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 39
Lorde
Te Ao Mārama (12") [ Universal Music / 12in - released 21/Jun/2022 ] To celebrate Waiata Anthems Week (6-12 September 2021) in Aotearoa, Lorde has re-recorded five tracks from Solar Power in te reo Māori. Te Ao Mārama is a limited edition 12". Lorde says of the recordings: "Making an album about the natural... |
Salmonella Dub
Rua - Return to our Kōwhai (12") [ Saldub / 12in - released 13/May/2022 ] Salmonella Dub return with a brand new 12" Rua - Return To Our Kowhai. Includes 8 new tracks, featuring appearances from Whirimako Black, Troy Kingi, Tiki Taane, Nino Birch and Antsmif. |
Antagonist A.D.
Through Fire All Things Are Renewed [ Greyscale Records / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] Antagonist A.D. are a justice-minded hardcore band. Formed in Auckland in 2005 the group's brutal, metallic sound features lyrics about issues such as veganism and women's rights. They've built up a strong fan base through worldwide touring, sharing... |
Ben Woods
Dispeller [ Melted Icecream / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] On Dispeller, Woods' intimate experiments in rock paint a vivid portrait. Here, the New Zealand artist leans comfortably into intuition and abstraction. Expansive arrangements are anchored by heavy-lidded prose, while carrying the air of the portside... |
The Black Seeds
Love & Fire [ The Black Seeds / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] |
Brett Adams
Black Clouds In Stereo [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] An album of instrumentals featuring electric guitar, composed, performed and recorded by Brett Adams. Guitarist Brett Adams started his musical journey with 80s pop-rock icons, The Mockers, who regularly featured on the NZ music charts at the... |
Chelsea Jade
Soft Spot [ Carpark Records / CD - released 29/Apr/2022 ] Chelsea Jade's second album Soft Spot finds the Los Angeles-based New Zealand artist dwelling somewhere between feeling and expression, certainty and doubt. It ventures beyond the exploration of delusions of grandeur that formed the focus of the... |
Darren Pickering Small Worlds
Volume One [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Apart from continuously composing new material, a lot of Darren Pickering's compositions have been around for years in chart form, performed in concerts, or as demos. After performing one of the 'Live at Alex's' YouTube episodes and being impressed... |
David Long
Ash And Bone [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] This new recording by David Long defies easy generic tags. Acoustic electronica, alt-folk, alt-chamber music or experimental instrumental are vaguely in the ballpark, but as David says, his music makes a constellation of these musical styles but... |
Emily Fairlight & Shifting Sands
Sun Casts A Shadow [ Fishrider Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] "We never meant it to result in an album. Before the tour we'd been working tirelessly on Emily's solo record, both putting huge amounts of time and effort into meticulous details, which was totally appropriate for that album - and it sounds... |
Evan Silva
Reihana Street [ Independent / CD - released 3/Jul/2022 ] Evan recorded this collaboration with around 25 musician friends from NZ, Australia and New York over lockdown. He recorded the basic demos on iPhone Home Studio with his Taylor acoustic and guide vocals, then pitched them to different... |
ISAAC ALBENIZ / JOHN CAGE / DOUGLAS LILBURN / PETER SCULTHORPE / CARLO DOMENICONI
Flower Of The Sea Gunter Herbig (electric guitar) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] A collection of works transcribed for electric guitar. Gunter writes: "This project started out with the rather angular working title Electric Landscapes. Poetic ideas don't always start under poetic circumstances. At the beginning of 2020, the land |
Jack Woodbury, Peter Liley
Unfathomed Waters [ Rattle Records / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Unfathomed Waters is a collection of collaborative works by Peter Liley and Jack Woodbury. Composed between 2020 and 2022, the album draws inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Temple. Compositionally, the pieces employ ambient... |
Jenny Mitchell
Tug Of War [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Tug Of War is New Zealand singer/songwriter Jenny Mitchell's new album. Produced by Matt Fell, Tug of War is a deep and emotional dive, for the artist and the listener. It finds Mitchell at her most raw and honest as a storyteller while |
Mark de Clive-Lowe
Freedom [ Soul Bank / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] Electronic jazz pioneer, pianist, producer, re-mixer Mark de Clive-Lowe has an envious reputation as a cross genre creative artist who blends acoustic, electronic and world music exploring themes of belonging and identity. Equal parts jazz, house... |
Shade Smith
Our World [ Frenzy / CD - released 12/Aug/2022 ] 'OUR WORLD' Is the new album of original songs from one of New Zealand's premier singer/ songwriters - Shade Smith. Shade Smith has had a long and illustrious career which started with The Surfires summer of 1967 hit, 'I Can't Wait For Summer time'.... |
Stan Walker
All In [ Sony Music NZ / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] 'All In' is the seventh studio album from the one and only Stan Walker. This is Stan Walker in full glory through equal parts trademark anthems ('Don't Worry Baby' feat. Celina Sharma, 'Come Back Home') and R&B inflected bangers paying homage to the... |
Stephen Clothier, Ross Harris, Neil Johnstone, Sam Leamy, Steve Burridge, Steve Garden
Collapsed Clouds [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] How many columns of clouds Had risen and crumbled, I wonder Among other things, these two lines of Japanese poetry by Sora (an Edo period Japanese poet) evoke the natural balance between order and chaos. They inspired and inform the core ideas of... |
Tami Neilson
Kingmaker [ Neilson Records / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] From being cradled as a baby in the arms of Roy Orbison, to performing a duet with Willie Nelson, you would think that Tami Neilson lived a country music fantasy life. However, in between these monumental occurrences, The Neilson Family Band, with... |
Te Kaahu
Te Kaahu O Rangi [ Te Kaahu / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] Te Kaahu O Rangi is the exquisite debut album from Kiwi alt-pop princess Theia's te reo Māori project, TE KAAHU. . |
