New Zealand New Releases
New Zealand New Releases
Below is a list of all New Zealand titles released in the last 120 days.
Displaying items 1 to 20 of 53
Hemi Hemingway
The Lonely Hunter EP (LP) [ PNKSLM Records / 12in - released 23/Jul/2021 ] Shaun Blackwell had been tip-toeing around the idea of a solo project like this one for a while - hinting at this sound through the various prisms of different bands. Only last year, though, did he finally put an array of other musical outlets on the... |
The Datsuns
Dehumanise (Yellow Vinyl 7 inch) [ Hellsquad Records New Zealand / 7in - released 11/Jun/2021 ] 'Dehumanize' by The Datsuns is the third single from their LP 'Eye To Eye'. It sees the New Zealand rockers channeling the high-energy hard rock of 'In Rock'-era Deep Purple over a blistering two-and-a-half minutes. Over on the b-side there's... |
The Datsuns
Suspicion (7") [ Hellsquad Records New Zealand / 7in - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Born musically from the marriage of two very different sounding tracks. One of heavy fuzz riffs and a pounding danceable beat. The other: a spooky, reverb laden acoustic track. Somehow they merged together into a new kind of beast, one laid on top of... |
Alien Weaponry
Tangaroa [ Napalm / CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] In the past few years, no emerging metal band has shaken up the international metal scene like Alien Weaponry - featuring 21-year-old Henry de Jong (drums), 19-year-old Lewis de Jong (guitars, vocals) and 21-year-old new bassist Tūranga... |
Anthonie Tonnon
Leave Love Out Of This [ Slow Time Records / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Anthonie Tonnon produced Leave Love Out Of This with long-time collaborator, and The Beths' guitarist and producer, Jonathan Pearce. Tonnon wrote the bulk of the songs during an extensive period of touring after the release of Successor - a period... |
The Bend
We Disappear [ Armchair Records / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] After thirty 'odd' years, The Bend (Fane Flaws, Tony Backhouse and Peter Dasent- all ex-Crocodiles) present We Disappear, an album of songs written from selected poems by legendary NZ poet Sam Hunt. |
The Beths
Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 [ Carpark / CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] In March 2020, everything seemed on track for another huge year for The Beths. Home after an 18-month northern hemisphere tour, they had just finished recording sophomore album Jump Rope Gazers and were primed for more extensive touring. But within... |
Crowded House
Dreamers Are Waiting [ EMI Music Australia / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] 'Dreamers Are Waiting' is the first album in more than 10 years from this iconic band led by Neil Finn. Crowded House's timeless songs continue to resonate for new audiences and long-term listeners alike. Players on the album are Neil Finn,... |
Daphne Walker
Haere Mai (Everything Is Kapai): The TANZA Recordings [ Frenzy / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Daphne Walkers original recordings on CD for the first time from the TANZA tapes. Some of these songs were re-recorded in later years, but these superior recordings are all you need. |
The Datsuns
Eye To Eye [ Hellsquad / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] The Datsuns - one of the first international success stories to come out of the New Zealand music scene in the early 21st century - announce their long-awaited and much anticipated seventh album Eye to Eye - their first release in a half dozen... |
John Hanlon
Naked Truths [ John Hanlon / CD - released 23/Jul/2021 ] This album was recorded in late 2020 and early 2021 during the time of Covid when John Hanlon was severely debilitated and eventually hospitalized. Confronted with his own mortality, he become even more determined to release these songs for... |
Justin DeHart
Landfall: NZ Percussion Vol 1 [ Rattle Records / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Landfall is the first of a proposed series focused on works for solo percussion. The recording features pieces by New Zealand composers Glenda Keam, David Downes, Alex van den Broek, Mark Menzies, Chris Gendall, Rosa Elliott, Robert Bryce, Simon... |
Negative Nancies
Heatwave [ Fishrider / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Negative Nancies exist in their own universe. The songs evolve organically through rehearsal room experimentation. Amid the art-punk chaos an irrepressible undercurrent of pop melodicism and moments of eerie psychedelic calm shine through the... |
New Bop Quintet (Mike Booth, Kevin Field, Pete France, Frank Gibson Jr, Cameron McArthur)
NBQ [ CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] The New Bop Quintet shine a fresh light on the key aspects of Hard Bop - a close link with the blues, a strong rhythmical presence and strong melody lines. NBQ revisit the Hard Bop ethos with stunning original tunes and a familiar yet fresh take on... |
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... |
Roy Montgomery
That Best Forgotten Work [ Grapefruit / CD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest series of albums for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he's managed to navigate disparate genres,... |
Shapeshifter
Rituals [ Universal Music / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] Rituals is Shapeshifter's seventh studio album. This new record has been a long time in the making, as COVID 19 halted the process for release, but New Zealand's response allowed the band to tour the new songs and build the hype despite the... |
Stephen Galvin
Modal Behaviour [ Independent / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] Recorded in 2021 Modal Behaviour is an album of original New Zealand Jazz and Contemporary music. At forty-nine minutes the ten tracks on the album are mostly instrumental with two songs, the gypsy-jazz track Django and blues item I've Been... |
Troy Kingi
Black Sea Golden Ladder [ Triple A Records / CD - released 18/Jun/2021 ] A collaboration with award winning Ōtautahi singer-songwriter and producer Delaney Davidson - who also plays a variety of instruments on the record, Black Sea Golden Ladder was written and recorded as part of Troy Kingi's Matairangi Mahi Toi Artist... |
Various Artists
The Kiwi Music Scene 1965 [ Frenzy Music / 2 CD - released 21/May/2021 ] The New Zealand music scene came of age during 1965 with both the inaugural APRA Silver Scroll and Loxene Gold Disc Awards (a forerunner of the NZ Music Awards) held at the end of the year. Although we didn't get our own official National music... |
