New Zealand Music News

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...

Amamelia (Photo by Frances Carter)  Today, Tāmaki Makaurau-based electronic-pop producer extraordinaire, Amamelia, has announced her long awaited sophomore LP - Bananamelia! - coming to us on November 3rd via Sunreturn. Alongside the announcement, she has unveiled the first single titled 'Gap Selection'; a slow groove incorporating a downtempo beat with raw analog sounds played on an old Jen SX-1000 synth.  "'Gap Selection' was built off of a sample from 'Marble Run' (Track 1 on Bananamelia!)." Amamelia, AKA Amelia Berry muses. "I wanted to take it down from the 160bgm jungle tempo to transform it into something like a mid 90s downtempo track a la...

Burning Daylight is the debut album by Tāmaki Makaurau-based musician Oliver Birch, entirely self written, produced and performed- an impressive feat considering the layers upon layers of intricacies involved.  Incorporating a range of influences such as Perfume Genius, David Bowie and Phoebe Bridgers, Oliver captures glimpses of these worlds within Burning Daylight's soundscape. The instrumentation incorporates layers of rich brass against more distorted guitars and keys, while his voice sits sweetly in between. It is an experimental pop album; some of these tracks take some unexpected twists that might prompt a more patient listen, but beneath the complex arrangements are very well written songs music upon "existential angst, the...

Komisch psych rock duo, Earth Tongue, have unveiled a new single 'Miraculous Death' paired with a music video that is equally as memorable as the name.