New Zealand Music News — New Music

Aotearoa rockers, The Beths, have dropped the title track from their upcoming album, Expert In A Dying Field, due to be released on 16th September via Carpark Records.  Elisabeth Stokes' flexible, yet cheeky vocals are on full display, interwoven with guitar lines and, of course, the catchy hooks that The Beths always seem to deliver without fail. “I really do believe that love is learned over time,” Stokes says. “In the course of knowing a person you accumulate so much information: their favourite movies, how they take their tea, how to make them laugh, how that makes you feel. And when relationships between people change, or end,...

Ōtautahi-based duo, Social Union, comprised of Vanilla Martin (Ngāti Uenuku/ Ngadju) and Luke Penrose, have dropped their EP Fall Into Me today. The four driving tacks, bathed in dark-wave goodness, are deeply personal underneath the various synth layers, vocal glitches and riveting guitars; lyrics about the realities of unrequited affection, the despairs of addiction, and people who cross lines, as well as a love letter from Vanilla to Luke, assuring him that she would still be there if he was to relapse from his sobriety. The album is self released in Aotearoa, but is available via Berlin-based label Blackjack Illuminist in Europe and...

Photo by India Wray Murane. Tāmaki Makaurau-based musician László Reynolds (Ringlets) recently released his fourth full-length solo album, Uralic Songs - a dynamic collection collection of contemporary & folk songs from six languages in the Uralic family: Hungarian, Finnish, Mansi, Livonian, Komi, and Votian. It is a unique spin on traditional folk - weaving elements of indie rock, country and alt folk together, László's smooth, gentle vocals the through line painting the languages different colours.  Lyrical themes range from a wedding celebration in Votian (Üvä kokki / Good cook), a desperate lament in Hungarian (Szomorú vasárnap / Gloomy sunday), and a simple tribute...

Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland based producer, Amamelia (aka Amelia Berry) has dropped her new single, 'Love Is Useless' featuring fellow musician Junny (aka Jennifer-rose Tamati).