Treading her own path on earlier records Siempre Tiene Flores and Between Bodies, Canterbury songwriter Hannah Everingham's world feels like it has opened up on album number three in just four years Big Surprise. Everingham indeed draws upon "languages of pop-rock and sci-fi, psychedelic folk and post-punk" for Big Surprise, a refreshingly open-eared palette bound together by warm tones and Balearic-adjacent, undulating mutant-funk grooves — zigging and zagging in accompaniment to the artist's poetical, sometimes exuberant / sometimes pensive / sometimes playful lyrical reflections. A record which wholeheartedly embraces the inevitability of change — this listener is reminded of director John Wilson's musings on the concept of samsara in his documentary The History of Concrete — Everingham is soon embarking on a nationwide run of Big Surprise launch shows. Currently only listenable on Bandcamp, Big Surprise will be out on streaming services this Friday. Hannah Everingham - Big Surprise Tour 2026Saturday 29th August - Pearl Diver, Dunedin (solo)Saturday 5th September - Loons, Lyttelton (full band)Sunday 6th September - Whammy, Auckland (duo)Thursday 10th September - Meow, Wellington (duo)*Tickets on sale HERE via UTR*Wellington tickets via hannaheveringham.com<a href="https://hannaheveringham.bandcamp.com/album/big-surprise-2">Big Surprise by Hannah Everingham</a>