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Erik Wøllo – Images of Light (1989, Remastered 2015)
This special remastered edition of Erik Wøllo’s long out of print 1989 release, Images of Light, includes the original album plus four previously unreleased tracks from the era, all remastered with a...
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The Scientists – A Place Called Bad (2016)
4CD, 80-track box set including the band’s complete studio output, live recordings (including a new-to-CD live set from 1983). Punk rock’s coming up from down under on the newest box set from The...
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The Kills – Ash & Ice (2016)
The Kills‘ first album since 2009’s Blood Pressures, Ash & Ice, finds the band employing the same bare bones power technique Alison “VV” Mosshart and Jamie “Hotel” Hince built over their last four...
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Body Sculptures – A Body Turns to Eden (2016)
Described as a “pact between Sweden’s Northern Electronics and Denmark’s Posh Isolation,” Body Sculptures is spearheaded by label co-runners Varg and Loke Rahbek, aka one half of Damien Dubrovnik....
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Minor Victories – Minor Victories (2016)
Crossovers are all the rage, no matter what the media. Audiences lose their minds when they can see Captain America and Iron Man duke it out on the screen, or when Taylor Swift parades a line of...
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Classixx – Faraway Reach (2016)
Classixx‘s first release, 2013’s Hanging Gardens, was a bright, sunny dance album with lots of guest shots and hooky tunes with the kind of overall appeal that made them seem like one of the more...
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Ladyhawke – Wild Things (2016)
With two commercially and critically well-received albums under her belt, it would have been reasonable to assume that Pip Brown was pretty satisfied with life. However, the artist – better known as...
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Amber Arcades – Fading Lines (2016)
Amber Arcades’ debut album, Fading Lines, has a nice story behind it, a musical romantic comedy of sorts. Annelotte de Graaf, the person behind the name, spent her teenage years in Holland saving up...
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California Snow Story – Some Other Places (2016)
David Skirving began California Snow Story in 2001 after leaving Scottish band Camera Obscura. David was a founder member and original guitarist of Camera Obscura and he gave the band their name. He...
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VA – Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985 (2016)
Among the many scenes that came out of the post-punk explosion in the U.K. was a healthy psychedelic one, full of revivalists, sonic explorers, weirdoes, and even a fair amount of ex-punks. RPM’s...
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Casket Girls – The Night Machines (2016)
Offering more of their trademark haunting alternative-dance fare, the Casket Girls‘ third album, the fittingly titled The Night Machines, continues to toughen the industrial textures of their melodic,...
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Melvins – Basses Loaded (2016)
Now in their 29th year as a band, Melvins has released their new album Basses Loaded, and they still sound as vigorous and full of fresh material as they did as when they sprung out of the cold corner...
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Steve Gunn – Eyes On the Lines (2016)
Brooklyn singer, songwriter, and guitar slinger Steve Gunn makes his Matador debut with Eyes on the Lines, a windblown set of road explorations that, despite its meandering nature, is one of his most...
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Future Unlimited – Calm Down EP (2016)
Future Unlimited is back after a three year absence from the music scene with a dynamic sophomore EP, Calm Down. Creators and synth-pop artists David Miller and Samuel D’Amelio released their second...
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Cat’s Eyes – Treasure House (2016)
…The fact Cat’s Eyes are able to get away with such uber-retro stunts is mainly due to the timelessness of their sound. Multi-instrumentalist Rachel Zeffira is a dab hand at utilising her classically...
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Psychic Ills – Inner Journey Out (2016)
Blurriness has always been a virtue to New York duo Psychic Ills, who have only recently begun to take an interest in things like structure and pattern. Before, the group was simply content to float...
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Barry Hyde – Malody (2016)
Most of us would probably admit to idle moments spent drifting off into the daydream of a non-stop whirl of decadence touring the world with your mates, playing every night to sold-out rooms full of...
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Young Moon – Colt (2016)
Trevor Montgomery was in the throes of love when he wrote his powerful debut album as Young Moon, 2012’s Navigate Like the Swan. Unfortunately, almost as soon as the record was release, the...
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Parra for Cuva & Senoy – Darwīš (2016)
Berliners Nicolas Demuth and Jonas Lechenmayr, better known as Parra for Cuva & Senoy, have for the past year been collaborating to create a record influenced by their road-trip retreat to Spain....
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MOURN – Ha, Ha, He! (2016)
Last year, Catalonian teens MOURN took on the system and won. In December, the band accused their Spanish label Sones on social media of withholding payments and keeping their second album Ha, Ha, He!...
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