RNZ: New Horizons

William Dart takes a listen to a new album from the Auckland duo The Floral Clocks - musician Gabriel White and lyricist Richard von Sturmer.

The Brooklyn band's new album Painted Ruins is direct, simple and superb, says William Dart.

William Dart listens to British folk legend Richard Thompson new releases that feature acoustic performances of songs from his own songbook

Perhaps forever in the shadow of her brother Rufus, Martha Wainwright is a powerful songwriter and performer in her own right. William Dart looks over her career and her most recent release, Goodnight City.

William Dart looks beyond "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Wichita Lineman", and "Galveston" to the lesser-known but equally brilliant and affecting Glen Campbell.

William Dart looks over the career of the band Manchester Orchestra from Atlanta, Georgia, including their newest album A Black Mile to the Surface. While he's always appreciated their inventiveness, this album feels like the curtains have been drawn back to reveal cinematic Panavision.

The Kronos Quartet are known for their genre-busting releases of contemporary classical music, world music and the crossover landscape between. Their latest release turns to traditional folk songs and an intrigued William Dart takes a listen.

William Dart reviews the new album from American songwriter Dan Auerbach. Waiting On A Song may have a title that seems to catch the anguish of many a minstrel, but in sound it's an album that very much reflects Auerbach's current personal contentment.

Taking his lead from the Jackson Browne song "Take It Easy", William Dart explores a couple of discs sounding nothing like Jackson Browne, but having a somewhat relaxed vibe. Ambient you might say.

William Dart samples a number of New Zealand releases aimed at kids, enjoyable also by kidults... tracks by Levity Beet and Daniel Styczek, Anika Moa, Mr Roberelli, and Greg Malcolm and Jenny Ward