DARTZ - Album Review: Dangerous Day To Be A Cold One
14 Mar 2024 // review by Tom Langdale-Hunt
From recent years and escapades, it’s fair to say that DARTZ have come a long way from writing about their
disdain for scorched almonds and the habitability of a dingey Riddiford Street flat. The Band from Wellington, New Zealand have secured themselves as a shared-household name and champions for the plight of the everyday kiwi with songs like Steal from
the Supermarket hammering home nationwide frustration over a duopoly ripping New Zealanders off for basic essentials in exchange for record profits, and perhaps, most memorably, the hilariously justified mockery of a certain South Auckland-based church
head drilling his flock for tithings to fund his Tesla S Series in Pray for Prey.
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Levi Patel - EP Review: Jeremy Redmore & Levi Patel - Migrations
10 Oct 2023 // review by Tom Langdale-Hunt
Jeremy Redmore is one of the most recognizable
voices in NZ music of the last decade, in part thanks to his tenure as the
singer and main writer of a little local band called Midnight Youth but has
since evolved into an extremely distinctive and transposed independent solo
artist. Partnering with Levi Patel, one of Aotearoa’s budding composers/producers,
they have crafted the Migrations EP to be a short burst of remarkably gentle
and captivating exploration that will stand apart to their other works, but
still demonstrate their distinctive emotional intensity.
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Tami Neilson - Gig Review: Tami Neilson @ St. James Theatre, Wellington - 06/10/2023
09 Oct 2023 // review by Tom Langdale-Hunt
It’s one thing to experience an increasingly rare high-attendance Rock n Roll Revue, but it’s another thing
entirely to have been successfully transported into a time period decades before your existence.
In a freshly renovated St James Theatre, Tami Neilson’s Rock n Roll Revue marks my first time back in the lush venue since my childhood – an experience that somewhat lines me with the rest of the crowd in association to these songs and performance style.
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Shaun Malloch - Single Review: Been Long
06 Jul 2023 // review by Tom Langdale-Hunt
Two years
after the release of his self-produced debut Take What You Can, Shaun Malloch returns with the cruisy, indie-pop track Been Long. Aptly named, the
song presents itself as a laid-back salutation as Shaun re-enters the airwaves;
ardour that says “hey, how have you been?
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Saint Peter's Thursday - Album Review: Death Salt
14 Jun 2023 // review by Tom Langdale-Hunt
We’re immediately thrusted into Cosmic Kaleidescope; an extremely punchy tune armed with belting, gravelly vocals and searing distortion. I’m immediately drawn into the Radio Moscow-like ferocity in the way this alternative rock sound is laid down.
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