Captain Sergeant Major “Captain Sergeant Major”

Opposite Sex “Opposite Sex”

Even after consuming, digesting and revisiting the debut album from Gisborne/Dunedin trio, Opposite Sex for over a month, I still feel torn by indecision and uncertainty as I write

Gin Wigmore “Gravel & Wine”

About forty years ago The Band wrote ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’, and they were Canadian. A few years later, Florida band Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote ‘Sweet Home

T54 “Scammers”

T54 do a sunny, Northland version of the Dunedin sound. They’re a bunch of friends, having fun, free of cruel ambition, who make acceptable jangly psych-rock. The second song

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds “Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds”

To call the first High Flying Birds album a post-Oasis record would be largely accurate. Aside from the muscular, morose ‘If I Had A Gun…’, this is not music