A harvest of electronica
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3816 20th Jun 2013
New albums from Boards of Canada, Gold Panda and Mount Kimbie
Jim Pinckney
Jim Pinckney is an ex-pat Midlander, who has proudly made Auckland his home since 1989. He is the host of 95bFM’s long running Stinky Grooves show, and can also often be found spinning superior sounds out and about as DJ Stinky Jim. As well as writing for the Listener and various local and international music publications, he runs the Round Trip Mars record label, home to SJD, James Duncan, Jefferson Belt and Scratch 22, among others. Jim also records as part of Unitone HiFi and solo, and keeps his seemingly limitless musical obsession fresh by maintaining the credo “respect the unexpected”.
To be perfectly Blunt
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3813 30th May 2013
A break-up album that is visceral, brutal, messy and glorious.
Short takes
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3813 30th May 2013
Jim Pinckney reviews new albums by Daft Punk and Savages.
Music reviews: Now hear this
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Issue 3810 9th May 2013
Public Service Broadcasting find gold in vocal samples from British education, entertainment and training films.
Yeah Yeah? No, no
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3807 18th Apr 2013
Willy Moon needs to put his dress-up box away.
Wakin' On A Pretty Daze - review, plus short takes
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Issue 3804 28th Mar 2013
An appreciation of the quotidian and simple gestures mark out Kurt Vile’s follow-up to Smoke Ring for My Halo.
Lorde moves in mysterious ways
By Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue Listener Plus 3803 23rd Mar 2013
Inspired by the likes of Burial, teenage star-in-the-making Ella Yelich O’Connor wanted her songs to do all the talking before she unmasked herself.
My Bloody Valentine - review, plus short takes
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Issue 3801 7th Mar 2013
An album people have genuinely been waiting to hear – for more than two decades, in fact.
What We Used to Know by Christoph El’ Truento - review, plus short takes
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3798 14th Feb 2013
Christoph El’ Truento stands out from the legions following in Flying Lotus’s wake.
Django Unchained soundtrack - review, plus short takes
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3795 24th Jan 2013
They don’t call Quentin Tarantino “the DJ director” for nothing.