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Nadia Reid
Out Of My Province (LP) [ Slow Time Records / LP - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Out of My Province showcases Nadia's sharpest songwriting to date, atmospheric arrangements replete with strings and Rhodes, and of course that immense voice, alternately soothing and riveting. |
Nadia Reid
Preservation [ Slowtime / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] An ode to self-reflection and self-betterment, Nadia Reid's 'Preservation' is the sound of Nadia showing her true colours, taking back a bit of power, and learning more about herself. Deeply intellectual but felt by all, it punches harder than... |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Ghosteen [ Bad Seed / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Ghosteen is the follow-up to the acclaimed 2016 album 'Skeleton Tree'. The double album features 8 songs on 'Part 1', and 'Part 2' consists of two long songs, linked by a spoken word piece. |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Ghosteen (LP) [ Kobalt / 2 LP - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Ghosteen is the follow-up to the acclaimed 2016 album 'Skeleton Tree'. The double album features 8 songs on 'Part 1', and 'Part 2' consists of two long songs, linked by a spoken word piece. |
Nicolas Jaar
Sirens [ Other People / CD - released 28/Oct/2016 ] Sirens is the highly anticipated second full-length LP from Nicholas Jaar, the Chilean-born electronic music producer, mixing engineer and DJ. A prolific artist with a wide palette of talents, Jaar spent his teenage years in dance music circles in... |
Olafur Arnalds
Found Songs [ Erased Tapes / CD - released 13/Oct/2009 ] In April 2009, Iceland's neo-classical export Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series 'Found Songs' - recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter. With artwork contributions from fans via Flickr, this... |
Om Alec Khaoli
Say You Love Me [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Re-issue on Awesome Tapes From Africa of "Om" Alec Khaoli, the musician behind Harari and Umoja. Say You Love Me wasn't "Om" Alec Khaoli's first solo recording, but the 1985 EP solidified the bass player and songwriter's standing as one of South... |
Om Alec Khaoli
Say You Love Me (12") [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 12in - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Re-issue on Awesome Tapes From Africa of "Om" Alec Khaoli, the musician behind Harari and Umoja. Say You Love Me wasn't "Om" Alec Khaoli's first solo recording, but the 1985 EP solidified the bass player and songwriter's standing as one of South... |
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Oscar Peterson Trio
Night Train [plus 'The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson'] (24-Bit Remastered) [ Verve / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] Remastered reissue, 24-bit. Two classic albums on one CD. Brand new digital remaster from the original sources, with full album artwork. |
Parquet Courts
Wide Awake! [ Rough Trade / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Wide Awake! is New York's Parquet Courts' fifth record since their formation eight years ago. It's also their most groundbreaking. It's an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its... |
Paul Weller
On Sunset Deluxe [ Universal / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Paul Weller's 15th studio album "On Sunset" features ten classic yet modern Paul Weller songs. It's a soul album and at the same time it's also an electronic album, an orchestral album, an album packed with masterly pop songs and heart-tugging... |
Paul Weller
On Sunset (LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Paul Weller's 15th studio album "On Sunset" features ten classic yet modern Paul Weller songs. It's a soul album and at the same time it's also an electronic album, an orchestral album, an album packed with masterly pop songs and heart-tugging... |
Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Phoebe Bridgers doesn't write love songs as much as songs about the impact love can have on our lives, personalities, and priorities. 'Punisher,' her fourth release and second solo album, is concerned with that subject. To say she writes about... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Friend Ship [ The Phoenix Foundation / Universal Music NZ / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It's been five years since GUYD but that down time has been spent writing, recording, touring with the New... |
Pickle Darling
Laundromat (BabyBlue Vinyl LP) [ Father Daughter / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] As Pickle Darling, Christchurch, New Zealand-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Lukas Mayo (they/them) zooms in on the universality of existential thought with earnest playfulness. After years of touring on previous albums, Bigness (2019, Z... |
Prequel Tapes
Inner Systems [ R'Coup'd Records / CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] There's almost no information about the person behind Prequel Tapes, but the little details tell you a lot. The artist grew up by a forest, a frequent escape during a time soundtracked by the neon melodies of The Cure. Eventually that led to an... |
Princess Chelsea
Everything Is Going To be Alright (Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl LP) [ Lil' Chief / LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Princess Chelsea crafted her "nervous breakdown album" Everything is Going to be Alright, at home in pastoral Aotearoa. The album is a comforting offering. These aren't wallowing sad songs, instead, they chronicle Chelsea Nikkel's recovery, and... |
Real Estate
The Main Thing [ Universal Music / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The new album dives even further into the musical dichotomies they're... |
Reb Fountain
Reb Fountain (LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 22/Jul/2020 ] Celebrated singer-songwriter Reb Fountain's forthcoming self-titled album marks a new chapter in the kiwi artist's career and her first full-length release on Flying Nun Records. Reb Fountain came together in the... |
The Renderers
In The Sodium Light [ Ba Da Bing / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] The seismic rumbling of The Renderers goes beyond the fiendish pastoralia of their music. Long-time Christchurch residents, Brian and Maryrose Crook witnessed the earthquakes crumble the city. That, and Maryrose's developing career as a painter (she... |
