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Monster Children came by the pressing plant to have a chat to our co-founder Ben Wallace about what we do here at Holiday Records for their 'Handmade' video series. 'Handmade' is dedicated to those people around the globe who make cool stuff with their hands - much like all the team here at Holiday. Enjoy below.

Astralwerks released ZHU’s third studio album, DREAMLAND 2021, in (unsurprisingly) 2021 amid the disruption caused by the pandemic. While he recorded the album at home in the USA, lockdown didn’t prevent the GRAMMY®-nominated artist from enlisting a vast cast of guests, including pristine pop singer Yuna, R&B experimentalist Tinashe and sleek house producer Channel Tres, among others. With all these collaborators in tow, DREAMLAND 2021 feels like a manifestation of the communal feeling of the dance floor, the warmth of a night dancing with your closest friends. View the visualisers that were created for each of the album’s 12 tracks...

Recently named ‘Best Alternative Artist’ at the 2022 Aotearoa Music Awards, Wellington-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vera Ellen has announced her upcoming album, Ideal Home Noise, which is out digitally and on both red or black vinyl on Friday March 31st, 2023 via Flying Nun Records - and pressed locally at Holiday Records. PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE.Alongside the new album announcement, Vera has shared the first single from the album, ‘Carpenter’ with a Sports Team directed video — plus, Vera Ellen and her band will take to the road on album release for a four-date tour of Aotearoa, playing headline shows in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. Tickets onsale now from Banished Music.Ideal Home Noise is a record unearthed from much...

Saturn Return is the hotly anticipated debut album from Te Whanganui-a-Tara three-piece Soft Plastics. Curating a wide range of influences, their music defies easy categorisation. Ranging from sun-bleached surf pop to swelling shoegaze, the songs are arranged with an investigative eye and a throughline of dry wit. What if we came at the guitars like this? What if The Ronettes were from Twin Peaks? Pressed in Tāmaki Makaurau by Holiday Records (in collaboration with Supreme Coffees's vinyl pressing initiative Supreme Press), Saturn Return captures the many moods of the 20-something spiral, wallowing in the lows just long enough to have some fun before...

Tiki Taane returns to the reggae infused, hip-hop dub sound that he is so well known for, but this time enlisting the talent and firepower of great friends and legends within the scene - Dubfx, Tali and Pdigsss (Shapeshifter). “Soldiers of Fire” is a head nodding summer anthem of bass throbbing verses and hooks - which describes their journey and commitment to being deep in the bass culture trenches. Pressed in Aotearoa by Holiday Records, this 12" translucent red vinyl comes with an exclusive signed sticker from Tiki! SIDE A - Track 1) Soldiers of Fire. Track 2) Gaudi Dub...

It’s been seven strange years since The Veils’ last studio album Total Depravity, and Finn Andrews has a new double LP to show for it. …And Out Of The Void Came Love is the result of this tumultuous period of injury, isolation and new life. Released worldwide on March 3, 2023 and celebrated on tour in New Zealand soon after. Holiday Records had the absolute pleasure of working closely with Finn and his team to press this double LP in two colour variants (black and clear) right here in New Zealand.  Pre-order your own copies HERE. Undertow is the ethereal...

Erny Belle first took the spotlight in October of 2021, with the successful release of her debut single and video for ‘Burning Heaven’. The singer-songwriter (Aimee Renata) seemingly appeared out of nowhere, onto our shores – leather clad, red wine in hand – stoking the flames of New Zealand’s music scene. Erny Belle has recently signed to Flying Nun and Holiday Records has been blessed with the opportunity to press her debut album, Venus Is Home (now twice due to the unwavering demand - buy the album HERE). With music that hangs delicately in the spaces between alt-folk and popular song, her songs are...

SIX60 has recently released their new album ‘Castle St’ (Universal/Virgin Music) on the 6 October 2022, but now you can finally cop the album on vinyl which is released today (16 December 2022)! Holiday Records was again the pressing plant behind the country's biggest band's vinyl release. Buy the vinyl record HERE. Listen HERE. The eleven-track record features their recent singles ‘Before You Leave’ and ‘Never Been Tonight / Nobody Knows’ and is available digitally to stream & download, as well as physically via CD, cassette and of course, vinyl. The album harks back to the band’s early days: the album title and cover artwork both...

Pōneke’s Womb are thrilled to announce the trio’s upcoming sophomore album, Dreaming of the Future Again — out digitally and on 180g black vinyl on November 11th, 2022. Holiday Records was again the proud pressing plant behind this release from Flying Nun. Womb had an emphasis on producing this as sustainably as possible which included forgoing shrink-wrap in preference for reusable outer-sleeves and taking advantage of our strict use of 100% FSC-certified sustainable stock for all of the print. BUY THE ALBUM HERE Womb is made up of siblings Cello Forrester (vocals, guitar, strings), Haz Forrester (synth, guitar), and Georgette Brown (drums). Their music is a composite of the three and builds on the shoegaze and dream...

The Wellington Sound has arrived, and it is DARTZ. The Wellington party-punk foursome have recorded a collection of their fan favourite songs; their debut album appropriately titled The Band from Wellington, New Zealand. Their album is to be released digitally, on CD, and on standard black or limited edition ‘Lion Brown’ vinyl via Flying Nun Records on the 4th of November 2022. Like most Flying Nun releases, Holiday Records is the pressing plant proudly behind the vinyl manufacturing of this debut album. BUY THE VINYL HERE. Featuring tracks such as the firm fan favourite '40 Riddiford Street’ (video below) - a singalong anthem railing against the inherent injustices of New Zealand’s gruelling...

Pacific-Music Awards winning, New Zealand street poet and rapper MELODOWNZ has released his long-awaited debut album, 'LONE WOLF', out now via Def Jam ANZ and SNIFFERS Records. Holiday Records had the absolute pleasure of bringing this debut accomplishment to the physical world by pressing it on fresh white vinyl (see the video below of MELODOWNZ visiting us onsite here at Holiday Records). LONE WOLF arrives as MELODOWNZ first full-length project since the rapper's 2018 EP Melo & Blues, and 2017’s breakout mixtape, Avontales, which found the rapper painting a graphic portrait of events based in his cultural melting pot hometown of Avondale,...

Beloved Australian rock outfit Ocean Alley have independently released their upcoming fourth album 'Low Altitude Living' today (14 October 2022). Holiday Records had the pleasure of pressing this double-LP in six different colour variants (the most we have ever done for one artist) which have since been distributed around New Zealand, Australia, USA and the UK in time for release. Opening the record with a feeling of warmth and familiarity, ‘Home’ (video below) is soaked with bright tones and subtly adorned with twinkling keys. The song is a product of the band’s opportunity to slow down in 2020, with space to...