With two weeks to go until the release of their debut album Spiel, Office Dog have announced their headline album release tour to celebrate, paying their hometown Ōtepoti a visit, as well as Ōtautahi, Pōneke and Tāmaki Makaurau.
"The songs first took shape against a backdrop of complete isolation: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula, entirely deserted in the midst of Covid lockdown. Forced to stand still, the sisters examined various events unfolding in their lives, and began work on a set of songs tapping into a newfound sense of realism, skewed through a lens of soft fantasy."
Tāmaki Makaurau's favourite multi-venue festival — The Others Way — is back in 2023 on December 1st, and their first lineup boasts an abundance of fantastic artists, including Flying Nun Records family Vera Ellen and Office Dog amongst Souls of Mischief, Mary Lattimore, Mā, Ringlets, deepState and more!
‘Unchained’ is a playfully earnest song about being open to the unforeseeable future. “It’s about releasing myself from feeling unworthy and incapable of getting what I deserve. The wisdom of knowing that certain things will make sense eventually, so there’s no need to worry.”
Clementine Valentine, the Coromandel-based art-pop duo formerly known as Purple Pilgrims, share the fourth and final single ‘Selenelion’ off their upcoming album, The...
The band says: “The song’s about putting in the hard yards before you have a beer. Sometimes it’s tempting to skip straight to cracking one open, but it’ll hit so much harder if you put in the work and get sweaty first. As soon as we figured that out we made a song about it.”
Vera Ellen won the residency award over 20 other highly qualified applicants from Aotearoa, Australia, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Ukraine and USA.