Music reviews: Now hear this
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3810 9th May 2013
Public Service Broadcasting find gold in vocal samples from British education, entertainment and training films.
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”.
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
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
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
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
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.
Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumours by Big Boi - album review
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3792 3rd Jan 2013
Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumours is a glorious mess that misses as much as it hits, but manages to do both endearingly, says Jim Pinckney.
The 20 best albums of 2012
Subscriber contentBy Nick Bollinger Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3788 6th Dec 2012
A round up of this year's 20 best albums.
Living in Hell by Heart Attack Alley - album review
Subscriber contentBy Jim Pinckney in Music
Issue 3786 27th Nov 2012
Signed to the Swiss label of fellow Kiwi Delaney Davidson, and with two European tours in 2012, crucial blues trio Heart Attack Alley have been this year’s humble overachievers on the international circuit, says Jim Pinckney.