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Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic [20th Anniversary Edition] (2016)
Super Furry Animals‘ debut album ‘Fuzzy Logic’ has been remastered and expanded with a bonus CD offering 15 demo recordings and ten tracks live from the 1996 Phoenix Festival. Super Furry Animals are...
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Super Furry Animals – Zoom! The Best of Super Furry Animals 1995-2016 (2016)
…With a few more albums to play with than 2004’s Songbook – a straightforward collection of the singles to date – the two discs of Zoom! take a few more liberties with the history of Super Furry...
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Kristin Hersh – Wyatt at the Coyote Palace (2016)
It seems somewhat appropriate that Kristin Hersh should reappear in the same year as one of the Pixies‘ occasional comebacks. For Hersh’s band Throwing Muses have always seemed intertwined with Black...
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Communist Daughter – The Cracks That Built the Wall (2016)
If Johnny Solomon wrote Communist Daughter’s first album as a farewell before what he thought would be a final disappearance into the haze of drugs and alcohol that had enveloped him, he’s warily...
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Kettel – Wingtip (2016)
Despite a bulging back catalogue stuffed full of melodious electronic treats, IDM veteran Reimer “Kettel” Eising has struggled for wider recognition. While this may be a reflection of the obscurity of...
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Monomyth – Happy Pop Family (2016)
The four guitar pop-loving lads in the Halifax group Monomyth had to know when they started making jangling, hooky indie rock that it would be hard to escape the shadow of the bands that came before...
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Covenant – The Blinding Dark [Limited Deluxe Edition] (2016)
The Blinding Dark, Covenants 9th studio album is exciting not only because of its compelling title, but also since it shows a remarkable development in style, something that Covenant decidedly wanted...
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Kate Vargas – Strangeclaw (2016)
A Berklee College of Music grad, Kate Vargas moved from Alburquerque, N.M., to New York in 2011 to begin her solo career. Influenced by Tom Waits and Nina Simone, among others, Vargas combines folk,...
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STRFKR – Being No One, Going Nowhere (2016)
After a group effort on the band-penned Miracle Mile, STRFKR took a different approach to their fourth LP. The bulk of the album was written in isolation by bandleader Josh Hodges during a desert...
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The Future Sound of London – Accelerator [25th Anniversary Edition] (2016)
Compared to where most of the band’s career would later go, Accelerator is a fairly conventional debut from the duo — certainly it’s the most explicitly commercial-minded the duo ever was, slotting in...
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David Bazan – Dark Sacred Night (2016)
Former Pedro the Lion frontman David Bazan offers a different take on the holidays with Dark Sacred Night, a gently brooding collection of Christmas carols and assorted covers culled from earlier...
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The Men – Devil Music (2016)
Before Devil Music, Brooklyn noise punks The Men used to release an album every year, experimenting with folk and Americana, zipping through personnel changes and working out how to handle a higher...
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The Hold Steady – Almost Killed Me [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
The deluxe edition featured remastered versions of the album, and five exclusive tracks, including The Hold Steady’s first 7” single, “Milkcrate Mosh,” as well as songs originally only available on the...
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Wolf People – Ruins (2016)
2014’s Fain saw the English rockers pounding out a mystic blast of bottom-heavy folk-rock that split the difference between “Immigrant Song”-era Led Zeppelin, the heavier side of Fairport Convention,...
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Dead Can Dance – Garden of the Arcane Delights / Peel Sessions (2016)
Garden of the Arcane Delights is the only EP released by Dead Can Dance, coming out in 1984 and acting as a bridge between their first two albums. Its sleeve a sketch by Brendan Perry, depicting...
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Loscil – Monument Builders (2016)
Scott Morgan (aka Loscil) has built a career crafting instrumental thinkpieces centred on strong themes. The Vancouver producer has explored ocean life (2002’s Submers), ’60s literature (2012’s City...
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VA – Punk 45: Les Punks: The French Connection, The First Wave of Punk...
The latest in Soul Jazz’s Punk 45 series, Les Punks: The French Connection, The First Wave of French Punk 1977-80 documents the first radical underground punk bands to come out of France. Emerging from...
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Sleigh Bells – Jessica Rabbit (2016)
For Sleigh Bells, the blurring boundaries between pop’s mainstream and underground were a blessing and a curse. Though they cranked out 3 albums of subversive sweetness and noise in as many years, Top...
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Royal Canoe – Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit (2016)
It’s been three years since we last heard something new from Canadian indie outfit Royal Canoe. But in the space since releasing their Juno-nominated 2013 record Today We’re Believers, the sextet have...
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The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
The Hold Steady’s Almost Killed Me is their hands- down masterpiece. A swirling maelstrom of intense, hilarious, and breathtaking rock & roll, it should have been the album that knocked everything...
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