New Zealand Music News — New Music

Photo: The Beths Today, The Beths reveal the third and final single from their upcoming album, Expert In A Dying Field.  'Knees Deep' is an anthem of bravery; a bouncy ode to taking leaps, paired with a music video that puts that puts those leaps to the test as the band tackles the Auckland Harbour Bridge bungy jump. The song channels Stokes' angular songwriting with bright, bouncy pop riffs to create yet another instant Beths classic. And we'd happily listen to this whilst bungy jumping off the Harbour Bridge, wouldn't you?  Of the track, front member Liz Stokes explains: “I'm the kind of person who wants to go swimming...

Photo: Soft Bait Tāmaki-based outfit, Soft Bait, have untied their second single, 'True Stories' - an electrifying post punk song paired with an equivalently charged-up music video (edited by band member Ezra Simons) featuring vocalist Josh Hunter encased in an aluminium foil-plastered room. Despite how claustrophobic it looks in there, he seems perfectly ok dancing and declaiming thoughts on conspiracy and misinformation. And that's when you realise that the shiny, all encompassing foil and his too-cool moves are simply a reflection on how easy it is to be surrounded by false claims that we can be so comfortable absorbing.  “Based on a true...

Ōtepoti noise-grunge outfit Dale Kerrigan have announced a nationwide tour to celebrate the release of their upcoming sophomore album, The Water, out soon via trace / untrace. The title track, released today, is a slow, sludge-rock track which grows steadily to its noisy, encompassing climax, paired with a visualiser by Joel Field. Dale Kerrigan is the brainchild of musician Shlee Nicholls (Mary Berry, Flesh Bug), alongside her mates Joel Field (Porpoise), Connor Blackie (Koizilla, Adelaide Cara), and Josh Nicholls (Koizilla, Fazed on a Pony, Asta Rangu, Space Bats Attack et al.)  For Shlee, the band forms a response to the “ugly boy singing noise” stereotype, by way...

Marlon Williams is back with 'Easy Does It' - the breezy fourth outing from his upcoming and highly anticipated album My Boy, out on the 9th of September via Dead Oceans.   The song is paired with a visualiser directed by Martin Sagadin and Marlon himself, perfectly encapsulating the song's dreamy, sun-kissed quality; his silky vocals and warm chord pops warming us right up from the ears down.  "I’ve always loved Lee Hazlewood’s personification of "Easy" in his song "Easy and Me"; what a great way of cutting to the point," Williams explains. "It worked for the Greeks, it works for Māori too. I wanted...