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November 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Weyes Blood: Rough Trade Session (ep)

Weyes Blood Rough Trade Session (ep) Sub Pop Records Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising is probably my single favourite album of the year. It’s the first record of 2019 that I remember making my head spin. I want to wrap it in cotton wool and keep it always – I have listened to it a lot […]

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November 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Weyes Blood To Play Three NZ Shows (March, 2020)

Weyes Blood aka Natalie Laura Mering returns to New Zealand for three shows in March of next year. Her first appearance here in a couple of years, her first appearances out of Wellington and her first since the stunning 2019 album Titanic Rising (easily one of my picks for record of the year). Not only Weyes […]

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August 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Drugdealer: Raw Honey

Drugdealer Raw Honey Mexican Summer/Southbound This, the second album by Drugdealer – a name given to a project helmed by late-blooming wunderkind Michael Collins – is another clever selection of Record Collection Pop; songs you could fool yourself into thinking you’re sure you’ve heard before. A trace of Beach Boys here, some summer 70s feel-good daze there. But actually it’s […]

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April 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising

Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop Records Karen Carpenter is alive. And well. She’s survived. She has continued to sing with that voice – clear as a bell. She is the modern-day torch singer. She is a soothsayer connecting us to the ugly truths of this age, reminding us of the amazing opportunities in and around the daze. She’s now writing […]