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Idles – Brutalism (2017)
Bristol punks Idles have been toiling on the toilet circuit for yonks without ever getting a finger in the door proper – they threatened a while back with a clutch of ferocious singles and the Welcome...
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The Dig – Bloodshot Tokyo (2017)
Following two EPs of hazier psych-pop, the Dig return with Bloodshot Tokyo, their third full-length and first since 2012’s Midnight Flowers. Co-produced by the band and bassist Matt Basile (Mother...
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Le Car – Auto-Reverse (2017)
Adam Lee Miller and Ian Clarke met as art students in Detroit in the late 1990s, and from ’96 to ’98, they released four projects as the electro/techno group Le Car. The titles of those releases...
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Ha Ha Tonka – Heart-Shaped Mountain (2017)
“Heart-Shaped Mountain is our love album,” Ha Ha Tonka declare in the liner notes to their fifth long-player. And sure enough, a spin of the album reveals a lot of these songs deal with relationships...
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Richard Barbieri – Planets + Persona (2017)
Keyboards often play a supporting part in many ensembles, but Richard Barbieri still takes the idea farther than most. His roles as band member (in art- pop outfit Japan and eclectic rock band...
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Luka Productions – Fasokan (2017)
Lush and hypnotic dreamscapes combine traditional instrumentation with sweeping electronics, field recordings, and soothing affirmations in these original compositions. Cut up Kora and Balafon are...
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Rachael Kilgour – Rabbit in the Road (2017)
Minnesotan singer-songwriter Rachael Kilgour released three albums between 2008 and 2013, and two years later collected prestigious honors for her craft: grand prize at the NewSong Music Performance...
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Middle Kids – Middle Kids EP (2017)
Considering they only released their first single in 2016 without having played a single show, Australian three-piece Middle Kids have made quite an impression. Lead singer and guitarist Hannah Joy had...
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Papa M – Highway Songs (2016)
Highway Songs is former Slint guitarist David Pajo‘s return to making music under the Papa M moniker since the mid-2000s. A lot has happened in his life since then. Slint went on multiple reunion...
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Thomas Dolby – Original Album Series (2016)
5CD set featuring the 1982 debut album ‘The Golden Age of Wireless’, ‘The Flat Earth’ (1984), ‘Aliens Ate My Buick’ (1988), ‘Astronauts & Heretics’ (1992) and the soundtrack to ‘Gothic’ (1987)....
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VA – Strictly Mood II Swing (2016)
The duo Mood II Swing‘s productions in the ’90s helped establish a style of house music — moody, colorful, and rhythmically inventive — that has had a profound impact on several successive generations...
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Lloyd Cole – In New York: Collected Recordings 1988-1996 (2017)
In New York: Collected Recordings 1988 – 1996, the new six-CD Lloyd Cole solo box include all four solo albums Lloyd released on the Polydor and Fontana labels between 1988 and 1996 (Lloyd Cole, Don’t...
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Joakim – Samurai (2017)
“I’ve always tried to resist homogeneity and cohesiveness, as a matter of artistic survival,” French producer Joakim writes in a press release for his latest album, Samurai. That much quickly becomes...
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Secret Shine – There Is Only Now (2017)
UK-based shoegaze/dream-pop band Secret Shine is back with There Is Only Now, the album melds the textured guitar drive of shoegaze with the heightened, diaphanous drift of dream-pop. Back in the early...
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Lorenzo Masotto – Aeolian Processes (2017)
Lorenzo Masotto’s journey with music began at the age of nine when he started playing piano. Graduating from Conservatorio di Verona, he consequently started studying composition and jazz. Lorenzo also...
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Skyway Man – Seen Comin’ from a Mighty Eye (2017)
To fully appreciate James Wallace (a.k.a. Skyway Man), it helps to understand his background. The auteur is the ultimate Nashville outsider having worked with his hometown Richmond, Virginia’s...
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White Lies – Friends [Deluxe Version] (2017)
Deluxe version feature four extra tracks: ‘Friends’, ‘Give a Sign’, ‘What I Need’ and ‘Where Do I Go?’. It is often all too easy for bands to be pigeonholed. First impressions count in the music...
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Claudio PRC – Volumi Dinamici (2017)
As a producer paying tribute to electronic music pioneer Luigi Russolo, Claudio Porceddu — AKA Claudio PRC — is in good company. In 2008, Jeff Mills created an installation based around the Futurist...
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Knox Hamilton – The Heights (2017)
Specializing in an exuberant blend of retro dance- rock and evocative, road trip-ready indie pop, Little Rock, Arkansas’ Knox Hamilton (the name was taken at random out of an old yearbook found at a...
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Ghost Culture – Nucleus EP (2017)
Ghost Culture makes house music with a dash of classic synth pop and a dishevelled British charm. His technical chops aren’t in doubt, but he’s struggled to do more than slot neatly into pre-existing...
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