New Zealand Upcoming Releases
New Zealand Upcoming Releases
The following New Zealand titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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Mel Parsons
Castle Hill [ Cape Road Recordings / CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Named after the remote mountain village in New Zealand's Southern Alps where it was recorded, CASTLE HILL is the Lyttelton-based artist's seventh album. Across 10 tracks, the album explores resilience, grief, self-doubt, nostalgia, presence and... |
Mel Parsons
Castle Hill (LP) [ Cape Road Recordings / LP - due 7/Aug/2026 ] Named after the remote mountain village in New Zealand's Southern Alps where it was recorded, CASTLE HILL is the Lyttelton-based artist's seventh album. |
Various Artists
Fully Nowhere: A World Resources Archive (Limited Edition LP) [ World Of Echo / 2 LP - due 7/Aug/2026 ] A major archival release from World Resources, the Aotearoa/New Zealand imprint responsible for some of the rarest lathe‑cut experimental records of the 1990s. Fully Nowhere compiles material from the original 7" singles and LPs - plus unreleased... |
Reb Fountain
Water For Gasoline [ Fountain Records / CD - due 14/Aug/2026 ] Water for Gasoline marks a significant creative departure for Reb Fountain. Written and recorded in Fountain's own garage studio this year, this new album captures the spontaneity and vulnerability of her creative process. Recorded live, most... |
Reb Fountain
Water For Gasoline (LP) [ Fountain Records / LP - due 14/Aug/2026 ] Water for Gasoline marks a significant creative departure for Reb Fountain. Written and recorded in Fountain's own garage studio this year, this new album captures the spontaneity and vulnerability of her creative process. Recorded live, most... |
Reb Fountain
Water For Gasoline (Smokey Clear / Black Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Fountain Records / LP - due 14/Aug/2026 ] Water for Gasoline marks a significant creative departure for Reb Fountain. Written and recorded in Fountain's own garage studio this year, this new album captures the spontaneity and vulnerability of her creative process. Recorded live, most... |
Greatsouth
Hellhole of the Pacific (LP) [ Drops / LP - due 21/Aug/2026 ] Hellhole of the Pacific (HOTP) is a concept EP and multimedia storytelling project that reclaims and reimagines Aotearoa's narratives through an urban Māori lens. It draws its name from the infamous label given to Kororāreka (Russell)in the 1830s-a... |
Jonathan Bree
Don't Call It Love [ Lil' Chief Records / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] The man behind the mask, Jonathan Bree, returns with his sixth studio album Don't Call It Love, out August 6. This seventeen-track double album is Bree's most ambitious project to date - an erotic, concept-driven epic that brings the sexual and... |
Jonathan Bree
Don't Call It Love (LP) [ Lil' Chief Records / 2 LP - due 28/Aug/2026 ] The man behind the mask, Jonathan Bree, returns with his sixth studio album Don't Call It Love, out August 6. This seventeen-track double album is Bree's most ambitious project to date - an erotic, concept-driven epic that brings the sexual and... |
Church & AP
Teeth (LP) [ Drops / LP - due 25/Sep/2026 ] When Auckland duo Church & AP released their debut radio single 'Ready Or Not' in 2018, the Aotearoa hip-hop scene was in the depths of a commercial lull. Buoyed by high-rotation plays on New Zealand's biggest hip-hop and RnB radio station Mai FM and... |
