Tag: New Music

Album of the Week: Kaleo – MIXED EMOTIONS

This is the third album from Icelandic rockers Kaleo. It explores some pretty serious material (e.g. mass shootings in “USA Today”) with impactful and polished blues rock. Website When The Horn Blows described how “KALEO have crafted a thunderous, tender, and often harrowing journey through desolation and defiance, death and deathlessness”.

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: Turnstile – NEVER ENOUGH

Aside from our OCD dislike of mis-capitalised song titles this great new album is a good counter to the often heard ‘truism’ that rock is dead. This is fresh sounding, melodic and varied rock ranging from great synth-ey and accessible numbers like the title track to more ‘full on’ songs like BIRDS that just push our boundaries of hardcore. An excellent collection from the Baltimore band. Pitchfork capture it perfectly in their review headline:

The biggest band in hardcore grows big enough to encompass electronic rhythms and flute meditation. Its new album winks to outsize expectations but answers to a higher calling”

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful

After finally achieving her first Grammys for previous album Endless Summer Vacation Miley Cyrus had indisputably become a serious Pop artist. She was liberated in this followup album where she is free to be much more freeform, dare we say experimental. Its certainly an eclectic collection with some solid tracks.

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: Mitch James – This is not what I had in mind

This is Mitch James’ third (and apparently final) album as the 29 year old steps away from music. What a shame, one of the top Kiwi music talents producing top international pop. It sounds like the machinations of the music industry were too much for him – but this is a great album to enjoy.

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: Valerie June – Owls, Omens, and Oracles

Valerie’s 2022 album The Moon and Stars was an absolute delight so when this album flew past on our social media feed it caused great excitement. She pushes her beautiful sophisticated voice in new directions on this album, offering up a palette of Americana albeit with contemporary production cues (the producer is one of our favourites M Ward). What’s really delightful is that she avoids the cliché of despair at the world and offers “a radical statement to break scepticism, surveillance and doomscrolling” (from The Guardian).

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: Elton John & Brandi Carlile – Who Believes In Angels

The Independent review promises “outsize, old school-fun”, a promise also hinted at by the fabulous colourful album cover which looks like it could have come straight from the set of a 1980s BBC variety show. A really nice collection – we loved Brandi’s quote in her interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe – “I’ve been singing with Elton all my life – he just didn’t know it until about 10 or 20 years ago”. Opening with synths that could be straight from the opening of 70s albums “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” or “Blue Moves” this is a wonderful nostalgic blend of Americana and rock.

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: Mumford and Sons – RUSHMERE

We could have predicted The Guardian‘s reaction – “back to dreary basics”. After the departure of Winston Marshall a few years ago their first album in seven years brings them back with a familiar mix of electronic folk, sometimes stomping, always melodic. The now trio still have it on this album named after the pub in South London where they first met (we thought it must have been a US allusion somehow). A delightful album – its delightful to see this unfashionable effort sitting in the NZ top five as we write!

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory

We’ve long been fans of Sharon Van Etten’s ethereal indie pop and she delivers again. Enjoying the dynamic of the band she played with on tour, this is her first album recorded collaboratively with “The Attachment Theory”. She has said “For the first time in my life I asked the band if we could just jam” – it sounds like this resulted in quick inspirations and great results.

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: London Grammar – The Greatest Love

London Grammar’s fourth album is another example of the beautifully recorded melodic pop we’re used to. Layers of synths, acoustic guitar, strings and overlaid with Hannah Reid’s hypnotic vocals. The lyrics aren’t just something for her to sing though – have a listen, they’re well thought through. Another winner from London Grammar.

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.