Listen to Jazmine Mary's New Album 'I Want To Rock And Roll'

Gracing our television screens and batting away gags as musical guest on 7 Days comedy game show last night, fresh fans of Aotearoa songwriter Jazmine Mary are instantly rewarded with their third studio album I Want To Rock And Roll. Emotionally charged and sumptuously arranged / recorded with Dave Khan, Arahi, Louisa Nicklin, Cass Basil, and Cello Forrester, I Want To Rock And Roll balances dark tones and unflinching honesty to transcend gloom with warm spirit, poetic touch, and almost defiant hope for the future.

Written over a two year period during which the award-winning artist was "feeling such devastation and heartbreak and sadness", the self-produced record feels deeply personal and diaristic in tone, for example the smokey percussive reminiscences of 'Back of the Bar' ("Your biggest mistake was thinking you knew what I meant") and the clear-eyed loping chamber-folk of 'Narcotics Anonymous Meeting'.

Like the final moments of a western drama, the closing title drop lays the cards on the table: "You drink, you smoke, you say that you want peace / You say baby I just want to rock and roll / And it's hit, after hit, after hit, after hit". Out today via Flying Nun Records, snag a physical copy of I Want To Rock And Roll at your friendly local record shop and / or at Jazmine May's release tour with band, commencing this July...

Jazmine Mary I Want To Rock And Roll Album Release Tour

Friday 25th July - Last Place, Hamilton*
Saturday 26th July - Double Whammy, Auckland*
Thursday 31st July - Meow, Wellington
Friday 1st August - Lyttelton Coffee Co., Christchurch*
Saturday 2nd August - Erricks, Dunedin

*Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

'I Want To Rock And Roll' is out today via Flying Nun Records.