Mike Hall has been a mainstay of the Aotearoa music community since his hardcore punk days in the 1990s as lead singer of Balance through permanent positions as bassist forThe Brunettes, Dimming, Tami Neilson and much more, in parallel with his decades of work as a core member of Pluto.

Spurred into action by a late-night car break-in/missing hard drive disaster and subsequent encouragement from the producer Jol Mulholland who pointed out that no one would ever hear the material, right? Challenge laid down.

Nothing Stands Still is Halls debut solo album, on which he reinterprets and reinvents seven years of lost recordings (!) in the form of a nine-track album that will be released in its entirety on August 16.

Hall sounds like a long-lost member of the Finn family with a Beatles-esq