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Ash – Kablammo! [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Kablammo! is Ash‘s first full-length since 2007’s Twilight of the Innocents. Though they made their mark as a part of the Britpop movement, Ash’s rough-and-tumble side differentiated them, their...
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Shit & Shine – Chakin’ (2015)
Shit & Shine always deliver the unexpected, and it becomes clear from the outset of Chakin’ that out-there jazz tape label, Astral Spirits, is a pretty apt home for this release. Much of the album...
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Damaged Bug – Cold Hot Plumbs (2015)
The ever prolific John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees decided in 2013 that operating one brilliant garage pysch band wasn’t enough to keep him occupied, so he started working on a solo album of synth pop...
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Walk Off the Earth – Sing It All Away (2015)
The Canadian pop band Walk Off the Earth has followed a thoroughly modern path to success, starting with the way it broke through on the strength of adorable YouTube covers (“Somebody That I Used To...
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Per Bloland – Chamber Industrial (2015)
Per Bloland studied at Stanford with Brian Ferneyhough and Mark Applebaum, has worked at IRCAM and Oberlin, and currently teaches at Miami University. His innovative sound world brilliantly blends...
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Sarah Cracknell – Red Kite (2015)
It is, believe it or not, Saint Etienne‘s 25th anniversary this year. First formed in 1990, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs experimented with a couple of vocalists when they first started, before settling...
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Helm – Olympic Mess (2015)
Olympic Mess is Luke Younger’s third outing for the ever-stunning PAN imprint, tailing closely behind last year’s The Hollow Organ EP and the stupefying Impossible Symmetry album from the year before...
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Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People (2015)
Ezra Furman is a person of action and metamorphosis, someone whose comfort zone can only be described as “on the go” and “ever-changing.” This personal restlessness is one of the main focuses of the...
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Donald Cumming – Out Calls Only (2015)
Former frontman of N.Y.C. indie rockers the Virgins, Donald Cumming presented his solo debut, Out Calls Only, less than two years after the demise of the band in late 2013. A more introspective and...
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Desaparecidos – Payola (2015)
Desaparecidos chose an auspicious time to break a 13-year hiatus. Since its last record, 2002’s Read Music/Speak Spanish, the crusade against disenfranchisement and corruption in America — this band’s...
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Outfit – Slowness (2015)
Their 2013 debut Performance didn’t spark throughout, but its clutch of on-the-money highlights announced Outfit as an act keen – and equipped – to toy with the staid conventions of pop. Slowness is...
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Bully – Feels Like (2015)
Alicia Bognanno’s band, Bully, is curiously named. The Nashville outfit trades in quick punches fueled by fuzzy guitar, fast drums, and raw emotion, but they have little intent to hurt. They’d rather...
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De Lux – Voyage (2014)
Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco, the Los Angeles-based musicians behind indie neo-disco act De Lux, write, play, and produce all their material. Despite their young age, they do so with an impressive...
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Air – The Virgin Suicides [15th Anniversary Edition] (2015)
15th Anniversary Edition include demos, alternate versions and previously unreleased live performances recorded in Los Angeles in January 2000. Two years after the arrival of their debut album in 1998,...
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Johnny Dowd – That’s Your Wife On the Back of My Horse (2015)
Johnny Dowd has never run shy of a little self- mythology. The title of his latest effort cops a line from Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s 1957 tune, “Gangster of Love”, in which a no-good cowboy makes off...
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Aidan Baker & Idklang – In the Red Room (2015)
Aidan Baker joins forces with Idklang aka Markus Steinkellner for two epic instrumentals, melting ambient, drone, and krautrock into a psychedelic trip of pure beauty. Since his beginnings in the early...
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The Apartments – No Song No Spell No Madrigal (2015)
A brisk Australian chamber pop group with echoes of Frenchman Serge Gainsbourg as well as Leonard Cohen and post-punk, the Apartments were formed in Brisbane during the late ’70s by singer and...
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Flo Morrissey – Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful (2015)
Twenty-year-old Londoner Flo Morrissey’s debut album Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful, produced in LA by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart) and Philippe Zdar (Phoenix), is a beautiful...
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King Dude – Songs of Flesh & Blood – In the Key of Light (2015)
King Dude‘s latest full length album, Songs of Flesh & Blood – In the Key of Light is the latest chapter in an ever unraveling songbook that captivates the listener from beginning to end. This is...
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Ike Reilly – Born On Fire (2015)
“I used to want to die young,” talk/sings Ike Reilly in his hangdog manner, then ends that thought with “but it’s too late now.” It’s a potent example of the skewed, dry, self-effacing humor that...
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