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RENAISSANCE — Beyoncé
Find it. Spotify | Amazon A dance record that dares to be purely joyful — which turns out to be its own kind of radical act. Beyoncé disappears into club culture and comes out the other side having made something timeless.Every track is engineered to hit harder than the last. Sixty-two minutes of relentless, meticulous fun from someone operating at a level most artists only theorise about.This is…
Life at Sea: Six Nights on a Carnival Ship and What I Learned About Packing
The ship is enormous. You know this intellectually before you board — you’ve seen the numbers, you’ve looked at the diagrams online, you understand that fifteen decks is a large number of decks. And then you turn a corner below the waterline and find a full-scale bowling alley, three separate dining concepts operating simultaneously, and a bar that is doing more business at 11am than most…
The Candle at Both Ends
People say: burn the candle at both ends. If you burn a candle at one end, you get light and a reasonably predictable decline. The candle has a plan. If you burn it at both ends, you get twice the light and half the lifespan, and a small fire hazard when the two burning ends meet in the middle — which will happen faster than you expect. “Burn the candle at both ends and you get twice the light…
Clot — Wax Chattels
Find it. Spotify | Amazon Auckland’s Wax Chattels make aggressive, minimal post-punk that sounds like three people trying to outrun a panic attack. Clot is their debut and it’s a controlled demolition — 25 minutes, no fat, absolute commitment from start to finish.Not comfortable listening, and that is entirely the point. The rhythm section is relentless, the guitar is treated like a blunt…
Leave Love Out of This — Anthonie Tonnon
Find it. Spotify | Amazon Dunedin’s Anthonie Tonnon makes the kind of records that arrive quietly and rearrange your listening. Leave Love Out of This is warm, intelligent synth-pop with lyrics that actually say something — “Rehua” was one of the year’s best New Zealand songs and not enough people know it.The rest of the record keeps pace. Tonnon doesn’t rush, doesn’t overplay, just builds these…
HAIRY — WHO SHOT SCOTT
Find it. Buy the vinyl on Amazon · Buy on Bandcamp Vinyl On Vinyl may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. It costs you nothing extra and keeps Vinyl Burns in bourbon. Support the blog. Buy Vinyl Burns a bourbon → · Monthly subscription Troublemakers. I discovered WHO SHOT SCOTT before Zaidoon Nasir discovered himself. That is simply a fact. I was operating out of my bunker in Otaki…
Tū — Alien Weaponry
Find it. Spotify | Amazon Three teenagers from Waipu making thrash metal with te reo Māori lyrics. Tū was one of New Zealand’s most unexpected and satisfying records of the decade — legitimately crushing riffs wrapped around genuine cultural depth. The songs about Māori history hit harder because of the genre, not despite it.The idea shouldn’t work this well. It works extremely well. Alien…
Your Five-Year Plan Has Already Started Without You
Spoiler. You had a five-year plan. We all have a five-year plan. The plan involved some combination of: a career pivot, learning Portuguese, owning a plant that was still alive, and generally being more of a person than you currently are. The plan was detailed. The plan was inspiring. You wrote it on a napkin and took a photo of the napkin and the photo is now buried somewhere between 2019 and a…
Sign O' the Times — Prince
Find it. Buy the vinyl on Amazon · Buy on Bandcamp Vinyl On Vinyl may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. It costs you nothing extra and keeps Vinyl Burns in bourbon. Support the blog. Buy Vinyl Burns a bourbon → · Monthly subscription Collectors! Ten years. Ten bloody years since Prince Rogers Nelson — arguably the greatest one-man band in recorded history, and I say this as…
The Success Paradox
When you’re looking for something, you always find it in the last place you look. That’s why, when I find something, I keep looking a while longer — that way, when I stop, I found it sooner. “Success is elusive. You always find it in the last place you look. So when I find something, I keep looking for a while. That way, when I stop, it feels like I found it sooner.” Here is the paradox. If…
Six60 — Six60
Find it. Spotify | Amazon The debut from New Zealand’s biggest homegrown pop act of the 2010s. Six60 arrived with their self-titled record carrying enough hooks to fill several albums — feel-good reggae-influenced pop that somehow worked everywhere from student flats to national radio without breaking a sweat.The formula was all there from the start. “Don’t Forget Your Roots” put them on the map…
The Wrong Rental Car for the Canadian Rockies: A Cautionary Tale in Three Gears
The rental car was described in the booking confirmation as a “mid-size.” What I collected from the Calgary airport lot was a Nissan Versa in a shade of beige so apologetic it may have been named after a surrender. I had three days before the Edmonton Streetfest performance. The Rockies were visible from the highway. Decisions were made. This is a story about the wrong car on the right roads, and…
Paradises — Ladytron
Find it. Buy the vinyl on Amazon · Buy on Bandcamp Vinyl On Vinyl may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. It costs you nothing extra and keeps Vinyl Burns in bourbon. Support the blog. Buy Vinyl Burns a bourbon → · Monthly subscription Synthheads! I invented electroclash. I want to be clear about this. In 1998, during a classified signals intelligence operation in Liverpool — the…
Two Star & The Dream Police — Mk.gee
Find it. Buy the vinyl on Amazon · Buy on Bandcamp Vinyl On Vinyl may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. It costs you nothing extra and keeps Vinyl Burns in bourbon. Support the blog. Buy Vinyl Burns a bourbon → · Monthly subscription Right. Last one. Please sit down for this. Mk.gee — Michael Gordon, a twenty-four-year-old from New Jersey who has been working as a…
The Universe Is Listening And It Has Questions
Listen. The universe is listening. This is the core promise of manifestation — that if you want something badly enough, and you cut out a picture of it from a magazine, the cosmos will sort the logistics. And why not? The cosmos is enormous. It has time. The vision board is, at its heart, a very confident mood. You stick up pictures of a beach house and a sports car and what you really mean is: I…
Saxophone Colossus — Sonny Rollins
Find it. Buy the vinyl on Amazon · Buy on Bandcamp Vinyl On Vinyl may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. It costs you nothing extra and keeps Vinyl Burns in bourbon. Support the blog. Buy Vinyl Burns a bourbon → · Monthly subscription Ears. Sonny Rollins is dead. He died on May 25th, 2026, at the age of 95, in Woodstock, New York, surrounded, I can only assume, by the ghost of…
Luke Skywalker Was a Closer
Luke Skywalker had no formal qualifications. He lived in a desert. He had a fairly unprofitable agricultural operation. And then, on his first major assignment — with no prior experience, a borrowed vehicle, and a targeting system he turned off on purpose — he blew up the Death Star. That is a closing rate most people in business would sell an organ to achieve. “Luke Skywalker had no…