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NZ’s BRENDAN JOHN ROCH releases scorching new Election Year EP
Aotearoa’s Brendan John Roch follows his August full-length GOD DEFEND with a scorching, literary political rap record: Election Year is a Lenten sequence for a country going to the polls. Brendan John Roch is a rapper whose restless, densely allusive rhymes work to pin down the meaning and the irony buried in contemporary political and cultural life. Raised in Ōtepoti Dunedin, he writes from an unusual set of vantage points: journalism, government operations, psychonautics, internet degeneracy, and Roman Catholicism. The result is technically masterful, abrasive writing that speaks to the universal beauty and vice with an unmistakable narrative voice. Across five tracks, BJR’s Election
