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Said the Whale – As Long as Your Eyes Are Wide (2017)
When Vancouver group Said the Whale announced their latest record As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide, they also shared that they’d parted ways with two of their members, and were now operating as a trio....
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Geotic – Abysma (2017)
Abysma is the Ghostly International debut from Will Wiesenfeld, a Los Angeles native who is best known for his hip-hop-influenced electro-pop releases on Anticon under the name Baths, but has actually...
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VA – Music Inspired By the Motion Picture Ghost in the Shell (2017)
From the pages of the original 1989 Japanese manga by iconic Masamune Shirow to the 2017 Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment’ big screen adaptation of Ghost in the Shell...
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Hauschka – What If (2017)
After spending several years composing music for films — most notably 2016’s Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Dustin O’Halloran collaboration Lion — Hauschka‘s Volker Bertelmann tells his own...
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Monster Movie – Keep the Voices Distant (2017)
Monster Movie might be best known as the side project of Slowdive guitarist Christian Savill, starting up in 2000 and, with his musical partner Sean Hewson, helping keep the shoegaze flame burning with...
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Samantha Crain – You Had Me at Goodbye (2017)
With John Vanderslice on board as producer for a third straight time, Samantha Crain’s fifth album, You Had Me at Goodbye, takes a fairly bold step away from her more rustic earlier releases toward a...
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Tall Ships – Impressions (2017)
After several years of struggling with personal health, label/management issues, and a loss of faith in the music industry, Tall Ships return with their triumphant second album; triumphant in the same...
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Moon Duo – Occult Architecture Vol. 2 (2017)
Occult Architecture is Moon Duo‘s fourth album with Vol. 2 in the series following on from the previous edition released in February, which saw them exploring darker elements of their sound. This new...
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Arthur Russell – Instrumentals (2017)
Getting a handle on Arthur Russell’s discursive career would be tough, even if everything had been well documented. But in the decade following his death in 1992, Russell existed not so much as an...
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Public Service Broadcasting – Live at Brixton (2016)
A live album doesn’t tend to be high on the wish list of anyone but the keenest of fans. It’s a good go-to at Christmas, or when you’ve worn scratches into all your much-loved studio albums. But...
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Craig Brown Band – The Lucky Ones Forget (2017)
Craig Brown is a Detroit-based musician who spends his days teaching guitar and his nights tending bar and performing in bands. Before the Craig Brown Band, his most successful act was the punk band...
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Yasmine Hamdan – Al Jamilat (2017)
Once a member of the Beirut duo Soapkills, Yasmine Hamdan enjoys cult status in the Middle East thanks to her cool, electro-pop songs with Arabic lyrics. In the west she is less well known, despite her...
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Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2- Star Stuff (2017)
After making a concerted venture into more guitar-based rock with 2015’s What For?, Chaz Bundick sheds his Toro y Moi moniker on this spacy, psychedelic collaboration with brother duo the Mattson 2....
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Father John Misty – Pure Comedy (2017)
In a seemingly indefinite era of noise (fake news, social media, you name it), a man who gets it can be king. At minimum, philosophers can prove to be radicals by simply telling us what we should...
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Klaus Schulze – Androgyn (2002, Reissue 2017)
…originally released 2002 as part of the strictly limited and long exhausted 5-CD boxset “Contemporary Works II”. The first track on Androgyn has again, like on Another Green Mile, the cello of...
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RF Shannon – Jaguar Palace (2017)
RF Shannon‘s new album, Jaguar Palace, sits somewhere in a triangulation of Pink Floyd’s mellow psyche-ambiance, My Bloody Valentine’s exquisite lushness and Neil Young’s rootsy-but-still-experimental...
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A Flock of Seagulls – Remixes & Rarities (2017)
Cherry Red Records’ Cherry Pop imprint celebrate the quintessential ’80s pop band A Flock of Seagulls with a new double-CD set collecting 27 Remixes & Rarities. Remixes & Rarities focuses on...
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Anjou – Epithymía (2017)
As Anjou, Mark Nelson and Robert Donne make ambient music at its grandest scale. Their spacious, gentle synths evoke concepts of great magnitudes, like music that planets could dance to. Epithymía, the...
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Richard Edwards – Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset (2017)
Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset is the solo debut of Richard Edwards, known for over a decade prior as the man behind the thoughtful indie rock of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s. It’s not really a...
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ÌFÉ – IIII+IIII (2017)
Defying easy categorization, ÌFÉ‘s debut, IIII + IIII, dares listeners to relinquish control and simply enjoy the thrill of a totally unique sonic experience. There’s no simple way to define the Puerto...
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