S Olbricht – For Perfect Beings (2016)
The past few years have seen a steady stream of under-the-radar electronic output coming from Farbwechsel, a label based in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. One of the collective’s most prolific...
View ArticleQasim Naqvi – Preamble (2015)
Standard Western music notation is made up of five lines, four spaces, and a whole lot of dots and symbols. But contemporary composer and drummer Qasim Naqvi was looking to make classical music that...
View ArticleNite-Funk – Nite-Funk EP (2016)
When combined, Nite Jewel and Dâm-Funk can arguably be considered a supergroup, as both artists have forged their own solid paths in the underbelly of the electronic music scene. It was only a matter...
View ArticleJoe Crow – Compulsion EP (1982, Remastered 2015)
Former Prefects/Nightingales guitarist, Joe Crow, released Compulsion, his debut solo 7” on Cherry Red in 1982. Now expanded to five tracks and remastered, this reissue shows the Birmingham, UK...
View ArticleJohn Roberts – Plum (2016)
In a dance-music scene that regularly churns through phenoms and fads, John Roberts exists as almost a meditative presence. He was once one of those phenoms himself: his 2010 debut, Glass Eights, on...
View ArticleThe Wilful Boys – Rough As Guts (2016)
With a band called The Wilful Boys and an album called Rough As Guts, their music sounds how you would expect it to – it’s a “shit-kicking no-shit-giving hard-ass of a record.” The New York band’s...
View ArticleOpia – Eon (2016)
Perth based three-piece Opia have been around for a while, cranking out interesting, atmospheric alternative rock for an ever-growing audience. It takes a full-blown album for a band to truly stretch...
View ArticleThe Lurkers GLM – The Futures Calling (2016)
The Lurkers play gigs like Rebellion but fans know it doesn’t contain original Lurkers. Arturo (also in 999) is he wasn’t an original Lurker but the replacement bass player; in fact, three of the...
View ArticleKlaus Schulze’s U.S.O. – Privée (2016)
Klaus Schulze‘s U.S.O.Privée originally was released 2000 as part of the strictly limited and long exhausted (wooden) boxset Contemporary Works. U.S.O. are Razoof Lear aka Uwe Lehr, Klaus Schulze and...
View ArticleThe Amazing – Ambulance (2016)
For a set of contemplative rock that brings to mind words like “reverie” and “tapestry,” look no further than Ambulance, The Amazing‘s fourth LP and follow-up to Picture You. It picks up where that...
View ArticleThe Cars – The Cars (1978, MFSL 2015)
The Cars‘ 1978 self-titled debut, issued on the Elektra label, is a genuine rock masterpiece. The band jokingly referred to the album as their “true greatest-hits album,” but it’s no exaggeration — all...
View ArticleCharlemagne Palestine – Organo Rinascimentale Non Temperato (2015)
Buoyed by slow changes that create illusions of movement, the experience of listening to Organo Rinascimentale Non Temperato is one of floating between parallel worlds of harmony and noise....
View ArticleHarmonia – Musik Von Harmonia (1974, Remastered 2015)
The debut Harmonia album is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal, or more accurately, the motorik...
View ArticleThe Cars – Moving in Stereo: The Best of the Cars (2016)
The first response to another reissue of Cars hits and near misses is likely going to be “do we really need this?” Since there is already 1995’s definitive double platter, 40 song, rarities heavy Just...
View ArticleOmar Rodríguez-López – Sworn Virgins (2016)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has always been one to defy convention and expectation. From redefining what punk rock could and should be with At the Drive-in to exploring the limits of composition with Mars...
View Articleof Montreal – Innocence Reaches (2016)
Innocence Reaches begins with a query. “How do you identify?” coos a robotic voice over a strikingly modern mix of bright synthpop and surging rave. The question too feels very of its time — as...
View ArticleEric Feremans – The Antwerp Killer (1983, Remastered 2015)
One of the rarest vinyl horror soundtracks of all time, 1983’s The Antwerp Killer consists of remarkable homemade electronic experiments created by a wunderkind synth designer for a smart-talking...
View ArticleDescendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinate (2016)
Anyone who’s seen the recent Descendents documentary Filmage knows how tumultuous and poignant the band’s 39-year, on-and-off existence has been. After forming in 1977, the Southern California group...
View ArticlePan Sonic – Atomin Paluu (2016)
Influential Finnish experimental electronic duo Pan Sonic (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen) officially dis- banded at the end of 2009, but several recordings from their final years have surfaced since...
View ArticleHype Williams – 10 / 10 (2016)
Hype Williams — the eternally mysterious outfit that gave us Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland — has returned with a new album. Titled 10 / 10, the album was uploaded without notice to Bandcamp with no...
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