April 2013
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Audio Agriculture in the 21st Century
Back to Rosetta Road
Electricity
Lotus
Minutes Last For Years
Self-titled
Songs Of Hope
Tangerine
Tomorrow I Might Go
What The F**k Is Going On
(sic)
10 Of the Best NZ Songwriter's Trust
4000 Years
A Lesson Learnt
A Litlle Less Gravity
A Maze and Amazement
A Means To An End EP
A Sense of Wonder
A Time to Swing
A Warm Gun
Alice by the Moon
All You Can Eat Baby
Already, Not Yet
Amazing Return to Planet X EP
An Awkward Silence
Another 3 Days
Anthology
Anthology
Aonua
Arrows
At A Lucid End
At the National Grid
Auckland Fun - 25th Anniversary Show
Aurere
Autumn
Awakening to the Truth
Backwards and Sideways - Live at the San Francisco Bathhouse
Be Still
Better Days
Big Machine
Big Nudge Pie
Big Skeleton
Big World
Black Brown & White
Blood and Bones
Bones
Born to Die
Break It To Pieces
Brightest Star
Bronze
Buffalo
Building on the Construct
Carved & Created
Caterpillar and Butterfly
Cattlestoppin'
Christopher
Cities on the Sea
City That Frosts
Combat Soul
Communicate
Corporate Moronic
Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!
Cross Your Heart
Cuts
Dance the Dance Electric
Dance Your Pain Away
Daydreams
Deadly Summer Sway
Defamation of Character
Del Ray System
Deluge
Demons Are Everywhere
Deviations
Displaced
Dominos
Don’t Worry ‘Bout Your Age
Down
Down Falls an Empire
Dreadtown
Dreadtown
Dreambaby Goodbye
Dubious Bros
Duel Pianos
Dust and Dirt
Each To Their Own
Earth from Space
Edge of the World
El Schlong
Epileptic Apocalypse 1979 - 1999
Escape Songs
Everlasting Force
Every Man For Himself
Everybody Needs Something To Hold Onto
Everyone Is Here
Evolution
F**k the Golden Youth
Face Work
Fascination
Feeding The Gods
Festival Romance
FIGHT MUSIC
First Contact
First Four Songs
Flavour Country
Flcok
Flowergirls & Cowgirls
Flux Pentaphile EP
Flying Out of the Washing Machine
Forest Fiction
Fragile Thing EP
Free All The Monsters
Free Rein
Fromage Du Pouvoir
Getaway
Gluttons For Punishment
Good Days, Better Nights
Group Hug
Haoloto
Happy Ending
Happy Heartbreak!
Harbin II
Havili
Headlights
Headstunts
Hi-Fidelity Offbeat
High Heeled
Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks
Home, Land and Sea
Hope and Wire
Hope Nature Forgives
Hot Shit
How Red Is the Blood
Hummabyes
Hunting Whales
I Love You EP
Illumination
Imaginary Lover EP
In Retro
In The Devil’s Days
In the Night, All the Cats Are Grey
Infinity Land
Innuendo
Into the Dojo
Isolation is the New Party
It's a Summer Feeling
It's Too Drunk to Be This Early
I’ve Never Lived
Japanglish
Jelly Tip Lips EP
Kabyle Smile
Karekare
Katy’s Christmas
Keep on
Keeping It Unreal
King, Country & Title EP
Ladies And Gentlemen EP
Landmark
Leaving Paradise
Liberty Angel
Light Moves
Liquid Rock n’ Roll
Live at Apia Park
Live at the Gluepot
Live In Concert DVD
Lost aLive at The odeon
Love Me Tender
Lust for Glory
Man, Woman and Machine!
Mashed
Massive Reminders of a Virile King
Mathematical Warfare
Mister Pop
Modern Sprawl
Monkey and the Stick
Music Is Choice CD/DVD
My Own Soul EP
Mystical Soul
No Clue, No Future
No Light
Nobody's Out There
North, South, East, West….Anthology
Now or Never
Nukukehe
Numero Uno
Nux Vomica
NZ Country Singer/Songwriter Series Vol 1
Oliata
On The Rocks
On The Sun
Operating Manual
Out in the Ozone
Out of Luck EP
Outta Sight/Outta Mind
Paranoia
Paselode
Passenger EP
Patience
Pear Shapes
Pearl Of Blood
Pegasus
Perfect Fit
Perilous Times
Playboys In The Bush
Playground Battle
Plutons
Polkapocalypse
Portraits
Pot Boiler
Preface
Pretty Cool
Prototype
Prototype
Pschitt Hornstrumpot
Psychosis Of Love
Pushed
Put Your Foot Inside the Door
Queen Pest
Quinessence
Raw Star Guitars
Reality Cheque
Reflection
Remix Picnic
Right Between The Eyes
Rolling Country
Round The Bend
Rusty Swing Feel
Savoy
Screens
Sea Lion
Searching EP
Second Life
Secret Holiday / Victory Blues Double EP
Selected Works
Self-Titled
Self-titled
Self-titled
Self-titled
Self-titled
Septic Proof
Shadow Light
Shadows Explode
Shaky's Blessing
Sharing EP
She’s On Heat
Shine On
Short Summer
SILENTinvisible
Sir Plus and the Requirements
Situations Get the Basics
Sleepytime/Johannes Contag
Slide Down EP
Smoke and Mirrors
Snap
So Alive
Songs for Emily Valentine
Sounds From Planet Mysteroid EP
Special
Spill Your Heart
Spin the Same
Storm Of The Century EP
Structure & Cosmetics
Summon Forth The Mangonel
Sun Gangs
Sunshine Holiday
Swarm One EP
Sweet Tooth
Sweetacres
Tahu
Take It Or Leave It
Take Us Away EP
Tales By Firelight
Tasty Dishes
Te Miti And Beyond
Technicolour
Terra Firma
That's What All The Girls Say!
The Airport Underneath The Dome
The Automatic Changers EP
The Awakening
The Ballad of Sour Jane
The Battle's Almost Over
The Best of Bing
The Blunt Cut
The Brawling (EP)
The Brood EP
The Chandeliers
The Cicada Sessions
The Conversation
The Dance Reduction Agents
The Datsuns
The Downlow Mixtape
The Drama Dept EP
The Dreaming EP
The Dusty Road
The Eastern
The Fanatics
The Fortune Horses
The Gray between Shadow and Shade
The Guilty Office
The Haints of Dean Hall
The Heartleys
The Hotel Vermont Sessions
The Instrument of Love
The Invisible Line
The Keeper Project
The Kitchen Table Sessions
The Kitchen Table Sessions Volume II
The Kumpnee Ball
The Last Ditch Dance
The Leaving
The MC Roostar EP
The Medusa
The Misadventures Of Johnny Favourite
The Monster Boogie EP
THE NEW FUSE BOX
The Noise of Music
The Nok
The Ponsonby DCs
The Rasper
The Ribbon
The Robba
The Sandbar Sessions
The Scavengers
The Shakespeare Monkey
The Shot Band
The Smiles
The Spark of Inspiration
The Tides
The Trons
The Troubles
The Tweeks
The Upbeats
The Velvet Regime EP
The Volunteers
The Warratahs Collection
The Words Will Write Themselves
The Zoup
Thelonious Punk
There’s Nothing We Can’t Pretend
Thieves EP
Thieves EP
This World and the Sadvipra Diversion
Throw Your Knives (EP)
Time For Change
Time Stays, We Go
Tinkers With Talent
Tiny Terrors EP
Tommy Ill
Too Many Damaged Heroes
Tough Love
Touring
Toy Love
Toys In The Attic EP
Trials EP
True
True Lovers
Turning In
Tutuki
Two Tides
Unhugged
Unread Books EP
Various Artists (Soundtrack)
Velvet Revolution
Venus Loves Mars
Volume 1
Vs2.2
Want EP
We Can All Breathe A Little Easier Now
Welcome To The Big Room
Whisper Not
Who's Your Daddy?
Why Do People Walk
Wits End
Woke Up Today
Woodcuts
You Can Listen Too
You Want It
You/Me
Your Highway For Tonight
Zoo
The Phoenix Foundation: Happy Ending
By Shaun Chait
For some time now, The Phoenix Foundation have been making some of the most relevant music coming out of this country. Sometimes quietly affecting (Burning Wreck),elsewhere a full-blown and triumphant soundscape, their knack of combining understatement with grandiose splendor (witness the majestic chorus of Irrelevant Noise) is a defining quality. The double whammy of friends ‘album of the year’ calls coupled with the knowledge that most bands don’t get better with age had me wondering with trepidation how ‘Happy Ending’ would outdo its hefty predecessor ‘Pegasus’. However the bright and breezy quirky pop of opener Bright Grey (and the fast following highlight 40 Years) quickly confirmed this as at least an equal. A dreamy, and dare I say, sunnier outing, it resonates with the ghosts of Radiohead, Damon Albarn, and Shayne Carter, coupled with the whimsical genius of Split Enz (especially on Pure Joy). As expected given their love of a full sound, strings and guest backing vocalists are put to good use. The choice of usual suspect Lee Prebble (who recorded, mixed and produced) teamed with Howie Weinberg (mastering) makes for another winning combination .
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