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Tamaryn – Cranekiss (2015)
Time and changes distance Tamaryn’s Cranekiss from her earlier efforts, and for that matter, from everyone else’s. Time, by way of the long period spent crafting this material, both on her own and with...
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Laura Cannell – Beneath Swooping Talons (2015)
Laura Cannell‘s (bloody) chamber music is the kind of artistry that pays back the courageous listener in spades. Her album notes speak of “pure music without human interception,” and insomuch as...
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Mike Krol – Turkey (2015)
Before Mike Krol signed on with Merge Records, he released two albums of no-fuss, overdriven garage punk that had hooks galore and a nice outsider-y appeal. Sort of like a low-rent Ty Segall or a...
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What’s Eating Gilbert – That New Sound You’re Looking For (2015)
Since 2010, New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert has found time to release five EPs and a smattering of singles with his retro-rock side project What’s Eating Gilbert. With so much material already...
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Cold Showers – Matter of Choice (2015)
The LA post-punk acolytes Cold Showers have been putting out a steady stream of records ever since their inception in 2010, with releases on Mexican Summer, Art Fag, and current label Dais drawing...
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Master Musicians of Bukkake – Further West Quad Cult (2015)
Seattle ensemble Master Musicians of Bukkake release Further West Quad Cult via Important Records. The new recording has been specially designed for simultaneous four speaker playback with the group’s...
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The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness (2015)
Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, has been a thing for a while, but only recently did he become a big thing. In July, Taylor Swift brought him onstage at a stadium show in New Jersey. Stevie Wonder, an...
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Atlas Genius – Inanimate Objects (2015)
The sophomore long player from the Aussie electro- pop outfit led by siblings Keith and Michael Jeffery, Inanimate Objects, like Atlas Genius‘ 2013 debut, offers up a propulsive guitar- and...
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Cœur de Pirate – Roses [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Thundering drums, strings taking flight, choruses like tidal waves; Roses is Béatrice Martin’s biggest and boldest vision yet as Coeur de Pirate. The atmospherics and production are wilder, colder and...
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The Legends – It’s Love (2015)
Club 8 mastermind and Swedish pop legend Johan Angergård has a restless musical soul, and his work with the Legends has reflected that from the start. Beginning as a noise pop band in the vein of the...
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The National – A Lot of Sorrow (2015)
That the National were going to spend six hours repeatedly performing the same song in an art gallery was one thing. A collaboration with Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson, A Lot of...
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Erland Dahlen – Blossom Bells (2015)
Blossom Bells is the long awaited follow-up of drummer and percussionist Erland Dahlen’s critically acclaimed solo debut album, Rolling Bomber (2012). Uncut’s reviewer said that Erland’s “one-man...
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Cave In – Jupiter (2000, Remastered 2014)
An undeniable masterpiece, this album met with both praise and disdain from long-term fans upon release. Previously, on their godly Dillinger-esque calculus-core debut, Until Your Heart Stops, Cave In...
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Owiny Sigoma Band – Nyanza (2015)
The third instalment of the fusion project involving Kenyan musicians and British electronica band Elmore Judd is the most cheerful and commercial, if least experimental. Many of the best tracks on...
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Ethan Johns – Live at Kings Place (2014)
British producer Ethan Johns began his career under the tutelage of his father, producer Glyn Johns. Since the 90’s, Johns has worked as a producer, engineer, mixer, and occasionally touring musician...
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Emerald Web – Whispered Visions (1980, Reissue 2014)
Beginning their independent operations in the late ’70s, married new age visionaries Kat Epple and Bob Stohl were Emerald Web, a duo who produced and self-released numerous albums of spacy, meditative...
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Gurun Gurun – Kon B (2015)
If ever a music deserved to be called woozy, it’s Gurun Gurun‘s. 5 years on from its self-titled debut on Home Normal, the Czech-based experimental multi-instrumentalists Tomas Knoflicek, Jara...
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Drainolith – Hysteria (2015)
The music of now-defunct Canadian trio AIDS Wolf was as bold and confrontational as their name. It was a blare of frenetic energy and rhythmic bludgeoning. Beneath all the prog-punk brutality lurked...
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Hidden Rivers – Where Moss Grows (2015)
Being Serein’s showrunner and curator, Huw Roberts conceivably could get away with releasing pretty much whatever he wants on his Wales-based label, regardless of its quality or fit. But though that...
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Schneider Kacirek – Shadows Documents (2015)
Before forming Schneider Kacirek as an extension of their shared musical vision, electronic musician Stefan Schneider and talented percussionist/synth player Sven Kacirek worked extensively together in...
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