NOT YOUR CUPID
by Erny Belle
Last year’s album by singer-songwriter Erny Belle (Aimee Renata, Ngāpuhi) was an impressively crafted work which led to her being nominated for Taite prizes in the best independent album and best independent debut album categories. Recorded in the summer of 2019, it was folk-pop with wistful Pacific-kisseda homely specificity (the local Four Square and warm cask wine at Nana Venus’s place on the title track) and a serious purpose (Hell
