After an 11 year hiatus, legendary Aotearoa hip-hop group Home Brew are back today with their first new album in over a decade, Run it Back, and will continue that reunion at Laneway Festival in February.
Breaking their indefinite hiatus, Run it Back comes off the back off the 2023 re-release of Tom Scott and Haz Beat’s self-titled debut album, which earned Home Brew another #1 in the NZ Top 40 Charts.
“I used to think I had to keep making the same mistakes to make another Home Brew album,” Tom Scott says. “Thought I had to stay the person I was then forever. But, nah, that was something I made up. I dug my own pigeonhole. Truth is that nobody wanted me to stay the same forever. They wanted me to grow.”
“And I’m not the only one who has grown up – the people who grew up with that album grew up too.”
The announcement follows the release of the first part of a documentary of the same name, which revisits the roots of the act’s meteoric rise from humble beginnings to becoming a force in the music industry, tracing the evolution of their sound and style over the past 11 years.
The first chapter of the story surrounding Home Brew, one of Aotearoa’s most enigmatic and fabled hip-hop groups, has dropped ahead of their long-awaited sophomore album release today. The documentary, RUN IT BACK, revisits the roots of Home Brew’s meteoric rise, from humble beginnings to becoming a driving force in the music industry and traces the evolution of their sound, style, and influence over the past 11 years.
Run it Back can be streamed on all available platforms, and you can buy tickets to Laneway Festival here.