Album Reviews
Pine – Longplayer
2002, Arch Hill Christchurch, New Zealand’s Pine have been crowd and college radio favorites over the past 3 years, crafting simple, elegant and often…
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The Brunettes – Mars Loves Venus
2004, Lil’ Chief, LCR007 Over the course of the last two years, The Brunettes must surely go down as one of New Zealand’s most…
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The Datsuns – The Datsuns
2002, V2, V2CP143 With all the hoopla and excitement over the new gee-golly-gosh retro-cool selection of rock’n’roll revivalists going on – it must be…
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The Enright House – A Maze and Amazement
2007, A Low Hum, HUM031 The Enright House have produced a luscious polished product in their debut album, A Maze and Amazement. To most,…
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Jean-Paul Sartre Experience – Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
1994 / 2003 Reissue, Flying Nun Records, FNCD078 With Flying Nun Records reissuing a number of their long out-of-print release, it was about time…
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Substandard – Low Electric City Pulses EP / Global Research Centre
2002, Failsafe Records Two wonderfully hand-packaged releases from local 3-piece Substandard. Best described as an instrumental band with involving guitar textures (Danny Bare), driving…
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Brian Crook – Bible Black
2002, Arclife Records, ARCLIFE019 As half of the writing force behind seminal Christchurch/Dunedin fuzz-country rockers The Renderers (with his wife Mary-Rose), Brian Crook [aka…
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Styles Upon Styles 1: Urban Soul Pollunation
2002, Sugarlicks Recordings, SUGARCD001 Soul, funk and hip-hop with a pacific flavor seems to be emerging as the new catalyst of the New Zealand…
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Alec Bathgate – The Indifferent Velvet Void
2004, Lil Chief, LCR009 I’ve tried to start this review several times now. There is something about Alec Bathgate‘s music that is so compelling…
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The Brunettes – Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks
2002, Lil’ Chief, LCR001 Sunny pop, sing-along melodies, and carefree grooves. Not something that pops up too often in New Zealand music, but The…
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David Kilgour – A Feather in the Engine
2001, Arclife Records, ARCLIFE016 The Clean seems to be drifting more towards lead guitarist David Kilgour’s now-prominent laid back sound. 2001’s reunion album ‘getaway’…
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Duchess – Duchess EP
2005, Tea Set Records Review by Achilles Heel Not bad for a first EP, in fact it’s almost pure perfection for a first time…
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Dimmer – I Believe You Are A Star
2001, Columbia, 5024222000 The Straitjacket Fits were an unusual, charismatic, and somewhat untrustworthy rock band. Over the course of ten years Shayne Carter proceeded to…
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The D4 – 6Twenty
2001, Flying Nun Records, FNCD449 The garage rock explosion of recent times has given way to the world again discovering rock’n’roll outside the borders…