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Slowdive – Slowdive (2017)
The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. A band whose reach goes far beyond just influencing music is back, with their first new album in 22 years. The long-awaited follow-up to 1995’s Pygmalion...
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Conor Walker, Thor Harris, Lawrence English – Walker Harris English (2017)
The London/Colorado cassette label Obsolete Future landed a lucky strike for its thirteenth release, a trio recording from Thor Harris, Conor Walker, and Lawrence English. Succinctly titled Walker...
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Male Bonding – Headache (2016)
If time heals all wounds, as anybody who has ever suffered heartbreak has been reassured, that’s scant comfort when time won’t move. On Male Bonding’s 2010 debut Nothing Hurts, a high watermark of the...
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Mo Troper – Gold! (2017)
Mo Troper‘s Gold is pure rock’n’roll, fuelled by the melancholy, self-deprecating sound of bands like Weezer, Sloan and Thrush Hermit. It’s fun, fuzzy power pop for people who like Thin Lizzy and...
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Age Coin – Performance (2017)
Posh Isolation’s catalog is wide-ranging and mercurial. Kristian Emdal and Simon Formann, the duo known as Age Coin, have been ensconced in the Danish label for years. In addition to their interests in...
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Loose Tooth – Big Day (2017)
Philly’s Loose Tooth deliver cozy ’90s alt-rock nostalgia, combining math rock, post-hardcore and grunge on their second album, Big Day. The album has a lot going on, but always keeps its cool. Just...
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The Decemberists – The Crane Wife [10th Anniversary Edition] (2016)
…feature B-sides, bonus tracks, unreleased outtakes, alternative versions and frontman Colin Meloy’s solo acoustic demos. Colin Meloy and his brave Decemberists made the unlikely jump to a major label...
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The Black Angels – Death Song (2017)
Looking back at The Black Angels‘ 13-year career, it’s a wonder it took the group so long to name an album Death Song. The Austin-based collective originally took its name from The Velvet Underground...
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Ween – GodWeenSatan: Live (2016)
Ween celebrated the 2001 reissue of their 1990 album God Ween Satan: The Oneness — commonly accepted as their debut, despite all the indie tapes of the ’80s — by performing the album in its entirety in...
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The Raveonettes – 2016 Atomized (2017)
After recording and releasing a career’s worth of good to brilliant albums over a 15-year span, the Raveonettes decided to try something different in 2016. They wrote and recorded a song a month,...
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Joe Goddard – Electric Lines [Deluxe Version] (2017)
As a founding member of Hot Chip, Joe Goddard has been producing on an international stage since his band’s dance pop became popular in the mid-2000s. Over the past decade, he’s also released...
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Woods – Love Is Love (2017)
After nearly a dozen years spent honing their meticulously-shambling psych folk, Woods’ reputation for consistency threatened to eclipse the Brooklyn band’s taste for adventure. 2016’s City Sun Eater...
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Maxïmo Park – Risk to Exist (2017)
There’s always been a bit of a political slant to Maxïmo Park’s songwriting. That said, you suspect that there’s a couple of presumptions that are going to be made about Risk to Exist that will need...
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Second Woman – Second Woman (2016)
The self-titled debut album from Second Woman, the duo of Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) and Turk Dietrich (Belong), is an astonishing feat of intensive sound design. The duo constructs winding,...
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Second Woman – S/W (2017)
Following Second Woman’s excellent eponymous debut, the duo released an EP containing two non-album tracks as well as remixes by footwork visionary Jlin and Greek dub techno veteran Fluxion. Their...
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Gas – Narkopop (2017)
Narkopop is the long-awaited fifth full-length from Wolfgang Voigt’s revered ambient techno project Gas, arriving 17 years after 2000’s widely acclaimed Pop. Since that album’s release, Gas has been...
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Charly Bliss – Guppy (2017)
Intended or not, indie rock quartet Charly Bliss built some anticipation in the lead-up to their first album. It follows a pair of EPs and a string of high-profile live shows opening for acts such as...
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Robyn Hitchcock – Robyn Hitchcock (2017)
Eponymous albums usually herald a debut or a stylistic sea change. Robyn Hitchcock‘s 22nd studio LP is neither, but it embraces elements of both. Recorded in Nashville with pop sorcerer Brendan Benson,...
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Overcoats – Young (2017)
Young is the full-length debut of Overcoats, the singing and songwriting duo of Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell. The most striking trait of their sound is the rich, lullaby-friendly timbres of both of their...
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Nightlands – I Can Feel the Night Around Me (2017)
Nightlands, the project of Philadelphia-based Dave Hartley (best known as a core member and longtime bassist of The War On Drugs), release his third album, I Can Feel the Night Around Me, on May 5th...
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