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Track: New Zealand’s Echomatica release the dream-noir cinematic epic ‘Atomic Girl’

Manchester has always been good at exporting its melancholy. It has travelled in record collections, in accents, and occasionally in whole people, and two of them have landed in Tāmaki…

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News: Aotearoa/New Zealand band Soft Bait offer ‘Life Advice’ – news of their new album being released through Flying Nun Records, with a taste through the visceral single ‘Long Line’.

The new single ‘Long Line’ from Tāmaki Makaurau band Soft Bait is an angular juggernaut of attitude and swagger that is enticing with its shattering guitars and distant observant delivery.…

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Track: Everything is ‘Bright’ for New Zealand’s Marmalade: a shimmering tasty dollop of sweet indie pop, with launch date announced.

Tāmaki Makaurau-based five-piece band Marmalade today release their new single ‘Bright’ – a jangly sparkling track laden with a dusting of melancholy and the sweetest harmonies to ever nest inside…

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