Gorillaz – The Mountain (Kong) (13th Floor Album Review)
Gorillaz are back with their 9th studio album, The Mountain. The virtual band are exploring new territory (literally!) in this new outing. The release is joined by an 8-minute music video, a debut slot on Saturday Night Live, and a European tour.
Princess Chelsea — Live at Studio Two (Lil’ Chief Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
Princess Chelsea records at Abbey Road! The results are due out on vinyl tomorrow…John Hastings has the 13th Floor Floor Album Review today.
Cardinals – Masquerade (So Young) (13th Floor Album Review)
Irish newbies Cardinals have recently released their first album Masquerade. The Cork based group have certainly been turning a few heads recently. The album boasts a careful mix of alternative-rock and folk, heavily laced with punk sensibilities.
U2 – Days Of Ash (Island Records) (13th Floor EP Review)
Days Of Ash, the new six-track EP from U2, arrives ahead of a forthcoming album later this year and places the band once again in conversation with contemporary political events.
Anna van Riel – Wooden Leg (Nook Rd) (13th Floor Album Review)
Anna van Riel’s Wooden Leg brings the listener directly into its emotional world from the opening bars. The voice sits close in the mix, the arrangements carefully shaped, and the album feels grounded and immediate. These songs are preoccupied with memory, return, belonging and the attempt to make sense of change.
Peaches – No Lube So Rude (Kill Rock Stars) (13th Floor Album Review)
Peaches’ No Lube So Rude is dark, driving electro with provocation in its bones and agency in its stance, built for sweat, confrontation and control. Stuttering synths, hard-edged electronics, and bass form the foundation of her first album in ten years.
AW – THE NERVE (Records Etcetera) (13th Floor Album Review)
AW is Andrew Wilson, one-third of 2000’s formed Ōtepoti band Die! Die! Die!, live, he is usually joined by Tamaki Makaurau musicians Kim Martinengo (Drums) and bassist Morgan Leary (Bass), on THE NERVE, Andrew Wilson took on three roles, vocals, bass and guitar, while Stephan Neville (Pumice & O/PUS) contributed the drums and worked the […]
Hemi Hemingway – Wings of Desire (PNKSLM Recordings) (13th Floor Album Review)
Hemi Hemingway’s Wings of Desire arrives as a record of late-night longing, full of pulse, soft-focus melancholy, and sudden flashes of heat.
Six60 – Right Here Right Now (Massive) (13th Floor Album Review)
Right Here Right Now is the latest offering from world-famous-in-New-Zealand band Six60. It’s a hook-loaded, statement continuing roughly where I can only assume they left off from the last album.
Earth Tongue – Dungeon Vision (Red Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
Poneke Born, Berlin based, duo-band Earth Tongue, aka Gussie Larkin (Guitar & Vocals) and Ezra Simons (Drums & Vocals), third Album – Dungeon Vision, strays a little more from their originator Black Sabbath infested reverberation.
Napoleon Baby – Live at the Rose Theatre EP (13th Floor Album Review)
Auckland indie-rock outfit Napoleon Baby have released a 5-track EP, Live at Rose Theatre recorded at the Belmont venue in November 2025 following on from their well-received debut long player Everybody’s Watching and Nobody Cares put out last year.
Bic Runga – Red Sunset (Self) (13th Floor Album Review)
As the old saying goes, “red sky at night, shepherd’s delight”. Sunset, that image of imminent darkness which, when clouds turn red, becomes a portent of good things to come. Hope and light. Themes at the heart of this new Bic Runga (Ngāti Kahungunu) album, her first full original collection in fifteen years (since Belle, 2011).
alayna — Set Her Free (Nettwerk) (13th Floor Album Review)
Set Her Free by alayna moves with restraint and confidence. These songs stay with the small shifts that matter, the moment when longing becomes clarity, when vulnerability is held with control.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Laughter in Summer (Transgressive) (13th Floor Album Review)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Laughter in Summer begins with the sound of a room coming into focus: piano notes placed gently, a voice entering as if in conversation rather than performance.
KMFDM – ENEMY (Metropolis Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
KMFDM, the medium for Sascha ‘Käpt’n K’ Konietzko’s musical machinations, with an ever changing array of fellow musicians, artists and beat merchants, have been creating industrial rock since 1984. A journey that peaked in the 1990s with a quartet of albums: Angst (1993), Nihil (1995), Xtort (1996) and Symbols (1997), selling well into the 100,000s […]
John Craigie – I Swam Here (Zabriskie Point) (13th Floor Album Review)
John Craigie taps into the hypnotic tones of bossa nova on his latest record, I Swam Here, but the warmth of its glow remains unmistakably Californian.
Stray Theories – Falter (Self) (13th Floor Album Review)
Stray Theories’ Falter places the listener inside a moment of imbalance and asks them to remain there. It is an album shaped by hesitation, by sound that circles and recalibrates rather than pressing forward.
Radium Dolls – Wound Up (Self) (13th Floor Album Review)
Queensland band Radium Dolls are back with their second LP Wound Up. Their sophomore effort embraces raw Australian rock. But deep in the eleven songs, we really see how clever these four chaps are.
Chanelle & Friends – Creature Groove and Other Songs For Kids (13th Floor Album Review)
Creature Groove and other songs for kids is a new release from Papamoa-based Chanelle Davis (Tainui), a multi-award winning singer-songwriter and music teacher, winner of the 2013 APRA NZ Best Children’s Song for If I Was A Fuzzy Buzzy Bumblebee, among others.
Tyler Ballgame – For the First Time, Again (Rough Trade) (13th Floor Album Review)
For the First Time, Again, Tyler Ballgame’s debut album draws you in slowly and patiently on the strength of a voice that feels both exposed and assured, with production that knows when to step back.