"Monkey Chest" is the first pre-release song ahead of the release of the first full-length Negative Nancies album, called "HEATWAVE".
Negative Nancies exist in their own universe, sounding unlike anything else happening in Dunedin or in New Zealand past or present. The songs are created organically in the rehearsal room, through an evolution of experimentation. In amongst the art-punk chaos there’s an irrepressible undercurrent of pop melodicism.

Negative Nancies don’t play by anyone’s rules. Songs unfold in unusual ways. Sombre glory, impish mischief. Wired anxiety, manic glee. It makes sense until it doesn’t any more. And vice versa. It’s not so much Dada as Dunedin-a, filtering observations about everyday human behaviour through a unique appreciation of the absurd and a wild-yeast approach to organic song creation and performance. They don’t want to be banned, they just want to play in a band.

From the album HEATWAVE out in April 2021: https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heatwave

HEATWAVE

Monkey Chest by Negative Nancies

Pōneke/ Wellington jangle / surf / fuzz-pop sextet Tidal Rave return with a new single “Banana” ahead of the launch of their snazzily titled “Albumette” following up their 2020 album “Heart Screams”. 

"Banana" contemplates the enjoyment of the banana as a convenient and nourishing food, while also pondering ethical dilemmas about exploitative labour practices by large multi-national banana growers, expressing the pleasure/ guilt dilemma of western consumption that many of us grapple with.

Albumette

Tidal Rave - Banana

"So High" is a single recorded between the first EP "MalesMalesMales" (2012) and the second EP "Run Run Run" (2013). Now both EPs and this single have been assembled on one 12" 45 rpm mini-album LP and CD, released on Dunedin underground pop label Fishrider Records on 1 November 2013.
http://malesmalesmales.bandcamp.com/

Males - So High

"Delphine (With A Purpose)" is the first single from the debut album 'Floristry' by young Dunedin, New Zealand floral-pop trio Trick Mammoth. They say:

“Formed in early 2013, Trick Mammoth are a pop band from Dunedin, New Zealand. Fragile, lucid but rough around the edges, their songs are unintentionally sincere and bashfully honest, performed with open arms and a soft indifference. 
 
Drawing mostly on film, literature and poetry, their music discharges a shy pretension buried under layers of simplicity. With comparisons ranging from Black Tambourine to The Carpenters, Trick Mammoth have crafted a sound saccharine sweet yet doused in death.
 
In mid July 2013, the band recorded their first full length album with the assistance of Tex Houston (The Clean, The 3Ds). Adrian Ng and Millie Lovelock play guitars and sing, Sam Valentine plays drums. They all took turns to play bass.

Their debut album 'Floristry' is released through Fishrider Records in NZ on 31 January 2014 and co-released by Fishrider Records and Occultation Recordings in the UK on 24 February 2014."

http://trickmammoth.bandcamp.com/

Trick Mammoth - Delphine (With A Purpose)

'Lucky Too' is the lead single from the debut 9 song mini-album by Dunedin hyper-melodic pop band Males. 

They call what they do ‘garage pop’, or ‘beach pop’, but it seems more than that. Insanely catchy short songs, crammed with melody, propulsive guitar, helium vocals & harmonies. It's power-pop on a sugar diet, with serious themes.

http://malesmalesmales.bandcamp.com/
'Run Run Run/MalesMalesMales" by Males is released on LP/CD/Digital by Dunedin underground pop label Fishrider Records on 1 November 2013.

Males - Lucky Too

MALES are a pop band from Dunedin who play insanely catchy short songs, crammed with melody, propulsive guitar & helium vocals. It's garage-pop on a sugar diet, with serious themes.

Their debut release is a 12" LP (& CD/ Digi release) called Run Run Run/MalesMalesMales which features a brand new EP, a single So High, and their 2012 download-only self-titled debut EP.

Males - Madeline

Males - Weakness

MALES are a pop band from Dunedin who play insanely catchy short songs, crammed with melody, propulsive guitar & helium vocals. It's garage-pop on a sugar diet, with serious themes.

Their debut release is a 12" LP (& CD/ Digi release) called Run Run Run/MalesMalesMales which features a brand new EP, a single So High, and their 2012 download-only self-titled debut EP.

Males - Pre Roll

Males - Off The Floor

Males - Over And Out

Males - All Up From Here

Males - Marion Bates Thievery

A Christmas single of sorts from The Puddle - a new song "Hedgehog Hill" featuring Fishrider Records label-mates Trick Mammoth http://trickmammoth.bandcamp.com/  backed with a live recording of "Christmas in the Country" from April 1985.

Hedgehog Hill by The Puddle

The Spies were a Wellington New Zealand experimental/ avant-garde pop group existing briefly around 1979 as part of the Wellington punk & DIY scene. The Spies included Susan Ellis (vocals and organ), George Henderson (guitar and vocals), Richard Sedger (bass) and Chris Plummer (Drums) plus occasional other musicians like Mark Thomas (vocals).

They recorded an album - released 35 years later on 1 April 2014 by Siltbreeze Records. This is one of two takes of "Egyptian Birdsong" and does not appear on the album.

George Henderson went on to form The Puddle (1984 - present day). Chris Plummer became drummer for Shoes This High (also recently released on Siltbreeze).

The Spies - Egyptian Birdsong

Recorded live at Sammys in February 2014 by Iain Sweetman, Livesound Engineering. K3 originally appeared on The Puddle "Into the Moon" (1990)

The Puddle - K3 (Live 2014)

Kane Strang is a young Dunedin NZ musician creating extraordinary mini-symphonies of soaring, psychedlic lo-fi bedroom baroque folk pop. The version of 'Winded' included on the compilation LP "TEMPORARY - Selections from Dunedin's Pop Underground" - co-released September 2014 by Fishrider Records (NZ) and Ba Da Bing Records (US), is a remixed version of the track from his 2013 self-released album "A Pebble & A Paper Crane"  http://kanestrang.bandcamp.com/  http://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/

TEMPORARY

Winded

Kane Strang 'Winded' (from TEMPORARY compilation  LP)

"Supermarket" is a previously unreleased song by Dunedin no wave odd-pop trio Opposite Sex from the compilation LP TEMPORARY released on Fishrider Records NZ and Ba Da Bing! Records (USA).  http://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/t-e-m-p-o-r-a-r-y

Opposite Sex - Supermarket

"Flowers for the Blind" by Death & The Maiden is part of the compilation LP TEMPORARY released on Fishrider Records NZ and Ba Da Bing! Records (USA) http://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/t-e-m-p-o-r-a-r-y

Death & The Maiden - Flowers For The Blind

Males are a guitar pop trio from Dunedin. This is their latest song, recorded February 2014 and exclusive to the Fishrider Records compilation "TEMPORARY - Selections From Dunedin's Pop Underground 2011-2014." 
http://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/t-e-m-p-o-r-a-r-y 

Males - Dead Aware

Trick Mammoth's haunting "Home Video" closes our compilation LP TEMPORARY - Selections from Dunedin's Pop Underground 2011 - 2014.  https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/
It was recorded at the same session as "Candy Darling" & "Doll" which were released on UK indie-pop label WIAIWYA in May as part of their 7777777 2014 picture disc singles club series: https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/doll

Trick Mammoth - Home Video

"All The Stars" is from the upcoming album "Cosmic Radio Station" by The Shifting Sands - a psychedelic transmission to inner and outer space from Dunedin, New Zealand - Tune in… turn on… pop out. https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/

"All The Stars" also appeared on "TEMPORARY - Selections From Dunedin's Pop Underground 2011 - 2014" a compilation album released in October 2014 on Fishrider records and Ba Da Bing! Records in the US. https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/t-e-m-p-o-r-a-r-y

The Shifting Sands - All The Stars

"Dreaming to Keep Awake" is a track from "Cosmic Radio Station" - the 2nd album by The Shifting Sands. 

Beamed into the Pacific ether from a woolshed and a tumbledown house perched on the hills above Port Chalmers, NZ during a period of heightened solar flare and aurora activity, this is an album dripping sundazed melody through a shifting haze of fuzzy, chiming guitars, shimmering strings, and vocal harmonies. The cosmic radio station is on air. Tune in… turn on… pop out.

The Shifting Sands - Dreaming To Keep Awake

The Puddle recorded two EP-length sessions at Bob Frisbee's Auckland studio during recent touring excurisions to the North Island.  The two EPs - Secret Holiday and Victory Blues - will be released early in 2012 as one double EP album on CD and LP.  
Here's a sneak preview of the title track of the lead EP - Secret Holiday.  This proto-disco pop tune may be the first song to ever feature a "Scotch Call" brand duck caller (Duck No. 1401, Oakfield, NY) as a wind percussion instrument.  This is uncharacteristic for The Puddle, but pretty much every song on these two EPs is out of character.
The line-up on this song (and the Secret Holiday) EP is George D. Henderson (Guitars, vocals), Gavin Shaw (bass), Alan Starrett (Keyboards, viola) and Ian Henderson (Drums, percusssion and "Scotch Call" duck caller).  
The other EP - Victory Blues - was recorded just before Allan Starrett joined the band and features guest Greame Humphreys (Able Tasmans, Humphreys & Keen) on keyboards.

Secret Holiday by The Puddle

"Ooooh Baby in the Chorus" is the first single shared from "Wisteria" - the second album by Dunedin trio Death And The Maiden, which is released on Fishrider Records (NZ) and Occultation Recordings (UK) on 11 May 2018. https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wisteria

Oooh Baby In The Chorus by Death and The Maiden

"Zoe" (pronounced "zoh" here) is from a double-A-side 7" single released by Dunedin, NZ band The Shifting Sands. https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/track/zoe
Recorded in Manny’s Estudio International in East Los Angeles by The Shifting Sands after the band toured the West Coast of the USA supporting David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, this 7" single continues on from the saturated guitar rock of their Cosmic Radio Station album. 

Joining the Shifting Sands for the sessions was guest guitarist Steven Schayer – an LA-based musician with NZ connections, having played in The Chills during the early 90’s US-based “Soft Bomb” album era. Steven and studio owner/ recording engineer Manny Nieto brought a different flavour to complement the independent DIY No. 8 wire approach of The Shifting Sands.

Zoe/ Run

The Shifting Sands - "Zoe"

"River Underground" is the 2nd single from "Wisteria" - the 2nd album from Dunedin, NZ trio Death And The Maiden, consisting of bassist/ vocalist Lucinda King, guitarist/ drummer/ backing vocalist Hope Robertson and synths/ electronics Danny Brady. https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wisteria

Wisteria

Death And The Maiden - River Underground

Brent Harris of Auckland band Cut Off Your Hands was the guest of Auckland dance music station George FM on 15 May 2012 for an acoustic live-to-air performance of his favourite New Zealand song. He chose "As it Was" by The Puddle (opening song from the 2009 album "The Shakespeare Monkey").  This is the first cover of a song by The Puddle we can think of.  It's a great version too... George (of The Puddle, who wrote the song) approves. Find out more about CoyH here: http://cutoffyourhands.bandcamp.com/

Cut off Your Hands covering As It Was by The Puddle

"Hen's Teeth" is the first song shared by Bad Sav ahead of the release of their self-titled first album on 21 September 2018. Bad Sav is the band that refused to be left behind. Although featuring Death And The Maiden guitarist/vocalist Hope Robertson and bassist/vocalist Lucinda King, plus Shifting Sands guitarist Mike McLeod (on drums here), Bad Sav is the primary strain from which both of those bands sprang. Bad Sav deliver a far more guitar-oriented hard attack than DATM; their distinctive filtering and reassembly of influences from shoegaze, psychedelic noise-rock - and goodness knows where else - conjure up Dunedin's unique sonic alchemy, bursting with colossal, majestic, melodic noise.  https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hens-teeth

bad sav

Bad Sav - Hen's Teeth

"La Rat" is the opening track from the extraordinary debut album by ex-Gisborne, now mostly Dunedin-based trio Opposite Sex. Album available from Fishrider records (NZ) www.fishriderrecords.com  and Occultation Recordings (UK) www.occultation.co.uk 
Listen to the album at: https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/opposite-sex

La Rat by Opposite Sex

The Puddle - "Psych Thing" from a live tape from 1992, venue may be the Oriental Tavern in Dunedin.

The Puddle - "Psych Thing" (Live 1992)

"Body Below" is the opening track from Emily Fairlight's "Mother of Gloom", a haunting album capturing the essence of places, memories & feelings. Fairlight’s songwriting & distinctive powerful vocals - teak-hard yet soft as crushed velvet – inhabit varied musical arrangements with space for imagination, conjuring a kind of experiential realism.  "Mother Of Gloom" is released in NZ by Fishrider Records on 5 April 2019 and in the UK in June on Occultation Recordings. https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mother-of-gloom
[Recommended if you like Will Oldham, Calexico, Cat Power]

Mother of Gloom

Emily Fairlight - Body Below

Another song from the album 'Feel' by Dunedin's next generation of jangling psychedelic popsters The Shifting Sands.  The album as released on Fishrider Records.Listen to the whole album here: http://theshiftingsands.bandcamp.com/
More information on www.fishriderrecords.com

The Shifting Sands - Tonight

Emily Fairlight releases a new single “Lips Lasso” and hints at a new album in 2020. 

"This song was written in three different houses, in three very different states of mind about the same shit situation.”

https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mother-of-gloom
https://emilyfairlight.bandcamp.com/

Lips Lasso

Emily Fairlight - Lips Lasso

"Slow/ Fast" is the new single from Wellington six-piece band Tidal Rave, continuing a New Zealand (and Australasian) tradition of dark, compelling guitar and keyboard lead garage rock. 

There’s something slightly claustrophobic and unsettling about the churning dense weave of the three guitars and bass backed by ghostly organ and insistent drum pulse. 

Add the character provided by the interchange between three songwriter-guitarist-vocalists, one with distinctive vibrato reminiscent of The Terminals’ ominous baritone proclamations, and it’s possible to imagine "Slow/ Fast" and the album it comes from as the product of another era.

"Slow/ Fast" is from "Heart Screams" the first album from Tidal Rave, scheduled for release on Fishrider Records on 28 February 2020.

Heart Screams

Slow/ Fast

"Slow/ Fast" by Tidal Rave

These songs are by Dunedin no wave/ alternative/ post-punk trio Opposite Sex. Most are from their self-titled debut album. 'In the Trees' is an out-take.  The album is available on LP and CD in the UK/ Europe/ US from www.occultation.co.uk or in NZ/ Australia from http://oppositesex.bandcamp.com/  or via www.fishriderrecords.com

Panther Fight by Opposite Sex

Hatched from Dunedin's exciting 21st century dark but dreamy pop underground The Prophet Hens bring a ghostly reminder of the decaying southern city's musical past, when bands like the Chills, Magick Heads and The Bats crafted melodic chiming pop in seedy bars.

"All Over The World" is included on the compilation LP "TEMPORARY - Selections From Dunedin's Pop Underground" co-released by Fishrider Records (NZ) and Ba Da Bing Records (US) September 2014.

The debut album by The Prophet Hens - "Popular People Do Popular People" - is out on Fishrider Records. http://www.fishriderrecords.com/  http://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/
http://theprophethens.bandcamp.com/

The Prophet Hens - All Over The World

Fishrider Records is a record label based in Dunedin, New Zealand. We are more 'music arts & crafts' than 'music industry'. The label was established to release music we love that no-one else will release.  We specialise in literate, melodic psych-pop, post-punk, no wave, jangle-pop and whatever other kinds of subversive pop music take our fancy.  We also release on vinyl as well as CD and digital formats.  Fishrider records has released albums by Death And The Maiden, Males, The Prophet Hens, The Shifting Sands, The Puddle,  Opposite Sex, Trick Mammoth, and The Dark Beaks.

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