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Simon Bailey’s elegant instrumental album ‘Moonscapes’ etches beautiful shapes in the firmament – Backseat Mafia
The Breakdown Pony Face Records – 8.8 Simon Bailey used to be in early 2000s band Pony Face – a band that also had Anth Dymke, a regular on our review pages from his solo work and collaborations with Golden Fang and Jo Meares. Through his label Pony Face Records, Bailey has just released an exquisite collection of instrumentals in his new album ‘Moonscapes’. Rather than tracks, this album is more a collection of resonant emotions and moments – floating on a cotton wool bed that is undulating and pulsing with gentle waves of liquid synths and yearning guitars. There is a dreamy ambience to the tracks that enchants and…
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Alma Leta’s Nik Brinkman-produced ‘Time Of Our Lives’ sparkles and shines like a glittering jewel in the firmament. – Backseat Mafia
Born in California but raised in New Zealand, Wellington-based singer and songwriter Alma Leta (the nom de plume of Emmanuelle Alma-Rose Baur) has worked with one of our favourite antipodean producers Nik Brinkman to bring out an enchanting and ethereal debut album ‘Time Of Our Lives’, out today. The album is a deeply personal reflection on Leta’s life. She says: This album is an ode to my twenties. A love letter per se but also a forgiveness of myself and others. A moment to relish in everything it has brought me so far. The first half is a leaning into innocence and the second is a pivot away from it.…
