Avantdale Bowling Club – Avantdale Bowling Club

The debut album of Avantdale Bowling Club, a project fronted by New Zealand rapper Tom Scott, is titled Avantdale Bowling Club. The album was released on August 17, 2018, under the label Years Gone By Records 1. The album is a jazz rap album on which Scott collaborates with a large group of musicians. Major contributors to the album include drummer Julien Dyne, pianist Guy Harrison, and producer Ben Lawson 1. The album won the Taite Music Prize in 2019 and was recognized as Album of the Year at the 2019 New Zealand Music Awards 1. Commercially, it debuted at number one on the New Zealand albums chart 1. The album’s tracks were developed by Scott himself, who put together the basic melodies before bringing the album’s cast of musicians into the studio to fill out the arrangements 1.