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Best Australian and New Zealand Music of the Week: PNAU, Kaylee Bell, Grace Cummings and More

Keep up to date with local music through our weekly release roundup, featuring PNAU, Kaylee Bell, Grace Cummings and many more

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PNAU

Evan Tetreault

As the best place for music coverage in ANZ, Rolling Stone keeps you up to date with local music through our weekly release roundups.

We’ve combined our Australian and Aotearoa music roundups into one major list covering both countries, bringing the best local releases to more of our readers. Because why should Aussie music fans miss out on the incredible music being made by Kiwi artists, and vice versa?

Check out our new and improved roundup below, covering the best ANZ releases between May 23rd-May 31st.

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Angus Legg, ‘Like I Never Left’

Melbourne singer-songwriter Angus Legg announces his debut EP with its final single.

“Like I Never Left” is the final preview of the forthcoming A Long Time Gone, out on June 25th via Community Music.

Legg’s new single is a companion piece to his previous release “12th of May”, finding himself on the other side of a momentous move overseas, returning to familiar surrounding and hoping everything is just as he left it.

“’Like I Never Left’ is about coming home, carrying the quiet uncertainty of whether ‘home’ is still waiting on the other side,” as he explains. “In this story, home isn’t a place, it’s a person.

“Where ‘12th of May’ captures the day I left — full of grief and uncertainty — ‘Like I Never Left’ lives in the return, holding onto the blind hope that what you had might still be there.”

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Joe Mungovan, ‘Melodrama’

Joe Mungovan ponders the emotional merry-go-round that is modern life on new single “Melodrama”.

Produced by Robby De Sa (MAY-A, The Veronicas), the song finds Munogvan drawing influence from the likes of Gorillaz, Kasbian, and DMA’S.

“I think ‘Melodrama’ came from feeling overwhelmed by the world and how performative everything can feel now,” Mungovan shares.

“Everyone’s chasing something, selling something, escaping into something… but underneath all of that, I still think people just want to connect and feel loved.

“The song’s kind of sarcastic and cynical on the surface, but there’s also this genuine message in there of ‘be kind and good to one another,’ because at the end of the day, that’s really the only thing that cuts through all the nonsense.”