A Million Pleading Faces

  RECORD REVIEW : Ringlets , New Life (2024)     i tell ya, i’ve got the Ringlets fever. i’m fucking mad for Ringlets . i can’t get enough. if i had to pick a favourite (formed in the last five years) new zealand band it’d be Ringlets all the way. the interview i did with them earlier this year is one of the funniest things i’ve ever published. i love them too much and i wish they’d make some t-shirts already. when i heard they were putting out a new single i preordered it as soon as it was available. i told myself i wasn’t gonna listen to it till i had the 7” because i’m some kind of hipster scum but, annoyingly, someone fucked up and my copy got delayed (i was promised it would show up around friday the 7th) and it only manifested days after i made plans to leave wellington for a week † (wednesday the 12th). so my copy is currenting sitting in the flying nun store in wellington, a 3 hour drive away from where i’m typing from.  the A side of the new single is pre...

  LIVE REVIEW: Silicone Tongue, Jilter off Kilter. 5/06/24, San Fran (eyegum wednesday), Wellington.   after some time experimenting with being a shut-in (can't recommend it enough), i once again must brave the outside world to heed the siren song emanating from the mecca of 7 dollar beer and sticky hardwood floors. it's been a while since i've reviewed an Eyegum Wednesday, and i picked a really great one to come back on. i'd go as far as to call it a pretty historic moment. a rare night when everything was extremely perfect and nothing was bad. if i was stabbed to death at this show the worst i could give it would be a 4/5. it's easy to come down on Eyegum Wednesdays, for being studenty, for the mediocre bands, and for being pretty empty most of the time until the nursing students start to filter in when the DJ comes on, but this week it was very close to being a perfect night. i was genuinely shocked by Silicone Tongue . i'd like to think of myself as being o...