Atmospheric acts at the Dome

INDIE GUY: Hamish Kilgour, a founding member of Dunedin band The Clean, will be joined by the Love Controllers, and Emily Riordan, for a show in Gisborne next week. Picture supplied

The Dunedin Sound of indie pop music, Hamish Kilgour's psych-inflected guitar-pop tunes and Emily Riordan's mix of wistfulness and boundary-pushing musical textures is making its way to the Dome.

Kilgour was a founding member of The Clean who are said to have been a major part of New Zealand record label Flying Nun's success.

Now a full-time resident in New York, Kilgour's latest solo album, Finklestein, explored textural percussive effects in its songs but the sound of The Clean still permeates much of the album.

Riordan's dreamy, melancholic soft pop can be heard in her latest album Waves.

“The opening tune Angel begins with chords on keyboards and guitar strummed and left for a bar, while a scratchy needle on vinyl sound builds up before the percussion begins,” writes Darryl Baser on musicnet.

Angel has space, atmosphere and time, while in the bass heavy slow-jam Highlights, Riordan's multi-tracked voice weaves and soars the instrumentation, says Baser.

Along with Riordan, Kilgour will be joined by The Love Controllers for an evening of underground sound at the Dome.

Hamish Kilgour and the Love Controllers, and Emily Riordan, Dome Room, Friday, March 6, 8pm. Tickets $20 from The Aviary or the Dome.