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John Zorn – The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons (2015)
The most extreme organ trio ever, Simulacrum is yet another wild new direction from John Zorn, who continues to explore new worlds and new ensembles into his sixth decade. Passionately performed by the...
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Drug Cabin – Wiggle Room (2015)
Wiggle Room Drug Cabin’s second album, and second album of 2015, is a laid-back affair. There’s a 1970s folk-pop feel to their music, which is also cut with traces of psychedelia and splashes of...
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Woolfy vs. Projections – Stations (2015)
Like their previous albums, Woolfy vs. Projections‘ 2015 effort Stations walks a high wire between chilled-to-the-point-of-freezing electro-pop, slo- mo disco, and straight-up new age-inspired easy...
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Nest Egg – Respectable (2015)
Nest Egg has already made a name for themselves with their amazing live show. Warping minds and winning fans with their heady, atmospheric take on progressive, ethereal vibed-out rock music....
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Natural Snow Buildings – Terror’s Horns + The Ladder (2015)
After a string of Natural Snow Buildings reissues, each more elaborate then the last, Ba Da Bing presents our first ever release of new material from the band. For a group known for its use of horror...
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Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator – Con-Struct (2015)
Conrad Schnitzler was one of principle figures in the development of krautrock but he was a man of many talents including sculpture. His training was formal too, he worked with Stockhausen while being...
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Celer – How could you believe me when I said I loved you when you know I’ve...
Though the title of Will Long’s latest Celer release references an Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane song from Stanley Donen’s 1951 musical Royal Wedding (and performed by Fred Astaire & Jane Powell),...
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Mark Lanegan – Houston: Publishing Demos 2002 (2015)
By 2002, Mark Lanegan was already five albums deep into a solo discography that had uprooted the former Screaming Tree from his grungy groundwater into more rustic, earthier realms. But that year...
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Frog Eyes – Pickpocket’s Locket (2015)
Personal narratives surrounding Frog Eyes’ 2013 album, Carey’s Cold Spring, got as much play as the music itself. Leader Carey Mercer’s father died around the completion of the record, and then the...
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Lycia – A Line That Connects (2015)
A Line That Connects is a brand new album from darkwave pioneers Lycia following 2013’s return album Quiet Moments (their first album in 8 years). The album features the classic mid ’90s Lycia lineup...
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Autobahn – Dissemble (2015)
Fuelled by the industrial meltdown and recession that surrounds them, Autobahn are an incendiary throwback to the post-punk experimentalism of 1979. Second generation children of the Thatcher era,...
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The Lemonheads – The 90’s Studio Album Collection (2015)
The Lemonheads’ evolution from post-Hüsker Dü hardcore punk rockers to teenage heartthrobs is one of the strangest sagas in alternative music. Initially, the group was a punk-pop trio formed by three...
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Bad Bad Hats – Psychic Reader (2015)
Previous to Psychic Reader, Minneapolis-based trio Bad Bad Hats released a few lo-fi demos via Bandcamp. Along with kazoo solos and rewritten Shania Twain verses came effervescent indie-pop track...
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Kagoule – Urth (2015)
On Nottingham’s east side, beyond its thriving ‘creative quarter’ and Sneinton’s age-old market, there’s a shabby, brick-built building tucked away in a side street. Formerly a ‘Wholesale Fruit and...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records Presents Sounds of the Universe: Art + Sound 2012-15...
Soul Jazz Records’ offshoot label Sounds of the Universe has spent the past three years releasing a series of 12″ singles under the Art+Sound moniker, complete with hand-etched art pieces incorporated...
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Shit and Shine – Everybody’s a Fuckin Expert (2015)
The ascent of Shit and Shine sits as one of the great audio headfucks in recent years. From it’s genesis out of the South London noise rock revivalist scene to a zone where rabbit costumed maniacs bled...
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Holy Sons – Fall of Man (2015)
Emil Amos, the mastermind behind Holy Sons, returns with his second Thrill Jockey release, Fall of Man. The multi-instrumentalist (who counts himself as a member of Om, Grails, and Lilacs &...
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Have Gun, Will Travel – Science from an Easy Chair (2015)
On August 8, 1914, the British explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, set off from Plymouth with his team in the ship Endurance on the start of the 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, fully living...
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Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses – Tunnel at the End of the Light (2015)
It’s been easy to assume lately the man and the myth that is Tex Perkins might have been shifting down a gear or two. His recent acting-and-singing turns tributing Johnny Cash and Lee Hazlewood he’s...
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Foals – What Went Down (2015)
After the international chart success of 2013’s Holy Fire, Foals officially embrace that album’s rich, atmospheric post-punk revivalism over the rawer math rock tendencies of earlier LPs for their...
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