Recently named Best Alternative Artist at the 2022 Aotearoa Music Awards, Wellington-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vera Ellen has releasedhernew album, Ideal Home Noisevia Flying Nun Records.

Ideal Home Noise is a record unearthed from much introspection and an attempt to find some comedy and lightness in an otherwise dark period for Vera Ellen. With two “voices battling throughout the album, the instrumentation is sometimes light featuring synths and electronic drums and sometimes heavy with ballad-like piano and raw vocals.

After the critical success of her 2021 album, Its Your Birthday which earned the artist both the Best Al