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Altin Gün
Yol (LP) [ Glitterbeat / LP - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Altın Gün return with a masterful album that widens their critically acclaimed exploration of Anatolian rock and Turkish psychedelic stylings to include dreamy 80's synth-pop and dancefloor excursions. Yol (Road) brings together all vectors of the... |
Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams [ Transgressive / CD - released 29/Jan/2021 ] Highly anticipated debut from 2020 breakthrough artist, musician and poet Arlo Parks. Speaking about her LP, Arlo says "My album is a series of vignettes and intimate portraits surrounding my adolescence and the people that shaped it. It is rooted... |
Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams (LP) [ Transgressive / LP - released 29/Jan/2021 ] Highly anticipated debut from 2020 breakthrough artist, musician and poet Arlo Parks. Speaking about her LP, Arlo says "My album is a series of vignettes and intimate portraits surrounding my adolescence and the people that shaped it. It is rooted... |
Billie Eilish
Happier Than Ever (Double Gatefold LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 30/Jul/2021 ] Continuing the tradition on from her multi-GRAMMY Award, record-breaking debut album WHEN WE ALL GO TO SLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, Happier Than Ever features no outside songwriters or producers, and was written by 19-year-old Billie Eilish and her... |
Cassandra Jenkins
An Overview On Phenomenal Nature (LP) [ Ba Da Bing! / LP - released 19/Feb/2021 ] "Nothing ever really disappears," Cassandra Jenkins says. "It just changes shape." Over the past few years, she has seen relationships altered, travelled three continents, wandered through museums and parks, and recorded free-associative guided tours... |
Fat Freddy's Drop
Wairunga (Double Gatefold LP) [ The Drop / 2 LP - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Wairunga finds the Freddy juggernaut digging deep to debut five songs and revisit two classics captured in an outdoor performance sans audience, with wild weather elements playing an important creative role. Wairunga, deep in Ngāti Kahungunu... |
Faye Webster
I Know I'm Funny haha [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] The latest full length from Faye Webster, including "Better Distractions" (which landed on Barack Obama's 2020 end of year playlist) I Know I'm Funny haha is Webster's most realized manifestation yet of this emotional and musical alchemy.... |
Gojira
Fortitude (LP) [ Roadrunner / Warner / LP - released 30/Apr/2021 ] Fortitude is Gojira's first album in five years and the follow-up to 2016's Grammy nominated LP Magma. As if shedding skin and baring armour in its place, first single "Born For One Thing" represents a natural evolution for the acclaimed French... |
Japanese Breakfast
Jubilee [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] From the moment she began writing her new album, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time-a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant... |
Low
HEY WHAT [ Sub Pop / CD - released 10/Sep/2021 ] Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of being alive, to turn the duality of existence into hymns we can share, Low present HEY WHAT. These ten pieces -... |
Lucy Dacus
Home Video [ Matador / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] This new gift from Lucy Dacus was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir might - "In the summer of '07 I was sure I'd go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS" - and all of them... |
Lucy Dacus
Home Video (Limited Edition LP) [ Matador / LP - released 25/Jun/2021 ] This new gift from Lucy Dacus was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir might - "In the summer of '07 I was sure I'd go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS" - and all of them... |
Mdou Moctar
Afrique Victime (Limited Edition LP) [ Matador / LP - released 21/May/2021 ] Limited edition purple vinyl. With Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky ¬- boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and "rock music" by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field... |
Ryley Walker
Course In Fable (LP) [ Husky Pants Records / LP - released 21/May/2021 ] Ryley Walker currently resides in New York City. But his latest LP is a Chicago record in spirit. The masterful Course In Fable, the songwriter's fifth solo effort, draws from the deep well of that city's fertile 1990s scene, when bands like... |
Sofia Kourtesis
Fresia Magdalena (EP) [ 12in - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Peruvian-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Sofia Kourtesis release her new EP, Fresia Magdalena, on Ninja Tune's Technicolour imprint. Fresia Magdalena is more rooted in Kourtesis' native Peru than ever. On one of her regular extended trips home,... |
Squid
Bright Green Field (Green LP) [ Warp / 2 LP - released 7/May/2021 ] Latest stars from the burgeoning Brixton Windmill scene Squid release one of 2021's most highly anticipated albums - their debut album Bright Green Field on Warp. |
St Vincent
Daddy's Home (Gatefold LP) [ Universal / LP - released 21/May/2021 ] Daddy's Home, the sixth album from Annie Clark a/k/a St. Vincent, is the latest facet of an ever-evolving artist regarded by many as the most consistently innovative and intriguing presence in modern music. Annie Clark made her recorded debut as St.... |
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
A Beginner's Mind (LP) [ Asthmatic Kitty / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] It's been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies? Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. A... |
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... |
Vera Ellen
It's Your Birthday [ Flying Nun / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Flying Nun Records' latest signing, Vera Ellen, is a Wellington/Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist and wildly prolific songwriter, who some may recognise from LA band Girl Friday (Hardly Art), or grungy NZ 4-piece Maple Syrup. This 2021... |
