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Stereophonics – Keep the Village Alive (2015)
Stereophonics introduce their ninth album, Keep the Village Alive, with a repeated claim that they “don’t belong anywhere”. And maybe they’re right. In their unique purgatory position the Welsh rockers...
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Helios – Yume (2015)
In speaking of his Helios project, Keith Kenniff says, “I have a whole library of found sounds that I work with … I’ll bring them into the sampler and use them to play chords or melodies, chop them up,...
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Morten Qvenild – Personal Piano (2015)
For the past 15 years pianist and keyboardist Morten Qvenild has been one of the most creative musicians in the Norwegian music scene. Qvenild has both an unusual flair for pop and a passion for...
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Lower – I’m A Lazy Son… But I’m The Only Son EP (2015)
If singer Adrian Toubro had something important to say on Lower’s debut EP Walk on Heads, the rest of the band sure did their best to stop anybody from hearing it. The louder he shouted, the harder...
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The Libertines – Anthems for Doomed Youth (2015)
Over a decade after their heyday, the Libertines are still the only post-Britpop British indie band with an enduring mythology. That mythology began before the band even existed, written into being in...
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Nerina Pallot – The Sound and the Fury (2015)
Nerina Pallot has always been a songwriter with a pop sensibility who deserved more hits. But there has always been a hard edge to her lyrics that hinted at more depth than your average pop...
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John Mark Nelson – I’m Not Afraid (2015)
The past may be prologue, but for John Mark Nelson, the present is something else entirely: a gateway into a new era of life and the new sound that defines his new album, I’m Not Afraid. Having...
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Songs of Water – Stars and Dust (2015)
Intimate jewel-box melodies give way to expansive, sweeping passages framing surrealist lyrics on the gorgeous new record, Stars and Dust from North Carolina’s orchestral-indie collective Songs of...
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Gold Celeste – The Glow (2015)
The Glow is the debut album from Oslo-based trio Gold Celeste. It emerges from 60s psychedelic pop inflections that will likely draw comparisons to the introverted psychedelic rock of Tame Impala, but...
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The Legendary Shack Shakers – The Southern Surreal (2015)
Back when they started out in 2001, Nashville rebels the Legendary Shack Shakers were far from legendary. Fourteen years, hundreds of shack shaking shows and now seven albums later, they are getting...
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Farao – Till It’s All Forgotten (2015)
Farao, aka Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Kari Jahnsen, could have taken a more predictable road on her debut album. She has the breathy, clear, slightly husky soprano voice...
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Better Off – Milk (2015)
The problem with so many of those bands that sound like Brand New is that very few of them are compelling enough to stand on their own two feet. The real difference with Equal Vision’s latest signing,...
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Against Me! – 23 Live Sex Acts (2015)
In May of 2012, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! did something that no high-profile rock star had ever done before: She came out publicly as a transgender woman, announcing plans to transition fully...
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Presents for Sally – Colours & Changes (2015)
Colours & Changes is the 2nd album from the UK band Presents for Sally. Formed in 2009, the three piece has taken in many influences and managed to form a sound all of their own. If the debut...
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Phil Cook – Southland Mission (2015)
Phil Cook’s second solo album opens with an expression of the truest contentment. But first, “Ain’t It Sweet” spends a full minute stretching out: A steady guitar chug beckons a Wurlitzer’s gap-tooth...
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Infected Mushroom – Converting Vegetarians II (2015)
Israeli Psytrance pioneers Infected Mushroom have returned with a brand new album titled Converting Vegetarians II, a follow up to their influential 2003 LP. Featuring 14 tracks of never before heard...
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Carter Tutti Void – f (x) (2015)
The pulse as musical object has been something of a focal point for experimental musicians in recent years. Australian composer/multi-instrumentalist/hurricane Oren Ambarchi has incorporated eternal...
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Masayoshi Fujita – Apologues (2015)
Japanese multi-instrumentalist Masayoshi Fujita has been making electronic-based music as el fog since the mid ‘00s, but Apologues is his second album in two years to come out under his own name....
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Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down… (2015)
Kurt Vile release the follow-up to 2013’s Wakin on a Pretty Daze on September 25 via Matador. B’lieve I’m Goin Down...— previously rumored to be called All Over the Place — has taken Vile all across...
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Dope Body – Kunk (2015)
Maryland’s Dope Body recorded the basic tracks for Kunk at the same sessions that became 2014’s Lifer. Knowing they’d left worthy songs off, they revisited the tapes and realized that with some editing...
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