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Sleaford Mods – Key Markets (2015)
Jason Williamson’s speaking voice is gloriously bilious: hoarse with fury, spraying plosives everywhere, turning up the kinked corners of his East Midlands accent as far as they’ll go, cramming...
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Mocky – Key Change (2015)
If you aren’t familiar with Dominic “Mocky” Salole, you’re definitely familiar with some of his collaborators. For over a decade, he’s worked with the likes of Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Jamie Lidell and...
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Swans – Filth [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Michael Gira’s triumphant resurrection of Swans over the past few years has been more than a reboot. The gravelly visionary has recast himself as a dark evangelist, a man on a mission to pull thunder...
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Venetian Snares – Your Face EP (2015)
Canadian IDM drill sergeant Aaron Funk, whose My Love is a Bulldozer album last year ended a short hiatus, is well-known as a purveyor of a drill’n’bass /breakcore hybrid who can also come off as...
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Gunship – Gunship (2015)
A collage in grit and neon, machine grease, nostalgia, synth arpeggios and unintelligibly harmonised moans; a weird marriage of 8-bit and HD; good fun. Gunship’s album teaser promised a contemporary...
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Grave Babies – Holographic Violence (2015)
Hardly Art, brings us the latest from Seattle dark-wavers Grave Babies, a foursome that parrots the iconic Nirvana font for its T-shirts but doesn’t emulate grunge’s sound so much as its in-your-face,...
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The Antlers – In London (2015)
Evolving from Peter Silberman’s bedroom recordings to a fully realized band, for Brooklyn-based the Antlers, what started out as a solo lo-fi folk project progressed quickly into a colossal-sounding...
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Alessandro Cortini – Risveglio (2015)
A sound that pulls at unnerving soundtrack textures, implies a dislocation from home and wears its analogue chops as if there’s no possible alternative. Risveglio arrives exactly as advertised. The...
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Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (2015)
Yo La Tengo will celebrate their 30th anniversary – and the 25th birthday of their 1990 breakout LP Fakebook – with a new album featuring original songs, covers and a handful of reinterpreted Yo La...
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Dan’l Boone – Dan’l Boone (2014)
Under the name Drainolith, former AIDS Wolf guitarist Alexander Moskos makes woozy, eerie deconstructions–rock songs slowed and stretched until they become séances. His 2012 LP Fighting! was an...
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La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (2015)
Seattle surf-rock outfit La Luz is set to return with its sophomore album, Weirdo Shrine, on August 7th through Hardly Art. The follow-up to 2012’s It’s Alive spans 11 tracks and was produced by...
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John Nolan – Sad, Strange, Beautiful Dream (2015)
Singer-songwriter John Nolan release his second solo album, Sad Strange Beautiful Dream. Written and recorded over the past two years, the 10-track album was recorded in Long Island, New York with...
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Family and Friends – XOXO [EP] (2015)
Family and Friends have long been cultivating a following in the live setting, traveling around the Southeast and beyond with an energetic lineup that includes two drummers. The seven-piece is a...
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The Lemonheads – Bored on the Fourth of July: The BBC Session EP (2015)
April 2015 sees Boston’s influential 90s pop-punk legends the Lemonheads release their one and only BBC Session; “Bored On The Fourth Of July’” making it commercially available for the first time...
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Deaf Wish – Pain (2015)
When Deaf Wish found themselves in a room together for the very first time, they agreed on a guiding philosophy: “Let’s not make anything that’s going to last. If we’re together for just two shows,...
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Big Talk – Straight in, No Kissin’ (2015)
The second track of Straight in No Kissin’ finds Ronnie Vannucci Jr name-checking the late, great Chicago songwriter Warren Zevon. To those who heard Big Talk‘s self-titled 2011 debut, this will make...
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Andy Shauf – The Bearer of Bad News (2015)
Like the long, cold prairie winters during which it was recorded, Andy Shauf’s sophomore LP, The Bearer of Bad News, is both grim and beautiful, bearing the kind of weary warmth of a bedroom lamp lit...
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Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (2015)
A rock opera in five acts, The Most Lamentable Tragedy is the fourth studio album by Titus Andronicus and the band’s debut for Merge Records. The central narrative of The Most Lamentable Tragedy (“a...
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Civil Twilight – Story of an Immigrant (2015)
Three of the four members of Civil Twilight — all except keyboardist Kevin Dailey — are immigrants, having relocated from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles in 2005, and then to Nashville in 2008....
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Liberez – All Tense Now Lax (2015)
Fusing the organic with the industrial is not a new idea, but few have done it as convincingly as Liberez. Pieced together in composer John Hannon’s studio, this fusion of found sounds, programmed...
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