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Tale of Us – Endless (2017)
Deutsche Grammophon, the classical label founded in 1898, has a history with electronic music dating back to the ’50s, but club music artists have appeared on their sleeve notes only since the early...
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Pit Piccinelli, Fred Gales, Walter Maioli – Amazonia 6891 (1986, Reissue 2016)
An ethnomusicological study, an extensive sound poem, or a fantasy field recording collage – whichever perspective you take on Amazonia 6891 everyone is sure to arrive at a similar conclusion; this...
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Lord of the Isles – Parabolas of Neon EP (2017)
…The producer Neil McDonald, AKA Lord of the Isles, hails from Firecracker’s home base of Edinburgh. He learned to DJ alongside Firecracker Recordings boss Lindsay Todd at a long-running bar residency...
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Mew – Visuals (2017)
Danish alternative band Mew will return in 2017 with a new album, Visuals, out April 28 from Play It Again Sam. According to frontman Jonas Bjerre, the 11-track effort came together as a direct result...
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Part Chimp – IV (2017)
After splitting for five years, London’s Part Chimp decided to play a few shows in 2016, and they liked it enough that they chose to make it official and cut a new studio album. Part Chimp’s 2017...
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Laraaji – Celestial Vibration (1978, Reissue 2017)
Originally released in 1978 by an obscure label from Portland, Maine called SWN Records, Celestial Vibration was the debut release by Edward Larry Gordon, at the time a street musician busking around...
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Ghost Against Ghost – still love (2017)
Ghost Against Ghost is composer, writer and producer Christopher Bono who utilizes his classical background to sculpt this expansive and engaging series of compositions, contrasting heavy walls of...
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Dead Moon – What a Way to See the Old Girl Go (2017)
“Really the only superstars in Portland!” That’s how some nameless fan introduces Dead Moon on this live recording that documents their performance on the closing night of Portland, Oregon’s fabled...
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Klute – Read Between the Lines (2017)
Issued on his own Commercial Suicide imprint and four years on from his last full-length The Draft, Tom Withers’ 8th Klute album finds him operating at an exceptionally high and healthy creative level....
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Jess Morgan – Edison Gloriette (2016)
…Jess Morgan is a songwriter who lives her craft truer than many of her contemporaries – constantly touring, recording, plotting, scheming, even making her own vinyl. Edison Gloriette, her fourth...
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Spaceface – Sun Kids (2017)
When Jake Ingalls started Spaceface in 2011, the goal was simply to be a cosmic garage act with curious and enticing song structures. But just a year later the band was brought into The Flaming Lips’...
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Daniel Araya – Seven Sisters EP (2017)
With the grotty acid sketches of Daniel Araya‘s latest EP, Seven Sisters, Classicworks has taken another step in a recent change of direction. The Barcelona-based label, established by Cardopusher and...
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Blind Mr. Jones – Stereo Musicale Retrospective (2017)
RSD Exclusive Release …featuring every single song this seminal shoegaze band recorded surrounding their masterpiece, “Stereo Musicale”, including said record itself. Presumably taking their name from...
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Violents and Monica Martin – Awake and Pretty Much Sober (2017)
Wisconsin’s Phox deftly carved out a name for themselves in the folk-pop world with their charming 2014 debut album. The group’s lead vocalist, Monica Martin, has since tinkered with new outfits,...
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Post War Glamour Girls – Swan Songs (2017)
Leeds quartet Post War Glamour Girls aren’t inclined to take things easy. Swan Songs is their third full- length record in four years, following 2014’s superb debut Pink Fur and the following year’s...
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Dope Lemon – Hounds Tooth EP (2017)
Hounds Tooth, the latest release from Angus Stone (known to most as one half of sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone) under the pseudonym Dope Lemon is a collection of songs with rich instrumentals and...
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Débruit – Débruit & Istanbul (2016)
Débruit‘s fourth album, Débruit & Istanbul, was commissioned by the Europalia Arts Festival, which has been organizing arts biennials in different countries since 1969. During his 15 days in...
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Chihei Hatakeyama – Requiem for Black Night and Earth Spiders (2016)
Not everyone can hold a listener’s attention for sixty-five minutes with music created from a single sound file, but that’s precisely what ambient sound artist Chihei Hatakeyama does on his latest...
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Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil – Wow to the Deadness EP (2016)
Steve Taylor hadn’t released an album in 11 years prior to forming The Perfect Foil for the release of 2014’s Goliath. While on tour supporting the album, the alternative new wave outfit found...
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Army of Bones – Army of Bones (2017)
Brighton continues to stamp its authority on the UK rock scene. Hot on the heels of Tigercub’s splendid entry into the City’s unofficial (presumably) band of the season competition, arrives this...
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