{"id":529998,"date":"2026-07-17T02:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/529998\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T02:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:35:59","slug":"gin-wigmore-on-the-excitement-of-releasing-her-fourth-album-beautiful-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/529998\/","title":{"rendered":"Gin Wigmore on the excitement of releasing her fourth album &#8216;Beautiful Mess&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After eight years, Kiwi music icon Gin Wigmore has released a new album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Beautiful Mess\u2019 is her fourth studio album, and has been described as her most personal record yet \u2013 drawing on her experiences with love, divorce, motherhood, and rebuilding her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an exciting day for Wigmore, with the full album dropping earlier this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like giving birth but way less painful \u2013 it&#8217;s awesome,\u201d she told Mike Hosking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite having other albums under her belt, Wigmore still feels the pressure that comes with releasing new music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a feat to put out an album for me now,\u201d she explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be focused and have the time to actually do it, and so now it just feels way more of a feat to have had this done, and to have this out today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just feels like this really great amount of support around it &#8230; it honestly, it feels like Christmas.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After eight years, Kiwi music icon Gin Wigmore has released a new album.\u00a0 \u2018Beautiful Mess\u2019 is her fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[695,261572,156,261571,157,65041,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-529998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-album","tag-beautifulmess","tag-entertainment","tag-ginwigmore","tag-music","tag-musician","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}