13 January 2011
Blog | Music and Video
Video: The Phoenix Foundation
Five recommendations of Kiwi artists / albums from the indie-poppers.
Words by Jordan Bassett
New Zealand indie-poppers The Phoenix Foundation are all set for the European release of their fourth album, Buffalo, which has been picking up stellar reviews across the globe. Today The Stool Pigeon chatted to frontman Sam Flynn Scott about shit New Zealand radio, Finnish hardcore and the chillwave name-generator. Read the interview in the next issue, out February 10. For now he’s compiled a list of five Kiwi artists/albums he thinks we should get acquainted with.
Lawrence Arabia – Chant Darling. AKA Christchurch’s gently bonkers James Milne, who has been turning out off-kilter sunshine pop since 2006.
Connan Mochasin – Please Turn Me Into The Snat. Formerly of Connan and the Mockasins, he wrote his solo debut Please Turn Me Into the Snat at his mum’s house near Hawke Bay – because she told him to.
Dear Time’s Waste – Spells. Clair Duncan, with a series of occasional collaborators, writes eerie, jangly Cure-esque melodies she recently told Under the Radar are inspired by “history, genealogy [and] ghost stories.”
Family Cactus – Come Howling. Wellington 7-piece with enough anthems to make Win Butler sweat.
Glass Vaults – The Glass EP. Icy soundscapes and ethereal vocals are layered over ADD drum machines. Either very nice or deeply unsettling, we’re not sure.
