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Charles Cohen – Brother I Prove You Wrong (2015)
People don’t tend to think much about gestures when considering electronic music — that is, hands, and the shapes they carve. Think, for a moment, of a rock guitarist or a jazz saxophonist or a...
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Institute – Catharsis (2015)
Politically speaking, not much has changed about the way Austin’s Institute exists as a band since signing to Sacred Bones. Having members in Glue, Wiccans, and Back to Back, all fellow stalwarts of...
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Prinzhorn Dance School – Home Economics (2015)
Prinzhorn Dance School arrived fully formed with the minimal post-punk of 2007’s self-titled debut and, following 2012’s more leisurely Clay Class, Home Economics continues to finesse, rather than...
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PINS – Wild Nights (2015)
When a band makes a splash with their debut album, it can be difficult for them to move past it. Not because the band themselves don’t continue to evolve, but their audiences come to expect certain...
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High Wolf – Growing Wild (2015)
French artist High Wolf lets his music speak for itself. Not much is known of the man behind the name, other than that he’s French and goes by Max — or at least that’s the legend as it currently...
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Finland – Rainy Omen (2015)
Although the band Finland has existed since 2010, Rainy Omen is their first release. Finland consists of five musicians who have made their indisputable mark on the Norwegian music scene in the last...
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Arthur Russell – Corn (2015)
Corn was the name of an Arthur Russell album originally intended for release in 1985, but it was rejected by his record label and never made it past the test pressing phase. Tracks recorded for the...
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Petrels – Flailing Tomb (2015)
London-based producer Oliver Barrett returns with Flailing Tomb, his fourth official solo full-length under the name Petrels. The whole Flailing Tomb album reportedly “draws inspiration from sources as...
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Seoul – I Become a Shade (2015)
“Blue, breathless, gentle, absolute.” That’s both the Twitter biography of Seoul and an accurate descriptor of the band’s ethos. Hailing from Montreal, the trio of synth-loving perfectionists have a...
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Stellar Om Source – Nite-Glo EP (2015)
Christelle Gualdi’s artistic progression as Stellar OM Source has been a steady process of crystallization. A former student of electro-acoustic composition at the Conservatoire de Paris, she began, in...
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British Sea Power – The Decline of British Sea Power [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
The first 2 songs on British Sea Power‘s remarkable 2003 debut, The Decline of British Sea Power, “Men Together Today” and “Apologies to Insect Life,” come crashing out of the gate with such a wealth...
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Teen Men – Teen Men (2015)
Named for a phrase from a ’60s ad in Playboy magazine, Teen Men crafts melodically sweet electro-pop that grew from a one-off public-access TV audio/video project by singer/guitarist Nick Krill and...
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The Sandwitches – Our Toast (2015)
Playing sunshine pop for an overcast day, The Sandwitches provide the ideal soundtrack for a sad and beautiful world on their third full-length release, 2015’s Our Toast. Winding spare but lovely...
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Will Currie and the Country French – They Killed Us (2015)
Will Currie is nothing if not a precocious fellow; the Waterloo-based musician sports a prestigious music degree from Wilfred Laurier University. But similar to other musical prodigies, like Ben Folds...
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Time Wharp – Time Wharp (2015)
Patrick Loggins used to seem like he was in a hurry. Three of the four tracks on his second EP, 2011’s GRN, were barely more than a minute long; the longest came in at 1:47. They were beautiful...
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Mates of State – You’re Going to Make It EP (2015)
Connecticut’s favourite husband-wife duo return with a five-song burst of new wave-tinged melodicism, as warm and wonderful as ever. It’s splendid from the off, as the electro sequences of Staring...
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Shampoo Boy – Crack (2015)
Crack is the sound of mounting dread, a bleak outlook on a future that may never be. Electronic decay abounds, simmering and smoldering in the wreckage. Rumbling just below the surface, a series of...
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Suzanne Kraft – Talk from Home (2015)
It’s quite surprising just how many irons Diego Herrera has in the fire at present. The L.A. producer arguably first came to light as part of Pharoahs, a woozy four-piece that have dropped a string of...
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Unwound – 6/30/1999: Reykjavik, Iceland (2014)
A deluxe version of the No Energy collection comes with a bonus LP of a live set recorded in Iceland. In the summer of 1999, Unwound spent two months crisscrossing Europe. They began in Brussels, hit...
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mewithoutYou – Pale Horses (2015)
Bands rooted in lyricism get accused of treason when they shift their sound, and mewithoutYou never gets a break. Since forming in 2000, the Philadelphia five-piece has roved from post- hardcore to art...
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