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New music from New Zealand's Madeira, aka Kim Pflaum, Yumi Zouma's former vocalist. "Let Me Down" is the latest release from Ryan Hemsworth's Secret Songs series, which means you can download it for free below:

Yumi Zouma is set to drop a limited new 12" that collects all the New Zealand group's hits — including both of their stellar, now-sold-out EPs, along with that beautiful Air France collab/cover, and the previously unreleased "Right, Off the Bridge" — on one very fancy deluxe vinyl package (pictured above). The first 500 records come on translucent vinyl with "blue haze"

Here's the new single from New Zealand's Princess Chelsea (formerly of the Brunettes), taken from her conceptual and kind of epic new record The Great Cybernetic Depression. "Too Many People", which features vocals from Brunettes founding member Jonathan Bree, is a lilting, deceptively dark cosmic lullaby that recalls the similarly dystopian retro-futuristic vibes present in her amazing

New Zealand's Princess Chelsea channels some heavy retrofuturistic vibes in the wonderfully surreal, Simon Ward-directed, "nerdy acid trip" of a video for her dreamily poignant new single, "No Church on Sunday". Princess Chelsea says of the vid:"Simon Ward has a unique style of filmaking which often involves a mixture of modern CGI filtered through 70s tube camera effect

Yumi Zouma came out of nowhere early this year with an EP of softly shimmering, twilit dream-disco that was so pitch-perfect (right down to the cover art; some might even suggest it was 'custom-built' for us) that it almost felt like it was destined to be a fluke, a debut that was surely the result of some kind of serendipitous long-distance magic that a young group has trouble ever recapturing.

Our friends at Yours Truly just debuted another great track from Yumi Zouma's lovely, undeniable self-titled debut EP; now that you've heard 3 of the 4 songs on this thing and are completely sold / in love, go ahead and grab the 10" now from Cascine:

An early frontrunner for our most played/dreamiest song of 2014 from Yumi Zouma, via the always wonderful label Cascine. The New Zealand group's wistful, shimmering new single "The Brae" is a nice subtle shift from the also great soft-focus funk of the group's first track, "A Long Walk Home for Parted Lovers", that surfaced last year; despite the decidedly '80s vibes the cover

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