Fanfickk - Single Review: Everything's On Fire (Feat Wellie)
20 Mar 2021 // review by Bethany Mountford
Everything’s on Fire is a fresh, synth-heavy, cynically futuristic track – new from Fanfickk and featuring Korean rapper Wellie. The song itself is immediately engaging, but it has proved to only get more interesting the more I listen to and read about it.
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MCK - EP Review: Hot Sounds
10 Mar 2021 // review by Bethany Mountford
Hot Sounds brings a sinuous step up from MCK’s Confessions EP released last year. The new four track EP keeps the silky lo-fi base, which has foregrounded previous tracks, and builds on it with a new energy.
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Cloudy - Single Review: I'll Stay
28 Jan 2021 // review by Bethany Mountford
Claudia Paine AKA Cloudy is an alternative-pop singer songwriter from Auckland. I’ll Stay is the first single to be released from her upcoming EP, titled Good Grief.
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Bad Hagrid - Bad Hagrid Newsletter Interview
25 Jan 2021 // interview by Bethany Mountford
On a sunny summer evening in the capital, local band Bad Hagrid played a set in the Wellington Botanical Gardens as part of the Gardens Magic series. The series is always an exciting time in the city and it's shown in the crowd.
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The Response - Single Review: New Pair of Pants (Coming Collapse)
07 Dec 2020 // review by Bethany Mountford
The new single New Pair of Pants (Coming Collapse) from Christchurch's The Response seemed a little common. This may be owing to the fact that the song was created as part of a challenge set out by American band, Deep Sea Diver, to use a drum beat that they created to write a song.
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Miss Used - Single Review: Collapsing Building
23 Oct 2020 // review by Bethany Mountford
Collapsing Building is the second single of the upcoming 5-track EP from Miss Used. It’s the louder, uglier younger brother of the band’s first single Depraved, that will surely follow in the same success of over 15,700 streams on Spotify.
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