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Terry Malts – Lost at the Party (2016)
Terry Malts made their name as a super-intense punk band with plenty of pop running through their veins. With a handful of singles and a couple of albums under their belt, they seemed established as...
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Street Sects – End Position (2016)
End Position is a harsh noise industrial hammer punk album about numbing your feelings, chastising the nostalgic, smoking crack, hurting your loved ones, and eventually killing yourself. Debut album....
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FaltyDL – Heaven Is for Quitters (2016)
New York electronic musician FaltyDL, aka Drew Lustman, has built a sizable discography over the years. Amidst nearly half a dozen albums of intricate compositions, one thing that stands out is the...
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Glen Phillips – Swallowed by the New (2016)
While some artists tend to bristle at the label “singer/songwriter”, Glen Phillips doesn’t worry about labels, or genres for that matter, he just does what he does best- he writes poignant songs and...
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Duotang – New Occupation (2016)
Mod rock- and post-punk-mixing two-piece Duotang went on hiatus back in 2002, but the Canadian cult favourites are back with a brand new record. New Occupation marks the 15-years-later full-length...
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Porya Hatami & Arovane – Kaziwa (2016)
At first, a compact and constricted drone shuttles through a network of treble-thin pipes. Soon after that, Kaziwa truly unfolds. The music is like a young petal as it turns to face the light, but the...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker – Overnight (2016)
Wistful British folk duo Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker follow up make their Rough Trade debut with Overnight, their third album overall. It follows their sparsely arranged four-song EP Through the...
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Oasis – Be Here Now [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
The Deluxe 3 x CD features bonus content including B-sides, rare and unreleased tracks from the ‘Be Here Now’ era, plus a brand new Noel Gallagher mix of ‘D’You Know What I Mean?’. It also contains the...
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Angelica Garcia – Medicine for Birds (2016)
Angelica Garcia’s songs take unexpected swoops. Sometimes it’s the music, which is steeped in country-rock and blues, with flickers of indie-rock desolation; sometimes it’s her voice, which is sure and...
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Marquis Hawkes – Social Housing (2016)
Following two EP releases on the label last year, British born but Berlin-based producer Marquis Hawkes has this time hooked up with the Houndstooth crew for a full album. His debut, Social Housing, as...
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Æthenor – Hazel (2016)
Hazel is the fifth record from Æthenor, the group of eclectic travelers that includes Stephen O’Malley (SunnO))), KTL), Daniel O’Sullivan (Ulver, This is Not This Heat, Grumbling Fur, etc), Kristoffer...
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Ultimate Painting – Dusk (2016)
After releasing two very fine albums of relaxed guitar pop in a two-year span and touring incessantly, one might expect the duo of James Hoare and Jack Cooper to kick back and take a break. It appears...
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Whitehouse – The Sound of Being Alive (2016)
The Sound of Being Alive, a remastered collection spanning 1998-2007, contains 12 transgressive classics, including alternate universe sound-of-the-summer party hit ‘Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel’....
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Syd Arthur – Apricity (2016)
On their third LP in four years, British psych-rock quartet Syd Arthur forge a new path, altering both their personnel and overall approach. For most of its existence, the Canterbury-based group has...
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Zeal and Ardor – Devil Is Fine (2016)
“Slave music mixed with blues, a little jazz, electronics and black metal and all that with a dark Satanic theme? Zeal and Ardor is a band that simply can’t becompared with anyone else.” — Reflections...
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Piers Faccini – I Dreamed an Island (2016)
The sixth full-length outing from the globe-trotting British singer/songwriter, I Dreamed an Island finds Piers Faccini delivering an evocative set of unifying socially and politically charged folk...
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American Football – American Football (2016)
Since American Football broke up soon after the release of their self-titled 1999 album, it felt like their one and only release was some kind of magical occurrence that existed at the point where math...
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Saint Motel – Saintmotelevision (2016)
Fashioners of bubbly, theatrical indie pop, California’s Saint Motel sharpen their emphasis on getting feet moving with their second full-length, Saintmotelevision. While it’s packed with slick anthems...
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Agnes Obel – Citizen of Glass (2016)
Berlin-dwelling Dane Agnes Obel has been racking up the accolades throughout mainland Europe since her platinum-selling 2011 debut, Philharmonics. With the beguiling Citizen of Glass, her third studio...
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The Radio Dept. – Running Out of Love (2016)
After a prolonged gestation period that included legal battles with their longtime label Labrador, an album that they started and discarded, and a change in musical direction, in 2016 The Radio Dept....
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