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AshShields  ·  4153 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thirtieth Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

I finally got around to downloading some of the bookmarked albums I had on bandcamp. Lots of kiwi stuff.

Home Brew are a NZ hip hop/rap group. Not the sort of genre I usually listen to, but these guys have really good production and their lyrics are always socially/politically relevant, which is a huge tick in my book. I grabbed their older album, Last Week - a 7 track album they made about the week they had. This track, Tuesday, I really liked because it's pretty much my living situation.

Jet Jaguar makes some pretty nice downbeat, chill electro things, and his (pretty old, actually) remix album of Phoenix Foundation (a Kiwi psych rock band, pretty big, might have heard of them overseas) is wonderful - especially the Yarra River recording at the end.

On that note, I came back to the Phoenix Foundation's 2005 album, Pegasus yesterday, and I still love it just as much. Cheery in parts, mellow in others, the perfect combination of upbeat psych rock and pseudo-ambient psych rock.