It's a well-balanced attack made all the more potent by the unprecedented success of the band's second released single Crawl which held the #1 national chart slot for a remarkable nine weeks from April, staying in the Top 40 for another two months. ...more

"This time around Universal and NZ On Air were just as supportive. We could have gone down the same route [but] chose this time to do it in New Zealand. We wanted to strip things back a little bit. It was just about taking the wankiness out of it." ...more

Chanelle believes honesty is the best policy, especially when songwriting is involved. ...more

The funny thing about this industry, especially when you are on the way in, is that there is no consistency. I remember when we did the support for John Mayer, it was sold out and we got an encore - it was one of the high points of our career. ...more

Though very efficient in the recording process, the resulting album does indeed sound lovingly crafted. ...more

For a group of five people living in nearly as many different parts of the country, to write and agree upon 14 songs worth of music is no mean feat, much less to record and engineer the whole project themselves. ...more

With their album's worth of new material destined for 'The Prize', OdESSA were taking no chances. ...more

Since that time McLaney's musical journey has been a long and winding one, with detours into everything from delicate folky ambience to electronica to rock'n'roll big production grandiosity with the Gramsci band collab-orations. ...more

They'd been writing solidly for two years, the whole band contributing to the process. ...more