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On the same day Ba Da Bing releases an album by Dunedin legend Hamish Kilgour, the label is honored to present the city’s current artists. The tiny city of Dunedin, located in the Otago Region of New Zealand, is synonymous with smart bands, incredible melodies and a wholly distinct and innovative...

Five piece from Auckland continuing the melodic Dunedin sound with a harsh edge that stands them ahead of some of their peers. This is their debut album and is really a brilliant start to a bright future.

Strange feelings come out in strange ways, as tends to happen in a city of miserable winter, depression, and a uni populace crawling with the sorts of fucking jocks about whom the songs basically write themselves. Lucy, in ‘Supermarket’: "Make me cute, make me sweet, make me fragile and petite / So I can...

SLEEVE: NM- MEDIA: VG+ YEAR: 2015 ORIGIN: US EXTRAS: Still in shrink Of the four groups featured on the influential Flying Nun release Dunedin Double from 1982, the Stones are the least well-known, barely remembered as more than a footnote. The Chills and Verlaines had long, often brilliant careers and Sneaky...

The second Homestead release “World of Sand” by NZ indie band The Cakekitchen was mostly recorded at Fish Street in Dunedin on a half inch 8 track over a three month period. It contains the last batch of songs written before the group became European based and is considered a classic by most fans....

The Chills release their seventh studio album Scatterbrain, a glorious self-examination of Martin Phillipps' songwriting hot (ish) on the heels of the hugely successful Snowbound (2018) and the critically-acclaimed movie The Chills: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps a year later. Now in 2021, Phillipps is taking stock of things - everything....

**Brown vinyl, numbered edition of 300** Left Or Right is a power trio heavily brewed in Invercargill (the town once acknowledged by some old cat from The Rolling Stones as the arsehole of the world). Now based in Dunedin the band is oblivious to any current genre trends, which allows them...

SLEEVE: NM- MEDIA: NM- YEAR: 2016 ORIGIN: US EXTRAS: Like new The second Homestead release “World of Sand” by NZ indie band The Cakekitchen was mostly recorded at Fish Street in Dunedin on a half inch 8 track over a three month period. It contains the last batch of songs written before the...

Look Blue Go Purple were part of Flying Nun’s ‘second wave’ (along with Doublehappys, Straitjacket Fits and the Abel Tasmans). Formed in 1983, they honed their sound in a Dunedin practice room under a record shop, where they developed a distinctive style with layered vocal harmonies, keyboards (and even flute) over trademark Dunedin...

**Night Sky Blue coloured vinyl, limited to 300** Honeybone have released their new album ‘Spheres’. Bringing you a collection of songs written between 2015 and 2019, ‘Spheres’ split the writing equally between drummer Rachel Trainor and guitarist Drew Handcock. Recorded in 2019, the band took a DIY approach, mostly recording at their...

COLOUR: Transparent Blue or Black EXTRAS: 20th Anniversary Reissue Dunedin’s dream pop originators, Cloudboy, have announced a newly remastered vinyl and digital reissue of their 2001 album, Down at the End of the Garden. This is the first time the album is available on vinyl LP, and is out via Flying...

The Stevens don't change their sound much on Good, their second album. The Melbourne quartet still come off like a holy blend of Guided by Voices melodic invention, Pavement slack, and Flying Nun scrap and that's fine. Their first album, A History of Hygiene, was like a hits collection with one sprightly, scruffy...

**Limited Edition 40th Anniversary Remastered Reissue** Pitchfork described The Clean's “Tally Ho!” as “a classic of immense proportions, from its Velcro melody, absurdly mixed garage organ and motorik beat, to the crusty, hiss-laden home eight-track recording that embodies it.” Recorded in the middle of a New Zealand tour for a humble NZ$60,...

Surf City's self-titled debut EP arrived in 2008, but you could be forgiven for thinking that the band had actually time-warped in from the early 1990s. Over six songs the Auckland, New Zealand, quartet displayed an unabashed yen for vintage noise-pop-- cherry-picking guitar moves and clipped vocal cadences from the...

COLOUR: Black EXTRAS: Bonus CD included Legendary New Zealand indie rock pioneers the Clean always had a hard time staying apart. Through the years, they would go their separate ways to work on other bands, like the Bats for one shining example, or on solo careers, but some inescapable force always...

Back in the Flying Nun vinyl catalogue for the first time in almost three decades, you can now get your hands on this much sought after reissue; Submarine Bells is available on translucent green vinyl — pressed in New Zealand, thanks to Holiday Records. Submarine Bells is The Chills’ much-praised...