Katie Von Schleicher – Bleaksploitation (2015)
Katie Von Schleicher would have been hard-pressed to find a more fitting title for her new album. Bleaksploitation pits gloomy anguish against high drama, and they fight to a draw on seven songs that...
View ArticleHippies Wearing Muzzles – Animist Pools (2016)
A shifting center in a stream of rippling analog tones, the music of Hippies Wearing Muzzles is orchestrated to transfix, echoing sounds heard in nature with modular synthesizers and the powerful...
View ArticleTIGUE – Peaks (2015)
Peaks is the debut full-length album from powerhouse percussion trio TIGUE, and features guitar and bass contributions from Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and James McNew, as well as other contributions from...
View ArticleKlaus Schulze & Pete Namlook – The Dark Side of the Moog, vol. 1-11 (2016)
Peter Kuhlmann, the artist best known as Pete Namlook who passed away in 2012, was very prolific on his own and alongside many others, including Biosphere, Richie Hawtin and Move D. His work with Klaus...
View ArticlePrimitive Parts – Parts Primitive (2015)
Unsurprisingly for a band made up of members of Male Bonding and Sauna Youth, the first album by Primitive Parts is an extremely energetic blast of post-punk hooks and tangled guitars. Parts Primitive...
View ArticleMala – Mirrors (2016)
As with his 2012 debut full-length Mala in Cuba, Mirrors finds the dubstep originator taking up residence in a different land (namely Peru) and integrating its musical traditions with his own style. As...
View ArticleThe Crane Wives – Foxlore (2016)
Grand Rapids’ Crane Wives have quickly ascended to the top of their scene’s radar since their 2010 inception. They came crashing onto the Grand Rapids scene with an eclectic album full of sweeping...
View ArticleRobert Curgenven – Climata (2016)
Climata is a new work by composer and sound artist Robert Curgenven comprised entirely of site-specific recordings captured in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces, spanning 9 countries. Each of the...
View ArticleThe Jam – Fire and Skill: The Jam Live (2015)
Named after the legend painted on Paul Weller’s amp, Fire and Skill featuring six previously unreleased live recordings from shows between 1977 and 1982, remastered at Abbey Road Studios. The first...
View ArticleVA – Smudge: Manilow Tribute (2015)
Forming in Sydney in 1991, Smudge proved hugely influential within the Australian and American indie rock scenes, partly through their own work and through frontman Tom Morgan‘s influence on The...
View ArticleBig Black – Atomizer (1986, Remastered 2015)
“This compact disc, compiled to exploit those of you gullible enough to own the bastardly first generation digital music system, contains all-analog masters. Compact discs are quite durable, this being...
View ArticleFenton – Mythic Failures (2016)
Fenton is the guitar-based side project of Shuttle 358 (California-based Dan Abrams). In 2005, he released the debut Pup on the Japanese imprint Plop. Mythic Failures follows shortly after the creation...
View ArticleValerio Tricoli – Clonic Earth (2016)
The Italian-born, Germany-based sound artist Valerio Tricoli first appeared on the experimental label with Miseri Lares, a double album that he called his “magnum opus.” Tricoli is a sound artist who...
View ArticleThe Mothmen – Pay Attention! (1981, Reissue 2015)
When we think about the creative process we normally think of people coming up with the best ideas they can and executing them to the best of their abilities. There’s another way of working that isn’t...
View ArticleSheer Agony – Masterpiece (2015)
The Montreal trio Sheer Agony debuted in 2011 with a promising single, but unlike most bands who release every last note they’ve recorded, they declined to flood the market with recordings. Only a...
View ArticleSonic Youth – Spinhead Sessions 1986 (2016)
The slow-burn sounds of Sonic Youth’s 1986 rehearsals to score Ken Friedman’s spooky highway film Made in USA are yet another mile marker in the band’s long and varied existence, now being issued as...
View ArticleLee Van Dowski – Cerca Trova (2016)
Cerca Trova, the first full-length in a decade from French-born, Switzerland-based producer Lee Van Dowski, is a highly satisfying album that will especially please those with a soft spot for ’90s Warp...
View ArticleAngst Hase Pfeffer Nase – Bidden (2015)
Chris Cooper is a noise prankster with the uncanny ability to — at times — get serious. Having recorded with the likes of Caroliner, Fat Worm of Error and Deerhoof, he is an expert at fusing obtuse...
View ArticleUnited Bible Studies – The Ale’s What Cures Ye (2015)
The unrecognized royalty of the Irish experimental folk sub-underground, United Bible Studies bubbled to the surface in the early 2000s, at around the same time as a spate of limited-run CD-R imprints...
View ArticleGØGGS – GØGGS (2016)
Ty Segall seems to form new bands roughly as often as most folks do their laundry, but the guy is good enough that the results are nearly always rewarding, and that’s certainly the case with GØGGS....
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