...The Mercury Moment is full of great musical moments. Great songs are at the heart of it, with all four band members contributing good to excellent material that has then been well arranged, well played and sung and well recorded. The exciting moment of release was [COVID] obliterated, but the music itself does have a life of its own that lives on...
....As always, the lyrics are inscrutable; the listener knows they have some greater meaning but soon comes to understand its full appreciation will be a pleasurable long-term project. It is all part of the experience of enjoying the work of Aldous Harding. In live and recorded performances, Aldous Harding is rewardingly enjoyable, magical and deeply mysterious....
avoid!avoid, the name tells some of the story. They are obviously not a pop band waiting on your clicks. With a tricky band name like that they might just be a tad coy. Not being all that needy might be nearer the mark. They weren't ones for fuss, they just wanted to keep their heads down and play adventurous krauty rock music.
Superette were a big noisy rock band with heaps of character and attitude, doing it all on their own terms musically. Tiger documents all of that exceptionally well. They were a band of their time, but unique and good enough to last the test of time. Tiger is a testament to the band's dazzling brilliance.
To me, Fazerdaze’s album, Morningside, oozes the languid heat and fuggy humidity of Auckland late in summer. It's an album of beautiful restrained modern pop songs. Songs that are dreamlike fuzz guitar masterpieces.
This is an album of beautiful variation and surprise. Reflective and soulful as well as driving and spontaneous, this is an ambitious album showing a deceptively complex, broad and mature musical vision at work...
Schwimmen in der See is an integral part of Bill Direen’s oeuvre and sits at the heart of a substantial body of recorded work that stretches from Six Impossible Things right through to 1983’s Beatin Hearts album and beyond. These are songs that are both complex and unique in themselves, but are also a part of a cohesive timeless body of work.
