Mirage-era stylings, double tracked vocals, and catchy choruses surround a set of songs that focus on band & domestic disharmonies. Perhaps his most ‘pop’ outing and most FM sounding solo album yet. Mark: The ex-Fleetwood Mac-er returns with a delayed album – originally cut in 2018. Imagine a pagan shaman musician in an ancient forest, creating music from synthesisers he has created from the surrounding trees. Lyrics rubbing shoulder by shoulder with socio political statements. It’s a heady mix with deliberately obscure and mysterious. Their well reported incendiary live performances are replaced with an experimental electronic Shamanistic vibe ,with propulsive post punk stylings that have nods to Afro-futurism. Neil: Snapped Ankles 2017 debut release ‘Come Play the Trees’ sees a different side of the band from their live performances. I’m not sure what it was all about though… DIY electronica meets Krautrock/Art-rock, with vintage synths underpinning the cacophony. Mark: Mysterious and unknown London-based post-punk band who wear ghillie suits when performing. Wryly funny, poetic, serious when it needs to be, and it shows us why he is one of our finest musicians.Ĭome play the trees. It is an impressive work, interspersed with a lot of the hallmark touches he brings to his other work in The Phoenix foundation. Neil: One of the core creative forces behind the mighty The Phoenix Foundation releases (with a lot of help from his friends) his third solo effort, this time simply called Buda. Well deserving of all the good reviews its been getting. A great fun, catchy, self deprecating album, whose reflective moments pull the threads of everyday life with revealing lines that stick with you. Three tracks features lyrics by author and poet Damian Wilkins & other collaborators include Don McGlashan, Joe Lindsey and Toby Laing from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Riki Gooch, and Anita Clarke from Motte, who sings on every track.
Organs and synths fade in and out in a set of woozy pop that focuses on the travails of aging bodies, domesticity and happiness amid global chaos. Mark: Luke Buda returns with his first solo album since 2008’s Vesuvius. Every month my colleague Neil and I cast our eye over the new material we have been buying for the Music collection at our CBD Te Awe library and put our highlights here with some quick reviews of new titles - our limit is a few lines only.ĭo we actually know anything about new music? Can you encapsulate an entire album in just a couple of lines? Are we just too old to understand what most of this music is banging on about. I’m Mark, the Music & Film Specialist at Wellington City Libraries (I also run the Libraries’ Wellington Music Facebook page).
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