Listener’s Songs of the week: New tracks from Nathan Haines, Erny Belle and Crowded House

By Nathan Haines ft La Coco

Recalling his successful, soulful, clubland breakbeat sound, jazz musician Nathan Haines (here on keyboards) delivers a track that hits the midpoint between the dancefloor and chill-out electronica, with vocals by Auckland’s La Coca. A smooth taste of his new album Notes released on August 9. Expect remixes. - Graham Reid

By Marlin’s Dreaming and Erny Belle

Dunedin indie stalwarts Marlin’s Dreaming rope in Erny Belle for a delicate his-and-hers duet with a sweetly restrained back and forth between band frontman Semisi Ma’ia’i and Belle and some very pretty slide guitar. Comes complete with strangely unsettling video. – Russell Baillie

By Crowded House

Talking about the cracking new Crowded House album to the Listener last month, Neil Finn said the other, younger Finns in the current line-up were making bigger contributions on the songwriting front. This one from the album, which is released this weekend, is Liam-penned and sung, in what might be called the family falsetto, across a dreamy chug of echoey guitars that hits a very sweet spot at the two-thirds mark. Comes with a video featuring a woman with a sword and a man in wolf’s clothing riding a horse along Karekare. Make of that what you will. – Russell Baillie

By Napoleon Baby