Moon Zero – Moon Zero (2015)
Moon Zero is a alias for London based producer and composer Tim Garratt, a dronescapist operating prolifically out of Londons Cable Street Studios and percolated by a link festivally with Berlin for...
View ArticleNo Devotion – Permanence (2015)
Last year was a rough one for Welsh post-hardcore act Lostprophets, whose career came to an abrupt halt when their singer was discovered to be a horrifyingly evil person. Fortunately for the band’s...
View ArticleGrounders – Grounders (2015)
In his 2006 book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, the singular filmmaker David Lynch memorably referred to depression and anger as the “Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit of...
View ArticleJonas Reinhardt – Palace Savant (2015)
Brooklyn synth journeyman Jonas Reinhardt‘s sixth full-length album, Palace Savant, was inspired by the St. Vitus Cathedral, a breathtaking gothic castle in Prague designed by architect Peter Parler...
View ArticleArcade Fire – Reflektor [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Deluxe Edition includes five new songs: “Apocrypha”, “Women of a Certain Age”, “Soft Power”, “Get Right”, and “Crucified Again”. There’s also a new remix of “Flashbulb Eyes” by reggae musician Dennis...
View ArticleCity and Colour – If I Should Go Before You (2015)
Dallas Green’s City and Colour hasn’t released an album since 2013’s The Hurry and the Harm, but the Canadian singer-songwriter is return with a new album, titled If I Should Go Before You, via Dine...
View ArticleGirl Band – Holding Hands with Jamie (2015)
Louis Wain painted cats. While those four words may seem incongruous in relation to Dublin noise-mongers Girl Band, there is a point. Examining Wain’s cats, one can see them becoming increasingly...
View ArticleJohn Lemke – Nomad Frequencies (2015)
An ardent moulder of sound, John Lemke began carving out a very unique music blend on his debut album People Do (2013) and its follow up EP Walizka (2014). Informed by his work as a sound designer and...
View ArticlePublic Image Ltd. – SHM-CD Series (2015)
One of the first and most significant post-punk bands, Public Image Ltd. (PiL) were originally a quartet led by singer John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten, born January 31, 1956) and guitarist Keith...
View ArticleWand – 1000 Days (2015)
The guys in Wand are a prolific bunch. 1000 Days is their third album in a year, following their weirdo psych debut Ganglion Reef and the more heavy metal-influenced Golem. This time out, the L.A. band...
View ArticleFever the Ghost – Zirconium Meconium (2015)
Look up, the” fasten seat belts” light is on for the trip that is Zirconium Meconium, the full-length debut from Los Angeles’ Fever the Ghost. Actually, lacing up dancing boots works, too, for the...
View ArticleWye Oak – Shriek [Deluxe Version] (2015)
Deluxe Version featuring the addition of five remixes by Matmos, Keith Sweaty, DJ Daylight, Future Islands, and Drew Swinburne. After pushing their noisy, guitar-driven indie rock as far as it would go...
View ArticleGrey Lands – Right Arm (2015)
On Grey Lands’ debut, Songs By Other People, Wayne Petti (of Cuff the Duke fame) enlisted musicians like Joel Plaskett to do guest vocals for his stripped down psych-folk covers. While paying tribute...
View ArticleWill Johnson – Swan City Vampires (2015)
Rock and roll had an awful day last September when it learned that Centro-matic would no longer perform following its 2014 tour. For nearly two decades, this workmanlike band from Denton, Texas...
View ArticleThe Winter Passing – A Different Space of Mind (2015)
It started with a trickle but is now approaching a deluge. Bands from this little corner of the world are currently doing a fine job after pitching up on US indies – Milk Teeth, Neck Deep and Moose...
View ArticleMidas Fall – The Menagerie Inside (2015)
Once described as “powerful yet fragile, devastatingly beautiful and beautifully devastating” by The Founder Magazine, UK-based quartet Midas Fall have carved a distinctive and captivating sound,...
View ArticleEszter Balint – Airless Midnight (2015)
If the name Eszter Balint doesn’t ring a bell, if you’re a regular viewer of Louie CK’s acclaimed series Louie, you’ll remember her as his character’s love interest Amia last season. In addition to...
View ArticleEmily Gold – Recluse (2015)
No record in recent memory has channeled nightlife depression and the dark side of the tracks as well as Emily Gold on her latest release Recluse. Others have tried, but this beautiful recording truly...
View ArticleGeir Sundstøl – Furulund (2015)
Furulund is a collection of atmospheric, low-key and evocative instrumental pieces, recorded in analogue at Sundstøl’s home studio, Studio Intim. The Norwegian guitarist and self-taught...
View ArticleBranko – Atlas (2015)
Before covering Branko’s new album Atlas, let us cover a bit of ground. Fans of globally inspired dance music (think M.I.A.) will likely have already heard of the adventurous, and truly original...
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