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Lost & Found [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 13/Mar/2015 ] Almost two decades after the release of the original, Grammy winning album, the romance of the Buena Vista Social Club continues with 'Lost and Found', a collection of previously unreleased tracks, some recorded at the first legendary sessions in... |
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker [ Sony Music / CD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] Leonard Cohen, acclaimed composer of 'Hallelujah', has released an album of haunting new songs at the age of 82. This great artist continues to astonish us. Uncompromising and urgent, "You Want It Darker" is the latest chapter in Leonard's... |
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color [ Rough Trade / CD - released 17/Apr/2015 ] 'Sound & Color' demonstrates the tremendous strides made by a group of young musicians who had only been playing together for a few months when they recorded their first album,... |
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... |
Bob Dylan
Fallen Angels [ Columbia Records / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] Dylan's new album features 12 classic American tunes written by a diverse array of writers including Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Sammy Chan and Carolyn Leigh. The album showcases Dylan's unique and much-lauded talents as a vocalist, arranger and... |
Bob Dylan
Rough And Rowdy Ways [ Columbia / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Rough And Rowdy Ways, the first album of original songs from Bob Dylan in eight years. The album follows the recent release of two other songs from the forthcoming Rough And Rowdy Ways: The album's lead-off track, "I Contain Multitudes," and the... |
Dave Dobbyn
Harmony House [ CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] Dave Dobbyn describes this album as a "record of hope". It comes in two halves. "I think there is something naively pop about the first half, songwise and in its melodies…apart from the opening track, which is a challenge." "The second half... |
Diana Krall
Turn Up The Quiet [ Verve Records / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] Diana Krall's new album celebrates a return to jazz and the Great American Songbook and reunites her with Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma. |
Don McGlashan
Lucky Stars [ CD - released 17/Apr/2015 ] New Zealand's pre-eminent songwriter/singer Don McGlashan unveils a rich new collection of 10 highly personal songs exploring love, regret and mortality: Lucky Stars. With a strong solo career complementing his work with bands Blam Blam Blam,... |
Ed Sheeran
÷ (aka Divide) (Deluxe Edition) [ Warner Music / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] ÷ ("divide") - Sheeran's third studio album - is a genre-defying LP and the result of an artist who consistently pushes himself in new directions, uncovering fresh musical ground using a seemingly limitless musical vocabulary. Drawing inspiration... |
Lawrence Arabia
Absolute Truth [ Flying Nun / CD - released 8/Jul/2016 ] That connoisseur of classic songwriting, Lawrence Arabia - the pseudonym of James Milne - is back with his new album - Absolute Truth and a hearty slice of timeless music inspired as much by 1970's West Coast Americana as New Zealand indie... |
Leonard Cohen
Popular Problems [ Columbia CD / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Leonard Cohen is a master songwriter, musician, poet, novelist and visual artist whose stunning body of original work has touched the lives of millions with a career spanning six decades. On Popular Problems, his thrilling new studio album,... |
Lorde
Melodrama [ Universal Music CD / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] "Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this record - well, this one is about what comes next. ...The party is about to start. I am about to show you the new... |
Mark Knopfler & Evelyn Glennie
Altamira [ EMI Virgin / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] Mark Knopfler releases the soundtrack album to the new Hugh Hudson film, 'Altamira'. 'Altamira' is the story of the accidental discovery of Patheolithic paintings by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, an amateur archaeologist, and his nine year old... |
Marlon Williams
Make Way For Love [ Caroline / Universal Music / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Known for his effortlessly distinctive voice, Make Way For Love, Marlon Williams' second album, marks his exponential growth as a songwriter. Throughout 11 original songs, he explores new musical terrain and reveals himself in an unprecedented way in... |
Norah Jones
Day Breaks (Deluxe) (Includes 4 live bonus tracks) [ Blue Note / CD - released 7/Oct/2016 ] This is Norah Jones' stunning sixth solo album which is a kindred spirit to the singer's breakout debut Come Away With Me and finds the 9-time Grammy winner returning to the piano and her roots. The album features jazz luminaries including her Blue... |
Phoenix Foundation
Give Up Your Dreams [ Universal / CD - released 7/Aug/2015 ] The Phoenix Foundation return with their new and sixth studio album Give Up Your Dreams. It's a shrewd and vibrant reminder that in The Phoenix Foundation's gloriously absurd world of Technicolour pop, it's the challenges you set yourself that reap... |
Robert Plant
Carry Fire [ Nonesuch / Warner Music / CD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Carry Fire, Robert Plant's eleventh solo album and first full-length release since 2014's acclaimed Lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar, was produced by Plant in the west of England and Wales, at Top Cat studio in Box, Wiltshire with additional... |
Santana
Santana IV [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] Santana IV reunites the revered early '70s lineup of guitar icon Carlos Santana (guitar, vocals), Gregg Rolie (keyboards, lead vocals), Neal Schon (guitar, vocals), Michael Carabello (percussion) and Michael Shrieve (drums). The album signifies the... |
Tami Neilson
Don't Be Afraid [ Neilson Records / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] Rewind to 1972 for the beginnings of this album. A young Ron Neilson recorded a demo "Lonely" outside a hotel room while on tour across Canada. Decades later, it was completed by his daughter Tami when she discovered that demo a week after he passed... |
Tami Neilson
Sassafrass! [ Outside Music / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] With her new album, SASSAFRASS! Tami Neilson takes a giant step that should only bring her more widespread acclaim. On this 11-track effort, she places a heavier emphasis on soul music while not abandoning her country and rockabilly roots. Neilson... |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Sex & Food [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 6/Apr/2018 ] The follow-up to their critically acclaimed record Multi-Love, Sex & Food sees UMO mastermind Ruban Nielson tap into both familiar and unexpected territory. The delightfully shape-shifting album filters real-deal serious themes such as "What are... |
Van Morrison
Keep Me Singing [ Caroline / CD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] Keep Me Singing is Van Morrison's 36th studio album to date and consists of 13 tracks - 12 original songs written and performed by Morrison, as well as a cover of the blues standard 'Share Your Love With Me' - written by Alfred Baggs and Don Robey... |
Belle & Sebastian
Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance [ Matador / CD - released 16/Jan/2015 ] Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance is the long-awaited follow-up to 2010's Write About Love. Produced and mixed at Maze Studios in Atlanta by Ben H. Allen III, best known for his work with Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, and Raury, among others, the... |
Fat Freddy's Drop
Bays [ The Drop / CD - released 23/Oct/2015 ] Following the worldwide success of 'Blackbird' in 2013, Freddy's present a 9-track album recorded at the band's Bays Studio in Kilbirnie, Wellington a former 1950s HMV vinyl pressing plant. Signed copies while stocks last! |
Fazerdaze
Morningside [ Flying Nun / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] The brainchild of Amelia Murray, Fazerdaze began as a string of bedroom recordings created late in the night, emerging fully-formed in 2014 as her debut eponymous EP. A succinct collection of intimate, beautifully produced dream-pop written, produced... |
Fly My Pretties
String Theory [ Loop / CD - released 11/Nov/2016 ] String Theory is the sixth album from Fly My Pretties which was recorded at Auckland's Mercury Theatre, and Wellington's Paramount Theatre across nine sold-out shows. Examining who we are and our place in the universe through musical storytelling,... |
Julia Deans
We Light Fire [ Julia Deans / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] With the release of bold first single Walking In The Sun in September 2017, Julia Deans whet the appetite of fans and critics alike for her new album. It had been seven years since we were last seduced by her songwriting, when her acclaimed first... |
Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool [ XL Recordings / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] Radiohead's ninth studio album. |
Reb Fountain
Reb Fountain [ Flying Nun / CD - released 26/Jun/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. |
Tony Joe White
Rain Crow [ Yep Roc / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] Swamp-rock master Tony Joe White is back with a new album, "Rain Crow." Over a loping drumbeat, throbbing bass and eerily distorted guitar, White, who wrote the songs with musician-actor Billy Bob Thornton, conjures images of back-of-the-woods... |
The War On Drugs
A Deeper Understanding [ Atlantic / CD - 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... |
Beth Hart
Fire On the Floor [ Warner Music / CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] Beth Hart is on fire. Right now, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter is riding a creative tidal wave, firing out acclaimed albums, hooking up with the biggest names in music and rocking the house each night with that celebrated burnt-honey voice.... |
James Taylor
Before This World [ Concord / CD - released 19/Jun/2015 ] Five-time GRAMMY® Award winner James Taylor releases Before This World, the legendary singer/songwriter's first album of new songs since 2002's platinum-selling October Road. Produced by Grammy Award®-winner Dave O'Donnell, Before This World features... |
Ray Lamontagne
Ouroboros [ Sony / CD - released 4/Mar/2016 ] Ouroboros is the sixth studio album by Ray LaMontagne. It was produced by Ray and Jim James of My Morning Jacket. |
Aldous Harding
Party [ Flying Nun / CD - 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... |
Beck
Colors [ Capitol Records / CD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Hailed in advance by Rolling Stone as a "euphoric blast of experimental pop," Beck's 13th album Colors unfolds in an intoxicating rainbow of auditory tricks and treats. Colors is Beck's first full length offering of new material since 2014's... |
Broods
Conscious [ Universal Music / CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] Conscious is the follow-up to Broods' 2014 debut album, Evergreen. Joel Little (Lorde, Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding), who produced Evergreen, serves as Executive Producer on Conscious, producing many of the tracks. Additional production is by Broods,... |
Bryan Ferry
Avonmore [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 28/Nov/2014 ] Bryan Ferry's 14th solo album, 'Avonmore' features eight new Ferry compositions plus Ferry's cinematic interpretation of Sondheim's 'Send In The Clowns'. Produced by Ferry and Rhett Davies in Ferry's London studio, the album was mixed by Craig Silvey... |
Case / Lang / Veirs
Case / Lang / Veirs [ Anti / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] CASE/LANG/VEIRS is a true collaboration between three phenomenal, self-driven artists: avantrock icon Neko Case, legendary musical nomad k.d. lang, and indie folk star Laura Veirs. The women wrote all 14 songs and shared lead vocals equally,... |