The Phoenix Foundation - Friend Ship"New Zealand's finest purveyors of psychedelic Pop" **** The Times The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. Its been five years since their last album, Give Up Your Dreams, but that downtime has been well spent. The New Zealand outfit have been writing, recording, touring with a Symphony Orchestra, creating the acclaimed soundtrack for Taika Waititi's Hunt

Acclaimed in Rolling Stone by David Fricke as ‰ÛÏa Hendrix devotee every bit as tough and contemporary as the serrated guitar chorales of Sonic Youth and Pixies

infected with news bulletin on-thehour bleeps underlining its time-sensitive nature

Thomas McNiece on bass and Jonny Finnegan on drums

Ruby Mars (Mario Rubalcaba) and The Notorious ND (Andy Stamets) served as the man's backing band and slashed through his Testors repertoire resulting in a primo barrage of 1970s neo-proto-punk

The classic 'Monkey Business' LP

Marijata was a group made up of three members- Ko ‘Electric’ Addison on drums

And if you don't know

even if he’s not really noticed

“Has He Got A Friend For Me

This reissue features as a bonus the Latin soul track 'Tihuanaco' (a cover of Peruvian pianist Alfredito Linares)

Now the band are gearing up to release Dream Wife on January 26th

Time Out and Q- championed Bright Light Bright Light (aka Rod Thomas) follows his critically acclaimed debut with a warm