SCRAN – Living Room (13th Floor Album Review)
Tāmaki Makaurau five-piece post-punk band SCRAN follow up their stunning 2024 debut EP To Your Heart’s Content with their debut album Living Room.
Mono Watt – words + noise (13th Floor Album Review)
Mono Watt is a trio comprising James Littlewood, Ross Cunningham and John Pain, collectively encompassing the arts in their visual, aural and written forms.
Displeasure – ANNIHILATION/BILLIONAIRE DEATH DRIVE (13th Floor Album Review)
Displeasure is a toru piece Whanganui/Te-Whanganui-a-Tara based side-project of stalwart Pōneke punk band Unsanitary Napkin.
Electric Tapestry – Orbiting Bodies (13th Floor EP Review)
Wellington alternative-rock band Electric Tapestry released their fourth EP Orbiting Bodies. The extended-play takes a deep dive into the void kaleidoscopic journey through sound in its sixteen-minute runtime.
Juliana Hatfield – Lightning Might Strike (American Laundromat) (13th Floor Album Review)
Lightning Might Strike is studio album release number 21 for Juliana Hatfield as a solo artist, the latest in a long career that includes 10 more LPs under various band entities including the Blake Babies, The Lemonheads, Some Girls and Minor Alps.
The Waterboys Present: Rips From the Cutting Room Floor (Sun) (13th Floor Album Review)
With Rips From the Cutting Room Floor, The Waterboys push their long-gestating Dennis Hopper project into its widest frame yet.
The Transits – Bleed Hope (13th Floor Album Review)
The Transits return with Bleed Hope, an album that opens at full tilt and rarely lets the listener come up for air across the punchy, pop-punk and rock of its fifteen tracks.
Anna Of The North – Girl In A Bottle (PIAS) (13th Floor Album Review)
Anna Of The North is back with her third LP Girl In A Bottle, an upbeat indie-pop outing. Catching us a hook from the get go, the (half?) of an album is a twenty-minute (twenty-two, perhaps) break of familiarity.
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.