Wellington-based pop artist Danica Bryant has finally dropped her highly anticipated album, Feast. Exploring musings on topics like growing up, neurodiversity, sexuality and femininity, Danica has created a relatable record that’s eclectic, catchy and fun. In a year when Danica has hit new heights, this is just the freshest one she’s conquered.
Majestic and meditative. Two words that immediately surface in response to Paul McLaney’s new offering The Daylight Moon. After a long run of albums as the constant presence in ‘post-prog’ band Gramsci, McLaney now offers a solo project.
No Cigar have carved out a place as one of Aotearoa’s most distinctive alt-rock exports, threading together indie rock, coastal grooves, and emotional candour since their formation in 2019.
On his latest album Anything Is Possible, Chris Stamey, a founding member of The dBs, finely crafts a record of musical memory, stitched together from echoes of past masters, fleeting lyrical references, and the enduring emotional architecture of classic pop.
American rock band The Band CAMINO has released their third album this week, NeverAlways. Following their highly successful second album The Dark, NeverAlways is an evolution – both in sound and songwriting abilities. While they do revisit the spirit of some of their earlier work, NeverAlways feels like a fresher, more mature perspective.
On I Love People, his fifth solo album, Cory Hanson offers a warm, sun-drenched, and slightly subversive take on the 1970s American songbook.
The name Folk Bitch Trio is punky, provocative, even a little tongue-in-cheek, but the music on their debut album Now Would Be A Good Time is quietly radical in a different way.
British singer Billie Marten has just released her new album Dog Eared, a jazz-folk record reminiscent of softness and a departure from her previous styles. Across the album’s tracklist, Marten traverses major themes while effortlessly mixing intense production with contemplative lyricism.
Formed in 2020 in Tāmaki Makaurau, Soft Bait are a band that took shape before they ever took the stage. Their debut, Plot Points, written and recorded before playing a single gig, was literary, brooding post-punk built on relentless rhythm and tight, coiled tension.
Barry Saunders and The Warratahs have just released their new album, Burning Daylight, one that has The 13th Floor’s Robin Kearns thinking…here are his thoughts.