Amplifier's Top 20 Releases for 2008
17.12.07
For the third year the Amplifier staff have sat down, thrown aside their personal preferences, and chosen their Top 20 kiwi releases of 2008.
On a beautiful summers day we gathered in a local watering hole with a pile of CDs... After much debate, bickering and some fighting the following 20 releases are those whom the assembled felt were the best releases for the year:
1. Ladi6 - Time Is Not Much (Question Music)
2. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion (Lil' Chief Records)
3. COCO SOLID - The Radical Bad Attack (Independent)
4. SJD - Dayglo Spectres (Round Trip Mars)
5. Jess Chambers - Jess Chambers And The Firefly Orchestra (Independent)
6. Bannerman - Bannerman EP (Independent)
7. Luke Buda - Vesuvius (Arch Hill Records)
8. HDU - Metamathics (Independent)
9. Needles and Bees - A Quilt Of Conversation (Independent)
10. Barry Saunders - Zodiac (Mana Music)
11. The L.E.D.S - Still (Independent)
12. Steve Abel - Flax Happy (Independent)
13. Dub Asylum - Ba Ba Boom! EP (Independent)
14. Flip Grater - Be All And End All (Maiden Records)
15. The Naked And Famous - This Machine (Round Trip Mars)
16. Tiger Tones - Tiger Tones (Pinacolada Records)
17. Thought Creature - Teleport Palace (Independent)
18. Dudley Benson - The Awakening (Independent)
19. Recloose - Perfect Timing (Loop)
20. Renee-Louise Carafice - Tells You To Fight (Monkey Records)
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Hannah Curwood - Blind Love
Hailing from the stark central otago landscape, Hannah's finely crafted songs reflect both her rural upbringing and her more recent years in the grey streets of Dunedin.
Blind Love is taken from here forthcoming EP, The Blind Love EP, scheduled for release in March. This 5 track record is Hannah Curwoods second release, following her debut album Sky Above Horse Below in July 2007
Cobra Khan - Graze The Earth
Graze The Earth taken from the album Helgorithms
Directed By Luc Mcpake.
