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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Raise The Roof [ Warner UK / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Raise The Roof finds Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Plant and 27-time Grammy-winner Krauss reunited after some fourteen years, following the historic success of their first collaboration 'Raising Sand' (2007), which generated multi-platinum sales and... |
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... |
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.... |
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... |
Louisa Nicklin
Louisa Nicklin (LP) [ Louisa Nicklin / LP - released 25/May/2021 ] Just over a year on from her Live at The Wine Cellar EP, Tāmaki Makaurau based Louisa Nicklin's self-titled debut album hits the shelves, and we here at Marbecks couldn't be more chuffed. Performed primarily by Louisa and bandmates Eamon... |
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... |
Parquet Courts
Sympathy For Life [ Rough Trade / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Parquet Courts' thought-provoking rock is dancing to a new tune. Sympathy For Life finds the Brooklyn band at both their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their... |
Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak)
An Evening With Silk Sonic [ Atlantic / Warner / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Featuring the singles 'Leave The Door Open' and 'Skate,' this is the highly anticipated joint release from two of the world's best music makers. The seeds of the collaboration were planted in 2017 when Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars toured together... |
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
A Beginner's Mind [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - 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... |
TEEKS
Something To Feel [ Sony Music NZ / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Award-winning New Zealand-Māori singer-songwriter TEEKS announces the release of his highly anticipated debut album 'Something To Feel' featuring the stunning single 'Remember Me' set for release on March 26th. Named by Vogue US as "New Zealand's... |
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... |
Lorde
Solar Power (Music Box) [ Universal / Music Box (Discless) - released 20/Aug/2021 ] 'Solar Power' is the highly anticipated third album from Lorde. The album includes 12 tracks and is produced by Jack Antonoff who she collaborated with on her chart-topping last album, Melodrama. |
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... |
Billie Eilish
Happier Than Ever [ Universal / CD - 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... |
Leon Vynehall
Rare, Forever (LP) [ Ninja Tune / LP - released 30/Apr/2021 ] Leon Vynehall returns with new album 'Rare, Forever' - the follow up to his critically acclaimed debut album 'Nothing Is Still', which garnered widespread praise including appearing in 'Album of the Year' lists from Rough Trade, Mixmag, Esquire... |
Little Simz
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert [ AWAL / CD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert' is the first full-length from Little Simz since her critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize nominated 'GREY Area'. Over the course of her lush, expansive, defiantly sprawling new album, Simz delivers an undeniable... |
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 -... |
Reb Fountain
Iris [ Flying Nun / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] The perfect extension of her 2020 self-titled record, IRIS elevates Reb Fountain's music to new heights. Reb effortlessly combines pop elements with her trademark noir folk-punk sound; weaving authentic and anthemic tunes that create an instant and... |
Courtney Barnett
Things Take Time, Take Time [ Milk! / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] This album signals an exciting new chapter for a musician who is operating at the very peak of her powers and it sees her consolidating her place in the storied global lineage of ground-breaking and influential female singer-songwriters. Over the... |
