STACK NZ Jan-Feb #59

MUSIC

A Special JB Hi-Fi Promotion

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Curtis Harding Soul Power

Charli XCX Sucker

Knife Party Abandon Ship

Rarely has an album been better named. Hitching the driving sound of his electrified Stratocaster to a foot-stomping backbeat, the stunning debut album from the one-time Cee-Lo Green backing singer is steeped in classic gospel, R’n’B and blues. “Gospel is inspiring,” says Harding. “From hardship and trials,

The London-based singer-songwriter has enjoyed a meteoric international rise since the release of her 2013 debut True Romance . As well as touring with the likes of Coldplay and Ellie Goulding, Charli XCX penned the global smash I Love It for Swedish duo

The stats on Knife Party are mind-blowing: they’ve amassed more than 2 million fans on Facebook and 53 million views on YouTube. After headlining the Future Music Festival last March, the hot English dance duo have been on an extended, album-focused studio hiatus that has seen them cultivate some

Icona Pop, and co-wrote and appeared on Iggy Azalea’s four million selling global smash Fancy. Her sophomore album Sucker is another bad-ass floor filler, oozing rebellion and attitude, and includes the top 10 smash Boom Clap .

you make something beautiful. It’s the history of black people in America, what happened to us during slavery, it’s the foundation of blues, R&B, soul, country and rock.”

of the most dynamic, innovative and outright exciting music of their career. Electro house at its hardest, Knife Party’s debut album Abandon Ship includes the singles Resistance and Begin Again .

Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo & Youth

XTC Drums And Wires

Justin Townes Earle Absent Fathers

It’s taken a while to arrive but the fifth album from Chicago rapper has been worth the wait. Although partly inspired by his tough upbringing in the projects, Lupe Fiasco told Rolling Stone it was a non-political album. “For some people it’s gonna be a shock, because there are no politics on

Released in 1980, the third album from the irreverent British New Wave outfit was a top 20 hit in NZ on the back of the hit single Making Plans For Nigel , an enduring favourite from the punk era. Drums and Wires is the second in a series of remixed and

Hot on the heels of his critically acclaimed Single Mothers album comes this companion piece LP. Absent Fathers was actually recorded at the same time and Earle had originally intended to release both sets as a double album. But as he began to sequence it, he felt each half needed to make its own statement. As well as 10 new originals, Absent Fathers also includes a lovely accoustic reading of the Fleetwood Mac classic Dreams , recorded late last year in Australia.

expanded XTC classics, and is available as a deluxe CD/BD set. The original album has been mixed for 5.1 Surround Sound from the original studio masters by prog icon Steven Wilson, and the set also includes six bonus tracks.

the record,” he says. “From here on out, I’m just making music.” Tetsuo & Youth also boasts an eclectic line-up of collaborators, including Ed Sheeran, Ty Dolla Sign and Guy Sebastian.

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