Julian Cope – Fried [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Deluxe Edition contains a bonus disc of B-sides and sessions from BBC Radio One, a December ’84 Janice Long Session and May ’84 John Peel Session. In contrast to the crisp, clean sound of World, Fried...
View ArticleCircles – Structures: Unreleased Material 1985-1989 (2016)
Circles, a band comprising Mike Bohrmann and Dierk Leitert, first saw the light of day in the year 1983. Krautrock’s twilight phase flickered with a few final successes before sliding into obscurity....
View ArticleTodd Terje & The Olsens – The Big Cover-Up (2016)
In the late ’50s, pianist-turned-Tiki-titan Martin Denny began to mimic the sound of bullfrogs and tropical birds that could be heard from the bandstand at his Oahu cocktail bar. From that simple...
View ArticleALTO! – LP3 (2016)
Portland-based trio ALTO! construct lengthy instrumental pieces focused on polyrhythms. They utilize loops and other electronic elements as well as guitars, but most of these sounds end up functioning...
View ArticleObnox – Wiglet (2015)
It’s tempting to compare Cleveland’s Lamont “Bim” Thomas to any number of fuzz-soaked garage and punk acts that treat squealing distortion as an inevitability on par with death and taxes. You could...
View ArticleMerzbow – Life Performance (1985, Remastered 2016)
Out of the vaults by way of Cold Spring records comes a long overdue reissue of some very rare classic noise. Originally released on his own ZSF Produkt label, Life Performance by Masami Akita (AKA...
View ArticleWar Baby – Death Sweats (2015)
War Baby, a simultaneously noisy and melodic trio from Vancouver, delivers an enveloping, catchy sophomore album with Death Sweats. Featuring big, warm guitars, vocals that can be gently cloaked in...
View ArticleNight School – Blush (2016)
Amiable California indie trio Night School make their debut with Blush, a woozy ten-song effort that merges ’60s girl group innocence with lush dreamy textures. While they’re far from the first group...
View ArticleInformation Society – Orders of Magnitude (2016)
Listeners can be forgiven for thinking that Information Society are an early ’80s synth outfit from the UK; there’s an unmistakable air of early MTV-era electronic dance pop to all of their tunes. So...
View ArticleRed Sleeping Beauty – Kristina (2016)
After not making music together for almost two decades, the members of the Swedish indie pop group Red Sleeping Beauty (minus bassist Carl Johan Näsström) re-formed in 2014 to start recording again....
View ArticleAkira Kosemura – Tiny Musical (2008, Remastered 2015)
This remastered reissue of Akira Kosemura‘s second solo album Tiny Musical seemingly straddles two worlds. On the one hand, certain tracks (“Sky,” “Shorebird,” “Remembrance”) position the release...
View ArticleSøren Juul – This Moment (2016)
When Søren Juul first glided into public view via the short-lived moniker Indians, he was quick to establish that he was nothing but himself. 2013’s Somewhere Else was an evocative, occasionally...
View ArticleTold Slant – Going By (2016)
Told Slant is the indie / lo-fi project of Felix Walworth that is part of The Epoch, a collective of bands and artists. Similar to the storied Elephant 6 Collective out of Athens, GA, The Epoch’s...
View ArticleRLYR – Delayer (2016)
RLYR began by accident. In 2013, Pelican guitarist Trevor Shelley de Brauw and Locrian percussionist Steve Hess, both mainstays within the fertile fringes of Chicago’s rock scene, received an...
View ArticleThe Avett Brothers – True Sadness (2016)
The Avett Brothers‘ catalog is broad enough to encompass jittery punk bluegrass, barren acoustic ballads about heartache and family, and stately folk-pop that borders on the orchestral. Along the way,...
View ArticleT.O.L.D. – It’s Not About the Witches (2016)
Though a dark heart beats below the surface, Daniel James Smith’s debut LP, It’s Not About the Witches, glimmers with hope and comfort. As T.O.L.D., the Los Angeles-based Brit imbues many of the tracks...
View ArticleOlga Bell – Incitation EP (2015)
Few albums of the last five years provided as profound a feeling of escape as Olga Bell’s breakthrough album Krai. For the Brooklyn-based composer and electronic musician, the effect of its process was...
View ArticleJambinai – A Hermitage (2016)
Jambinai are a South Korean group who incorporate traditional instruments such as the geomungo (a long zither plucked with a short bamboo stick while seated) and the haegeum (a small, thin fiddle-like...
View ArticleBroods – Conscious (2016)
Defiantly proclaiming “I’d lose everything so I can sing,” Georgia Nott opens Broods’ sophomore album, Conscious, with a bang. As the tribal drums kick in, synths droning with a menacing determination,...
View ArticleCassy – Donna (2016)
After spending the majority of her career behind the booth, internationally renowned DJ Cassy is stepping into the spotlight with her debut LP, Donna. Cassy (Catherine Britton) is a celebrated DJ that...
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