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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Bub: Can't Even (digital outlets)
6 Jun 2025 | 1 min read
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Priya Sami made a brief, high profile appearance with siblings Madeline and Anji as Sami Sisters with their Happy Heartbreak! album over a decade ago. (Not to be confused with the fictional Katene Sisters of Annie Crummer, the late Nancy Brunning and Lisa Crittenden created for a Shortland Street episode and who went top 5 with their sole single... > Read more
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RECOMMENDED RECORD: Sparks: Mad! (digital outlets)
30 May 2025 | 1 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this which comes with all the lyrics (necessary with Sparks) and credits. And is available on white vinyl. Check out Elsewhere's other Recommended Record picks . . . . Sparks brothers Ron and Russell Mael (aged 79 and 76 respectively) open their 28th studio album with Do Things... > Read more
Lord Have Mercy
RECOMMENDED RECORD: Suzanne Vega: Flying With Angels (digital outlets)
26 May 2025 | 1 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 credits. And is available on white vinyl. Check out Elsewhere's other Recommended Record picks . . . . Some artists soar like bright flares across the sky and immediately engage our attention, but then their light dims and... > Read more
Chambermaid
Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist (digital outlets)
18 May 2025 | 1 min read
Although Elsewhere championed Jenny Hval's excellent The Practice of Love album we're aware that she's probably a hard sell. She has rolled from dark metal, edgy art music and 2016's exacting jazz improvisations of In the End His Voice Will Be the Sound of Paper to alt.folk and experimental sounds under own name, and as Rockettothesky and Lost Girls. She's now 44, and accomplished... > Read more
To Be A Rose
Harry Charles: Movement (Loop/digital outlets)
5 May 2025 | <1 min read
Although he left New Zealand more than a decade ago and his really formative musical influences and growth came in Berlin, we can still claim Harry Charles as our own. And be proud to so because, as he proves on this second album he is a quiet master craftsman in the world of electronic music who effortlessly manages to blend soaring or gentle melodic elements with beats and ambient... > Read more