Paris in the Rain<\/a> and the earlier track It\u2019s Like Summertime, another meteorological-leaning single from the writer of Listening for the Weather, and one which is the title track to a new album due in the New Year. Like Paris, it\u2019s a nifty bit of minimalist retro-electropop that suggests her late-summer tour and appearance with the NZSO is going to need a mirrorball,dry ice and backing band doing the one-finger keyboard thing. \u2013 Russell Baillie<\/p>\nZero Zero<\/p>\n
by Harry Charles<\/p>\n
Following his fine album Movement earlier in the year and the recent festival-ready single The Luck, local electronica artist Charles returns with something a little more down-tempo and restrained on Zero Zero. However \u2013 as we did with The Luck \u2013 we link here to the extended version, six and half minutes on Spotify, and extra minute in the more strident version at Apple Music (our preferred one). Either way you get an instrumental with a steady pulse, a weaving melody, a gentle increase in layers of electronics and a wordless vocal part which is going to sound just find when lying in the grass at a festival. \u2013 Graham Reid<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Let It Get You Down<\/p>\n
by Joshua Idehen<\/p>\n
Where jazzercise meets house with a positivity vibe from the London poet who was inspired to make music after hearing Scroobius Pip, which is not a claim many would make. It\u2019s all over in three hyperactive minutes but if it \u2013 and the similarly affirmative previous single It Always Was \u2013 leaves you wanting more be patient. His debut album I Know You\u2019re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try isn\u2019t out until March 6. \u2013 Graham Reid<\/p>\n
No Comment<\/p>\n
by Kneecap featuring Sub Focus<\/p>\n
More fast\u2019n\u2019furious rhymes and white-knuckle sounds from Belfast\u2019s most feared trio, here with DJ Sub Focus bringing sonic punch to an angry swipe at being harassed by the media and \u201cthe British state\u201d over their political stances on Gaza and the terrorism charge against band member Mo Chara for waving a Hezbollah flag (a designated terrorist organisation in Britain) at a concert. \u201cI\u2019m misbehaving in badness, Mo Chara\u2019s wanted. The air bubble bandit\u201d and \u201cHave you ever been plastered on the news when you\u2019ve got the heebie-jeebies? Far from ideal, got death threats on my screen\u201d. Two minutes from very annoyed, funny (heebie-jeebies?) and no-surrender Irishmen. \u2013 Graham Reid<\/p>\n
Sugar Clouds<\/p>\n
by \u00c1sgeir<\/p>\n
This third single by Icelandic singer-songwriter in the run-up to a new album Julia (out February 13) sounds ideally pitched at southern hemisphere audiences with its smooth folksy flow and opening lines which say \u201csitting in the car by the beach . . .\u201d That sounds very like us as he reflects on past mistakes and looks forward hopefully and remembering \u201cbasking in the sun with our eyes closed\u201d. Lovely, languid and even if the time signature is a little difficult it could translate well with the M\u0101ori strum around a fire on the beach at sunset. And that is very us. Check the video for a stripped down performance. \u2013 Graham Reid<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Rose City<\/p>\n
by The Silversound<\/p>\n
Not so much a single but a 10 minute psychedelic trip on the back of shimmering and jangly guitars, echoed vocals and a rolling krautrock groove that carries the whole thing for this Melbourne band. As paisley-wearing spotters would note from the title, this is also a tribute to the excellent Rose City Band out of Portland (lead by Ripley Johnson of Wooden Shjips and the Moon Duo) whose warm and 2020 Summerlong album we recommend. The Silversound \u2013 a semi-supergroup of seasoned players who have worked with Paul Kelly, Dave Graney and others \u2013 have gathered the threads of Byrdsian psychedelic rock with this title track of their forthcoming second album which we now very much look forward to. One for highway driving. \u2013 Graham Reid<\/p>\n
This Guy?<\/p>\n
by Hater<\/p>\n
Not the doom metal band their name might suggest, Hater are a refined Swedish alt-pop four-piece whose 2018 album Siesta is quite something, although arguably offered too much of their good thing over 14 songs. Their 2022 follow-up Sincere is a more economic encounter. Here they are again after three years of downtime with a typically interesting first single in advance of a new album Mosquito (March 6) which is part shoegaze, part drone-pop and something close to polished alt-rock in its sky-scaling guitar which closes proceedings just short of the four minute mark. An interesting band if you don\u2019t know them and this single is the easy-entry into their 90s pop. \u2013 Graham Reid<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Fools Gold<\/p>\n
by Stone Roses<\/p>\n
Thanks to Gary \u2018Mani\u2019 Mountfield, who has died at the age of 63, the Stone Roses had so many good basslines. The fluid, swinging rhythm section of him and drummer Alan \u201cReni\u201d Wren was what made the Manchester band which took the UK by storm in 1989 a stand-out at the time, compatible with the Acid House dance era, and quite possibly timeless. Mountfield went on to do deeper, dubby things in Primal Scream after the Roses foundered, and when the band briefly reunited for a world tour which brought them to Auckland, he and Wren found themselves propping up the increasingly Led Zeppelin guitar excursions of guitarist John Squire. Fools Gold is as good a place as any to be reminded the drive Mountfield brought to the band. <\/p>\n
Purcell, \u2018When I Am Laid in Earth\u2019, from Dido and Aeneas<\/p>\n
by Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano, Il Pomo D\u2019oro, Maxim Emelyanychev conductor<\/p>\n
Joyce DiDonato, who performs in Wellington (28 Nov) and Auckland (29 Nov) is one of the great singers of our time, which is why we\u2019ve gone big with a four-page interview in the Listener magazine and online. In her latest recording she sings Dido in Purcell\u2019s Dido & Aeneas. This performance of When I Am Laid in Earth\u2019 (aka Dido\u2019s Lament), the most famous aria in English opera, is fascinating for the way DiDonato allows herself to massage the rhythm, melody and harmony. When we asked her about it, she said, \u201cIn the moment I am simply Dido, and this is the only way she knows how to express her extremity of emotion.\u201d You can read the rest of the interview online, any day now. – Richard Betts<\/p>\n
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