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We are inordinately proud to review the shimmering new track ‘Wild For Change’ from New Zealand artist Lilly Carron, whose voice has a diaphanous delicacy, ethereal and filled with a yearning passion. The track has a Lynchian air about it with its scything reverbed guitar riffs and the almost western Sergio Leone blush augmented by …

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Signed to the illustrious Flying Nun Records label, New Zealand punk popsters DARTZ have flung a well aimed missile at the plethora of sleazy property developers and the ultra rich infesting New Zealand’s beaches with their sprightly new single ‘Paradise’. With a joyous, raucous shouty delivery, a few choice words and a whole baggage of …

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We are very honoured to premiere the brilliant accompanying video for the shimmering new single ‘Body’ from New Zealand chanteuse Isla Noon. The project of Shani Sauerman, her vocals are stunning – soft, velvet and diaphanous with a shimmering warmth, heartbreakingly yearning over an instrumentation that is contrastingly thumping, bombastic and dramatic at times, crashing …

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Clementine Valentine, the New Zealand-based art-pop duo formerly known as Purple Pilgrims, today released another track off their recently announced their upcoming album, ‘The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor’, out on 25 August via the prestigious Flying Nun Records. According to the duo, ‘Selenelion’ is a type of lunar eclipse where both the sun and …

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We are very pleased to premiere today the new single from Model Home as they announce their signing to Brisbane’s boutique magicians False Peak Records in a joint venture with New Zealand’s Papaiti Records label. Hailing from Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, this an exciting addition to False Peak’s already impressive roster: a dynamic female-fronted …

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New Zealand band Tiny Ruins have just announced news of their new album entitled ‘Ceremony’ due for release on 28 April 2023 through the inestimable Milk! Records. And to whet our voracious appetites, a new single has been unveiled. ‘Dorothy Bay’ is a reflective, dynamic track: an ambulant motion of instruments underpin the soft velvet …

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‘King of Joy’ is a delightful low-fi dreamy track – clocking at a brief one minute thirty seconds that leaves you yearning for more. It has the gently, fey delivery that brings to mind that distinctive Dunedin sound – gentle, melancholic pop. Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Pickle Darling (the nome de plume of Lukas Mayo) has …

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New Zealand’s legendary Voom make a spectacular return after a break since 2006 with the dreampop elegance of ‘Magic’, featuring the dulcet tones of Fazerdaze (Amelia Murray). The sparring vocals of Murray and Buzz Moller create a wonderful contrast – Moller’s distinct soft rasp against Murray’s ethereal angelic vocals. The vocals surf over a wave …

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Spring is here, the peach blossoms are starting to bloom and Aotearoa is finally free from Covid restrictions. Somehow, this is the perfect backdrop for the release of 21 year old New Zealand artist  Muroki‘s second EP, Heading East. Picture yourself driving on an open road with the windows down, the sun on your face …

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The gently chugging pace and layered harmonies of ‘No Drama’ by Aotearoa/New Zealand band Hans Pucket positively shimmers with an incandescent glow. There are no doubt genetic connections to the melodic and literate Dunedin/Flying Nun sound and the fey delicacy of the C86 era and the Postcard Records music of bands like Orange Juice, but …

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