DEATH AND THE MAIDEN – Uneven Ground

Death And The Maiden present their third album “Uneven Ground”. Uneven Ground by Death And The Maiden Death And The Maiden’s “Uneven Ground” draws back the velvet curtain on the trio’s shadowy dreamworld with nine songs of their distinctive slow-motion fusion of underground electronic dance music and post-punk guitars washed through with psychic

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EMILY FAIRLIGHT / THE SHIFTING SANDS – Sun Casts A Shadow

Together, Emily Fairlight and The Shifting Sands’ Mike McLeod have created a special new album capturing a special moment, sounding like they’re “playing in your lounge.” Sun Casts a Shadow by Emily Fairlight / The Shifting Sands Fairlight has been composing and performing for over a decade, playing throughout New Zealand and Australia

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NEGATIVE NANCIES – Heatwave

Negative Nancies exist in their own universe. The songs evolve organically through rehearsal room experimentation. Amid the No Wave art-punk chaos an irrepressible undercurrent of pop melodicism and moments of eerie psychedelic calm shine through the noise. Negative Nancies don’t play by anyone’s rules. Songs unfold in unusual ways through an organic wild-yeast

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TIDAL RAVE – Albumette

Pōneke/ Wellington jangle / surf / fuzz-pop sextet Tidal Rave return with an eight song album. “Albumette” was primarily written during the seemingly never-ending 2020 lockdown era, and explores such pertinent topics as “police incompetence, problematic capitalism, disconnection and in-between spaces.” The recording sounds darker and heavier on “Albumette”, and the bands song-writing

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EMILY FAIRLIGHT – Mother of Gloom

Emily Fairlight has a proper folk singer’s background having been, among other things, a teenage runaway adventurer in Australia and India, a circus school student, a barista and a runner turned jack-of-all-trades at a digital visual effects company. “Mother of Gloom” an elusive creature, but the prevalence of acoustic guitar and intimate sharing of lived experience point

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