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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. |
Ry Cooder
The Prodigal Son [ A & M Records / Universal / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] Recorded in Hollywood, CA, and produced by Ry and his chief collaborator, drummer Joachim Cooder, The Prodigal Son is all America - our spiritual, hopeful voices, our raw cries and our sly provocations, voiced through the songs of the Pilgrim... |
Tami Neilson
Don't Be Afraid [ Neilson Records / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] Rewind to 1972 for the beginnings of this album. A young Ron Neilson recorded a demo "Lonely" outside a hotel room while on tour across Canada. Decades later, it was completed by his daughter Tami when she discovered that demo a week after he passed... |
Tami Neilson
Sassafrass! [ Outside Music / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] With her new album, SASSAFRASS! Tami Neilson takes a giant step that should only bring her more widespread acclaim. On this 11-track effort, she places a heavier emphasis on soul music while not abandoning her country and rockabilly roots. Neilson... |
Trio-Da Kali and Kronos Quartet
Ladilikan [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] You take a trio of the finest traditional griot musicians from Mali and put them in the studio with a renowned and revolutionary Western string quartet - and the resulting album is one of the most richly rewarding musical collaborations you are... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |