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FEATURE MUSIC
APRIL 2015 JB Hi-Fi
The winner of the 2015 Taite Music Prize for the year’s best New Zealand album
will be announced on April 15. As the countdown to the ceremony begins,
STACK asked the short-listed finalists when they last listened to their
nominated album and whether they had discovered anything new about it.
Tami Neilson
Dynamite! ((Neilson Records/
Southbound)
“Much to my embarrassment, I have to listen
to it every morning in the car when my 3 year
old requests his favourite songs (which are
Honey Girl, Walk and the song I wrote for
him, Texas). I make sure to shut it off before
I open the door so I’m never busted listening
to my own album!”
Aldous Harding
Aldous Harding (Lyttleton Records/
Southbound/Flying In)
“I listened to it for the first time since it’s release
last April just two weeks ago. It was pleasant
because I could recall the people who were
around me at the time. I allowed myself to be
proud for a song or two but that’s it.”
Jakob
Sines (ShootThe Freak/Border)
Guitarist Jeff Boyle: “I listened to it for the first
time in a couple months just yesterday actually.
Didn’t really discover anything new about it,
but I did really enjoy listening to it, which is
great after hearing it several hundred times
in the making of it..”
Tiny Ruins
Brightly Painted One (Arch Hill
Recordings/Spunk/Universal)
“After about a year’s break from the record,
I listened to it on a car stereo a month or so
ago, alone. I found it really difficult! Maybe
it’s too fresh, or it was a bad stereo...I don’t
know, it’s like a time capsule and it can be
uncomfortable to hear your own voice.You
are always growing out of the last thing and
towards the next thing.We played the songs
live so many times on tour last year, I guess
you push them into wilder places, and to
come back to the recording is a like revisiting
a past self. It doesn’t really mean I’d change a
whole lot about it; we captured those songs
at that time and I’m happy for that.”
Grayson Gilmour
Infinite Life! (Flying Nun)
“Probably not since I checked the LP test press!
But there’s a lot of detail in the album… different
sounds and textures pop out all the time.”
@peace
@peace and the Plutonian Noise Symphony
(Young, Gifted and Broke/ Rhythm)
Tom Scott: “I revisited it when we got the test
press back for the vinyl release.That’s when I
was reminded of what it was we’d set out to do.
I got disheartened after the release of this album
to be honest, because it didn’t resonate with
some of our friends. But when I heard it again that
day I remembered we didn’t make it for them.
I remembered we didn’t make it to have radio
success. We just wanted to make a weirdo sci-fi
album about finality, because that’s what
interested us at the time.“
Delaney Davidson
Swim Down Low (Outside Inside/
Southbound)
“I went back to listen to some tracks and was
amazed by having people playing on an album how
little you actually have to say in the final process.
You are at the mercy of your players a lot of the
time.... I guess I never realised that so clearly before”.
Mulholland
Stop & Start Again (Mulholland/Rhythm)
“I had a birthday recently, up north with all the family
Mum chucked it on while we were having a beer and
sausages. I discovered that I still really like it!”
KImbra
The Golden Echo (Warner Music)
“I make it a bit of a rule to not listen to my work
once it’s released – part of the moving on process
– but I did listen to it on vinyl for the first time last
month and I found that experience to be really
illuminating!There is so much more dimension to
the sound, I heard a lot more detail in ways I hadn’t
before which was really cool.”
Delaney Davidson
Kimbra
Grayson Gilmour
@Peace
Jakob
Tami Neilson
Aldous
Harding
Mulholland
Sowhat were the finalists’ favourite
Kiwi album of the past year?
Tami Neilson: Delaney Davidson and Marlon
William, Sad But True: Vol 3
Mulholland: Connan Mockasin, Caramel
Aldous Harding: Tiny Ruins, Brightly Painted One
Jakob’s Jeff Boyle: Shihad, FVEY
Tiny Ruins: Robert Scott, Green House
Grayson Gilmour: Orchestra of Spheres,
Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music
@peace’s Tom Scott: Christoph El’ Truento,
And The Wind Said Fly But The Web Just
Let Me Dance
Delaney Davidson: Terror of the Deep,
Death of The Gideon
KImbra: Connan Mockasin, Caramel
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