December 2012
In this issue:
Home Brew, Bic Runga, Bannerman, Sticky Filth, Gin Wigmore and more. 2012 NZM Wallplanner included!!
Home Brew, Bic Runga, Bannerman, Sticky Filth, Gin Wigmore and more. 2012 NZM Wallplanner included!!
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Album results for S
001
A Part of Me
About The Sun
Acoustic Energy To Electric Power
Africa Aroha (Re-release)
Alicanto
All Or Nothing
Apologies
April Fool
Balladeer
Ballads & Battles
Beautiful Machine
Beautiful Sin
Behind Enemy Lines
Birds of Passage EP
Cat’s Paw
Come On In
Complete Control
Confusion
Count Backwards From 10
Crude Futures
Das Klischee EP
Dayglo Spectres
Demania Lloyd
Destroy Electronica
Don't You Think
Down at Your Life
Drive Thru
Egyptian Lions
Electro Soul Plane
Endearance
ExtravagENZA
Faces of Vitriol
Fascinate
Fistful Of Silver
Flax Happy
Flesh & Bones
Formula One
Four-Letter Words
Freak Controller
Freak Local (EP)
Full Circle
Gain Control
Get It Together
Giant Spheres
Gimme Gimme Shark Treatment
Global Research Systems
Grayscale EP
Haunted Out-takes
Heal Me
Hold Onto Life
Hope Is Rubbery
Hotel Azteca
HRRY
Layers EP
Lazy Days
Little Death
Live
Live with the NZSO
Localize It
Love Is At Home
Love Is The New Hate
Loyal To None EP
Lullabies For Macy Rose
Magic Line
Means
Miscellaneous Adventures
Mise-En-Scene EP
Mountain Rescue
Moves On
Moving Up EP
Much Love
My Digital Tao
My My Look At The Time
Myth Reducer
Next We Bring The Fire
Nil By Ear
No-one's Laughing
Nothing Sacred
Oceanic
Off the Top of My Head
Open Sesame
Open to Suggestions
Our Story
Painkillers
Pass the Whisper
Pre-Pill Love
Prototype
Punk Blues
Reach Out
Real Time
Remixes and Radio Cuts
Retrospective
Rhythm and Brown
Road
Sacha Vee EP
Sailor
Salon Kingsadore
Samuel F Scott And The BOP
Sara Jane
Sarah Brown
Say What You Want
Schmack
See The Light
Seems I Might Be Human
Seth Haapu
Shakes
Shark Jump Thief EP
Sherlock’s Daughter
Skallander
SKAper EP
Sketches
Slow Drag
Small Step
Solarized
Something Like Strangers
Songs From A Dictaphone
Songs From The Last Century
Sons of Zion
Soulstice
Soundtracks And Inventions
Southern Lights
Spa
Spells for Travelling Forth By Day
Sporky Pee
Steps in Time
Still Walking The Line
Subware
Suitcase
Surf Friends EP
Surrealistic
Swamp Harbour
Sweet Vitriol
The Best Of
The Camels
The Crusader
The Hammerhead Nebula
The Hunt Brings Us Life
The Meanest Hits
The Orchid Door
The Right To Talk To Strangers EP
The Sojourner
The Swing Festival
The System Is A Vampire
The World We Created
Thin White Line
This Charming Damage
This Is My Story
This Is Not The Target Market
Thoughtghost
Throwing Salt
Time Fails Us All
To Be Successful and Make Friends You Need to Have a Good Job and Lots of Money
To The Rescue
Tongan Chic
Tonight on Trumpet
Unbreakable
Unknown Variable
Violent Ambitions
Voyager
We Hope In All Things New
Welcome To The Revolution
When The Fever Takes Hold
Whispers and Tremors
White Nights
Whole
Winning Hearts and Minds
Sandpit: Acoustic Energy To Electric Power
By Simon Sweetman
This may be their debut album, but it is no beginner's effort from Sandpit - more the culmination of some 20 years' experience of the Wellington band members. Beginning with synth-driven rock songs, moving through fuzzy guitars and catchy pop Sandpit is occasionally reminiscent of the brilliant bedsit alternative pop of The Shocking Pinks. The electro bands of the 1980s/'90s (Depeche Mode, New Order) can be felt, as can the influence of bands like The Stone Roses and, going further back, Wire. In fact a unique cover of that band's great song Strange (from the classic album 'Pink Flag') concludes this aural journey. To label it punk-pop would be unfair to the band (and not quite representative of both genres) but Sandpit manage to channel some punk-ish energy into cool electro pop that knows when to rock out and manages to stay together inside clean lines when it needs to. I liked what I heard. Related Information
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