Arlo Parks’ new album Ambiguous Desire, out today, suggests the artist releases long players with almost metronomic regularity. This is her third following her amazing debut, Collapsed in Sunbeams, in 2021 and 2023’s follow-up My Soft Machine.
Dylan Wade Lajunen has broken his 14-year silence on record to release his latest offering, The Light, reminding us of his contribution to folk, reggae, rock and blues genres synonymous with the sound of Aoteroa New Zealand heard mainly at festivals through our glorious summers.
Transmitter is Cut Worms’, aka Max Clarke, fifth foray into the recordsphere that includes three long players – Hollow Ground (2018), Nobody Lives Here Anymore (2020), and a self-titled album in 2023, with debut EP, Alien Sunset, released in 2017.
After a 30 year hiatus, British band Heavenly have cut their 5th long player Highway To Heavenly, a return to the ‘Jangle’ and Indie Pop genre of the late 1980s and early 90s that featured a number of similar groups – Heavenly precursor Talulah Gosh, The Field Mice, The Orchids and others – first described by the UK […]
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.
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.
What Does It Mean? is the third studio album from Kiwi singer-songwriter Floyd Marsden, following on from her debut Open Your Eyes in 2022 and 2024’s The Disco Lizards.
Sunset Tsunami are rolling into the new year with the release of their debut long player Dub Till Dawn.
On his latest album Dreamin’ Kind, Nashville transplant Langhorne Slim takes a slight detour from the Americana sounds steeped in folk, roots, blues and country of his previous 8 albums with a plugged-in rock and roll feel and what might be termed a more commercial treatment of his familiar excellent songwriting.
If, like me, your brain is yet to kick fully into gear after the summer break then it’s in for a rude awakening when you encounter Robert Stillman’s 10,000 Rivers.
