Caitlin – Guardrails (13th Floor EP Review)
Caitlin’s Guardrails is a measured, introspective indie-pop record with a quiet emotional tension running underneath.
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Wesley Joseph – Forever Ends Someday (Secretly Canadian) (13th Floor Concert Review)
Wesley Joseph’s Forever Ends Someday is a controlled, immersive record built on shifting forms and unsettled structures.
Joe Pernice – Sunny, I Was Wrong New West) (13th Floor Album Review)
Joe Pernice’s Sunny, I Was Wrong is an album where nothing pushes for a big moment. The songs gather meaning gradually, each small shift adding to something that only fully settles after they’ve finished.
Maria Taylor – Story’s End (Million Stars) (13th Floor Album Review)
Maria Taylor returns with Story’s End, a record shaped in the aftermath of a marriage breakdown and the unravelling of a close creative relationship.
José González – Against The Dying Of The Light (City Slang) (13th Floor Album Review)
José González’s Against The Dying Of The Light arrives after another measured gap, shaped between touring, soundtrack work, and his band Junip, and carries the sense of something considered rather than accumulated.
J Callander – Shadows in the Shade (13th Floor Album Review)
J Callander’s Shadows in the Shade is a carefully shaped debut, built over several years and grounded in atmosphere and intent. Spanning nine tracks, each running beyond five minutes, ideas have space to develop through extended structures and shifting arrangements.
Lou’ana – Parked Up: March 20, 2026 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Originally slated for the Hollywood Cinema, Lou’ana’s Disco Witch album launch landed at Parked Up, a smaller, more informal space, closer to a backyard party than a traditional venue. Where Hollywood, with its raised stage, carries scale and structure, Parked Up places the band directly among the crowd. From the start it was clear this […]
Tedeschi Trucks Band – Future Soul (Fantasy) (13th Floor Album Review)
Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Future Soul is a groove-led, tightly constructed record that places ensemble playing and songcraft at its centre.
William Crighton – Colonial Drift (ABC Music) (13th Floor Album Review)
William Crighton’s Colonial Drift plays as a slow journey across landscape, memory and time. The album moves in three clear movements, threaded together by fragments of radio chatter, environmental sound and drifting noise, creating the sense of travelling through a country where past and present sit side by side.
Jolie Holland / Steve Abel — Pitt St. Methodist Church: March 13, 2026 (13th Floor Concert Review)
On a warm wet night in Tāmaki Makaurau, the high ceiling of Pitt Street Methodist Church opened onto a space where sound behaved differently. Voices rose upward and returned softened but clearer, and even the lightest guitar chord carried further than expected. It proved an ideal setting for the pairing of Jolie Holland with support […]