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XTC – English Settlement (1982, Remastered 2016)
2016 cut from original half-inch master sources, CD mastered from the same original master sources. Andy Partridge’s discovery of the 12-string guitar set the tone for English Settlement, an album that...
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Hidden Orchestra – Wingbeats (2016)
Wingbeats is the eagerly awaited new release from Hidden Orchestra on Tru Thoughts. On the 7-track EP, which illuminates the fascinating intricacy of Joe Acheson’s work, the immersive lead track is...
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Simian Mobile Disco – Welcome to Sideways (2016)
Released on Simian Mobile Disco’s Delicacies label, which boasts work by the likes of Alex Niggeman, Roman Flugel, Bicep, and Agoria, this new album is the first piece of work released by the duo of...
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Horizontal Excursions – Higher States (2016)
A journey into nature is a healing experience, and one that can be married to your own personal health and mentality. At its most symbolic, Roger Martinez’s new album as Horizontal Excursions, not...
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Gabriel Bruce – Come All Sufferers (2016)
It’s been a tumultuous few years for Gabriel Bruce. In the years that followed the charismatic singer’s debut album Love in Arms in 2013, Bruce has had to deal with a painstaking break-up. And then...
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Lee “Scratch” Perry – Must Be Free (2016)
Must Be Free arrives six months after the 80th anniversary of dub master Lee “Scratch” Perry’s arrival on planet Earth and less than a year after his Swiss studio burned down after he forgot to put out...
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Radkey – Delicious Rock Noise (2016)
After issuing a pair of well-received EPs in 2013, brothers Dee, Isaiah, and Solomon Radke, all of whom were well under the voting age at the time of release, looked poised to bring their vintage,...
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His Name Is Alive – Patterns of Light (2016)
Having been invited to perform at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland by one of the scientists, His Name Is Alive spent a year studying particle physics and then created Patterns of Light....
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Islands – Return to the Sea [10th Anniversary Remaster] (2016)
On their debut record, Return to the Sea, Montreal’s Islands have crafted a rich, exciting, and emotionally deep sounding album that carries on the freewheeling spirit and sound of the Unicorns as well...
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Palace – So Long Forever (2016)
There’s something gratifying about following a band from their inception, through EPs and the hype that follows, to a debut LP. And with Palace, it’s nice to see that the oft-altering trajectory has...
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Sad13 – Slugger (2016)
With Speedy Ortiz, Sadie Dupuis unleashes gnarled and dexterous guitar melodies that mimic and intersect with her distinctive, sing-songy vocal melodies; the band’s noisy outbursts both bolster her...
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Luke Temple – A Hand Through the Cellar Door (2016)
On 2013’s Good Mood Fool, singer/songwriter Luke Temple veered from the eccentric indie folk of his three prior solo LPs, opting for sort of indie- electronic soul. While the experiment was generally...
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Pavo Pavo – Young Narrator in the Breakers (2016)
On paper, Pavo Pavo‘s back-story, along with their mustachioed appearance, could see them written off as hipster, wannabe art rockers. The classically trained quintet hail from Brooklyn, and are most...
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Terminal Cheesecake – Dandelion Sauce of the Ancients (2016)
Forming in London in 1988 Terminal Cheesecake made waves releasing an uncompromising blend of psych, dub and industrial grooves across two EPs, six albums and a now infamous session for John Peel....
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Sabled Sun – 2148 (2016)
Owner of the essential Cryo Chamber label and leader of Sabled Sun/Atrium Carceri, Simon Heather is one busy man but always a highly creative sound artist when it comes to write some of the most...
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Tyvek – Origin of What (2016)
Origin of What is Tyvek’s third album for In the Red Records, arriving four years after 2012’s On Triple Beams, with numerous limited cassettes appearing in between. On this album, singer/guitarist...
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The March Divide – Saturdays (2016)
It stars with one of those perfect pop — with power! — songs, all jangly descending riffage culled from the Guided by Voices Book of Oomph, a propulsive back beat, yearning-yet-emphatic vocals that’d...
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Jungle Nausea – Jungle Nausea (2016)
Jungle Nausea formed at the dawn of the ’80s when some members of SMEGMA recruited other Portland new-music enthusiasts (including poster artist Mike King) for a project that would combine punk, new...
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Nils Bech – Echo (2016)
…Now Nils Bech is 35, and there is a maturity and urgency to his lyrics and a minimalism to each instrumental arrangement that has produced a mostly beautiful, occasionally frustrating, always...
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Illum Sphere – Glass (2016)
As on the Spectre Vex and Second Sight EPs, Illum Sphere‘s Ryan Hunn does more with less on his second full-length, Glass. Although Ghosts of Then & Now was impressive partly because it was so...
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