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Avantdale Bowling Club is a New Zealand hip hop and jazz project led by rapper Tom Scott. The group's self-titled debut album won the Taite Music Prize in 2019, as well as Album of the Year at the 2019 New Zealand Music Awards.

The band's name is a portmanteau, combining the term avant-garde with Scott's hometown of Avondale.

History
Tom Scott, previously a member of groups such as Home Brew and At Peace, established Avantdale Bowling Club in 2018. Though nominally a solo project by Scott, Avantdale Bowling Club also includes the participation of many other musicians.

Scott wrote much of the material for the band's debut album while living in Collingwood, Melbourne throughout the mid-2010s; the earliest Avantdale Bowling Club song to be written, "Pocket Lint", dates back to 2014. Scott moved back to Avondale in the later 2010s, in order to raise his son in New Zealand, and began recording the group's debut album after this move.

Musical style
Scott's lyrics have been described as "blending working-class storytelling and New Zealand colloquialisms". Avantdale Bowling Club's instrumentation is inspired by 1970s jazz, soul, and funk.

Discography

 * Avantdale Bowling Club (2018)
 * TREES (2022)