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Kleefstra|Bakker|Kleefstra – Dize (2017)
An unfurling of high density drones underneath a poetic, composite solenoid… That seems to be what Dize is about, the follow-up by the Kleefstra Brothers and Anne Bakker of ‘Griis’ from 2014. Once a...
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Six Organs of Admittance – Burning the Threshold (2017)
Sparsely appointed and gently played, Burning the Threshold marks a return to the pastoral folk and American Primitive styles for Ben Chasny and his long-tenured Six Organs of Admittance project. Since...
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Ahmed Malek – The Electronic Tapes (2017)
Remarkable discovery of late ‘70s/early ’80s avant ambient electronics from Arabic North Africa; originally conceived as demos or private studies by Ahmed Malek (1931-2008). The Electronic Tapes...
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Peter Silberman – Impermanence (2017)
After releasing two albums that were essentially solo works, it wasn’t until Peter Silberman recruited Darby Cicci and Michael Lerner that the Antlers (and Silberman himself) arguably found their...
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Tennis – Yours Conditionally (2017)
Denver indie pop duo and sailing enthusaists Tennis release their fourth album, Yours Conditionally via Mutually Detrimental. It marks their first release since Ritual in Repeat in 2014. Spoon’s Jim...
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Thomas Newman – Passengers [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2016)
By the time Thomas Newman was recruited to write the original score for Passengers, a 2016 science-fiction drama, he had over 30 years in the field to his credit, as well as over as dozen Academy Award...
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – The French Press (2017)
In early 2016, the release of Talk Tight put Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever on the map with glowing reviews from SPIN, Stereogum, and Pitchfork, praising them as stand-outs even among the fertile...
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Talk Tight (2016)
Australian indie pop combo Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (aka Rolling Blackouts C.F.) sound like they’re serious about their music, if not much else. On the Melbourne-based band’s debut EP, Talk...
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Kangding Ray – Hyper Opal Mantis (2017)
After the frantic, frenetic emotionality of 2015’s Cory Arcane, Kangding Ray’s sixth album – Hyper Opal Mantis – by necessity sounds like a stocktaking and consolidation of his stylistic development to...
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Mobina Galore – Feeling Disconnected (2017)
In their own words, Mobina Galore are a “vocally aggressive power chord punk duo from Winnipeg, Canada” and they cite bands like The Distillers, Propagandhi, and Against Me! as influences. You probably...
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Leif Vollebekk – Twin Solitude (2017)
In Hugh MacLennan’s novel Two Solitudes, his titular phrase refers to the relationship between English-speaking and French-speaking Canada; they’re two disparate and isolated spheres. Early on,...
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Yoko Ono & John Lennon – Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins + No. 2: Life...
Courting confusion is part of the job description for anyone working in the avant-garde. Some experimenters meet this requirement with the equivalent of a shrug, while others take to the task with more...
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Rainbrother – Tales from the Drought (2017)
Opening with a joyful and instantly memorable piano motif on the track Riverside, Tales from the Drought announces its intentions from the get go. Bjarke Bendtsen performing as Rainbrother has produced...
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Transona Five – Transona Five (2017)
Transona Five were part of Denton, TX’s fertile space-rock scene that also gave us Comet, Lift to Experience and The Tomorrow People. The band, named after a Stereolab song, were on the more gentle...
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Minus the Bear – VOIDS (2017)
It’s the first album in five years for a band hailed as kings of reinvention, and a lot’s happened in those 60-odd months. Using the time to start from scratch, refine their style, evolve their...
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Grandaddy – Last Place (2017)
Eleven years ago, Jason Lytle pulled the plug on Grandaddy after four albums of intriguing and often wonderful indie rock music. They fused the archetypal ’90s scuzz of Pavement with the more...
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Jenn Grant – Paradise (2017)
Jenn Grant has earned a rep as one of Canada’s most highly regarded folk pop artists, and she more than lives up to it on her new LP, Paradise — even if it’s not quite what listeners will have...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – Ensayo De Un Desaparecido + Chocolate Tumor Hormone...
Chocolate Tumor Hormone Parade is the third live album by Omar Rodríguez-López, and his sixteenth release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the fourth of the 2017 series. The album is...
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Children of Alice – Children of Alice (2017)
At first glance, the debut album from Children of Alice seems a daunting endeavor. Heaviness hangs over the project as the group’s name is a tribute to the late Trish Keenan, who formed one-half of the...
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Whimsical – Sleep to Dream (2017)
Whimsical is an Indiana band who made quite a name for themselves back in the day. Their first album, 2000’s exquisitely-named Setting Suns Are Semi-Circles remains a cult-classic, dreampop with an...
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