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Track: Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays, plus tour news

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New Track: HEX – Sight Beyond the Line

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EP: System Corporation – Apathy is Easy

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New Zealand spiritual jazz collective The Circling Sun have taken the long and winding road to releasing their first album ‘Spirits’ (available now on the ever-reliable Soundway Records). Drawn from the confluence of various Auckland/ Tamaki Makarau bands, this fluid congregation of jazzers, record collectors, producers and DJs have been converging for near two decades …

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 …

Playing the long game, letting the sounds ferment, whatever way you look at it, New Zealand spiritual jazz collective The Circling Sun seem to prefer any long and winding road. After two decades of playing together and gradually building on their live reputation as show stealers, this fluid congregation of jazzers, record collectors, producers and …

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 …

‘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 …

New Zealand-based indie legends The Veils have returned after a seven year long absence with news of a double album ‘…And Out of the Void Came Love’ and a new single ‘No Limit of Stars’ to whet the appetite. The single is a rich, luxurious delight – delivered with a preacher-like intensity that recalls Nick …

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 …

Off her recent long awaited EP ‘Break’, the enigmatic and brilliant Fazerdaze (the nom de plume of Amelia Murray) has today unveiled a video for the track ‘Winter’ as a well as tremendous news of her support slot on the new Lorde tour: a magnificent reflection of her growing stature. ‘Winter’ is the quieter, more …

It seems Bakers Eddy just don’t have an off button. Right when you think they might take a little time off having just surmounted a 25-date headline tour as well as lapping up the country supporting WAAX, Stand Atlantic and Beddy Rays respectively, which all ingeniously came off the back of their debut album ‘Love …