Right Here Right Now SIX60

• 1 We Made It 02:44
• 2 Knocking At Your Door 02:34
• 3 Enjoy The View 02:55
• 4 We Are All Kings 02:02
• 5 Hurricane 03:07
• 6 Father's Eyes 02:41
• 7 Endlessly 03:24
• 8 Red Mist 02:56
• 9 Be Gentle, Please 03:00
• 10 The Alchemist 03:20
• 11 Same Dirt 03:33
• 12 Right Here Right Now 03:22
• Total Runtime 35:38

Info zu Right Here Right Now

SIX60 releases fifth studio album "Right Here Right Now", recorded entirely live. Right Here, Right Now, marks a “full circle” moment - a record that feels like a debut and a decade of experience rolled into one.

Few bands have soundtracked modern Aotearoa quite like SIX60. Today, the Dunedin-born group announce their fifth studio album Right Here Right Now, arriving February 13, alongside the release of two brand new singles ‘Knocking At Your Door’ and ‘We Are All Kings’– available now as a first taste of what’s to come.

From their beginnings as flatmates jamming in Dunedin to becoming a stadium-selling force across Aotearoa, SIX60 have spent more than a decade shaping a sound that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. Right Here Right Now sees the band reconnect with the raw, roots-driven energy that first put them on the map – while carrying the confidence and clarity earned through years at the top.

Recorded entirely live, with every final track captured in a single take, Right Here Right Now is SIX60 at their most immediate and unfiltered. The album marks a deliberate return to the organic, in-the-room feeling that defined their now 13x platinum debut, embracing imperfections, warmth, and movement in favour of polish. It’s a record that breathes – built for open windows, long drives, and shared moments.

Summer-ready anthems like ‘We Made It’ and new single ‘Knocking At Your Door’ sit alongside emotionally rich ballads including ‘Endlessly’ and ‘Hurricane’. Reggae and pop intertwine in SIX60’s unmistakable style, while the stripped-back production leaves space for groove, feeling, and clarity. At the centre of it all is Matiu Walters, delivering one of his strongest performances to date, showcasing his dynamic range across the album’s emotional arc.

The release of ‘Knocking At Your Door’ and ‘We Are All Kings’ today offers fans a snapshot of the album’s scope – one rooted in connection, resilience, and collective joy. Together, the tracks reflect the spirit of a band comfortable in their skin, still evolving, and still deeply connected to the people who’ve grown alongside them.

Lead singer Matiu Walters says: ”We are at the top of our game, And I feel like I was born to sing these songs! Pure, real and heart felt. SIX60 at its best. Recorded in only 3 days, The process was old school. Full band single takes. We are returning to our Roots music origins, and the music feels natural, uncomplicated, and relatable. Four chords and the truth”.

With Right Here Right Now, SIX60 aims to capture more than a moment – they capture a feeling. It’s the sound of summer, the energy of a live room, and the honest, uplifting essence that has made SIX60 one of New Zealand’s most beloved and successful bands.

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Somewhere within the confines of Dunedin’s 660 Castle Street, five Otago University students began plotting in the summer of 2008. Marlon Gerbes, Matiu Walters, Eli Paewai, Chris Mac and Ji Fraser picked up instruments, turned on amps, closed the door to keep the noise in, and SIX60 came to life. In the six years since, the band traversed tens of thousands of miles throughout Australasia, Europe and The USA, and transcended the loftiest of expectations placed upon them by their most diehard fans.

6 New Zealand Music Awards, quadruple platinum album sales for their self-titled debut SIX60, sold out nationwide tours, summer festival headline performances, collaborations with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra and feverish local and international popularity that few New Zealand bands could ever lay claim to.

Careening between roots, soul, pop and dubstep; combining r & b with drum and bass; the band’s unorthodox marrying and mish-mashery between unlikely genres gained them favour throughout New Zealand in record time. Their popularity exploding from Dunedin outwards into the rest of the country, thanks to an enigmatic live show, infectious radio singles and a progressive onslaught of guerrilla promotion via social media.

And now, three years and four months on, much to the delight of SIX60 fans spanning both hemispheres, their second album is ready, due for release in February 2015. The first single- named Special – arrives joyous and summery, landing gleefully in the sweet spot between pop, soul and R & B while channeling hints of Pharrell Williams-esque melodies and jinky guitar sound the band are known for.

Special – and the rest of the new album – was recorded between the band’s own M Studio and Roundhead Studios in September 2014, engineered by Neil Baldock, mixed by Grammy award winner Tony Maserati in LA, then mastered by Dave Kutch in NYC. When it came time to create this second record, two false starts were made before the third foray into writing and recording produced almost 100 songs, which was then whittled down to the final 16. Their return to New Zealand in September 2014 to finalise recording allowed the band the time at home that they had been badly craving.

‘It’s taken all this time because we have been on the road so much, but it also it took us a long time to discover what kind of band we really wanted to be and in turn, how we wanted to sound,’ says Matiu Walters ‘Collaborating with other writers and producers really helped us expand; we were very lucky to have met Printz Board (American producer/songwriter and Grammy award winner) and also (renowned New Zealand Artist) Micheal Parekowhai who I spent a lot of time with. He really helped conceptualise and simplify things when creating the artwork.’

2013 saw the band signing to German label Four Music and a subsequent relocation to the sprawling artistic cornucopia of Berlin for much of the year. Prior to that, the perpetual juggernaut on the road since the release of SIX60 had led them to Glastonbury, a total of 9 performances at SXSW and showcases at renowned international conference festivals The Great Escape (UK) and CMJ (New York); and of course voyages home to New Zealand to sold out shows from Auckland to the deep south of Dunedin where it had all began back in 2008.

If the love that music fans around the planet have for SIX60 is anything to go by the new album they have been waiting for is truly going to be something pretty Special indeed.

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