Hi all,
We hope you all enjoyed your long weekend rest.
We kicked back and savoured the best of our fresh, new releases from the last two weeks including: Jamie xx’s highly anticipated new release In Colour, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Multi-Love, and SOAK’s full-length debut, Before We Forgot How to Dream.
Love, the Ladies
Jamie xx – In Colour landed in stores, nation-wide on Friday. The album is one of Pitchfork’s Best New Albums – READ the full-length Pitchfork review here.
If you aren’t very familiar with the man everyone’s been talking about, a good place to start would be checking out Pitchfork’s compelling feature article which surfaced online earlier this month. Coup De Main Magazine’sRose Riddell also spoke with him about the making of the album – read that here.
This Friday, Sharon Van Etten releases her much-awaited for EP I Don’t Want To Let You Down via Jagjaguwar. The five-track EP is currently up on NPR’s All Tracks Considered, revealing an in-depth and personal track by track guide by Van Etten. It is a must read for all die-hard fans out there. Click to listen/read here.
Friday, May 22nd marked the official release date for Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s highly anticipated fifth album Multi-Love. Since then, it has blown up our interweb circles locally and abroad, featuring a week prior to release on NPR’s First Listen and CBC’s First Listen. Have a read through some of the local reviews coming out of this record so far:
Multi-Love on Elsewhere
Multi-Love on Radio NZ National (The Sampler)
Multi-Love on Stuff
Multi-Love – out now in all good music stores throughout the country. Get some!
In case you missed it! Here is a link to SOAK’s performance on Later with… Jools Holland, alongside Paul Weller, Father John Misty, The Hot Sardines, Curtis Harding and Lianne La Havas, playing her much-loved single ‘Sea Creatures’… Click here to watch the full performance. Her full-length debut Before We Forgot How to Dream is out now in all good record stores nationwide.
Beirut announced today, a brand new album called No No No, due out September 11th on 4AD. Listen to the brand new self-titled track right here.
Currently on tour visiting her loyal fanbases in far away places, Princess Chelsea on Wednesday shared the brand new video for ‘Too Many People’, which has seen a great bunch of support from local radio stations around the country, peaking at #1 on both Radioactive and Radio One‘s Top 11 charts, and reaching #2 on the bFM Top 10. Watch the new video right here:
Father John Misty performed two Honeybear tracks, live on Seth Meyer’s show recently. Watch the electrifying performance here via Pitchfork, and also see him perform ‘I Love You, Honeybear’ for Pitchfork tv.
RATATAT have announced details and a release date (July 17) for a fifth studio album, Magnifiqueon XL Recordings. The 14-track album includes the recently released single “Cream on Chrome“, which the duo unveiled in their closing, headline set at this year’s Coachella. Have a sneaky peak at the teaser video “Intro”, released this week right here.
Kiwi songbirds, Bic Runga and Tiny Ruins recently announced their very special, joint New Zealand tour, playing five dates across the country in a close, intimate setting. Tickets and further info available here.
