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Delaney Davidson
Lucky Guy [ Rough Diamond Inc / CD - released 4/Sep/2015 ] "Lucky Guy" is a compact set of 12 songs recorded in The Lab, Auckland and mixed in New York with Matt Verta Ray (Heavy Trash). Used to the unavoidable sprawl of time and the ramble of his tours, Davidson avoids the technique of collation, curation... |
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... |
Lana Del Rey
NFR aka Norman Fucking Rockwell [ Polydor / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] NFR was mainly produced and co-written with Jack Antonoff and includes 'Venice Bitch,' 'Mariners Apartment Complex,' 'hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it,' and a cover of Sublime's 'Doin' Time'. |
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker [ Sony Music / CD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] Leonard Cohen, acclaimed composer of 'Hallelujah', has released an album of haunting new songs at the age of 82. This great artist continues to astonish us. Uncompromising and urgent, "You Want It Darker" is the latest chapter in Leonard's... |
Mel Parsons
Drylands [ Cape Road Records / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] Equal parts lush and dark, 'Drylands' is Mel Parsons' stunning 3rd full length album, and was recorded at Lee Prebble's Surgery studio (The Phoenix Foundation, The Black Seeds), Wellington, in late 2014. Co-produced by Parsons and Irish-Kiwi Gerry... |
Neil Young
Homegrown [ Reprise / Warner / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Neil Young puts it best: "This album is the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time". Recorded between June 1974 and January 1975, Homegrown was intended to come out in 1975 before Neil cancelled the release. The album has remained... |
Various Artists
The Offering [ Thom Productions / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] Thom Productions presents The Offering - a charity album to support The Salvation Army! At its heart, the Offering project is best described as 'the artists of our time presenting the music of all time'. This compilation sets out to present... |
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." |
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,... |
Aldous Harding
Designer [ Flying Nun / CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] Aldous Harding's third album Designer is finally released as a fully formed body of work. The songs in this collection were all written on the road by Harding last year during a 200-date tour. Reuniting with John Parish, producer of Party, Harding... |
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... |
Bob Dylan
Rough And Rowdy Ways [ Columbia / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Rough And Rowdy Ways, the first album of original songs from Bob Dylan in eight years. The album follows the recent release of two other songs from the forthcoming Rough And Rowdy Ways: The album's lead-off track, "I Contain Multitudes," and the... |
David Byrne
American Utopia [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] American Utopia is David Byrne's first solo release since 'Grown Backwards' in 2004. The new album started with longtime collaborator Brian Eno, and later David was joined by producer Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, King Krule, Sampha,... |
David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights
Bobbie's A Girl [ Merge / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] David Kilgour's 11th solo album, Bobbie's a girl is a quieter affair than fans may associate with the pioneer of New Zealand indie rock. "I tended to shy away from too much guitar playing for a point of difference and to mix things up for myself a... |
Diana Krall
Turn Up The Quiet [ Verve Records / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] Diana Krall's new album celebrates a return to jazz and the Great American Songbook and reunites her with Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma. |
Ed Sheeran
÷ (aka Divide) (Deluxe Edition) [ Warner Music / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] ÷ ("divide") - Sheeran's third studio album - is a genre-defying LP and the result of an artist who consistently pushes himself in new directions, uncovering fresh musical ground using a seemingly limitless musical vocabulary. Drawing inspiration... |
Emily Fairlight
Mother Of Gloom [ Emily Fairlight / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] Taking its title from a line by Martha Wainwright and with song titles like Body Below, Drag The Night In, Private Apocalypse, Sinking Ship and Loneliest Race you'd expect a fairly dark ride on the second album by this Wellington-based alt.folk... |
Fleet Foxes
Crack-Up [ Nonesuch / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Crack-Up comes six years after the 2011 release of Helplessness Blues and nearly a decade since the band's 2008 self-titled debut. All eleven of the songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin Pecknold. The album was co-produced by Pecknold and Skyler... |
Gurrumul
Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) [ Skinny Fish / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] Over four years in the making and completed just weeks before his death in 2017, 'Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow)' is an astounding achievement of music, presenting traditional songs and harmonised chants from his traditional Yolngu life with... |
Joan Baez
Whistle Down The Wind [ Proper / CD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Whistle Down The Wind is Joan's first new studio album in a decade, since 2008's critically acclaimed, Grammy -nominated Day After Tomorrow, which was produced by Steve Earle. Its release ignited an extraordinary decade of achievement by Joan,... |