Every year, around this time, as we hurtle towards the mayhem that is the December/New Year festive period, it is tradition for the blog to start taking stock of all of the musical bits and bobs that helped to define your blogger’s year. To reflect, to rate, to rank, and to celebrate.
I’ll have a “best of 2020” (albums, EPs, gigs etc) blogpost for you sometime next month, but for the past couple of years I’ve always kicked the year-end process off by posting a series of clips from local (Aotearoa/New Zealand) artists which made the biggest impression on me throughout the year. Ten of them. See 2018 (here), and 2019 (here).
To commence EGG’s countdown of this year’s Choice Kiwi Cuts, I’m going to start with a tune which initially surfaced as far back as 2018, but one that appeared on a late 2019 album I couldn’t stop listening to during the March to May lockdown period – Dead Little Penny’s Urge Surfing. Album opener ‘Honeycomb’ set the tone nicely for an album chock full of fuzzy shoegaze treats.
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