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The Wands – The Dawn (2014)
Whisper it quietly but there’s a psychedelic explosion blowing up in Scandinavia. While Sweden undeniably leads the way with the likes of Goat, Les Big Byrd and The Janitors, the rest of Europe’s...
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Arthur’s Landing – Second Thoughts (2015)
Arthur’s Landing is a group consisting of musicians who collaborated with the late cellist/producer/songwriter Arthur Russell throughout his career, led by guitarist/vocalist Steven Hall and primarily...
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Mac DeMarco – Another One (2015)
At the end of Mac DeMarco’s new mini-album, Another One, he shares his home address and invites listeners to stop by for a cup of coffee. Apparently, the address is real; fans have already started...
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Mike Cooper – Fratello Mare (2015)
Born in the UK and now based in Italy, Mike Cooper has half a century of recordings under his belt, starting out as a bluesman in the 1960s, appearing regularly on John Peel’s show in the decade after...
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Twinsmith – Alligator Years (2015)
Nebraska quartet Twinsmith mix bouncy, post- Vampire Weekend indie pop with sugar-dusted surf vibes on their label debut for revered hometown indie Saddle Creek. Arriving two years after their...
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Talk in Tongues – Alone with a Friend (2015)
The Los Angeles based foursome’s first LP shows how good beginnings can come from other beginning’s end. In 2014, the future bandmates were still trying their hands in other groups and bands. Having...
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Peter Zummo – Lateral Pass (1985, Remastered 2014)
Peter Zummo‘s work has flown under the radar of most “serious music” cliques but contributes significantly to the canon of American art music as exemplified by everyone from Harry Partch to John Fahey....
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BEAK>– Split EP (2015)
Bristol trio BEAK> are back with a new EP, and after two full-length albums and a few other bits and bobs to boot, it’s exciting to find out which way they’re going to turn next. Famed at first for...
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Digital Leather – All Faded (2015)
Expanding from a one-piece bedroom project to a 5-piece band, Shawn Foree (also formerly of the bands Destruction Unit and Lost Sounds), mastermind of Digital Leather has ambitiously created quite a...
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Cosmic Psychos – Cum The Raw Prawn (2015)
Desperate Records release the legendary Cosmic Psychos’ new studio album, Cum The Raw Prawn. Recorded at the farm of longtime member Ross Knight’s farm in Spring Plains, Victoria, it sees the band –...
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One of You – One of You (2014)
Really compelling work from One of You – a female singer from the Czech Republic who fled in 1968 – then emerged as a recording artist in the US during the big indie wave in the early 80s! The music...
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Teho Teardo – Ballyturk (2014)
An accompaniment to Enda Walsh’s play of the same title, Teho Teardo’s latest offering is a beguiling, befuddling and downright captivating work. The sumptuous misery of I Thought We Knew Everything...
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HEALTH – Death Magic (2015)
If brooding, primal opener Victim is anything to go by, you’d be forgiven for thinking HEALTH are going back to their confrontational roots with their first proper record in six years, but it’s not...
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The Maccabees – Marks to Prove It (2015)
As The Maccabees return for their fourth studio album, they’re still curiously preoccupied with searching for purpose. This is a strange doubt for a band that is increasingly acquiring Establishment...
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Axes – Glory (2014)
After years of wallowing in textured slow-builds and delicate sparseness, when exactly did post- rock gain muscles and shed its attention span? London-dwellers Axes may not be pioneers of its current...
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Albert Hammond, Jr. – Momentary Masters
Unlike so many instantly iconic rock phenomena before them, the Strokes didn’t so much turn boring as frustrating. From 2006’s First Impressions of Earth onward, they’ve sounded like a band constantly...
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RM Hubbert – Ampersand Extras (2014)
After three albums of beautiful, lilting guitar instrumentals (to which you could fairly attach genre descriptors like ‘flamenco,’ ‘folk’ and ‘post-rock’ without really nailing what’s going on), RM...
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Game Theory – Real Nighttime [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
30th anniversary reissue is expanded with 13 bonus tracks (10 previously unissued) including covers of songs by Gerry Rafferty and Queen. While Game Theory had released three EPs between 1982 and 1984,...
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The Mynabirds – Lovers Know (2015)
Laura Burhenn is the travelin’ kind. If the philosopher Martin Buber was right, that “all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware,” then Burhenn is a proprietor of known...
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CFCF – Radiance & Submission (2015)
Toward the end of 2013, Mike Silver, aka CFCF, said in an interview that he almost felt his newest album, Outside, was “a bit too epic, like I went a bit too far.” Radiance and Submission, which was...
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