22 Dec 2024
Articles By Michael Durand
Hoodaki - EP Review: Close Your Eyes It's Right In Front Of Your Ears
18 Oct 2024 // review by Michael Durand
There’s a post on Reddit called “A True Legend”: a clip of Fox 5 News reporter Ophelia Young interviewing a lottery player, with a live patch back to the studio. “Can I ask you, sir …” She approaches the man choosing his numbers.
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Peace Love Perfection - Album Review: Nirvana Is Peace
29 Aug 2024 // review by Michael Durand
Nirvana Is Peace the debut album from Wellington native and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Barnao’s project Peace Love Perfection – a 50 minute trip around psychedelia, EDM, jazz and mysticism. These are mostly instrumentals with low key dance grooves or classic jazz rhythms, Rhodes pianos, retro synths, funk bass lines walking across octaves, claves, shakers and central to the picture, Barnao’s inspired saxophone playing.
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Toby Sussex - EP Review: Weather Dependent
08 Jun 2024 // review by Michael Durand
Toby Sussex’s debut EP Weather Dependent is a compact and ultimately satisfying set of singer-songwriter style reflections on life, death and relationships. It has catchy melodies and is well performed and produced, signalling at the outset that Sussex has what it takes to produce a full album in the singer songwriter genre.
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Polite Company - Album Review: Please Go Wild
24 May 2024 // review by Michael Durand
I guess it’s not a surprise that after the Mutton Birds (Dominion Road, Anchor Me, etc.) all the members went on to further greatness: David Long to scoring movies and the Labcoats, Ross Burge to play drums for virtually all of New Zealand’s musical royalty, and Don McGlashen to solo notoriety.
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The Feel Good Service - EP Review: DirtyFunknSoul
24 Apr 2024 // review by Michael Durand
Funk, soul and disco music seem to be so defined by their blueprints of the 1970's and 1980's that almost any serious modern attempt at them risks sounding nostalgic. As if these genres lived and died in history, and now we may only pay tribute to them – rather than contribute any further.
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Repairs - Album Review: Disappointing Sequel
19 Apr 2024 // review by Michael Durand
The following might be words that relate to the sound and feel of Disappointing Sequel, the second album from Repairs, out this week: tension, discordant contrarianism, tearing metal, nosebleeds, morse code, ensemble yelling, guitar feedback, aneurisms, anarchy machines, absolute defiance ….In case you didn’t know there’s a revolution coming and its being led out by Martin Phillips, James Milne and Nicola Edwards.
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Seafog - Album Review: Slow Death
14 Apr 2024 // review by Michael Durand
Port Chalmers four-piece Seafog have been with us for a few years now, pumping out some very well received doses of cross genre guitar type stuff — Raise Your Skinny Fist (2016), Dig It On Up (2017) and Animal Lovers (2019) — that each seemed to be spawned from a world none other than Port Chalmers itself. This week sees the release a further full album from the same place, Slow Death.
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Grant Haua - Album Review: Mana Blues
12 Feb 2024 // review by Michael Durand
If you’re not paying close attention, it would be easy to think Grant Haua has a bout of the blues. His new 2023 album Mana Blues follows closely behind his 2022 release Ora Blues at the Chapel Vol.
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Metanoia - EP Review: Green Peaceful Lake
30 Jan 2024 // review by Michael Durand
During the pandemic some said that isolation, the loss of communal music experiences – and perhaps for some, the chance for reflection – brought about a growth in the supply and demand for ambient music. How else to relieve existential dread and balm the soul?
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HOIHOI - EP Review: Tahitahi
06 Jan 2024 // review by Michael Durand
Whatever defines post-punk in our times — post-Trump, post-covid, post-war, pre-war, pre-Trump — perhaps isn’t too clear to most of us, as long as it’s loud, raucous, and anti-whatever the current thing is. Christchurch band HOIHOI are working on a current version of that definition for us with their new EP Tahitahi – four tracks of guitars and vocals, half in Te Reo Maori and half in English, two thirds an uprising, one third introspection.
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