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Coil – The Ape of Naples (2005, Reissue 2016)
Listening to The Ape of Naples is a bittersweet experience. As the last album recorded during John Balance’s lifetime, it serves as a final statement and summation of the band’s multi-faceted career....
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Big Deal – Say Yes (2016)
Big Deal‘s third album is a high-stakes affair. After a disasterous home robbery in 2014, the band lost a laptop containing the record’s demos and were forced to re-write from scratch, losing their...
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Landing – Complekt (2016)
In a warm, smooth space between shoegaze and ambient music lie New Haven, Connecticut quartet Landing, longtime space-rock practitioners with nine studio albums behind them and a tenth, Complekt, just...
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Orior – Strange Beauty (2016)
Reissue of incredible ‘lost’ post-punk recordings c.1979-1983 from the mysterious Orior, a huge influence on Demdike Stare. Orior’s sole 7” release, the Elevation EP (1979) for the obscure Crystal...
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Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene 3 (2016)
French synth master and electronica icon Jean- Michel Jarre will always hold a spot in the genre’s history. In 1976, he released Oxygène, his first seminal work, a commercial success, and a record that...
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Linda Guilala – Psiconáutica (2016)
Psiconáutica is Spanish indie pop group Linda Guilala‘s second full-length album, but if it weren’t for the two interim EPs following their 2009 debut LP, Bucles Infinitos, it might seem like the work...
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Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos (2016)
Since Kate Tempest’s last record – 2014’s Mercury-nominated Everybody Down – she found the time to put out Hold Your Own, her finest collection of poetry yet, and her debut novel The Bricks That Built...
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Damien Jurado & Richard Swift – Other People’s Songs vol.1 (2016)
In a bit of a twist given the prolific songwriting output of its performers, Other People’s Songs, Vol. 1 is a collection of covers from the duo of Damien Jurado & Richard Swift. The two first...
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Meredith Monk – On Behalf of Nature (2016)
Over her half-century career as a composer and singer, Meredith Monk has refreshed the language of vocal music. She has cultivated steely modes of expression in her top register, and gravely dramatic...
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 4 (2016)
It is the 4th volume of the Piano Textures Series started in 2007. The newest installment of timelessly acclaimed picturesque storytelling, Piano Textures 4, invites the listener into magnificently...
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VA – Cooking Vinyl 1986-2016 (2016)
To celebrate its thirtieth birthday, Cooking Vinyl, the home of the Prodigy, Billy Bragg, Marilyn Manson, Richard Ashcroft, Madness, James, Frank Black, Gary Numan, Amanda Palmer, The Pretty Reckless,...
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Exit Verse – Grant No Glory (2016)
With their self-titled 2014 debut, Chicago’s Exit Verse announced ex-Karate singer/guitarist Geoff Farina’s return to rock music, a world he’d essentially bowed out of after suffering hearing damage...
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Blueneck – The Outpost (2016)
Hailing from North Somerset in the UK, Blueneck have been at forefront of the European underground music scene since forming in 2000. They’ve released five critically-acclaimed albums, soundtracked a...
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Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement – Green Graves (2016)
Dominick Fernow is best known to most for either his noise project Prurient or his techno moniker Vatican Shadow, often overlooking the ambient — even pretty — soundscapes he makes as Rainforest...
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Soft Kill – Choke (2016)
After taking a four-year hiatus to resolve personal struggles with addiction and health, Soft Kill‘s third LP, Choke, doesn’t stray far from the band’s gloomy wheelhouse. They do an impressive job of...
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The Afghan Whigs – Black Love [20th Anniversary Edition] (2016)
The band’s fifth studio album has been remastered and expanded with nine previously unreleased demos, outtakes and studio jam sessions. The Afghan Whigs hit a high-water mark with 1993’s Gentlemen, an...
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Oneida & Rhys Chatham – What’s Your Sign? (2016)
After performing on stage together in 2012 at New York’s Ecstatic Music Festival, fellow rock experimentalists Oneida & Rhys Chatham joined forces to create a collaborative LP that comes off even...
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A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Iris (2016)
While Stars of the Lid offshoot A Winged Victory for the Sullen last gave us a full-length way back in 2014 with Atomos, the duo of Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie are entering the world...
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Francis and the Lights – Farewell, Starlite! (2016)
Francis Farewell Starlite, the creative force behind the contemporary R&B project Francis and the Lights, has always been billed as somewhat of a self-made pop star, a man who bucks record labels...
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James Murray – Eyes to the Height (2016)
Each James Murray release seems to capture a different side of this resolutely explorative producer, with earlier collections having focused on guitar-based soundscaping, electroacoustic minimalism,...
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