“In her exploration of the Kiwi male psyche,” wrote in her review of What You Wish For, Couchdiva, writer for https://groovebookreport.blogspot.com “Robertson shows that it’s not always the strong, silent types that fare the best.” To understand more about the underlying currents of masculinity and identity The CoffeeBar Kid (aka Tim)
https://www.ambientlightblog.com/womad-2019-interviews-my-baby/ Tim Gruar continues his series about artists coming to Womad in March, this time talking to Dutch/Kiwi three piece My Baby – a group that defies the usual trappings of the music industry machinery, preferring to tour, record and produce entirely under their own steam. Nailing down their sound
First published: https://www.ambientlightblog.com/plum-green-sound-recordings/ When I first reviewed folk-goth siren Plum Green back in 2012 I may have been a bit harsh. I compared her performance on her debut to Rushes to Evanescence’s Amy Lee, noting that this was a singer in search of her voice. With this new collection, I
Originally published: https://www.ambientlightblog.com/j-mascis-elastic-days/ Swapping power chords for fingerpicking and acoustic guitars, Dinosaur Jnr’s frontman J Mascis showcases a very different musical side, with a more gentle contemplative approach that’s streets away from the brash indie rock we’re used to from him. On his third solo album, the alt-pop slacker specialist seeks
First published at: https://grooveradio.blogspot.com/2018/10/live-review-rhian-sheehan-quiet-divide.html I will confess up front that I’ve always been a champion of Sheehan’s work. That goes back to the time he gave me a copy of his first album, Paradigm Shift, which he made in his little dingy Newtown flat on a computer and guitars. I was
