PopLibNZ

Turning over rocks & sifting the sediments of underground pop music to help you find golden nuggets.

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Recent eclectic run of posts if anyone is still using this hellscape platform to discover new music. Maria Somerville, Pink Fairies, The Green Child, Immersion, Crumbs, House of All, Seefeel, The Bats. https://t.co/PZJYbRD8ze

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“Now I Know” by Springloader may be the best NZ guitar pop song you’ve never heard (unless you’ve heard Failsafe Records 1994 compilation “Good Things”). It’s from Springloader’s soon-to-be released album “Just Like Yesterday”, started 1994 completed 2024. https://t.co/w1elhJLVRn

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Haven’t kept up with links to new PopLib posts on this TwiX hell site, but if anyone is still here and interested in New Zealand music then take a deep dive into these 32 eclectic selections… start at the end of the moth and scroll your way back… https://t.co/PZJYbRD8ze

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Posting daily NZ tunes in May: Tiny Ruins, Bathysphere, Superette, Beastwars, Mr Biscuits, HDU, Bad Sav, Circling Suns, Wurld Series, Thorn Dells, Half Hexagon, Recitals, Seafog, TG Shand, Jim Nothing, DATM, Pearly*, Birdation so far at https://t.co/PZJYbRD8ze

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“Orlando” by Thorn Dells is a track from one of many excellent contemporary Dunedin albums in the digital underworld shared via Bandcamp. The song is brooding guitar-dominated futuristic post punk. https://t.co/3eYeK0KRQQ

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“Up The Harbour” by Seafog, a Port Chalmers band playing like their lives depend on it, has loping Dunedin jangle in its DNA. Why live in the past when there’s still a glorious Dunedin music underground that’s not hard to find if you look? https://t.co/xJHqlfNF8o

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“The Method” by Half Hexagon could be the soundtrack to whatever your imagination conjures, eg: a dystopian thriller in which bicycle-riding rebels lure Ford Ranger-driving cyclist-fixated homicidal zombies halfway down Dominion Road to be ambushed https://t.co/PZJYbRD8ze

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“Say Whatever” by Pearly* is from a fine EP of well-crafted noise-pop from this new Dunedin band with links to another fine noisy Dunedin band Dale Kerrigan (& Koizilla, Space Bats, Attack! Asta Rangu, Bathysphere) too through drummer Josh Nicholls) https://t.co/FQ0dLYLAHp

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“Haggard” by Birdation (alter-ego of Bad Sav & Death And The Maiden guitarist Hope Robertson) is a woozy shape-shifting delight of dubby atmospheric guitar and glitchy drums. It’s from a newly-released collection called ‘a real handful’ https://t.co/ycZ9uhQvKD

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Been posting about music in bursts on PopLib but slack about posting here about it. Here is a link to today’s post. As it is #bandcampfriday now, scroll back through the posts for inspiration and hopefully new discoveries. Thank-you! https://t.co/PZJYbRD8ze

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solution - turned off auto-everything and predictive text in iPhone settings. Thank fcuk for that.

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House Of All return with “Aim Higher” introducing “Continuum”, the 2nd album in a year from the wonderful and frightening world of recovering ex-members of The Fall, led by firecracker Martin Bramah, here extorting “people thought I was off my head!”. https://t.co/6sgLu19LVw

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“Extorting”… sigh… autocorrect strikes again. Surely one of the dumbest bits of digital mobile device technology ever. My exhortation is to ban it!

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“A Ghost” by Shana Cleveland opens the Californian songwriter/ musician’s album “Manzanita”; a darkly weird dreamlike supernatural love album set in the Californian wilderness, part psychedelic folk, part Carny show music, wholly woozily wonderful. https://t.co/scbFAtDLsw

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“The Grand Old Trout” by Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker is from the two US guitarists delightful 2017 album “SpiderBeetleBee” described as “shared joy and acoustics in rambling conversation” and as good as anything by the acoustic guitar masters. https://t.co/XfnxIeWnIR

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“Seed” from the “Live at the Hollywood” album by Dimmer, extends over twice the length of the song on Dimmer’s 2001 debut “I Believe You Are a Star” and, in the words of Shayne P. Carter, includes “angles and extrapolations that aren’t on the original”. https://t.co/5GBL4dDn5s

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… ‘a(nother)’ not ‘a(mother)’ - time to upgrade from this tiny old phone or sharpen these fingers to a point to hit the tiny keyboard more accurately!

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“Point of View” by Soft Covers is a(mother) low-key DIY Australian guitar-pop gem from a Melbourne band with links to equally low-key DIY band Dumb Things. https://t.co/EjuZ7UjCjO

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“Imitation of War” by Itasca is the first song shared ahead of the release of an album of the same name. The desert folk of previous albums is electrified into a glorious combination of psychedelic rock and ornate medieval folk stylings. https://t.co/EFNHAOhNqZ

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“Raleigh Arena” by Jim Nothing is gloriously propulsive Clean-via-Snapper ramalana rock single-speed singalong simplicity; an cycling anthem celebrating blasting along on a bike with the wind at your back and a smile on your face. https://t.co/JNwv1E9PpQ