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Melody Pool – Deep Dark Savage Heart (2016)
Confessional and emotional songwriting often falls into the trap of the overwrought, yet Melody Pool always seems to have the musical intuition to avoid that pitfall. Following on from 2013’s The...
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A Dead Forest Index – In All That Drifts from Summit Down (2016)
A Dead Forest Index belongs in the ranks of unassumingly arresting bands like Gem Club and the XX, who string together simple, solitary sounds, frame them with wide margins of silence, repeat as...
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Pita – Get In (2016)
Get In is Editions Mego boss Peter Rehberg’s first full Pita album since 2004’s Get Off, and according to the label “extends the perennial Pita sound into a paradox of intimidation and beauty.”...
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Sealings – I’m a Bastard (2015)
Moody, minimalist, mal-illuminated… well yes, we may have been travelled this way before. Yet however derivative such disenfranchised narratives can appear, there’s something about this Brighton trio’s...
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You’re Me – Plant Cell Division (2016)
Plant Cell Division, the first release from Vancouver duo You’re Me, was recorded on Salt Spring Island, a small pocket of Canada with an unexpectedly Mediterranean climate. The island’s warmth and...
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Jaye Bartell – Light Enough (2016)
Sparser than his prior LP, 2013’s Loyalty, Light Enough is primarily a collection of sung vignettes by writer and singer/songwriter Jaye Bartell. Featuring just voice, guitars, and occasional...
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Last Harbour – Caul (2015)
More dark matter from Manchester’s Gizeh Records, the increasingly canny collective responsible of late for shadowy essentials from the likes of Ormonde and Shield Patterns. From the depths of sorrow,...
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British Theatre – Mastery (2016)
Mike Vennart and Richard A. Ingram (AKA Gambler) will be familiar names to fans of Oceansize, the criminally under-rated alternative progressive rock outfit that took guitar music and twisted it into...
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David Rothenberg – New Songs of the Humpback Whale (2015)
In the 1960s, the American biologist and environmentalist Roger Payne was the first researcher to discover the complex vocalizations of humpback whales, which communicate in songlike sequences of...
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Mute Forest – Deforestation (2015)
Mombi member Kael Smith didn’t choose his Mute Forest moniker randomly, and neither was the choice of Deforestation as an album title a matter of happenstance. Smith’s childhood home, you see, is in...
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Jean Schwarz – Erda / Suite N (2016)
The Editions Mego side-label Recollection GRM continues its important task of reissuing crucial works of electroacoustics from the Paris GRM studio. Erda / Suite N is the work of Jean Schwarz, an...
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Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – High Visceral {Part 1} (2016)
With the recent rise to prominence of bands like Methyl Ethyl and King Gizzard, prog-rock has become a fickle and often nasty territory for newer artists to approach without being haphazardly judged...
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White Lung – Paradise (2016)
Paradise, the fourth record from the Vancouver punk outfit White Lung, comes roaring in on the back of ripping video gamey guitars and a killer vocal performance by lead vocalist Mish Way on the track...
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Carlos Niño & Friends – Flutes, Echoes, It’s All Happening! (2016)
Prolific, well-connected Los Angeles-based producer/arranger/composer Carlos Niño has been exploring the common ground between spiritual jazz, new age, hip-hop, global rhythms, and psychedelic folk...
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Guido Möbius – Batagur Baska (2016)
A staple of the Berlin electronic scene, producer, DJ, artist and serial collaborator to boot, Guido Möbius can seem a restless figure. His music is also often at odds with a lot of the cool, “urban”...
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Janet Feder – THISCLOSE (2015)
Colorado-based guitarist Janet Feder has developed a highly personal musical language, drawing inspiration from folk, jazz, minimalism, classical, avant-garde and even pop. Since the early ’90s she...
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Haybaby – Sleepy Kids (2015)
Haybaby have been swirling around the Brooklyn show circuit for a few years now, but it was only this past winter that the trio solidified themselves around a consistent enough lineup that they felt...
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Little Scream – Cult Following (2016)
For her 2011 Polaris Music Prize-nominated debut The Golden Record, Montreal-based singer/multi-instrumentalist Little Scream enlisted the talents of Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry and Sarah Neufeld,...
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ANOHNI – HOPELESSNESS (2016)
ANOHNI‘s first solo record without her band displays a musical transition that sees her forego candlelit crooning chamber music for lush electronica. The attitude has also shifted: gone are the...
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Lance Neptune – Animal Eclipse EP (2016)
After a three-year hiatus, Lone’s Magicwire label is enjoying a revival with the release of Lance Neptune’s Animal Eclipse EP. Neptune approached Lone on one of his U.S. tours with a demo, and the rest...
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