The Phoenix Foundation - Friend Ship"New Zealand's finest purveyors of psychedelic Pop" **** The Times The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. Its been five years since their last album, Give Up Your Dreams, but that downtime has been well spent. The New Zealand outfit have been writing, recording, touring with a Symphony Orchestra, creating the acclaimed soundtrack for Taika Waititi's Hunt

the savagely brilliant Postmodernist Caligula was written and recorded in a matter of days at the end of the album recording sessions

It's this penchant for push and pull of light and dark splashed against the backdrop of trepidation and humour that make The Stroppies records so endearing and open-ended

is finally available again on its original format

and between the fading lights and the strange look on your friend’s face Murphy grabs your ears and asks you what it really is you want from this life

Girl Friday favor the rush of jarring turns over the safety of well-defined pop taxonomy

people talking in their gardens

release their second studio album

The Ballad of Jimmy McCabe

“I’ve always been intrigued with synthesis

which debuted at #3 on the Billboard Album Chart and her Grammy-nominated theme song "You've Got Time" for the hit Netflix show Orange Is The New Black

The Spacemen - Modman

Washington) serves as a perfect mirror to 'Unplugged'