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Wolf Eyes – Undertow (2017)
After an unexpected dalliance with Jack White’s Third Man Records, Michigan’s Wolf Eyes (the official kings of trip metal) kicked off their Lower Floor Music imprint with their 2017 full-length...
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bvdub – Epilogues for the End of the Sky (2017)
American producer Brock Van Wey has an expansive and prolific discography, but he’s probably best known for his ambient (and sometimes techno) work under the name bvdub. Epilogues for the End of the...
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Tashaki Miyaki – The Dream (2017)
Born out of L.A.’s indie scene, Tashaki Miyaki is singer/multi-instrumentalist Paige Stark and guitarist Luke Paquin, who, after releasing an EP and a couple of covers albums, brought in bass player...
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ENTRANCE – Promises EP (2016)
Promises is the introduction to a fresh chapter in the story of ENTRANCE (Guy Blakeslee). His newest creations add up to a set of rich, cinematic songs featuring expansive orchestration and imaginative...
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J.G. Biberkopf – Ecologies II: Ecosystems of Excess (2016)
Jacques Gaspard Biberkopf makes music for turbulent times. A Lithuanian producer with roots in Berlin’s club underground, his music — a liquid, digital audio collage of distressed electronics and...
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Formation – Look at the Powerful People (2017)
If ever there was an argument for not rushing your debut album, then Formation are surely it. Having broken through as, essentially, a living, breathing shrine to James Murphy (early single ‘All the...
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subtractiveLAD – Sustain / Release (2017)
Sustain / Release might well be the most satisfying subtractiveLAD set Stephen Hummel has released, which is, in itself, remarkable considering the superior quality of his eleven previous full-lengths,...
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Look Mexico – Uniola (2016)
…It’s safe to assume that Look Mexico did not spend the past five years with a deadly serious and singular dedication to the making of Uniola: Obsessive tunnel vision is an ideal a(and a luxury) of...
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Orphx – 01 / 02: Archive 1993-1994 (2017)
Orphx formed as a trio in late 1993 in the Canadian suburbs of Dundas, Ontario, taking influence from early industrial music as well as alternative sounds emerging from Japan and across Europe, and...
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Hollerado – Born Yesterday (2017)
Hollerado aren’t exactly known for writing pop songs, but the Ottawa band’s new album, Born Yesterday, features one of the most radio-ready rock songs of the year: “Don’t Shake.” That tune starts off...
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Cyanide Pills – Sliced and Diced (2017)
On their 2013 sophomore effort, Still Bored, this Leeds quintet spat out snarling pleas for us not to turn right. Four years down the line it’s clear that not enough people were listening, but on their...
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Ragnar Grippé – Sand (1977, Reissue 2017)
The painter Viswanadhan Velu was born in a small town in Kerala, India, but made his way to Paris around the late 1960s. Following a car accident in Germany in 1976, he returned to India and traveled...
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Richard H. Kirk – #7489: Collected Works 1974-1989 (2016)
This gargantuan box set compiles 8 discs of solo material by Richard H. Kirk, co-founder of British industrial music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire, ranging from mid-’70s experiments recorded at his...
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Sandoz – #9294: Collected Works 1992-1994 (2016)
In the early ’90s, after industrial music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire had embraced the acid house movement, and co-founder Richard H. Kirk released some of the Warp label’s defining early singles as one...
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Shadowgraphs – Venomous Blossoms (2017)
Led by Bryan Olson (an internationally known collage artist) and Charles Glade, Charlotte, North Carolina’s Shadowgraphs make baroque psych, taking late ’60s acts like Pink Floyd (the Syd years), The...
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Phew – Light Sleep (2017)
Like many British teens in the late 1970s, when Hiromi Moritani heard the Sex Pistols, she started her own punk band. But even by the standards of punk and post-punk, Japan’s Aunt Sally stood apart:...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Desert Songs (2017)
1. Meat Puppets – Up On the Sun 2. Howe Gelb – Warm Storm 3. Julie Byrne – All the Land Glimmered Beneath 4. Cass McCombs – Low Flyin’ Bird 5. The Long Ryders – Ivory Tower 6. Rainer Ptacek – Losing...
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Akufen – Akufen EP (2017)
French Canadian micro-house artist Marc Leclair is known for pioneering a production strategy called “microsampling” about 15 years ago. As you might guess, it involved the use of very short samples in...
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Son of the Velvet Rat – Dorado (2017)
A husband and wife duo from Austria, now based in Joshua Tree, Georg and Heike Altziebler enlisted Joe Henry to produce Dorado, their sixth album under the bizarre moniker of Son of the Velvet Rat....
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Wear Your Wounds – WYW (2017)
Converge mastermind Jacob Bannon is best known for his aggressive, harsh vocals, but on the debut album for his solo project, Wear Your Wounds, he takes a much softer and more melodic approach. WYW is...
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