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August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gate: Saturday Night Fever

Gate Saturday Night Fever MIE Announced as Gate’s disco album – obviously riffing on the title – but that only means something if you’ve already entered through the Gate into Michael Morley’s world of hypnotic swirls of noise, guitar loops that duck, dive and drone and rhythms that become melodies only after they’ve pulverised your […]
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April 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Carter/Morley/Yeats: Two Gigs (Akld/Wgtn) April, 2016

Audio Foundation presents Carter/Morley/Yeats in Wellington and Auckland – late April, 2016. The incendiary trio of Shayne Carter, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats has been blowing minds over the last two years with their rare performances. First formed to play an impromptu set at a friend’s wedding, the band has recently played a bunch of […]
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April 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Hands: The Soul Is Quick

Hands The Soul Is Quick Ecstatic If a collaboration – or at least some perceived common ground – between Burial and Gate sounds like the proverbial cup of herbal for you then you might want to check The Soul Is Quick by Hands. If you know Axel Willner already from his work as The Field […]
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October 20, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Great Kiwi Albums You Must Revisit: #6 The White House

A girl at university tells me one day she’s got an album she wants me to hear. So I go okay. I’ve got this massive CD collection. I’ve heard everything. I’m not sure that I ever thought like that but I’m damn sure people thought that of me. Anyway, I’m always intrigued when someone tells […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 6, Bruce Russell, Gate, Great Kiwi Albums You Must Revisit, Michael Morley, Phantom Billstickers, The Dead C, The White House ·

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June 22, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1957

Gate, A Republic Of Sadness (2010) I review CDs for a few places, it’s what you do as a freelancer – and one of those places is New Zealand Musician. Sometimes I wonder why I bother – there are so many terrible albums released by no-hopers and the magazine isn’t exactly brutal; it tends to […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged A Republic Of Sadness, Forever, Gate, Michael Morley, New Zealand Musician, The Dead C, Trees, Vinyl ·

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