Beaty Heart – Till the Tomb (2016)
Some of the best British pop of 2016 bursts from this south London trio’s second set. Peckham electro-poppers Beaty Heart’s new album is a dense puzzle that clicks unusual percussion together with the...
View ArticleThe Bouncing Souls – Simplicity (2016)
Reflective and sentimental, yet unabashedly inclusive, the tenth studio long-player from the Jersey pop-punk veterans is both a wistful walk down memory lane and a nourishing plate of road trip-ready...
View ArticleCouncil of Nine – Dakhma (2015)
Displaying a poise that belies its debut status, Dakhma, the first album from Council of Nine, is an exploration into ancient Zoroastrian lore wrapped in a cloak of 21st-century dark ambiance. Lone...
View ArticleBryan Eubanks & Stéphane Rives – fq (2015)
Although they have not previously recorded together, the pairing of Bryan Eubanks & Stéphane Rives makes perfect sense. French soprano saxophonist Rives is already a long-serving Potlatch veteran,...
View ArticleBones & Beeker – Bones & Beeker (2015)
Bones & Beeker are a Minneapolis-based duo with disparate musical backgrounds. Singer/songwriter Anthony Newes has helmed various rock and folk projects, while producer BK-One grew up playing jazz...
View ArticleLawrence English – The Peregrine (2011, Reissue 2015)
Though his label Room40 is turning 15 this year it feels like ambient artist Lawrence English has been delivering his greatest work in these last few years. Last year he released the stunning...
View ArticleRussian Circles – Guidance (2016)
For five albums now, the Chicago-based trio Russian Circles have made great use of post-rock most familiar’s dynamic tricks — loud and quiet; stop and start, swell and subside. But they’ve never had...
View ArticlePreoccupations – Preoccupations (2016)
Remember Viet Cong? Shh, you’re not supposed to say that, or use that name, or whatever. Well, if you didn’t know, the Canadian post-punk rockers now go by Preoccupations, a moniker that should cause...
View ArticleLamartine – Reportage (2015)
A genuine lost and unreleased full-length LP from one of the most mysterious figures of early Italian electronic sound and library music. A missing puzzle piece in the small discography of experimental...
View ArticleZhu – Generationwhy (2016)
Zhu makes night-time music. Whether this is in the sense of night-time as the time of clubs and dancing, of late-night walks, or even late-night smoking sessions, it is very much night. Like many dance...
View ArticleBugge Wesseltoft, Beady Belle, Erik Truffaz, Ilhan Ersahin, Joaquin...
Back in the late 1990s Bugge Wesseltoft was best known as a leading light in the jazz house scene that sought to integrate jazz into the electronic music of the day. His primary outlet at the time was...
View ArticleSteven Stapleton & Christoph Heemann – Painting with Priests (2015)
In association with Yesmissolga and Elica Editions, Robot Records presents the long-fabled duo collaboration by Steven Stapleton and Christoph Heemann. This historic live performance took place on...
View ArticleSkye Steele – Up from the Bitterroot (2015)
The new album from Skye Steele, Up from the Bitterroot is an imaginative, touching and insightful account of the breakdown of the singer-songwriter’s marriage. The record chronicles the numerous...
View Article65daysofstatic – No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (2016)
How does one even begin to build a soundtrack to an infinite universe? One filled with unknown landscapes, towering creatures and that intense blackness of space. It’s a mammoth task, but one that...
View ArticleGary Numan – Here in the Black: Live at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (2016)
Here in the Black is a 20 song collection of work, recorded and filmed over two shows Gary Numan played at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles in 2013 as part of the Splinter World Tour....
View ArticleDM Stith – Pigeonheart (2016)
Scientists long ago proved that if you were slip and fall overseas, possibly by way of some cartoonish banana slipping incident, you would land somewhere within a five-mile-radius of a Brooklyn, New...
View ArticleGigi Masin, Alessandro Monti & Alessandro Pizzin – The Wind Collectors / As...
The Wind Collector/As Witness Our Hands contains Gigi Masin, Alessandro Monti, and Alessandro Pizzin’s recordings from 1989 and 1990; this remastered double-CD edition was compiled and sequenced by...
View ArticleUnion Duke – Golden Days (2016)
Two years removed from releasing their Cash&Carry LP, twangy Toronto indie folk outfit Union Duke release their third full-length record Golden Days. Running 13 tracks in length, Golden Days was...
View ArticleCorbu – Crayon Soul (2016)
Corbu just want to take you on a musical journey into space. It’s a sentiment you imagine the past clients of their debut album’s mixer, Dave Fridmann, would approve of: Flaming Lips, MGMT and Tame...
View ArticleField Mouse – Episodic (2016)
Field Mouse‘s 2014 debut LP, Hold Still Life, exhibited a gauzy take on indie rock, one led by singer/guitarist Rachel Browne’s articulate and melodic vocals. Taking a further step away from their...
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