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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Paul McLaney: The Daylight Moon (digital outlets)
18 Aug 2025 | 2 min read
Regular readers of Elsewhere will be very familiar with Paul McLaney if not the remarkable breadth of all his work, which we have covered quite extensively. Our interest in this polymath from Auckland is because there is a keen guiding intelligence behind his projects, in whatever form they arrive. The Daylight Moon fits somewhere into his folk-ambient output (acoustic guitar, vocals,... > Read more
The Feelings Remain
Paul Weller: Find El Dorado (digital outlets)
18 Aug 2025 | 1 min read
Although El Dorado is a mythical place made of gold and somewhere in the jungles of South America (possibly given extra embellishment by local tribes to throw off Spanish invaders) it seems Paul Weller is intent on finding it. But his gold are songs that he unearths and covers for this album. Let's be honest however, with a few exceptions – Bowie's Pin Ups, Lennon's Rock'n'Roll... > Read more
Small Town Talk
THE SOUND OF THE SANDWORMS, REVISITED AND REPURPOSED (2025): From artists you don't know come songs you never heard
15 Aug 2025 | 2 min read
Elsewhere has long followed the career of Howe Gelb into his various groups, among them Giant Sandworms, Giant Sand, The Band of Blacky Ranchette and innumerable albums under his own name. One of the most interesting interviews we have done was with Tucson-based Gelb in 2011. Gelb's songwriting ranges from desert psychedelia to Spanish styles (recorded in Spain with local players), from... > Read more
Yer Ropes, by The Golden Dregs
THE SEEDS. RAW AND ALIVE, AGAIN (2025): Bring the noise of screamadelica
11 Aug 2025 | 2 min read
To paraphrase Matthew in the good book, “Where two or three are gathered in the name of garageband rock'n'roll, the name of The Seeds is in the midst of them”. The Seeds out of Los Angeles in the Sixties -- lead by the extraordinary, charismatic and increasingly eccentric Sky Saxon – had more than one great moment. But their defining two and a half minutes was the... > Read more
Gypsy Plays His Drums
RECOMMENDED RECORD: Soft Bait: Life Advice (Flying Nun, digital outlets)
4 Aug 2025 | 2 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this which comes with lyrics on an insert sheet and in a framable cover by the band's Joshua Hunter. Check out Elsewhere's other Recommended Record picks . . . . Because Elsewhere is so inundated with full-length albums (and wishes to digress into essays about artists and unusual or... > Read more