Dog (vinyl)

After taking home the Auckland Live Best Independent Debut at the Taite Awards last year, all eyes have been on the remarkable Jazmine Mary. Introducing the follow-up album... Dog, a heart-destroying new batch of songs, born from “understanding parts of the beauty and ugliness of the world”, and a will to help their listeners to do the same. Expect the unexpected, expect hope in despair, joy in the darkness, the best in the worst, and the worst in the best. Jazmine Mary is back, and we couldn't be more thrilled.

Jazmine Mary is the 2022 winner of the Auckland Live Best Independent Debut award. Recently they have opened in New Zealand for Kurt Vile, Billy Bragg, Gang Of Youths, and toured the country in support of Reb Fountain.

They make music not to earn a living, but to survive, and it’s through their songwriting that Jazmine Mary feels tethered to something tangible, a constant. It’s the action of translating their experiences into poetic folk compositions that helps in “understanding parts of the beauty and ugliness of the world”, and which might help listeners do so too.

On their second album, Jazmine Mary, has created an unlikely space for despair and joy to cohabit. Far more than gut-punch poetry and dark truths, Jazmine Mary flaunts their penchant for finding hopefulness in an oft cruel world. Your new best friend. The neighbour’s kind-eyed bitzer. An adolescent pup that hasn’t yet learned not to bite. This album has nothing to do with dogs.

Jazmine Mary won’t tell you what the album is about or why this album is called Dog. They could well be hiding something from us, but the more probable reason is that they are a responsible artist and know it’s not for them to tell you how to experience what they already have.