Sam Heselwood - Single Review: Home
27 Jun 2023 // review by Hannah Jane
Home is the new
single from professional rugby player turned pop star Sam Heselwood – an up and
coming Otautahi star who has already hit the charts and is clearly ‘one to
watch’.
An
authentically vulnerable song, Home is both sweet and strong, and
thoughtfully produced – recorded by Terence O’Connor and mixed by Simon Gooding.
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Jessica Leigh - Single Review: Wired
26 May 2023 // review by Hannah Jane
Jessica
Leigh’s new single Wired is a curious mix of upbeat pop and melancholic tones
through jaded lyrics; “I’m
getting tired, so I’m getting wired”.
The lyrics in this track are heavily repetitive in part and given space to breathe in others, whilst carried by
a fast moving and ever-changing bed of 80’s inspired music.
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The Robba - Album Review: In The Dark
29 Mar 2023 // review by Hannah Jane
In The Dark is the new heavy rock album by New Zealand one man band The Robba, filled with hard-hitting tracks all painstakingly created by himself. Layers of guitar, vocals, synths and beats form a strong foundation for the social narrative woven into this baker’s dozen of lyrical laments.
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Coast Arcade - Single Review: Highest Heights
05 Feb 2023 // review by Hannah Jane
Just a couple of years after forming in high school, Coast Arcade are killing it! The indie pop-rock band is made up of brothers Chris and Nate Tims, Thom Boynton, and Bella Bavin who have found themselves performing at popular festivals and supporting Kiwi icons The Beths and Princess Chelsea.
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Renee Millner - EP Review: Fly Me Back
27 Oct 2022 // review by Hannah Jane
Earlier
this month, I had the pleasure of reviewing New Zealand based Australian singer-songwriter
Renée Millner’s single Not OK, and much to my delight I have been
listening to her EP Fly Me Back over and over ever since.
The five
songs contained within this album all carry a gentle strength both lyrically
and melodically, and the music surrounding them is truly lovely.
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Renee Millner - Single Review: Not OK
07 Oct 2022 // review by Hannah Jane
New Zealand
based Australian singer-songwriter Renee Millner has an ethereal voice that
carries a gentle strength through the bars of a rhyme in a way that brings
otherworldly artists Annie Lennox, Sinead O’Connor, and Dolores O’Riordan to
mind like kindred spirits.
Within moments
of hearing her new single Not OK, Renee whispers something beautifully familiar
in my ear, and her melodies carry me away somehow to Scottish Highlands I have
never seen before.
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