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Aldous Harding
Warm Chris [ Flying Nun / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] An artist of rare calibre, Aldous Harding does more than sing; she conjures a singular intensity. The artist has announced details of Warm Chris, a new studio album, the follow-up to 2019's acclaimed Designer. |
Neil Young
Homegrown [ Reprise / Warner / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Neil Young puts it best: "This album is the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time". Recorded between June 1974 and January 1975, Homegrown was intended to come out in 1975 before Neil cancelled the release. The album has remained... |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Idiot Prayer - Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace [ Inertia / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] 'The most beautiful and sombre performance he's ever given' - The Telegraph Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace was recorded in June 2020 as the UK slowly emerged from lockdown, and was conceived as a reaction to the confinement and... |
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... |
Various Artists
The Offering [ Thom Productions / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] Thom Productions presents The Offering - a charity album to support The Salvation Army! At its heart, the Offering project is best described as 'the artists of our time presenting the music of all time'. This compilation sets out to present... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Fat Freddy's Drop
Special Edition Part 1 [ The Drop / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] New Zealand juggernaut Fat Freddy's Drop announce the release of their new studio album Special Edition Part 1, featuring Trickle Down and the brand new single Kamo Kamo. Part 1 of a double album, Special Edition Part 1 was recorded at the band's... |
Father John Misty
Pure Comedy [ Sub Pop / 2 CD - released 7/Apr/2017 ] Since 2012, Father John Misty aka Josh Tillman has unexpectedly emerged as a singular (if not undeniably, um, idiosyncratic) voice. Whether by virtue of his lyrics, which routinely defy the presumed polarities of wit and empathy; his live... |
Fleet Foxes
Crack-Up [ Nonesuch / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Crack-Up comes six years after the 2011 release of Helplessness Blues and nearly a decade since the band's 2008 self-titled debut. All eleven of the songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin Pecknold. The album was co-produced by Pecknold and Skyler... |
L.A.B
III [ LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] 12 months after the release of their second album, L.A.B - the power house group from the legendary Kora brothers Brad and Stu plus the extraordinary talent of Joel Shadbolt on lead guitar and vocals, Ara Adams-Tamatea from the mighty Katchafire on... |
Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [ Mercury Records / CD - released 14/Jul/1998 ] The classic, beautifully captivating fifth album from the woman who is widely considered to be one of the best singer / songwriters working today. |
Marlon Williams
Live At Auckland Town Hall [ Universal Music / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/2019 ] This album captures an artist both early enough in his career to be humbled by the occasion, and developed enough to present a stunning catalogue of music and quality of performance. Live at Auckland Town Hall feels sure to enter the cannon of great... |
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... |
MAX RICHTER
Richter: From Sleep Max Richter (piano, organ, synthesizers, electronics) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] "Sleep is functional music, furniture music, a soundtrack for relaxing and sleeping, and as such it's successful. It's not "classical" music, and shouldn't be judged as such. It does what it claims, and it's enjoyable." (Musicweb) |
Nadia Reid
Out Of My Province [ Slow Time Records / CD - 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. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Delaney Davidson
Shining Day [ Rough Diamond / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Delaney Davidson is a New Zealand Singer Songwriter, Musician, and Visual Artist. Artist Laureate of New Zealand 2015, three times winner of the NZ Country Music Song of the Year Award, awarded NZ Country Music Album Of The Year, finalist for 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! |
Father John Misty
I Love You Honeybear [ Sub Pop / CD - released 6/Feb/2015 ] Josh Tillman AKA Father John Misty used to tour the world as drummer for the acclaimed Seattle six-piece Fleet Foxes. He left the well-loved Grammy-nominated folk band in January 2012 to focus on his solo career. I Love You, Honeybear is the... |
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges
Texas Sun EP [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Texas Sun started on the road and wrapped up in the studio. Both Bridges and Khruangbin had been touring nonstop behind their acclaimed sophomore LPs when their paths converged for a joint North American tour in 2018, a run of shows stretching from... |
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... |
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. |
Aldous Harding
Aldous Harding [ Flying Nun / CD - released 11/Apr/2014 ] Aldous Harding has been wowing and amazing audiences around New Zealand for the last few years. This self titled album is her debut album release through Lyttelton Records and is very special album that will no doubt become a true classic... |
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... |
Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder
Talking Timbuktu [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] When Ali met Ry Cooder in 1992 they really bonded and Ali later presented him with the first instrument he made, a one-string lute called a djerkal. Recorded in just three days in LA in 1993 the resulting collaboration 'Talking Timbuktu' well... |
Bill Callahan
Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest [ Drag City / CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] The voice murmuring in our ear, with shaggy-dog and other kinds of stories, is an old friend we're so glad to hear again. Bill's gentle, spacey take on folk and roots music is like no other; scraps of imagery, melody and instrumentation tumble... |
Bruce Springsteen
Letter To You [ Columbia / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Letter To You is Bruce Springsteen's new studio album with the E Street Band, and is a rock album fueled by the band's heart-stopping, house-rocking signature sound. Recorded at his home studio in New Jersey, Letter To You is Springsteen's 20th... |
Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex [ Partisan Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Debut, self-titled album from Brooklyn, NY-based ambient pop group Cigarettes After Sex. Led by vocalist / songwriter Greg Gonzalez, the band was inspired by the likes of The Cowboy Junkies, Cocteau Twins, Red House Painters, Mazzy Star & the... |
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
All The Good Times [ ADA / Warner / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] All The Good Times is the first Welch/Rawlings collaboration to feature both of their names on the cover, and received a 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. After a devastating tornado ravaged Nashville in the Spring of 2020 making their... |
Michael Kiwanuka
Kiwanuka [ Universal Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Recorded in New York, LA and London, KIWANUKA reflects his "ear for musical adventure". Given the amount of critical and commercial praise that showered his last record, the last two years have found the singer-songwriter questioning his own ability... |
Michael Kiwanuka
Love & Hate [ Polydor Records / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] Love & Hate was recorded in LA and London, and produced by Grammy Award winner Brian Joseph Burton AKA Danger Mouse, and young British producer, Inflo. The album is a fascinatingly assured and resonant body of work, and follows Michael's 2012... |
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... |
Nathan Haines
Shift Left [ Huh! / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] The 25th Anniversary reissue of Nathan Haines' seminal debut album. Originally released in 1994, the album is a subtle, astute meltdown of jazz and hip-hop by the preternaturally mature Haines and his fellow musicians whose diverse backgrounds came... |
Norah Jones
Begin Again [ Blue Note / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Begin Again is a collection of singles that gathers seven eclectic songs that Norah Jones recorded over the past year with collaborators including Jeff Tweedy and Thomas Bartlett. |
Trio-Da Kali and Kronos Quartet
Ladilikan [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] You take a trio of the finest traditional griot musicians from Mali and put them in the studio with a renowned and revolutionary Western string quartet - and the resulting album is one of the most richly rewarding musical collaborations you are... |