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The Dead Weather – Dodge and Burn (2015)
Dodge and Burn, The Dead Weather’s first LP in five years, arrive on September 25th through Jack White’s Third Man Records. Dodge and Burn features 12 songs, including four previously released singles...
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Hior Chronik – Taking the Veil (2015)
Lucky is the artist whose work appears on the Kitchen. imprint. The latest beneficiary of the label’s attention is Athens-born and current Berlin resident Hior Chronik, who began producing his...
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Gabrielle Aplin – Light Up the Dark [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Back in 2012 you could not escape an infectious cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s The Power of Love. It featured on the John Lewis Christmas advert, was on heavy rotation on television and...
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Christian Fitness – Love Letters in the Age of Steam (2015)
Christian Fitness is the solo project by Future of the Left’s eccentric frontman, Andy Falkous. Love Letters in the Age of Steam treads ground that should be familiar enough for fans of Andy that are...
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Mindless Self Indulgence – Pink (2015)
Fans of New York City electropunk act Mindless Self Indulgence know their entire discography front to back. From the 1995 self-titled EP to their recent studio album How I Learned to Stop Giving a Sh*t...
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Hammock – Kenotic [10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Hammock‘s debut, Kenotic, is in every way a contender for classic status in the shoegazing genre. Expertly merging ambient guitar drone (think Bowery Electric), electronic beats (think Boards of...
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Youth Lagoon – Savage Hills Ballroom (2015)
In rococo indie-rock songs that have wormed their way into ears well beyond his native Boise, Idaho, Youth Lagoon mastermind Trevor Powers comes across as a sensitive, trembling soul who combines...
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Swim Deep – Mothers (2015)
Austin Williams can make you walk on air. This is one thing that comes out of Birmingham five-piece Swim Deep‘s second album, as within the first moment of Mothers they’ve lifted you to a psychedelic...
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Evening Hymns – Quiet Energies (2015)
Jonas Bonnetta of Evening Hymns had trekked out to the Joshua Tree desert from nearby Los Angeles with a Super-8 camera when the spark arrived for his new album: “I had been listening to so much Tom...
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Le Butcherettes – A Raw Youth (2015)
It’s funny, how well-intentioned male rock fans often glance once at outspoken girls with guitars and compare them exclusively to other outspoken girls with guitars. True, Teri Gender Bender of Le...
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Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Leon Muraglia – Ubi Bene (2015)
To anybody with the slightest interest in electronic music and krautrock Hans-Joachim Roedelius needs no introduction. As founding member of Kluster (with Conrad Schnitzler and Dieter Moebius;...
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Starsailor – Good Souls: The Greatest Hits (2015)
Formed some 15 years ago, Starsailor released four albums selling in excess of three million copies, with the last being All the Plans, before going into hiatus back in 2009. Since then Starsailor’s...
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Gonno – Remember the Life Is Beautiful (2015)
Gonno‘s second full-length, Remember the Life Is Beautiful, lives up to its name. It gushes with starry-eyed house and Balearic flourish, but not in spurts of flat optimism — it has complexity,...
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Gary Wilson – Alone with Gary Wilson (2015)
Gary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-new wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in...
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Slim Twig – Thank You for Stickin’ with Twig (2015)
It’s nearly impossible for an artist to create a work that doesn’t draw on distinct influences from the past. For Toronto’s Slim Twig, born Max Turnbull, this rings especially true, as his version of...
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Meat Wave – Delusion Moon (2015)
A lot of the chatter surrounding Meat Wave is reserved for the band’s name, an Onion article inspired curio that might be as confusing as it is potentially disgusting. Slightly less chatter is...
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Synkro – Changes [Bandcamp Edition] (2015)
Changes is an album that synthesizes the past and present of electronic music seamlessly as part of a cohesive, vibrant whole. Joe McBride, aka Synkro, has cited a diversity of artists —Tangerine...
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Devin DiSanto & Nick Hoffman – Three Exercises (2015)
Fun is too often ignored when talking about experimental music. The language surrounding works by composers like Iannis Xenakis or Luc Ferrari is usually technical or mathematical, and sometimes...
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Soda Shop – Soda Shop (2015)
Soda Shop — the musical marriage of Selebrities’ honey-voiced Maria Usbeck and occasional Drums’ axeman Drew Diver — clearly love to revel and roll in their melancholy. This deceptively summery debut...
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Jason Lescalleet – This is What I Do: Vol. 1-12 (2011-2015)
The first volume of This Is What I Do was a self-released CDR of long-MIA compilation tracks that Jason Lescalleet rescued from oblivion. The assignation of a volume number declared from the outset...
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