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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Marlon Williams: Te Whare Tīwekaweka (digital outlets/vinyl)
14 Apr 2025 | 1 min read
In June 2021, the soul singer Teeks appeared in concert at Auckland's Civic Theatre before a large and appreciative audience. It was a significant event beyond being a concert. Here was a young, bilingual gay Māori man singing to a broad cross-section of mainstream Kiwis and, as I noted in a review, the enthusiastic response her got was emblematic of how far we've come and encouraging... > Read more
Kōrero Māori
RECOMMENDED RECORD: Womb: One is Always Heading Somewhere (digital outlets)
7 Apr 2025 | 1 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this one. Not because it comes in a gatefold sleeve (it doesn't), not because it has a lyric sheet (no to that also) but because it comes with a download code, which Elsewhere thinks should always included with the vinyl opeion If you pay out a wedge of money for a record like this (on transparent vinyl)... > Read more
Just Like Waves
JASON ISBELL. SOLO AT LAST ON HIS NEW ALBUM, THE ACCLAIMED 'FOXES IN THE SNOW'
24 Mar 2025 | <1 min read
Available now on CD and vinyl from JB Hi-Fi stores nationwide. Just click here to be taken to JB Hi-Fi. What Elsewhere has said of Foxes in the Snow: "Words of wisdom in song from someone who's been through it . . .and is seeing his failings and the possibilities of the future with clarity. And who has crafted it all into a terrific album." To read the full Elsewhere... > Read more
Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (vinyl/digital outlets)
24 Mar 2025 | 2 min read
Recently divorced after a decade of marriage to bandmate Amanda Shires and clearly still feeling all the various emotions which such a life-changing event can wrought, singer-songwriter Jason Isbell puts aside his 400 Unit band and -- for the first time since leaving Drive-By Truckers almost two decades ago -- sits down with just an acoustic guitar. The result, recorded over less than a... > Read more
Crimson and Clay
RECOMMENDED RECORD: Reb Fountain: How Love Bends (digital and vinyl)
17 Mar 2025 | 2 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this which comes in a gatefold sleeve with lyrics and a bonus seven inch single of her versions of How Bizarre (see below) and the country classic The Gambler. Check out Elsewhere's other Recommended Record picks . . . . Those of us who have followed Reb Fountain from her early appearances in... > Read more