TE KAAHU – TE KAAHU O RANGI (Theia Music Limited) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. Written and produced by the Ōtautahi-born (Waikato-Tainui, Ngaati Tiipaa) singer/songwriter Theia (AKA Em Walker) TE KAAHU is a new te reo Māori project featuring music, videosContinue Reading
Memory Foam – Steel Magnolias (1:12 Records) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. With songs running at speeds faster than a gulp of hot sake, the debut album from Tāmaki five piece tempur-pedic punks Memory Foam is a shot of intense electricContinue Reading
Billy Howerdel – What Normal Was (Alchemy Recordings / Rise Records / BMG) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. Billy Howerdel’s first solo album under his own name, ‘What Normal Was’, has been a long time in the making. Perhaps best knownContinue Reading
Wiri Donna – Being Alone (Independent) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. It’s been two years since the Poneke based Bianca Bailey, aka Wiri Donna, dropped her first release – a double single featuring ‘Manuka Money’ and ‘Wandering Willies’. She started outContinue Reading
Daniel Johns – FutureNever (BMG Rights Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. ‘FutureNever’ is the second solo album from the somewhat infamous Daniel Johns.The follow up to 2015’s ‘Talk’, an LP predominantly defined by Johns taking a significantContinue Reading
3rd Secret – 3rd Secret (Independent) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. A well-kept secret indeed, this is an album from a band that almost no one saw coming. Only upon 3rd Secret’s debut performance at the Museum of Popular Culture inContinue Reading
Jackie Bristow – Outsider (Independent) Reviewed by Rob Harbers. There exists, out beyond the ken of many of us, a sizeable camp of “NZ artists not many New Zealanders know exist”. Among former residents of that enclave are numbered CrowdedContinue Reading
Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point (Concord) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. On the thirty-seventh anniversary of the release of the critically acclaimed ‘Songs From The Big Chair’, Tears For Fears dropped ‘The Tipping Point’, an album that has apparentlyContinue Reading
Forenzics – Shades And Echoes (Warner Music) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. Tim Finn and Eddie Raynor are stepping back into the limelight with a project that steals from the past and brings it into the present. It’s their new colabContinue Reading