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Aldous Harding
Warm Chris [ Flying Nun / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] An artist of rare calibre, Aldous Harding does more than sing; she conjures a singular intensity. The artist has announced details of Warm Chris, a new studio album, the follow-up to 2019's acclaimed Designer. |
Courtney Barnett
Tell Me How You Really Feel [ Milk! Records / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Over the course of just a few years Courtney Barnett has become internationally renowned for her distinctive and acclaimed musical lexicon. Her seemingly effortless ability to flip an intensely private sentiment on its head and make it sound... |
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... |
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
Hitchhiker [ Warner / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] Between 1975 and 1977, Neil Young and producer David Briggs periodically conducted recording sessions at Indigo Ranch on nights of the full moon. These sessions took place during a particularly productive period for Young and yielded such songs as... |
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... |
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Raise The Roof [ Warner UK / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Raise The Roof finds Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Plant and 27-time Grammy-winner Krauss reunited after some fourteen years, following the historic success of their first collaboration 'Raising Sand' (2007), which generated multi-platinum sales and... |
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... |
Benee
Hey u x [ Universal / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] The 13-track genre-bending album which features collaborations from a slew of artists, including Lily Allen, Grimes, Flo Milli, Gus Dapperton, Mallrat, Kenny Beats, Bakar and Muroki. Hey u x includes BENEE's Platinum-Certified smash hit "Supalonley"... |
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... |
Boz Scaggs
Out Of The Blues [ Universal Music / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] The self-produced Out Of The Blues finds national treasure Boz Scaggs applying his iconic voice and gritty guitar skills to a set of vintage classics as well as four originals. For the occasion, the legendary singer/songwriter/guitarist assembled... |
Broods
Evergreen [ Dryden St / Universal / CD - released 22/Aug/2014 ] The debut album for brother-sister duo Georgia and Caleb Nott displays Georgia's confident yet fragile voice over a mixture of desolate piano refrains and twirling synthesiser superstructures, all underscored by driving grooves. |
Bruce Springsteen
Letter To You [ Columbia / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Letter To You is Bruce Springsteen's new studio album with the E Street Band, and is a rock album fueled by the band's heart-stopping, house-rocking signature sound. Recorded at his home studio in New Jersey, Letter To You is Springsteen's 20th... |
Cat Power
Wanderer [ Domino CD / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] Wanderer is Cat Power's 10th album and her first since Sun was released in 2012. The record was made in Miami and Los Angeles and sees Chan Marshall position herself alongside folk and blues artists. "The course my life has taken in this journey -... |
The Chills
Snow Bound [ Fire Records / CD - released 14/Sep/2018 ] The latest postcard from The Chills' epic journey is an album about "consolidation, re-grouping, acceptance and mortality," claims the chief Chill. "Hopefully a kind of Carole King 'Tapestry' for ageing punks." Wow! Are rock bands allowed to grow... |
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
Lotta Sea Lice [ Milk! Records / CD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, two of the most acclaimed and gifted songwriters of our generation have joined forces to release a collaboration as unique and unusual as their talents, in the form of a brand new album Lotta Sea Lice. In Lotta... |
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,... |
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... |
Fat Freddy's Drop
Special Edition Part 1 [ The Drop / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] New Zealand juggernaut Fat Freddy's Drop announce the release of their new studio album Special Edition Part 1, featuring Trickle Down and the brand new single Kamo Kamo. Part 1 of a double album, Special Edition Part 1 was recorded at the band's... |
Father John Misty
Pure Comedy [ Sub Pop / 2 CD - released 7/Apr/2017 ] Since 2012, Father John Misty aka Josh Tillman has unexpectedly emerged as a singular (if not undeniably, um, idiosyncratic) voice. Whether by virtue of his lyrics, which routinely defy the presumed polarities of wit and empathy; his live... |
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... |
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,... |
Jonathan Crayford
Dark Light [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 6/Jun/2014 ] This exceptional piano trio recording marks the Rattle debut of Jonathan Crayford. The album was recorded by Mike Marciano at Systems Two in New York City, and features Ben Street on bass and Dan Weiss on drums, two of the most remarkable (and highly... |
Justin Townes Earle
The Saint Of Lost Causes [ New West Records / CD - released 24/May/2019 ] The Saint Of Lost Causes is the 8th album from American roots troubadour, Justin Townes Earle. Earle's latest album finds a songwriter and artist who is unflinching and unequivocal in his truth. When writing this album, Earle focused on a... |
Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams
Plastic Bouquet [ Caroline Australia / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] Every December, Christchurch enjoys the start of summer as Saskatoon begins to freeze over. For as far apart as these places may seem, you would never know it from Plastic Bouquet - the debut collaborative album between Saskatoon duo Kacy & Clayton... |
Leyla McCalla
A Day For the Hunter, A Day For the Prey [ Jazz Village / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey, the follow up to Leyla McCalla's critically acclaimed Vari-Colored Songs, is a musical exploration of two cultural identities, one sprouted in the United States and the other firmly planted in... |
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... |
Michael Kiwanuka
Love & Hate [ Polydor Records / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] Love & Hate was recorded in LA and London, and produced by Grammy Award winner Brian Joseph Burton AKA Danger Mouse, and young British producer, Inflo. The album is a fascinatingly assured and resonant body of work, and follows Michael's 2012... |
Nadia Reid
Out Of My Province [ Slow Time Records / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Out of My Province showcases Nadia's sharpest songwriting to date, atmospheric arrangements replete with strings and Rhodes, and of course that immense voice, alternately soothing and riveting. |
Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool [ XL Recordings / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] Radiohead's ninth studio album. |
Reb Fountain
Iris [ Flying Nun / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] The perfect extension of her 2020 self-titled record, IRIS elevates Reb Fountain's music to new heights. Reb effortlessly combines pop elements with her trademark noir folk-punk sound; weaving authentic and anthemic tunes that create an instant and... |
Reb Fountain
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. |
Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Sharon Van Etten's Remind Me Tomorrow comes four years after Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present. Throughout Remind Me Tomorrow, Sharon Van... |
Sol3 Mio
A Very M3rry Christmas [ Universal Music / CD - released 10/Nov/2017 ] Sol3 Mio's first ever Christmas album! A Very Merry Christmas features the breathtaking voices of Pene Pati, Amitai Pati and Moses Mackay, this much requested album will delight their legions of fans and is destined to become a bona fide Kiwi... |