New Zealand trio Wax Chattels make what they call "guitarless guitar music." Using bass, drums and keyboards there is an undeniable pummeling rock vibe on their debut album which was recently released via venerable kiwi indie label Flying Nun/Captured Tracks.
As Fazerdaze, New Zealander Amelia Murray makes breezy, effortlessly melodic indie rock that recalls mid-'90s alt, from Cardigans-y jazzy pop to more fuzzed-out confections. Her debut album, Morningside, came out earlier this year via Flying Nun and fits right in with the label's rich hist…
She's got a sound that pulls from late '60s / early '70s loner folk and the genre's many revivalists that have popped up over the past 15 years or so. There's plenty of great stuff in this realm already, but don't let that stop you from checking out Aldous' stuff..…
Clean frontman David Kilgour's terrific 1994 solo album Sugar Mouth is bright jangly guitar pop at its best. The record never got a U.S. release but that will change soon as Flying Nun is reissuing it March 18 in America and the rest of the world...
Singer-songwriter Kane Strang is from Dunedin, New Zealand, and the echoes of that city's musical heritage (The Chills, The Clean, The Verlaines) can be heard in his breezy, bouncy guitar pop...
New Zealand band The Renderers have been around since the late '80s, making dark, bluesy, often bleak rock and have had records out on Flying Nun, Siltbreeze, Ajax and Ba Da Bing...