Interview: SJD

This month saw the release of SJD's beautiful seventh album Saint John Divine. Graced with a striking artwork from Dunedin artist Kushana Bush, the new album is being touted as being almost the polar opposite of it's predecessor, Elastic Wasteland, which was a self-recorded and self-played album that took out the 2013 Taite Prize. To create Saint John Divine SJD, aka Sean Donnelly, gathered together a myriad of artists including James Duncan, Sandy Mills and Neil Finn to add their dash of magic to the recording sessions at Auckland's Roundhead Studios. With the album out and a handful of release shows on the horizon, UnderTheRadar caught up with Donnelly and asked him some probing questions based around the titles of his songs, and he came up with some very insightful answers...

Click here to read the interview with SJD, and stream the album in full below...

SJD has a handful of shows to coming up to celebrate the launch of Saint John Divine, see below for details.