delaney Davidson
Shining Day [ Rough Diamond / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Delaney Davidson is a New Zealand Singer Songwriter, Musician, and Visual Artist. Artist Laureate of New Zealand 2015, three times winner of the NZ Country Music Song of the Year Award, awarded NZ Country Music Album Of The Year, finalist for the... |
Adele
25 [ XL Recordings / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Out Now! "My last record was a break up record and if I had to label this one I would call it a make up record. I'm making up with myself. making up for lost time. making up for everything I ever did and never did." |
Aldous Harding
Party [ Flying Nun / CD - released 19/May/2017 ] Igniting interest with her eponymous debut album released just two years ago, Aldous Harding quickly became a name murmured on many lips. She's known for her sinister torch songs, gentle laments and eerie odes delivered with a charismatic combination... |
The Beths
Future Me Hates Me [ Carpark / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] **Repress due to hit NZ early - mid 2023.** The Beths occupy a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me, forthcoming on Carpark Records, delivers an... |
The Black Seeds
Fabric [ Proville / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] While firmly based in the island grooves that inspired the birth of the band nearly two decades ago, New Zealand's The Black Seeds create a sound that casts a wide net, layering funk, soul, Afrobeat, and other eclectic elements over their dub/reggae... |
Bob Dylan
Fallen Angels [ Columbia Records / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] Dylan's new album features 12 classic American tunes written by a diverse array of writers including Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Sammy Chan and Carolyn Leigh. The album showcases Dylan's unique and much-lauded talents as a vocalist, arranger and... |