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Piano Magic – Closure (2016)
Although 2012’s Life Has Not Finished with Me Yet was to have been Piano Magic’s swansong LP, its title hid a get-back-together clause in plain sight. With leader Glen Johnson having recently endured...
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Jay Som – Turn Into (2016)
2016 has been a surreal and absurd year for most, but what a whirlwind it must have been for Melina Duterte. The San Francisco musician who performs as Jay Som (a moniker meaning “Victory Moon” and...
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Eric Copeland – Brooklyn Banks (2016)
Brooklyn Banks is the 10th solo record in as many years from alien mastermind and Black Dice co-founder Eric Copeland. Coming in as the second release on new label Palmetto Arts, following Jesus Freak...
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Eric Copeland – Black Bubblegum (2016)
Following releases for labels like Underwater Peoples and L.I.E.S. that found Eric Copeland simultaneously adding more pop elements to his sound as well as maximizing the weirdness, the Black Dice...
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Modern Studies – Swell to Great (2016)
They’re officially a four-piece, but there are five protagonists in chamber-pop cartographers Modern Studies. Emily Scott, Rob St John, Pete Harvey and Joe Smillie craft exquisite hymns and shanties on...
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Benjamin Dean Wilson – Small Talk (2016)
Benjamin Dean Wilson’s auspicious debut, Small Talk, is an offbeat and polarizing pop platter that bears the hallmarks of a potential cult favorite. Soberly clad in a black turtleneck and unfussy...
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Orphx – Pitch Black Mirror (2016)
Almost a quarter-century into their career, you might expect the southern Ontario-based industrial techno duo Orphx to be sounding a bit tired. Not so. Pitch Black Mirror, their first album since...
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The Donnas – Spend the Night [Expanded Edition] (2016)
…this expanded edition of “Spend the Night” now features five bonus tracks; ‘Hyperactive’, ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine’, ‘Mama’s Boy’, ‘Play My Game’ and ‘Backstage’, the latter taken from the soundtrack...
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Doomsday Student – A Self-Help Tragedy (2016)
Doomsday Student is Eric Paul, Stephen Mattos, Craig Kureck, and Paul Vieira. Made up of members from bands such as Arab on Radar, The Chinese Stars, Athletic Automaton and Chrome Jackson, we should...
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Ricky Eat Acid – Talk to You Soon (2016)
Prolific Maryland-based musician Sam Ray is well regarded in certain indie rock circles for his bands Teen Suicide and Julia Brown, but his most celebrated venture might be his electronic solo project...
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The Microphones – Early Tapes: 1996-1998 (2016)
It’s been nearly fourteen years since we last heard new music from beloved K Records heroes The Microphones. After following up their 2001 classic The Glow, Pt. 2 with the challenging and somewhat...
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Lok 03+1 – Signals (2016)
LOK 03 is the family unit of master German pianists-composers Alexander von Schlippenbach, his wife Aki Takase, and Alex’s son Vincent, aka DJ Illvibe who plays on turntables and sampling keyboard,...
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Julia Jacklin – Don’t Let the Kids Win (2016)
Don’t Let the Kids Win is the debut of Australian singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin, who skillfully laces elements of alternative country-rock and early rock into haunting indie folk vignettes. Smoky...
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Sendai – Ground and Figure (2016)
Sendai is the collaborative project of producers Yves de Mey and Peter Van Hoesen, and Ground and Figure is promising to encompass while at the same time retaining the static (in the aural sense)...
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The Prisoners – TheWiserMiserDemelza: Complete Sessions (2016)
Medway garage band The Prisoners are loved by a legion of fans, including quite a few who went on to be in successful bands themselves. Those who saw them live speak in reverential terms, yet they...
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Tony Molina – Confront the Truth EP (2016)
Tony Molina shot to the attention of discerning indie rock fans with the release of 2013’s Dissed and Dismissed, a 12-tracks-in-12-minutes album that featured double-tracked heavy metal guitar heroics,...
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Ugasanie – Border of Worlds (2016)
Ugasanie is back with a new album, Border of Worlds, focused on the people of the Tundra and the North. Written, performed and produced by Pavel Malyshkin, this album puts the shaman in the centre, the...
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The Clean – Getaway [15th Anniversary Reissue] (2016)
The legendary New Zealand indie rock pioneers The Clean always had a hard time staying apart. Through the years, they would go their separate ways to work on other bands, like the Bats for one shining...
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Moor Mother – Fetish Bones (2016)
The science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany wrote that the raison d’être of the genre was not about creating an imagined future, but to consider a world in which art can provide “a significant...
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The Blue Aeroplanes – Welcome, Stranger! (2017)
After a long break that threatened to be more permanent than just a ‘hiatus’, cult rockers The Blue Aeroplanes are back with their twelfth studio album. Their unique mix of rock, folk, poetry, punk,...
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