The tracks on City Chorus are sophisticated and beautifully-crafted, with an undeniable pop sensibility. The music has a warm, analogue feel created by the use of acoustic guitars with Fender Rhodes keyboards & real strings alongside electronics. This is rich chilled-out music, thoughtfully produced, but still retaining a rawness and honesty.

Age has again teamed up with Tessa Rain, who provides beautiful, ethereal vocals on a number of tracks, including the opener 'Curious Boy'.  The quirky, funky 'All Is Good' also highlights the male-female vocal interplay to stunning effect.

The album juxtaposes delicate acoustic ballad 'Eyes Rarely Meet' with the stonking 9-minute funk-dub instrumental jam 'Barefoot Breakitdown' (featuring Toby Laing from Fat Freddy's Drop on Hammond and TrinityRoots' Warryn Maxwell on alto sax). Another standout track is 'Ana Silva', boasting disco guitar, funky live drums & jazz saxophone as well as some great vocals from Age, backed up by The Video Kid (Bret McKenzie) & Rob Hinkley (Bleakhouse).  There are also two atmospheric interludes, where samplers & electronics are used together with live instruments.

Age wrote, recorded & produced all the tracks on the album, with writing assistance from brother Eliot, as well as playing acoustic & electric guitar, piano, synthesisers, Wurlitzer & percussion, programming beats and providing vocals, but City Chorus is the result of a collaboration with fifteen other musicians.  As the album title suggests, This is a true Wellington City Chorus -  credits read like a Who's Who of the Harbour City's music scene. Many of these musicians performed regularly with Age in previous band incarnations and the understanding between them is obvious from the quality of the performances. Collaborators include Chris O'Connor, Paul Hoskin, Dan Yeabsley, the Video Kid, Nigel Collins, Kerry Wood, Al Fraser, Tim Jaray and Rob Hinkley. Additional mixing is by Dr Lee Prebble; mastering by 50Hz.

 City Chorus presents a journey of many colours.  It is an example of quality songwriting that guarantees to reward repeated listening…

"astounding originality, beauty and depth" - Liz Barry, Homegrown, National Radio