Music Introducing Ahlei: where luscious production meets chilled-out crooning by Manning Patston New Zealand’s Ahlei offers up production for daydreaming and delicate vocals honeyed enough to keep you there. Ahlei is an Auckland-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Growing up in a musical…
Interviews Music Verzache is making music for himself, but you’ll probably love it too by Tom Cameron My Head is a Moshpit, the new album from self-sustaining Canadian artist Verzache, combines a DIY ethic with a world-stage sound. The term ‘bedroom pop’ gets thrown around a little…
Interviews Music Fritz: “I wrote this album as I was growing up, it’s literally depicting my life” by Emily Elvish Bedroom pop is a genre raise on cult cinema and the nostalgia of teenagehood. The melodies are cloudy and gossamer yet stretch as far as the eye can see, romanticising youth under the soft focus…
Music PREMIERE: Corduroy Spaceship releases the break-up psych-bop of your dreams by Cassia Briscoe On his latest single, Corduroy Spaceship unveils a Fantasia of sound, honouring the wave party that is modern psychedelia. If you haven’t yet heard of Corduroy Spaceship, it’s about to…
Music Introducing Lilly Carron, New Zealand’s next bedroom pop star by Happy With her debut EP Messy Mind, Lilly Carron declares herself as one of the most intricate and interesting new voices in New Zealand. Hailing from the beach town of Muriwai in…
Music New Zealand’s Dirty Pixels have unleashed a seductively creepy video for ‘Julipa’ by Happy Crooning from Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland), indie-pop group Dirty Pixels have released a visual reimagining for their buoyant tune Julipa. Banding together the best of a Charlie Chaplin-esque noir film, 90’s…
Music PREMIERE: Dying Adolescence transcends reality with his new video for ‘Pray 4 Me’ by Talya Jacobson I imagine the beginning of this track playing behind a video montage of my morning routine; waking up, eating breakfast, brushing my teeth… the mundane stuff in life. That is,…
Music JACUZZI ONSEN’s new clip a blissfully lucid journey through the night by Luke Saunders Melbourne based songwriter and bedroom pop produced JACUZZI ONSEN has dropped a remarkably deep and strangely sorrowful clip for his latest single Cab Driver Sam. The smooth buttery guitar tones…
Music Clairo: She’s not your average internet sensation by Bill Robinson Not your typical internet sensation: Clairo crafts incredibly warm, DIY bedroom pop that navigates the banality of youth with charm and honesty. While Massachusetts-based Claire Cottrill has been releasing incredibly charming…
Music With their debut EP around the corner we take a closer look into the bristling pop world of A.D.K.O.B by Kate Ross We’re the first to admit that we’ve got something of a love affair going on with A.D.K.O.B, or A Different Kind Of Busy, if you want to be all formal…
