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Sex Pistols – Live ’76 (2016)
When the Sex Pistols took the stage at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall on June 4, 1976, Great Britain didn’t look especially great. Politically, economically, socially – in every way possible –...
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The Ramona Flowers – Part Time Spies (2016)
On July 2nd last year, The Ramona Flowers supported Stereophonics in Wrexham before 20,000 fans for what they claimed would be the biggest gig of their lives. Around the time their debut album...
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Zooey – The Drifters (2017)
The Drifters is the full-length debut of Zooey, the chillout indie pop project of musicians Matthieu Beck and Marie Merlet. The French couple recorded the album in their London home studio but capture...
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Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri – Echo (2017)
Cryo Chamber label owner Simon Heath (Atrium Carceri), Pär Boström (Kammarheit) and Robert Kozletsky (Apocryphos) are back together again after their last album Onyx, which was released in September...
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Skye Edwards & Ross Godfrey – Skye | Ross (2016)
Better-known as two-thirds of seminal U.K. trip-hop act Morcheeba, Skye Edwards and Ross Godfrey branched out in 2016 with a new duo. The third member of Morcheeba, studio wizard Paul Godfrey (Ross’...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – A Lovejoy (2016)
A Lovejoy is the thirty-ninth studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, to be released on December 30, 2016. It is his thirteenth release in the bi-weekly album series initiated by Ipecac...
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The xx – I See You (2017)
No matter how you frame it, January is widely regarded as a bit of a bummer. Whether it’s because of the Christmas comedown, the horribly cold weather or the lack of funds in the bank account, the...
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SOHN – Rennen (2017)
Christopher Taylor, aka SOHN, is back with Rennen, the follow-up to his beautiful 2014 debut Tremors. Starting where his previous album left off, the eerie mechanical hook of Hard Liquor makes for the...
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Rage Against the Machine – Evil Empire (1996, Audio Fidelity 2016)
Rage Against the Machine spent four years making their second album, Evil Empire. As the title suggests, their rage and contempt for the “fascist” capitalist system in America hadn’t declined in the...
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The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody (2017)
It’s not particularly surprising to discover that the title of the latest Flaming Lips album came from a Polish book Wayne Coyne was “reading”; the sound of the words, and the imaginative leaps they...
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Joan of Arc – He’s Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hand [VIP...
It makes sense that Joan of Arc would take its name from a Catholic saint: There’s a certain percentage of indie-rock music fans who pray at the altar of every project the Kinsella brothers undertake....
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Uranium Club – All of Them Naturals EP (2016)
Minneapolis’ Uranium Club seem to revel in being aggressively obtuse. They sprung up last year with their Human Exploration EP, an eight-song tape of some of the most tightly-wound, gleefully mean, and...
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Bonobo – Migration (2017)
Following the release of his most successful album to date, 2013’s The North Borders, as well as an even more triumphant world tour, British producer Bonobo (Simon Green) returned in 2017 with his...
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The Regrettes – Feel Your Feelings Fool! (2017)
The Regrettes cut Feel Your Feelings Fool!, their 2017 debut, just a few months after the band’s formation, bashing it out in a few quick sessions. Maybe that’s why Feel Your Feelings Fool! seems so...
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Gidge – LNLNN (2017)
Jonatan Nilsson and Ludvig Stolterman grew up together in the small city of Umeå in the northern part of Sweden, an area that endures lengthy, freezing winters. As Gidge, their field of expertise is...
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Cocaine Piss – The Dancer (2016)
Shrieking vocals, razor sharp riffs, heavy rhythms and a chaotic execution are the main ingredients to the fun world of Cocaine Piss and their debut album The Dancer. The Belgian punk band just plug...
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Vaults – Caught in Still Life (2016)
Posing as potentially one of the least boring albums of this fucked up year, Caught in Still Life supplies everything that needs to be heard in an electronic album, and more. With continuous spangled...
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Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White – Gentlewoman, Ruby Man (2017)
Gentlewoman, Ruby Man is an album born of a moment of serendipity. Virginia-based auteur Matthew E. White first encountered 21-year-old London singer-songwriter Flo Morrissey when the first track taken...
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Slowly Rolling Camera – All Things (2016)
Slowly Rolling Camera was formed in Cardiff, Wales in 2013 and comprises a nucleus of vocalist/ lyricist Dionne Bennett, co-composer/keyboardist Dave Stapleton plus Deri Roberts who in addition to...
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Half Japanese – Hear the Lions Roar (2017)
Half Japanese began in the late ’70s as a band of primitive outsiders, breaking musical rules that founding brothers Jad and David Fair never even learned. But it didn’t take them long to become...
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