April 2013
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Sentient Beings
Simple
Wanderers
3 Sides of the Same Coin
A Year of Wednesdays
About That Time
Agent Alvin
All Red Cables
Always & For Real
An-jel-ka
Annabel Fay
Artificial Light
As For Now
Ashleigh Southam
Audible 3
Audio Empire
Behind The I
Between The Spaces
Billion
Blue Skies
Bunker Talk
Cat & Bird
Chatter
Circa Scaria
Circle Of The Sun
City Chorus
City In Exile
Contimental Drift
Coral
Culture Tunnels
Do You Just Want Me To Watch You?
Drama Queen
East
El Toroloco
Ella Songs
Expand/Contract
February Humidity EP
From The Back Of The Sun
Great Escape
Happy Accidents
Hearts EP
In Swings The Tide
In The Pink
Intermetallica
Isn't It Time You Thought About Something More Than What Makes You Happy?
Journey (Aere'anga)
Love and Such
Love In Motion
Master
Masterous Coloundraful
Matariki
Maybe Later
Moments of Clarity
Music for Sleep & Creativity
No Come Down
Null And Void EP
Obey
Oh, Colour EP
One Day Over
Our New Life Above The Ground (Double Disc)
Our Place
Pacific Voyage
Peace Of Mind
Play Banjo
Reasons For Voyaging
Shanks' Pony
Stolen Hill
Thank You To The Monsters
The Best Kept Secret
The Best: Polyfonk
The Edge Of The World
The Fourth
The Higher Key
The Indifferent Velvet Void
The Lake
The Music EP
The Space Between
These Cities, Our Graves
Thinking Room
This Is Me
Three Feathers
Through The Years
Traces Of Silver
Traffic In Gold
Traveller
Treble & Reverb
Tuia
Twin Coast Remixes
Walk On By
We Are The Dead
Whaea
Who Let the Drunk Sing
Who’s Most Lost
Audio Empire: Audio Empire
By Jacob Connor
It's the grunge era again and Audio Empire start promisingly with (Welcome to) The Great Escape, full of flailing drums, spitfire riffs and a throaty vocal bordering on the epic. However they falter with the next step, a banal modern rock ballad Fall to Pieces, which, like the eponymous title (a contraction of Audioslave and 'Evil Empire'?), feels somewhat second-hand. There's a strain of hard rock devoid of any danger or intrigue that saturates the airwaves best represented by Nickleback, Hinder and Creed. Audio Empire fit with this company. The others are enormously popular of course, so Audio Empire may well garner a delirious fanbase. As a musical force, the group has plenty of cut and thrust, and the players mesh together well, their machine-like rhythms evoking Tool at times, however, the songwriting has a way to go to match the ambitions of the soundscape. The fact sheet boasts support from NZ On Air and The Rock, so AE stand a good chance of finding their audience.Related Information
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