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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 …

The four members of the band The Beths

The Beths have produced a joyous track which suggests is poured out from the heart. ‘Expert in a Dying Field‘ is the latest single and title track from their forthcoming third album set for release on 16 September via Carpark Records. Elizabeth Stokes stirring vocals are as glorious as they are emotive. She sings:“I can …

Canadian duo Ducks Ltd. probably don’t even need an introduction, after their debut Ep was featured on all major music magazines. Their jangle-pop is one of the most precise and driven out there (maybe only Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever can be compared), full of riveting riffs and the genre-characteristic rhythms. Now they are about to …

The Beths do power pop and they do it very well with the pizazz, attention to detail and inventiveness that hints at their jazz past. The foursome from Auckland, NZ have ridden through a heady couple of years ever since their debut LP ‘Future Hates Me’ gained what seemed to be unstoppable but worthy momentum. …

It’s auspicious that Sonic Boom—the solo project and nom-de-producer of Peter Kember (Spectrum, Spacemen 3) returns in 2020 with its first new LP in three decades. Kember was drawn to the year’s numerological potency, and this intentionality shines into every corner of All Things Being Equal. Released on Carpark Records, it’s a meditative, mathematical record …

If you enjoyed Future Me Hates Me, the debut album from New Zealand indie rock band The Beths, you’ll be delighted to see them back and preparing for the release of its follow up – Jump Rope Gazers, out July 10th via Carpark Records. Taken from it is a new single/video ‘Dying to Believe’, and …

Taken from his first album in 30 years, Sonic Boom – aka Peter Kember (Spectrum, Spacemen 3) has released The Way You Live, with the album, All Things Being Equal, out on Carpark Record on June 5th. More well known recently in his role as a producer for the likes of Beach House and Panda …

New Zealand’s The Beths have revealed the video for their new single, Future Me Hates Me, taken from their forthcoming album on the same name, out via Carpark Records on August 10th. It’s alternatively scuzzy and jangly, but most of all it’s deliciously melodic, and immediately infectious. Elizabeth Stokes does a great line in slightly …

Following on from last years simmering and sparkling ‘Live from Trona’ and the outstanding interstellar ‘Star Stuff’ collaboration with equally ingenious act The Mattson 2 yet. Chaz, the Bear formerly known as Bundick, has announced that, with his band, as Toro y Moi will release a new LP this summer. The first track shared from …

You know, I try to be “with it”, and “in the know”.  I want to be “up to date” on all the relevant music of today. Even as a kid in short pants growing up in rural Hoosierville I was always buying cassettes at my local record store. If there was some new band everyone …