MC50 – 10 MORE (earMUSIC) (13th Floor Album Review)
MC5, essentially just Wayne Kramer, follow on from last year’s album – Heavy Lifting, with a live album; MC50 – 10 More.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Live God (PIAS) (13th Floor Album Review)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return with Live God, an album that captures the communal energy of the acclaimed Wild God Tour.
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Live at the Jenny (Property of the Lost) (13th Floor Album Review)
Portland’s Stetson wearing, hardworking, road warriors Jenny Don’t & The Spurs are currently touring New Zealand, bringing their honky-tonk heart and cowpunk energy to intimate venues across the country.
Merv Pinny – Hard Road (13th Floor Album Review)
On his debut full-length album Hard Road, Merv Pinny is laying down a road map of sorts.
Troy Kingi – Night Lords (AAA) (13th Floor Album Review)
Troy Kingi’s Night Lords opens like a city after midnight, humming with danger, memory and movement.
The Saints – Long March Through The Jazz Age (Fire) (13th Floor Album Review)
This posthumous release by Chris Bailey’s The Saints, was seven years in the making, started in 2018, but not completed until three years after his death.
Tom Cunliffe – Spit Out Your Gum (13th Floor Album Review)
The Londoner turned music making New Zealander, Tom Cunliffe, is releasing his fourth outing, titled Spit Out Your Gum. It’s a warm and intimate album, glittering with folk sound.
Hoop — Wrap Me Up in Winter (13th Floor Album Review)
Hoop’s Wrap Me Up in Winter is a quietly resonant mini-album that offers warmth, intimacy and a clear social conscience.
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Dropper – Be A Little Kinder (Particle Recordings) (13th Floor Album Review)
Te Whanganui-a-Tara band Dropper release their debut album Be a Little Kinder. The Particle Recordings release sees the band show resilience through despair (and plenty of raw guitars and melody).
The Salt Collective – A Brief History Of Blindness (Propeller) (13th Floor Album Review)
Power-pop supergroup The Salt Collective are due to release their sophomore album A Brief History of Blindness this week. With as many special guests on this release as there are tracks (if not more), you’ll hear collaborated guitar pop songs on here that might just give you a familiar taste of days come before.
The Bros. Landreth – Dog Ear (Birthday Cake) (13th Floor Album Review)
On Dog Ear, The Bros. Landreth continue their growth from a technically gifted roots outfit into something warmer, wider and more generous.
The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton — AVTT/PTTN (Thirty Tigers) (13th Floor Album Review)
Some collaborations feel engineered. Some feel accidental. AVTT/PTTN by The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton feels like a doorway opening between two worlds that never expected to meet. It is the kind of project that sounds improbable until you hear it, and then it feels strangely inevitable.
Pavement – PAVEMENTS OST (Matador) (13th Floor Album Review)
Legendary indie-rockers Pavement have made their way to the silver screen with the Alex Ross Perry directed experimental-musical-concert-biopic film Pavements. While the soundtrack has been floating around on streaming services for a few months, it is making its eventual release to LP and CD this Friday.
The Saints – ’73-’78 – Live Nights In Venice Vol. 1 (In The Red) (13th Floor EP Review)
The Saints ’73–’78 is an initiative driven by Ed Kuepper, focusing on the first three albums and debuting in Australia in November 2024.
Dick Move – Dream, Believe, Achieve (1:12 / Flying Nun Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
Unfiltered, Explosive, Political, Punk. Dick Move’s latest album Dream, Believe, Achieve, is a giant fuck you to the current political climate in Aotearoa and beyond.
Sabine McCalla – Don’t Call Me Baby (Gar Hole) (13th Floor Album Review)
Sabine McCalla released her debut album Don’t Call Me Baby last week. Released on the independent US label Gar Hole Records, the LP is a remarkable statement of multi-genre American roots music.
Beastwars – The Ship// The Sea (Destroy Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
The Ship// The Sea is Beastwars sixth album, as with previous offering, the artwork is once again by Nick Keeler, (a mighty image it is too) and the music produced by James Goldsmith and Nathan Hickey, who have handled members’ creative egos since 2016.
Paul Kelly – Seventy (Universal) (13th Floor Album Review)
Paul Kelly’s latest album, Seventy, arrives amid whispers that it may be his last, capping a spectacular 50-year career. If this is his final statement, how does it stand as an epitaph?
Portugal. The Man – SHISH (Thirty Tigers) (13th Floor Album Review)
Portugal. The Man are throwing their latest eclectic offering SHISH out into the world this Friday. The Grammy winning band, consisting of just two primary members, are back to their independent roots after their departure from Atlantic Records.
Sam Cullen – Sam Cullen (13th Floor Album Review)
If an album of music is a journey, then Sam Cullen’s self-titled debut album is a journey back in time.