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Stef Animal
Top Gear [ Fishrider Records / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Stef Animal (The Golden Awesome) presents her debut solo release "Top Gear" - a concept album of fifteen writing exercises, each conceived and recorded in one session. Each track was made using a different piece of obsolete or unfashionable music... |
Tom Lark
Brave Star [ Winegum Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Brave Star is the debut full-length album from Tom Lark, marking his return after a seven year hiatus. Shaped in equal parts by the confronting vulnerability of John Lennon, and the troubled braggadocio of spaghetti westerns, the songs on Brave Star... |
Tom Lark
Brave Star (LP) [ Winegum Records / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Brave Star is the debut full-length album from Tom Lark, marking his return after a seven year hiatus. Shaped in equal parts by the confronting vulnerability of John Lennon, and the troubled braggadocio of spaghetti westerns, the songs on Brave Star... |
Tyler, The Creator
Igor [ Sony / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Produced entirely by Tyler, IGOR features guest appearances from Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Solange, Kanye West, and Jerrod Carmichael, along with backing vocals from Santigold, Jessy Wilson, La Roux, CeeLo Green, Charlie Wilson, Slowthai, and... |
Tyler, The Creator
Igor (LP) [ Sony / LP - released 11/Oct/2019 ] Produced entirely by Tyler, IGOR features guest appearances from Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Solange, Kanye West, and Jerrod Carmichael, along with backing vocals from Santigold, Jessy Wilson, La Roux, CeeLo Green, Charlie Wilson, Slowthai, and... |
Various Artists
The Original Sound Of Burkina Faso (Double Gatefold LP) [ Mr Bongo / 2 LP - released 27/Oct/2017 ] The Original Sound of Burkina Faso follows the hugely successful 'The Original Sound of Mali' compilation released earlier this year. Here we have a collection of songs that pay tribute to a truly golden age of music; touching on folk, funk,... |
The War On Drugs
A Deeper Understanding (LP) [ Atlantic / 2 LP - released 25/Aug/2017 ] This is the band's first album since 2014's universally acclaimed 'Lost In The Dream'. For much of the three and a half year period since the release of 'Lost In The Dream', The War On Drugs' frontman, Adam Granduciel, led the charge for his... |
Yo La Tengo
This Stupid World (LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. In their latest effort, the first full-length in five years, This Stupid World was created all by... |
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... |
Aldous Harding
Designer (LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - 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... |
Aldous Harding
Party (LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 19/May/2017 ] Igniting interest with her eponymous debut album released just two years ago, Aldous Harding quickly became a name murmured on many lips. She's known for her sinister torch songs, gentle laments and eerie odes delivered with a charismatic combination... |
Alice Coltrane
The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda [ Luaka Bop / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda's devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death.... |
American Aquarium
Lamentations [ New West Records / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] On American Aquarium's new album Lamentations, BJ Barham shines light on dark American corners with heartbreaking conversations, long looks in the mirror, and empathetic questions, all through songwriting that is clear without sacrificing its poetry,... |
Avishai Cohen
Big Vicious (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 27/Mar/2020 ] Charismatic trumpeter Avishai Cohen launched his exuberant, home-grown band Big Vicious six years ago, after relocating from the US to his native Israel, rounding up players to shape the music from the ground up, and co-authoring much of its newest... |
The Beths
Expert In A Dying Field [ Ivy League Records / CD - released 16/Sep/2022 ] On The Beths' third studio album, Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes' songwriting places her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs are autobiographical, but they're also character sketches of relationships and, more... |
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... |
Cate Le Bon
Reward (LP) [ Mexican Summer / LP - released 24/May/2019 ] It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon's fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. "There's a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the... |
Clementine Valentine
The Coin That Broke The Fountain Floor (Transparent Red Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 25/Aug/2023 ] The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor is a pivotal album in the creative evolution of sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon, formerly known as Purple Pilgrims. It finds them leaning further than ever before into collaboration, folklore, poetry, and... |
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... |
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood
Jarak Qaribak [ World Circuit / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Celebrated singer, musician and producer Dudu Tassa teams up with award-winning composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead, The Smile) for a new album 'Jarak Qaribak' (Arabic for 'Your Friend Is Your Neighbour'), bringing together vocalists... |
