New Zealand
Track: T.G. Shand’s new single ‘Cheese’ takes a delicious, immersive, darker turn with its crystalline guitars and ominous drive.
T.G. Shand is the moniker of Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label) and she returns with her first single of 2024, the shimmering ‘Cheese’. There is a more muscular drive to the new single – a dark majestic pop element that results …
Premiere: Aotearoa/New Zealand chanteuse Isla Noon unveils the delicious vibrancy of ‘Her’ with her exquisite soaring vocals.
We are overjoyed at being able to bring you an exclusive listen to the new single from Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Isla Noon, an artist we have followed with great interest for a number of years now and who is just getting exponentially better with every release. The project of Shani Sauerman, Isla Noon has a voice …
Album Review: Alma Leta’s Nik Brinkman-produced ‘Time Of Our Lives’ sparkles and shines like a glittering jewel in the firmament.
Born in California but raised in New Zealand, Wellington-based singer and songwriter Alma Leta (the nom de plume of Emmanuelle Alma-Rose Baur) has worked with one of our favourite antipodean producers Nik Brinkman to bring out an enchanting and ethereal debut album ‘Time Of Our Lives’, out today. The album is a deeply personal reflection …
Track: Aotearoa’s Lilly Carron is ‘Wild For Change’ – an ethereal and dreamy prelude to a new EP on the way.
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 …
Track: New Zealand’s DARTZ take aim at sleazy developers in the ebullient ‘Paradise’, with album and tour news.
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 …
Album Review: She’s ‘Not Your Cupid’ – Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Erny Belle unveils a delicately beautiful collection of sonic jewels ahead of live dates. Out through Flying Nun.
Released through the legendary Flying Nun label, the new album ‘Not Your Cupid from Tāmaki Makaurau’s Erny Belle is an absolute treasure. Delicate and nuanced, it has an indie pop style with a folk tinge and yet there is a electronic voltage throughout that is thrilling. Belle’s vocals reminds me at times of Sarah Cracknell …
Premiere: Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Isla Noon provides us with an exclusive look at the video for her new single, the shimmering and lush single ‘Body’.
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 …
Track: Clementine Valentine unveil haunting new track ‘Selenelion’ ahead of album release.
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 …
Premiere: Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Model Home exclusively unveil new single ‘Midnight, Dragon Garden’ on announcement of album and national tour
We are very pleased to unveil the new single ‘Midnight, Dragon Garden’ from indie pop merchants Model Home, signed to Brisbane’s False Peak Records in a joint venture with New Zealand’s Papaiti Records label. A new album has also been announced, with the band about to embark on a tour around New Zealand. ‘Midnight, Dragon Garden’ has the band’s …
News: New Zealand’s Clementine Valentine (fka Purple Pilgrims) announce new album and unveil the elegant single ‘Time and Tide’ as a taste of what’s to come.
Clementine Valentine, the New Zealand-based art-pop duo formerly known as Purple Pilgrims, today announced their upcoming album, ‘The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor’, out on 25 August via the prestigious Flying Nun Records. To whet our appetites, they have released a delicious single entitled ‘Time and Tide’. There is a baroque, pastoral elegance to …