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Lone – Levitate (2016)
At this point, we probably have enough albums dedicated to rave nostalgia. And the British producer Matt Cutler should feel OK about that, because as Lone, he’s responsible for quite a few of them. His...
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The Strokes – Future Present Past EP (2016)
…The Strokes signed with Julian Casablancas’ Cult Records imprint and kept the lights on. Now, when the group initially reported that things were kosher between everyone and they were recording new...
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Gates – Parallel Lives (2016)
Gates‘ sophomore full-length album, Parallel Lives, finds the emotive New Jersey outfit digging even deeper into a sweeping, atmospheric rock palette. Essentially, the album picks up where 2014’s Bloom...
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Saqqara Mastabas – Libras (2016)
Under the name Saqqara Mastabas, Fiery Furnaces’ Matthew Friedberger has teamed up with Sebadoh’s Bob D’Amico to create music that encapsulates a specific sense of noisy and manic joy. With...
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Spain – Carolina (2016)
Spain, which was founded by Josh Haden (son of legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden) in 1993, is credited as being instrumental in the advent of “slowcore” with their debut album The Blue Moods of...
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Spray Paint – Punters On a Barge (2015)
There were two kids at high school back in the mid-‘80s who carried cans of spray paint like undercover cops brandished police ID, defacing everything from the doors of the school train to the desks in...
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Psychic Temple – Plays Music for Airports (2016)
Psychic Temple, led by band/cult leader Chris Schlarb and featuring Mike Watt (Minutemen), Sheridan Riley (Avi Buffalo), Paul Masvidal (Cynic, Death), jazz trumpeter Kris Tiner and more, has reimagined...
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Joseph Arthur – The Family (2016)
In 1991, the British literary quarterly Granta published the provocatively titled thematic issue The Family: They Fuck You Up, titled from a poem by Philip Larkin. Its contents include an early excerpt...
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Umberto – Alienation (2016)
Time and time again, Not Not Fun has proven those two nots to be unnecessary, as the label seems to love giving us fresh, cool jams from artists like Umberto, a.k.a. dark electronic wizard Matt Hill....
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Rhys Chatham – Pythagorean Dream (2016)
Rhys Chatham was a flute player until he heard the Ramones and switched to guitar. That’s an oversimplification of the pioneering musician and composer’s history, but it still says a lot about his...
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Kino Kimino – Bait Is for Sissies (2016)
Kino Kimino is a new project from Kim Talon (Eagle & Talon, JAN), featuring Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and drummer Steve Shelley, along with Melinda Holm on bass. Though Bait Is for Sissies...
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Spray Paint – Dopers (2015)
Common wisdom dictates that since sustaining a band in 2015 requires ceaseless touring, time traditionally allotted to songcraft and studio stays dwindles and recorded output suffers. But bands like...
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And the Kids – Friends Share Lovers (2016)
…And the Kids‘ music is rooted in guitarist/vocalist Hannah Mohan’s longstanding personal and artistic ties with drummer Rebecca Lasaponaro. The two have been making music together since middle school;...
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My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves [Deluxe Reissue] (2016)
The original album remixed and remastered plus 13 previously unreleased demos and b-sides. When older albums are reissued, the acts involved typically have little if any input into the process. Since...
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Solo Andata – In the Lens (2016)
Like everything, In the Lens has been shaped by its past, the music recovered from the garbled intestines of a decades-old hard drive and previously lost emails that were, over the years, left to...
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Diarrhea Planet – Turn to Gold (2016)
“Back in the 6th grade, I heard Jimi Plays Monterey,” Emmett Miller reminisces in “Bob Dylan’s Grandma,” a highlight of Diarrhea Planet‘s new album Turn to Gold. “Boy, did I melt that tape, and let...
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Erin Tobey – Middlemaze (2016)
“Fear is easy, everything else is hard,” Erin Tobey sings steadily on the second track of her new album Middlemaze after having harped on her youth and fearlessness on the song prior. Actually older...
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FP-Oner – 6 (2016)
When Fred Peterkin put out his first album under the FP-Oner guise last year, he told that the next stage of his artistic development would involve some type of live performance, but that it would have...
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Wild Palms – Live Together, Eat Each Other (2016)
Five years in the making, Wild Palms are back with their second album, evocatively titled: Live Together, Eat Each Other. The London-based outfit have been hard at work since 2011 debut Until Spring,...
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The Unspeakable Practices – The Unspeakable Practices (2015)
The Unspeakable Practices is a new project spear- headed by Kid Millions (Oneida, People of the North, Soldiers of Fortune, ex-Spiritualized) and celebrated writer Rick Moody, a founding member of The...
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