INSURGENTS - All The
Stupid Smiling Faces
Some much needed intelligent pop youth stuff
for the
label.
They're from Christchurch and are pretty damn good
at the melodic hook sing along indie pop stuff, punching
well
above their weight for a bunch of 20 year olds.
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THE ALPHA STATE -
Lines
Alpha Cast's singer
Michael McLeod takes his songwriting
to the next level and morphs
into The Alpha State, a delicious
alt country tinged affair with
shimmering melody over slow moods.
McLeod has assembled a new team
of talents to sparsely shade
his deeply melodic songs, the
result is 9 tracks of catchy
low key wonder.
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Click
here to read a review of 'Lines' by Shane Gilchrist
KIMO (FORMERLY ESKIMO)
- Surrender
Surrender is the new
album from Christchurch band
Kimo, 2 years in the making and
featuring dark pop and deep textures
from the core duo of Rob Mayes
(Throw, Dolphin, + guest stints
in Children's Hour and Chris
Matthew's Robot Monkey Orchestra)
and David Mulcahy (JPS Experience,
Superette, Mulchzoid).
The band decided to try and make an album in a unified
and cohesive style rather than attempt to cover all
aspects of the wide world of music and aided (or unaided)
by a bizarre luggage accident break to Mayes' fretting
hand saw a push for the album toward the less rock
spectrum of Kimo's sound, ie all the pretty songs have
made it to the one album. That coupled more by accident
than design a thematic similarity with most of the
songs exploring the various connotations of the word
Surrender, many of them positive.
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MULCHZOID -
Laptopdancer
Mulchzoid is the electronic extension of David
Mulcahy, dark pop luminary of JPS Experience, Superette
and Kimo / Eskimo fame. Mulcahy has a long history
of providing quality dark pop masterpieces to the unsuspecting
public and Laptopdancer is no exception to that rule.
Exploring the premise of one microphone one computer
and one bedroom Mulcahy has locked himself away and
produced a strong collection of sparkling dark compositions
musing on themes of Girls, Drugs, Suicide Bombers,
Existence, Celebrity and Fascism over its lucky number
of 13 tracks. Stylistically the album touches on the
sounds of New Order, Suicide and Snapper, and Cabaret
Voltaire, whiles still sounding exactly like an album
you'd expect from someone of David's lineage. Sparkling
Dark Pop. Enjoy
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EVASIVE ACTION - Imminent
Impact
Evasive action rose
from the ashes of Desperate Measures
and Unauthorised. Merging the
street level punk of the measures
with the abrasive energy of Unauthorised
the band landed in post punk
territory, somewhere inbetween.
Inspired by the dark edges of
the likes of Killing Joke they
hit a hard alternative sound
that distanced them from straight
hedonistic punk. Groove based
tracks
like "Live for Fun" push the envelope, and
the band also revisit harder versions of some of their
previous bands classics.
Pulse-poundingly remastered, even Failsafe had forgotten
how good some of these songs sound.
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BEAT
RHYTHM FASHION - Bring
Real Freedom
The long awaited disc
of finely-crafted songs from
this much respected and greatly
sought after Wellington band.
Sweepingly beautiful and
thought provoking intelligent
music, this disc collects
all three singles all lovingly
restored and remastered, plus
9 tracks from the band's later
live set to complete 'The album BRF would have made'
if life had played out differently.
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