VA – Driftless Ambient II (2015)
Driftless Ambient II, the second compilation from small New York-based label Driftless Recordings, features submissions from the label’s regulars as well as newcomers, and the collection demonstrates...
View ArticleThe Lavender Flu – Heavy Air (2016)
Chris Gunn spent a good chunk of the 2000s as the guitarist of Portland garage band The Hunches, and a smaller time caught up in the tail winds of Adam Stonehouse’s Hospitals during their impenetrable...
View ArticleLindstrøm – Windings EP (2016)
We chastise artists for changing, and we chastise them for staying the same. Give us more of what we like, but do it differently. Try something new, but make sure it feels familiar. Follow your muse,...
View ArticleVA – Uncut: The Stars Are Out Tonight (2016)
1. School of Seven Bells – Open Your Eyes 2. Rokia Traore – Tu Voles 3. Cavern of Anti-Matter – Tardis Cymbals (Uncut Edit) 4. Emitt Rhodes – Rainbow Ends 5. Field Music – Disappointed 6. Prins Thomas...
View ArticleFake Tears – Nightshifting (2015)
Nightshifting is the debut record from Fake Tears, a Vancouver synth-pop duo featuring veteran singer-songwriters Larissa Loyva and Elisha May Rembold. Loyva and Rembold cut their teeth in such notable...
View ArticleDavid Cordero – El Rumor del Oleaje (2016)
Some derive solace from the sunlight streaking through the trees of a forest, others from the breathtaking panoramas made possible by a mountain hike. For David Cordero, the shorelines of his native...
View ArticleRhyton – Navigating by Starlight (2016)
Rhyton aims for something straight out of Greek mythology — to fuse themselves into a single being, like Hermes and Aphrodite, or the two-faced, eight- limbed primeval humans of Aristophanes’ eulogy in...
View ArticleThe Owl Service – His Pride. No Spear. No Friend. (2016)
Essex-based alternative-folk collective The Owl Service has over the past decade led the field with its thought-provoking, innovative and sometimes cryptic artistic response to the folk tradition...
View ArticlePeter Broderick – Partners (2016)
As a love letter to John Cage, multi-instrumentalist and composer Peter Broderick based most of his seventh solo album Partners on Cage’s concept of chance-based composition. Before writing any of the...
View ArticleThe Veils – Total Depravity (2016)
So here comes Finn Andrews’ indie-dark-pop outfit again, back with the sixth album of their 15-year existence (if you count 2011 EP Troubles of the Brain), since The Veils‘ London-NZ beginnings in the...
View ArticleVA – Gqom Oh! The Sound of Durban (2016)
The Rome-based DJ/producer Nan Kolè discovered gqom late one night last January when he saw a friend tagged in a link with the mysterious hashtag: #Gqom. Luckily he clicked on the link and committed to...
View ArticleNoun – Throw Your Body On the Gears and Stop the Machine with Your Blood (2015)
“I want your love, I want your blood,” Marissa Paternoster repeats on “Loveblood”. Fittingly, the Screaming Females frontwoman surprise-released that track and the accompanying dark-titled Throw Your...
View ArticleMungolian Jet Set – A City So Convenient EP (2016)
Following several eclectic, ambitious albums that often center around a bizarre, P-Funk-esque self-created mythology, Norwegian duo Mungolian Jet Set took a break from crafting their fifth full-length...
View ArticleGabriel Kahane & Brooklyn Rider – The Fiction Issue (2016)
Gabriel Kahane poses a timeless rhetorical question in The Fiction Issue, his finely wrought new album: “What’s a day without a doughnut?” He’s singing in the guise of someone headed out for coffee,...
View ArticlePill – Convenience (2016)
At the core of Pill’s debut full-length, Convenience, is a statement in the form of a question: “Is this situation based on power?” The query is rhetorical and singer/bassist Veronica Torres has her...
View ArticleHappy Diving – Electric Soul Unity (2016)
Bay Area guitar band Happy Diving announced themselves in 2014 with a self-released four-song cassette recorded by Jack Shirley (Joyce Manor, Deafheaven). From their start, they set up camp in the...
View ArticleAmateur Best – The Gleaners (2015)
Birmingham producer Joe Flory, aka Amateur Best, has kicked off October in style with the return of his brand of ‘personal pop’ in the form of The Gleaners. Despite another cameo from Chilly Gonzales,...
View ArticleCass McCombs – Mangy Love (2016)
On the very first song on his very first record, Cass McCombs went to the hospital. There he received some troubling test results and found himself faced with an unanswerable question. “Is it dying...
View ArticleKishi Bashi – Sonderlust (2016)
On September 16th, singer and multi-instrumentalist Kishi Bashi release a new album. Titled Sonderlust, it marks his third full-length following 2014’s Lighght and his first big release since last...
View ArticleCymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years (2016)
Pretty Years, Cymbals Eat Guitars’ fourth full- length release lands September 16 via Sinderlyn. The album was recorded with producer John Congleton (Swans, St. Vincent, David Byrne). A press release...
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