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Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (2015)
Eleni Mandell released her sixth album, Miracle of Five, back in 2007. The fact that the L.A.-based singer-songwriter’s new album, Dark Lights Up, is her 10th could perhaps be considered a minor...
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Sweet John Bloom – Weird Prayer (2015)
Massachusetts is one of the few geographic signifiers that still holds real significance when describing what an indie rock band sounds like in 2015. And that’s because the Bay State breakout acts of...
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Quiet Company – Transgressor (2015)
Transgressor, Quiet Company’s fourth album, is a big, bright collection of hard-hitting power pop. Singer/guitarist/songwriter Taylor Muse has found a near-perfect balance of hummable melody and guitar...
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Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals (2015)
There’s always some degree of obscurity to the layered music of Bristol, England’s Flying Saucer Attack. But for a long time now, the band itself has been virtually unknown: Dave Pearce, the lone...
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M.E.S.H. – Piteous Gate (2015)
As can be expected from any release on Bill Kouligas’ PAN imprint, Piteous Gate — the debut full-length from Berlin-based producer James Whipple — completely obliterates and re-constructs what can be...
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Roller Trio – Fracture (2014)
With their first album, Roller Trio, from Leeds, scored 2012 Mobo and Mercury prize nominations, and stunned the jazz-averse by being an open and vivacious sax/guitar/drums band that genuinely fuse...
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RP Boo – Fingers, Bank Pads and Shoe Prints (2015)
Repetition is perhaps the defining feature of electronic dance music. It is a deal breaker for many people. Whether or not a listener can embrace the repetition inherent in the genre is probably the...
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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – See the Fire: Albums, Singles and BBC Recordings...
A band that mixed the stark, stern pulse of Joy Division with a Stranglers-styled gut punch, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry’s discography has experienced an embarrassment of riches since about 2002, with one...
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Samantha Crain – Under Branch & Thorn & Tree (2015)
Samantha Crain leans into her pain. She’s only just approaching 30, but if you listen closely to this woman’s songwriting, it sounds like she’s been through enough to fill half a century. “When you...
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Membranes – Dark Matter / Dark Energy (2015)
A lifetime is, in the greater scheme things, just a drop in the ocean, an iron filing lying on a factory floor. It’s probably this that does your head in the most – how an event such as this, so...
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Jello Biafra & New Orleans Raunch and Soul All-Stars – Walk On Jindal’s...
While Jello Biafra is best known as the former frontman of punk legends Dead Kennedys, his latest live album find him exploring New Orleans soul, R&B and garage rock. The band is billed as Jello...
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Strand of Oaks – Heal [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Deluxe version include two covers, of Ryan Adams’ “My Wrecking Ball” and The National’s “Pink Rabbits,” an acoustic take on “Goshen ’97,” a Hear Ya Session recording of “Shut In,” and an alternate mix...
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Moullinex – Elsewhere (2015)
Not to be confused with Moulinex, the French household appliance manufacturer, Moullinex (with two ‘l’s) is the alias of Portuguese DJ and producer Luis Clara Gomes. Gomes has been working in the...
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Matthew Melton – Outside of Paradise (2014)
At this point Matthew Melton is a household name in the genres of garage rock and power-pop. Melton’s collection of bands includes Snake Flower 2, Bare Wires and most recently Warm Soda. Much like his...
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Guyer’s Connection – Portrait (1983, Remastered 2014)
Tibor Csébits and Philippe Alioth formed Guyer’s Connection in Basel, Switzerland when they were only 14 and 15 years old. At the time they were in a new wave rock band called “Kurtzschluss” which they...
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Hannah Peel – Rebox 2 EP (2015)
Hannah Peel releases a new seven track mini-album Rebox 2, featuring four new music box covers and three new instrumental pieces. Peel’s first Rebox came out as an EP in 2010, when she covered the...
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Tove Styrke – Kiddo (2015)
With a title like Kiddo, you might expect this LP to be Tove Styrke’s first. In fact, it’s her second effort – her eponymous debut was released in 2010, which came off the back of her stint in Swedish...
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Gossamer – Automaton (2015)
“Gossamer” is defined as something having a light, thin, or delicate quality, and while Los Angeles- based producer Evan Reiner’s debut full-length under the Gossamer moniker fits these descriptions,...
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Pekka Airaksinen - Buddhas of Golden Light (1984, Reissue 2015)
Pekka Airaksinen is best known as the founding member of The Sperm, a batshit ’60s Finnish ensemble that combined garbled improv, zoned minimalism, and Artaudian theatrical hijinks in a fashion that...
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Years & Years – Communion [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Almost all forms of music seek to speak, from time to time, of love, and from time to time of sex. But pop music stands alone in its obsession with their convergence point, where they become...
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