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Sodastream – Little By Little (2017)
Sodastream was — and now is again — a collaboration between Perth-bred musicians Karl Smith and Pete Cohen, who released four albums of gentle, textured music in the early-2000s, which resonated not...
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Those Who Walk Away – The Infected Mass (2017)
Haunting, unsettling, and disturbing are but three of the words that come to mind while listening to The Infected Mass, the debut recording by Winnipeg- based composer Matthew Patton under his Those...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – Azul, Mis Dientes (2017)
Azul, Mis Dientes is the forty-third album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, released on March 10, 2017. It is the eighteenth release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the...
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Noveller – A Pink Sunset for No One (2017)
A Pink Sunset for No One is the follow-up to Fantastic Planet, the 2015 album from guitarist/ filmmaker Sarah Lipstate’s solo project Noveller. While the album contains all of the hallmarks of...
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Adult. – Detroit House Guests (2017)
To record Adult‘s sixth album, Detroit House Guests, husband-and-wife duo Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus invited a series of experimental musicians and artists — Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas J. McCarthy...
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Planning for Burial – Below the House (2017)
Thom Wasluck’s work as Planning for Burial both adheres to many genre tropes, while simultaneously shirking them by combining them and moulding them together in such a way as to avoid being...
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Mystery Weekend – Surprise! (2017)
Protest the Hero vocalist Rody Walker and drummer Mike Ieradi formed Mystery Weekend with guitarist Dan Hay (The Fully Down) over their love of skate punk. A song on their debut LP, Surprise! —...
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Erik Scott – In the Company of Clouds (2016)
Anyone coming to Erik Scott‘s music for the first time will likely concentrate first on his rather incredible background — after all, how many musicians can lay claim to a recording career dating back...
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Brokeback – Illinois River Valley Blues (2017)
Tortoise co-founder Douglas McCombs resumed his Brokeback project after a decade-long absence with 2013’s Brokeback and the Black Rock. Follow-up Illinois River Valley Blues slightly restructures the...
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Grischa Lichtenberger – Spielraum | Allgegenwart | Strahlung (2016)
By far Grischa Lichtenberger’s most ambitious release, Spielraum|Allgegenwart|Strahlung is essentially three EPs bundled into one 86-minute album. It’s also his most accomplished work to date, honing...
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The Little Kicks – Shake Off Your Troubles (2017)
For some, ‘inoffensive’ is the most scathing insult you can hurl at a band, but Aberdeen’s Little Kicks are proof that there can be dignity in making modest, straightforward pop music with a...
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The Dirty Nil – Higher Power (2016)
It only takes about 30 seconds into Higher Power to get a good sense of what the Dirty Nil‘s all about. Amp noise gives way to a simple yet frenetic guitar riff, the band crashes in, singer Luke...
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Spectres – Condition (2017)
On their second album, Condition, the Bristol- based Spectres strip their noise rock sound back to the bare wires and torn-up insulation. Their previous album, Dying, had a layered, pummeling wall of...
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Innercity Ensemble – III (2016)
…Innercity Ensemble is a supergroup of sorts, bringing together members of Polish groups such as Alameda 5, HATI, Stara Rzeka, Sing Sing Penelope, and T’ien Lai, all of whom play what can safely be...
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Gailes – Seventeen Words (2017)
Seventeen Words is a very welcome February surprise from two collaborators who are no strangers to working together. Benoît Pioulard and Rafael Anton Irisarri have made two entrancing albums together...
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Porcelain Raft – Microclimate (2017)
The third full-length outing from Los Angeles-based, Italian-born bedroom pop auteur Mauro Remiddi, Microclimate is a dream-like and richly textured collection of sonic ruminations that split the...
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VA – Keb Darge & Cut Chemist Present the Dark Side: 30 Sixties Garage Punk...
Picking up where they left off on the 2007 compilation Lost & Found: Rockabilly & Jump Blues, Keb Darge & Cut Chemist join forces once again, this time to explore the Dark Side of 1960s...
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Damaged Bug – Bunker Funk (2017)
Judging by his work with the ever-prolific Thee Oh Sees and running the super-busy Castle Face label, it’s hard to imagine John Dwyer has the time to brush his teeth, much less make records under the...
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Dutch Uncles – Big Balloon (2017)
Five albums in, unconventional pop band Dutch Uncles have made their most cohesive record yet. Hailing from Manchester in England, the Memphis Industries signing have forged a unique sound since their...
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Richard Pinhas – Reverse (2017)
In its time-heals-all-wounds way, retrospect has reduced Richard Pinhas’s 1982-1992 recording hiatus to a footnote in his long career, the 10-year gap nestled harmlessly as it is between Heldon’s...
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