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New Order – Complete Music (2016)
Complete Music features extended mixes of all 11 tracks from 2015’s Music Complete. For a band of magnitude and history like New Order‘s the lines between “indie,” “dance” and “mainstream” always get...
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Karen O – Live from Crush Palace (2015)
While playing an intimate set in L.A. last year, Karen O introduced ‘Singalong’ – a track from her debut solo effort, Crush Songs – by revealing, “When I was just a young girl at the age of 27 – which...
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Giant Peach – Tarantula (2016)
Tarantula opens in a torrent of dissonant guitar, a headlong 1990s indie sound that’s not quite as grimy as Dinosaur Jr. and despite its MBV-evoking volume-warped tones, nowhere near as airy and...
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Al Scorch – Circle Round the Signs (2016)
Al Scorch writes some damn beautiful and smart songs. He plays the banjo but ain’t no hillbilly caricature. When he sings he sometimes sounds like one of those guys who’d show up at protests and...
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µ-Ziq – RY30 Trax (2016)
Planet Mu boss is releasing another album of archival µ-Ziq material on his label. The prolific Mike Paradinas unearthed another lost album from the ’90s, Aberystwyth Marine, back in February. This new...
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Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
The deluxe edition features the original album remastered for this release by Harris Newman, along with the band’s pre-Sub Pop, self-titled EPs (released in 2003 and 2004). The package also includes...
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Torn Hawk – Union & Return (2016)
Union and Return is the third album from Luke Wyatt’s Torn Hawk. It was composed and recorded entirely by Wyatt at his home in Berlin. At the height of the 19th century Romantic movement Germany was,...
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John Frusciante – Foregrow EP (2016)
John Frusciante occupies a unique space in the contemporary musical landscape. Despite having been a key figure in one of the most enduringly successful bands in the history of alternative rock, the...
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Foy Vance – The Wild Swan (2016)
The third studio long-player from the soulful Northern Irishman, and his first outing for longtime tourmate Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records, The Wild Swan finds Vance offering up another master...
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The Hunches – The Hunches (2016)
In the 2000s, Portland’s the Hunches oozed garage rock frenzy. They partied, they put on exciting shows, they got a deal with In the Red, they put out four albums, they threw apples at Jet after...
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Fred Thomas – The Beguilers (2016)
The rich history of English language poetry has been a source of inspiration for musicians and singers. Blake’s verse was always meant to be sung. Shakespeare’s plays are full of songs. Even Thomas...
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The Burning Hell – Public Library (2016)
Imagine if you will, Kurt Wagner as a twenty five year old agit-punker and instead of laconic vocal style he’s got so many words and ideas that they spew out of him in a breathless rush, lines running...
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Deadly Orgone Radiation – Power Trips (2015)
The members of Deadly Orgone Radiation — James Sedwards on guitar, Alex Ward on guitar and alto sax and Weasel Walter on drums — come with high credentials. Sedwards is guitarist and composer for the...
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Karl Blau – Introducing Karl Blau (2016)
“Here are 20 years of recordings,” runs the short blurb on Karl Blau’s Bandcamp page. “Check ‘em out – no two alike!” He’s not wrong. There are lo-fi excursions into afrobeat, campfire folk. disjointed...
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Cross & Quinn – Cold Sky Blue (2016)
Simultaneously timeless and modern, Cold Sky Blue is the first collaboration between former King Crimson violinist and Mellotron player David Cross and Sean Quinn (of Tiny Magnetic Pets). The title...
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Nedelle Torrisi – Advice from Paradise (2015)
Nedelle Torrisi is a singer with a voice for the ages and a songwriter who would fit in at the Brill Building. Her most recent album Advice from Paradise is the brainchild of Torrisi and producer Kenny...
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Honey – Love Is Hard (2016)
With a ferocious attack that earned comparisons to the Dead Boys and the Mirrors, Brooklyn psych-garage-punk trio Honey features vocalist/guitarist Dan Wise, drummer William Schmiechen, and bassist...
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Yak – Alas Salvation (2016)
It can sometimes be hard to feel optimistic about rowdy, new guitar music. So much sounds grubby and calculated, grabbing at the receding coat-tails of past fads. And then you come across a band like...
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Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – So Long (2015)
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson‘s work with the Icelandic group Stilluppsteypa frequently showcases both absurdity and dissonance heavily, and while his own work bears traces of that, divorced from any...
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Susanna Rose – Snowbound (2015)
Inspired by the Rochester, New York’s coldest winter on record in 2015, Susanna Rose‘s second album, Snowbound is an intimate, personal and occasionally haunting affair. Written and performed by...
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