Nettwerk Signs Prominent New Zealand Indie-Pop Band

Nettwerk Music Group has added another act to its ever-expanding roster.

On Tuesday, the independent record label announced the signing of New Zealand indie-pop band, Yumi Zouma.

To celebrate the signing, the four-piece have released their first single in almost 18 months, ““Bashville on the Sugar”. Check it out below.

“The first song on our forthcoming project that we really dug into, it’s an ode to the subway and public transport, New York’s in particular,” Yumi Zouma said of the track.

“The band has a deep affinity for it; its reliability and the access it provides are unlike anything we experienced in New Zealand. At the same time, its unpredictability – what you’ll see, who you’ll bump into – keeps each trip rooted in the present.”

Written across Mexico City, New York, and their homeland of Aotearoa, “Bashville on the Sugar” hums with the rhythm of travel — its core shaped by real field recordings from the NYC subway, layered beneath Olivia Campion’s breathless drumming and the swirling, ever-escalating guitar work of Charlie Ryder and Josh Burgess.

Yumi Zouma join a roster that already boasts a number of huge local and international names including Angus & Julia Stone, James Vincent McMorrow, Georgia Mooney, Hollow Coves, Jaguar Jonze, and Japanese Wallpaper.