“Auckland-based Stars and the Underground return with a new single blending post-punk, indie rock, and shoegaze influences. RIYL: The Mission UK, The Chameleons, The Church”
From fever dreams to long drives home: Avery Friedman glistens with her return single ahead of a landmark UK/EU tour, while Coma Beach's A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending fuses punk's feral bite with post-punk's cold precision in a Beckett-tinged emotional odyssey. Get Lost Cassidy Frost's The Glue is the kind of sad, lonely song you'd listen to late at night on a long drive home, drawn from the darkest and most tender corners of the heart. Barrelly Ego's Bearly Eagle offers cathartic socio-political takes, and Gutmann's Shrine delivers an organic desert rock debut exploring loneliness, memory, and not belonging — raw guitars, deep bass, and no filters.
“Auckland-based Stars and the Underground return with a new single blending post-punk, indie rock, and shoegaze influences. RIYL: The Mission UK, The Chameleons, The Church”
“Darren Hayman (Hefner / The French / New Starts) adapts William Morris' Chants for Socialists on this album of hope and comfort”
“Sometimes you love people so much that you wish you could travel back in time to be there at all the moments they needed you.”
“a mishmash of rock and soul, indie, acoustic, psychadelia with the odd electronic beat thrown in here and there”
“Ekko Astral collaborator Josaleigh Pollett teases new material with this haunted and inspired single via Audio Antihero”
“Warbly indie-rock about birth and death, heartbreak and heartburn, loss and recovery”