Man on The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown - by Roger Shepherd

The Story Of Superette's 1996 Album 'Tiger'

The Story Of Superette's 1996 Album 'Tiger'

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.

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The Story Of Fazerdaze's 2017 LP 'Morningside'

The Story Of Fazerdaze's 2017 LP 'Morningside'

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.

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The Story Of Robert Scott's 2010 LP 'Ends Run Together'

The Story Of Robert Scott's 2010 LP 'Ends Run Together'

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...

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The Story Of Die Bilder's 1982 EP 'Schwimmen in der See'

The Story Of Die Bilder's 1982 EP 'Schwimmen in der See'

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.

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