The Prophet Hens return for a 2nd album. “The Wonderful Shapes of Back Door Keys”, delivers on the tuneful jangly promise of their debut album “Popular People Do Popular People”. US music blog The Finest Kiss described their popular debut as “Chills meets Belle And Sebastian pop alchemy” before saying “The Prophet Hens
The music on Cosmic Radio Station was first beamed into the Pacific ether from a woolshed and a tumbledown house perched on the hills above Port Chalmers near Dunedin during a period of heightened aurora activity in the deep south caused by cosmic rays from solar flares. Head back to Port Chalmers itself
On their debut album, Death And The Maiden craft a shadowy sound world, filled with melancholic synth arpeggios, reverb-drenched guitars, and sighing vocal melodies. The combination is both hypnotic and devastating, exploring themes of love, loss, and decay, wrapped in tactile electro-acoustic languor. A party record for heartbroken romantics. “The combination of drum
The sound of this trio is, they say, “an absurdist-logico mix of Euro-pop, Beat poetry, and subterranean lo-fi adventuring.” Although their music ranges from oddly poppy carnival waltzes through to manic and melodic post-punk and no wave this is no retro exercise. The album is their own unique genre-defying trip through the experimental
The 7th album by The Puddle is two proposed 5-track EPs recorded a year apart & pulled together into one cohesive album. Their 1986-93 Flying Nun Records catalogue is long out of print but this album (their 4th on Fishrider since 2007) is George D. Henderson’s best in a storied career as the
