ALBUMS
UNMASKED
Album Released May 2024
OLDER's third studio album 'Unmasked' represents a refinement of their own style of alternative rock.
Influences from mid 70s hard rock, through to early 80s New Wave are evident but the album's writing, production and musicianship is very much in the here and now.
Lyrically all 12 songs are inspired by OLDER's world-view living with adult ADHD, though the songs are equally relatable to everyone.
H U M A N +
Album Released November 2021
Following on from their debut album ‘SILENCE’ (2019) OLDER now build on their unique place in the New Zealand music scene with their second album, ‘HUMAN+’, released 1 November 2021. This is a hard-edged, up-front album drawing on multiple genres resulting in a unique sound.
The songs on ‘HUMAN+’ are grounded in the notion of freedom - a theme at the heart of most of OLDER's writing - in particular individual freedom from the current environment of smothering collectivism.
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S I L E N C E
Album Released May 2019
'SILENCE', OLDER's debut album, was 5 years in the making & brought together a multitude of styles with inspiration drawn from music spanning decades. 15 glorious songs were packaged up into an event that grabs your attention from the opening to the closing bars. The album has a retro New-Wave/ Post-Punk vibe but you can judge the end result for yourself!
The album is whatever it wants to be, whatever you make of it: spiky, frivolous, raw, sarcastic, honest or simply observational poetry dished up with beautiful harmonies, catchy melodies, cheeky guitars & keyboards, agressive drumming and growling bass. Oh that growling, biting, Rickenbacker bass ...
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