Review

March 15, 2023

Alice Phoebe Lou with Molly Peyton at The Tuning Fork, 14 March 2023

Alice Phoebe Lou breezed into Auckland, had a good nap and then charmed a room full of attentive fans at The Tuning Fork into swaying and singing along to her songs.

March 10, 2022

Jackie Bristow – Outsider: 13th Floor Album Review

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Jackie Bristow takes us on a heartfelt journey through Americana drenched in a spirit of Blue-Eyed Soul. A seasoned songwriter and performer who is able to commune with the Heartland in a similar fashion to long time People’s Bard, Springsteen.

March 10, 2022

Eddie Vedder – Earthling: 13th Floor Album Review

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Eddie Vedder playing the Bowie role for once, descends through the stratosphere as Earthling, and breathes life back into the Planet of Music, rouses us all to stop the sleepwalking – if you have ears to listen and something in between.

February 10, 2022

Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa: Album Review

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Spoon are the perfect band for musical obsessives and close to the thirty-year mark comes their tenth studio album Lucifer On The Sofa. Being regarded as a critic’s band can be a curse but back the perpetually morphing outfit come. Here, there and everywhere.

January 20, 2022

Ladyhawke – Time Flies: 13th Floor Album Review

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Ladyhawke fourth album Time Flies takes its place over the surreal times of contagion, and closer to home is prefaced by a major health crisis and the birth of a daughter. The music is sophisticated Pop full of hooks and joyful energy. It is also light on its feet and swings.

November 26, 2021

Billy Bragg – The Million Things That Never Happened: Album Review

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Billy Bragg – the Folk Activist Bard from Barking comes forth with new music reflecting the mood of his island nation. As the world became mesmerised with the strange shift in consciousness that is the Contagion.

November 20, 2021

Adam Hattaway and the Haunters – Rooster: Album Review

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Adam Hattaway and the Haunters double album Rooster reveals the band in the thrall of the spirit of Exile on Main Street. That presence, which was there on the previous Woolston album has blossomed in full.

November 20, 2021

The Monsters – You’re Class I’m Trash: Album Review

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The Monsters are Trashcore Rock’n’Roll obsessives from Switzerland, who proudly describe themselves as cheap suits and chainsaw guitar mayhem.

October 24, 2021

Hollie Smith – Coming In From The Dark: Album Review

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Hollie Smith ’s distinctive powerful voice lays out an intensely emotional ride of an album. Themes of loss, grief and death but you can climb on board this Gospel train and sense salvation. There is some of the Spirit in the Dark of Aretha. A little choke and sob of Gladys Knight. The soaring songbird […]

October 4, 2021

Reb Fountain – Iris (Flying Nun), a dream state & rebirth

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Reb Fountain takes us into the rivers of the Bardo with fifth album Iris. The after-life or the dream state between death and rebirth. The album cover has a wild-haired Reb shot from behind. Looking up at a white light. Could be a stage light or the direction the Soul heads toward for a better […]