Pfarmers – Our Puram (2016)
…Our Puram, the second album in two years from Pfarmers, a project featuring Danny Seim of Menomena, Bryan Devendorf of The National, and Dave Nelson, a musician who has toured with David Byrne, St....
View ArticleKatie Dey – Flood Network (2016)
Australian singer/songwriter Katie Dey‘s singular brand of fragmentary home-recorded pop is fragile, strange, and sometimes frightening. Taking full advantage of the recording and editing capabilities...
View ArticleBlind Pilot – And Then Like Lions (2016)
Their debut with the ATO label, And Then Like Lions is the long-awaited third LP from indie folk-pop stylists Blind Pilot. Despite the description, they’re not to be mistaken for part of the post-...
View ArticleBlack Tape for a Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments + Limitless EP (2016)
On their 30th anniversary, Black Tape for a Blue Girl returns to their evocative ethereal, neoclassical, gothic roots with an album exploring the existential predicaments of time’s passage, choices...
View ArticleBikini Kill – Revolution Girl Style Now! (1991, Reissue 2015)
Bikini Kill would become the most visible and vocal group in the Riot Grrrl movement, a scene that would meld the independent, D.I.Y. spirit of punk rock with a new and fearless approach to feminism,...
View ArticleHarmonia – Deluxe (1975, Remastered 2015)
A touch more immediate and song-oriented than its predecessor, but no less enchanting and lovely to hear, De Luxe again features the trio experimenting with a variety of approaches, most particularly...
View ArticleMarconi Union – Ghost Stations (2016)
The Manchester trio Marconi Union released their debut, Under Wires and Searchlights, back in 2003, and Ghost Stations is their ninth album (including Anomic, 2013’s collaboration with Jah Wobble)....
View ArticleInnercity – ABABABABABABAS (Blue Lion Child) (2015)
Masked Belgian experimental artist Hans Dens’ project Innercity has released a deluge of dark, unsettling recordings that channel the cosmic experimentation of Popol Vuh into something surreal,...
View ArticleMoss Lime – Zoo Du Québec EP (2015)
The second EP from Montreal/Paris trio Moss Lime is packed with confidence; with songs like “I Always Get What I Want,” a melting pot of voices and attitude, and cheeky lyrics like “Would you put a few...
View ArticleLafawndah – Tan EP (2016)
Born in Paris with Egyptian and Iranian roots, Lafawndah has lived in Mexico, New York and Tehran, and recorded her first EP on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Unsurprisingly, her music treats pop...
View ArticleSect – Sect (2016)
Supergroups don’t get much heavier than Sect. That the band features Canadian punk and hardcore great Chris Colohan (Left for Dead, Burning Love, Cursed) on vocals is worth the price of admission alone...
View ArticleJonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere – Five Steps (2015)
Five Steps, recorded during a week-long residency at EMS Stockholm and released via Versatile Records, is the fruit of a recent collaboration between Jonathan Fitoussi and Clemens Hourrière. They only...
View ArticleMenace Beach – Super Transporterreum EP (2015)
No idea what a Super Transporterreum is, but it sounds great. Loud Leeds gang Menace Beach are having a prolific year, with this EP following up on their January released full-length debut Ratworld....
View ArticleChris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp – The Island (2015)
Island is the second collaborative effort on Trouble in Mind by guitarist Chris Forsyth and Mountains’ keyboardist Koen Holtkamp. Their first was 2012’s fine Early Astral. That record featured a pair...
View ArticleMelodium – Luminol (2016)
Melodium is Laurent Girard, a French electronic, pop, ambient music composer who lives in Angers. Luminol is rather different from usual Melodium’s work that is more pop, electronica oriented. It’s a...
View ArticleTV Freaks – Bad Luck Charms (2015)
Hamilton, ON’s TV Freaks already horked up a pile of singles and two big, beefy full-lengths, and now the garage punk crew are adding to the amassment with Bad Luck Charms. Dripping with sludgy riffs...
View ArticleLydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado – My Lover the Killer (2016)
My Lover the Killer is the latest collaboration between Lydia Lunch and Marc Hurtado. They first worked together on the ‘Sexodrone’ track of the Etant Donnés’s album Re-Up in 1999. Featuring Terry...
View ArticleThe Album Leaf – Between Waves (2016)
Six years removed from the project’s last proper full-length A Chorus of Storytellers, Jimmy LaValle’s long-running The Album Leaf release new record. Eight tracks in the length, Between Waves is the...
View ArticleFrank Zappa – Frank Zappa for President (2016)
Since his death in 1993, Zappa’s legacy has remained intact, with the reissuing of his catalogue, release of a documentary on his life, and now the reopening of his vault which will deliver a pair of...
View ArticleMark Harris – in the forests_the animals are moving (2015)
It’s one thing to organize sound materials into a satisfying five- to ten-minute composition; doing so effectively for the full measure of a 47-minute piece is something else altogether. Obviously it’s...
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