Favourite Five Recent Releases
Five of the best albums from the recent postings at Elsewhere. Music too good to let slide into the archives. The Elsewhere place if you're looking for a quick fix.
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RECOMMENDED RECORD: The Veils: Asphodels (digital outlets)
3 Feb 2025 | 1 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this one which comes in a gatefold sleeve with lyric booklet. Check out Elsewhere's other Recommended Record picks . . . . When we reviewed a 2023 concert at Auckland's Powerstation by Finn Andrews (aka The Veils), we couldn't help but point out the numerous images from Christian and... > Read more
The Dream of Life
Kim Paterson, Alex Ventling: Conversations (Thick/digital outlets)
27 Jan 2025 | 1 min read
More than a decade ago when reviewing trumpeter/flugel player Kim Paterson's album The Duende we noted that for someone who has been so important in New Zealand jazz he was sorely under-represented by albums under his own name. In fact back then in 2012 we couldn't think of another, besides the one in hand. Paterson's name may be more familiar to wider audience now because he was in the... > Read more
Cry Me a River
Peter Perrett: The Cleansing (digital outlets)
18 Jan 2025 | 1 min read
Peter Perrett's post-punk band The Only Ones had no greater champion in this country than the late Dr Rock, Barry Jenkin. But then again, after a conversion worthy of St Paul, he fell hard for the new sounds like Teenage Kicks by the Undertones and most things by the Buzzcocks. But he did always seem quite smitten by Another Girl Another Planet. Opening with a surging energy,... > Read more
Fountain of You
The Coward Brothers: The Coward Brothers (digital outlets)
9 Dec 2024 | 1 min read
There a lot of great stories in rock: the rise of the Rutles from obscurity under the watchful eye of their manager Leggy Mountbatten; the British band that moved through any number of names (the Originals, the New Originals and so on) until they found fame as Spinal Tap . . . Then there was the bluegrass band Hayseed Dixie who were inspired by AC/DC albums found in a stranger's car when he... > Read more
Always
Father John Misty: Mahāśmaśāna (digital outlets)
25 Nov 2024 | 2 min read | 1
The first three singles released in advance of this new album by Josh Tillman (Father John Misty) were so majestic they seemed to herald something special on his sixth album Mahāśmaśāna, which apparently means “the great cremation ground” in Sanskrit. There was the heroic, seven minute Screamland (with Low's Alan Sparhawk on guitar) which offered “and you could say... > Read more