Chris Thompson has a collectable new mini-album out this week. That Chris Thompson. Let GARY STEEL explain.
Vinyl Reviews
Vinyl news and reviews
Record Roundup: Recent Albums Reviewed & Rated
GARY STEEL actually listens all the way through a bunch of albums and has his say about them.
The Ones That Got Away #1
An occasional column in which GARY STEEL reviews a bunch of recordings that escaped his attention at the time of release, and finds them to be of merit.
Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie – At Swim 2 Birds (Flying Nun) LP VINYL REVIEW
A lost Flying Nun album finds its feet 30 years after its original release, writes GARY STEEL.
The Decayes – Aquarium (Imgrat) ALBUM REVIEW
In the first of a new series – Unknown Pleasures – where he writes about worthy but under-recognised albums and artists, Gary Steel puts his case for The Decayes, one of the great unwritten stories of underground rock.
Plucky South Islanders In Battle
In honour of NZ Music Month, Gary Steel climbs into the crumbling catacombs of his back catalogue, and disinters a different story Every Day In May (EDIM). Today’s piece comes from a pre-Flying Nun South Island: my review of a seemingly completely forgotten album by a seemingly forgotten band called The Newz, published in the Evening Post, 19 July, 1980. I’ve still got this album. It’s alright.
The Great Unwashed
Gary Steel loved the Great Unwashed double single back in 1984, even with its troublesome cover.
Hit & Slipped Discs
Every day in May, to mark NZ Music Month, Gary Steel presents something local from his considerable behind. Personal archive, that is. Today’s surprise item? NZ Reviews From 1986.