April 2013
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Kung Fu Kitchen
#957 EP
Above the Wires
AIO
Astral Surfers
Awakening
Barriers & Doorways
Beneath Southland Skies
Black Light
Bounce Around
Brotherly EP
Burn
But They Do EP
Cad's Alley
Certified Mad
Close To Home
Cocktail Cookbook
Collection Volume 4
Complicated Characters
Coriander and Heaven EP
Dance Music Will Tear Us Apart
Debut
Diving the Wreck
Drivin' With The Blues
Eyes To See - Ears To Hear - Wrists To Slit
Featherbones
Featherbones
Feel So Good Feel So Bad
Final Fester
Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death .com
Flight on Light
Flow
Flown Away
Fretless
Guitar Song
Hei Ha
Home Invasion
Horizons
Hulagu
Humanera
Hurricane's Eye
In The Blink Of An Eye
In Wonder
Inland
Inside Stories
Instant Pudding
Journey
Laptopdancer
Live At Bats
Live from Hempfields
Living For Now
Lucky One
Lyric On My Lip
Maisey Rika
Mali Mali
Marshmallow
Matt Deacon
Melodius Beats Volume 1
Mika Vs. Fashion
Montano
More Monster For Your Truck
Morning After
MOS Presents
Mother Guru
Music & Soul
My Dying Wish
No Need To Be Nervous
Old Skool Machete Funk
Open Door
Over My Shoulder
Overdressed
Plateau Honey
Poco EP
Postcards To Your Bed
Primer
Quintiplicity
Ready for the Dance
Red Grey Blue
Reptiles vs Man
Reset Start Reset
Reversion
Rio Lights Auckland Nights
Ristretto
Road to the Outside
Sense of Place
Set Your Mind To Fly
Silhouettes and Footsteps EP
Sneaking Out After Midnight
Songs of the Rings
Spiritual Graffiti
The 88
The Best Of
The Burnside Church
The Guards Themselves
The Light and the Shadowland
The Messenger
The Mongrel in Me
The Murkwon LP
The Same Ol’ Brew Rebottled
Tide's Arising
Tightrope Highway
To The Sea – Sessions
Toru
Transit
Travel 'N Time
Undergrowth
Up At The Bunkers
Urban Shepard
Vice
Wasted Time
Wha
When Everything Falls Apart
Where Do We Go From Here? EP
White Sunday
Why A Woman Gets The Blues
World Comes Calling
Monkey Knife Fight: Reptiles vs Man
By Jacob Conner
Dunedin's MKF come across like an update on the cosy melody of non-threatening Flying Nun acts Sneaky Feelings and Beelines to Heaven era Garageland. The style is shaded by '60s animal groups from the Byrds to the Monkees. Monkey Man Loose in Port Chalmers is typical of the cutesy charm and tuneful bounce driving the songs, while thorny topics are tackled in an oblique and agreeable fashion. Use of organ and male/female harmony singing (Kay Gray and Chris Howard) brings the Brunettes to mind, while both singers have a chance to shine individually (Kay tonally recalls Marianne Faithful at times). Recorded variously in the members' bedrooms, the material is presented in a comforting soup of gentle edges and fuzzy lullaby. Argle Bargle is a moody little epic sustained with tom beats and guitar squelch. Theirs is a beguiling world of simplicity and inclusiveness, warm human optimism winning the reptile/man knife fight this round.www.faceplant.co.nz/monkeyknifefight
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