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The Wild Reeds – The World We Built (2017)
It’s somewhat rare to find three singers so in sync as The Wild Reeds‘ Kinsey Lee, Sharon Silva and Mackenzie Howe. Rarer still is the trio’s songwriting skills; think Crosby, Stills and Nash. The...
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The Smith Street Band – More Scared of You Than You Are of Me (2017)
Wil Wagner is like the Australian Frank Turner. He’s sing-shouts with the same taut balance of earnestness and no-fucks-to-give should anyone diminish his stylings as disingenuousness. That might...
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FIN – Ice Pix (2017)
On her debut album, Ice Pix, FIN builds complex electronic beats, mixes in some moody synths and samples, and layers her ethereal voice. The results offer some interesting textures and grooves, if not...
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Happyness – Write In (2017)
For their second album, Write In, English trio Happyness reach back into the sweet-dreamy sound they established on 2015’s Weird Little Birthday, but emerge with a touch more serious, consistently...
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Raoul Vignal – The Silver Veil (2017)
We meet Raoul Vignal during a moment of revelation. The French guitarist has noticed a ray of sunlight peering through the branches, and as he light passes across his face, its simple warmth and...
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Vanbot – Siberia (2017)
Swedish electropop musician Ester Ideskog was well on her way to completing her third album under the name Vanbot, yet it still wasn’t right. In a daring move, she scrapped those efforts and sought a...
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Brandon Can’t Dance – Graveyard of Good Times (2017)
Graveyard of Good Times is the Lucky Number label debut of Brandon Can’t Dance, the performance alias of Philadelphia’s Brandon Ayres. A lo-fi musician championed by music scene-mate Alex G with a...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – Gorilla Preacher Cartel + Killing Tingled Lifting...
Gorilla Preacher Cartel is the 44th album by Omar Rodríguez-López, released on March 24, 2017. It is the 19th release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the 7th of the 2017 series....
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Blood and Glass – Punk Shadows (2017)
It’s been 3 years since Blood and Glass burst out with their evocative debut album — three years that have seen the quartet plunge headfirst into their musical experiments to return with Punk Shadows....
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Guided By Voices – August By Cake (2017)
With their reunion in full swing following the release of last year’s Please Be Honest, Guided By Voices have teed up a new double album August By Cake. A whopping 32 tracks in length, August By Cake...
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Naked Lights – On Nature (2016)
Oakland-based group Naked Lights drastically changed directions between Chime Grove (originally released as a cassette in 2011, then reworked into an LP in 2013) and 2016’s On Nature, evolving from a...
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Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness (2017)
Working with one of the world’s most prominent musicians – Alex Turner – must be something of a poisoned chalice. Alexandra Savior credits the Arctic Monkeys frontman with helping her make her lyrics...
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Varg – Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City (2017)
…The Swedish ambient-techno artist Varg clearly knows what he’s doing by citing the microporous membrane in the latest installment of what he’s called his “most honest and personal work to date.” The...
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Sorority Noise – You’re Not As _____ As You Think (2017)
Numerous oft-quoted studies have equated a sleepless night with being legally drunk: you get the lowered inhibitions, impaired decision making, and depressed functionality, all without any of the buzz....
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The Third Eye Foundation – Semtex [20th Anniversary Edition] (2016)
Matt Elliott was not even 16 while he decided to stop his studies to devote himself to his passion for music. He got a job at the famous Revolver Records in Bristol. This was an experience that...
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Klaus Schulze – Ballett 1&2 + 3&4 (2000, Reissue 2017)
…originally released 2000 as part of the strictly limited and long exhausted ten-CD box-set “Contemporary Works”. Ballett 1 is the first of four works to have been composed and recorded by Klaus...
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Gurr – In My Head (2016)
You wouldn’t have a clue that Laura Lee and Andreya Casablanca were in a group based in Berlin in 2016 by listening to their first album. Even the presence of one song in German, ‘Walnuss’, wouldn’t...
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The Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage Two (2017)
Leyland James Kirby’s latest series launched last fall, and it chronicles The Caretaker character’s struggle with early-onset dementia. Each release of the six-part album represents a further stage of...
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Palberta – Bye Bye Berta (2017)
Palberta are an all-female trio who play absurdist, fragmentary quasi-pop songs equally reminiscent of post-punk groups like the Raincoats and LiLiPUT as well as no wave bands like Mars and DNA. Their...
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Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire – Swithering (2016)
“Swithering” is an unusual title for and comes from a Scottish word meaning to be uncertain about things, which, according to Glasgow based Roddy Hart, summed up the album process for him. It was a...
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