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EL VY – Return to the Moon (2015)
On the artwork for Return to the Moon, the first release from the collaborative vehicle of Matt Berninger of the National and Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls, the former has eschewed his...
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Sonic Jesus – Neither Virtue Nor Anger (2015)
With the psych rock revival showing no signs of losing momentum, it’s apt that one of the genre’s most pulsating live acts have finally unleashed their debut. Three years after announcing their arrival...
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L A N D – ANOXIA (2015)
The second L A N D album ANOXIA sees Daniel Lea return alone with an outing that marks a shift from the industrial inflected jazz noir of the previous album into distinctly new terrain. Mixed by Ben...
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Beach Slang – The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us (2015)
People always ask why Beach Slang took off so quickly. With nothing but a pair of EPs under their belt, the scrappy Philadelphia three-piece was able to get themselves booked on festivals and tours...
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The Blank Tapes – Sha-La-Love (2015)
The Blank Tapes is the moniker of Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist, Matt Adams, who has produced over a dozen albums of 1960’s inspired surf-pop, folk-rock & soul on Volcom, Burger Records,...
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Aïsha Devi – Of Matter and Spirit (2015)
Since the explosion of rave culture in the late ’80s/ early ’90s, there’s been a long alluded association between the dance music and spirituality, the music has often been seen as a possible conduit...
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Mount Eerie – No Flashlight (2005, Reissue 2015)
Phil Elverum, the folk-noise musician and recording engineer that is Mount Eerie, is all too aware of how critics view him: he is a loner genius surrounded by natural beauty, tinkering with magnetic...
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Charlemagne Palestine & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra –...
American composer Charlemagne Palestine has been active for decades, and is often considered a contemporary of minimalists Terry Riley and Steve Reich. In June of 2013, he was invited by Grumbling...
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firekid – firekid (2015)
On the surface Celtic, bluegrass, rock, folk with hints of gospel, hip-hop and a whole lot of pop played by an award winning guitar prodigy wouldn’t seem to be ingredients for a successful major label...
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The Dandelion – Seeds Flowers and Magical Powers of the Dandelion (2015)
Recorded at 3 different home studios over 12 months Seeds, Flowers and Magical Powers of the Dandelion is the title for the follow up to The Dandelion’s well-received debut full-length effort, Strange...
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Fenster – Emocean (2015)
Fenster’s Emocean is the soundtrack to an adventure sci-fi film created by and starring the band. The music is a swirling cosmos of richly varied post-psychedelia, transcending the boundaries of...
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Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton – Retrospective (2015)
*AR is the collective pseudonym of Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton. Over the past half-decade, Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton have carved out a wholly self-directed and independent...
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Lee Harvey Osmond – Beautiful Scars (2015)
Hamilton, ON blues-rock mainstay Tom Wilson has captivated Canadian music fans with his work in Junkhouse and Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, though at the moment, he’s switched his focus back to his Lee...
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Karamika – Karamika (2015)
Karamika is a duo of British musician George Thompson (who does numerous remixes as Black Merlin), and Gordon Pohl, who’s one half of Düsseldorf act Musiccargo. At times, their work together evokes the...
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Killing Joke – Pylon [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Accomplished, you’d expect, but switched on and inspired? Neither is a given for a band fast approaching its fourth decade. In keeping with the blackened, raging apocalyptica of their post-2002...
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Mogwai – Central Belters (2015)
For a band with a history and sound as rich as Mogwai’s, it’s not unfair to suggest that Central Belters – a three disc selection of the band’s biggest hitters and rarities – has been a long time...
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Tracey Thorn – SOLO: Songs and Collaborations 1982-2015 (2015)
Tracey Thorn‘s career trajectory is – or surely should be – the stuff of a Hollywood movie. Shy acoustic wallflower murmurings sung from her cupboard (due to crippling stage fright); emerges through...
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Half Moon Run – Sun Leads Me On (2015)
Montreal four-piece Half Moon Run stormed onto the Canadian indie scene back in 2012 with their debut full-length Dark Eyes. Now, they’re ready to follow it up with Sun Leads Me On. The new material...
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Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle (2015)
“Sprained Ankle”, the bracing debut solo album from the Tennessee singer-songwriter Julien Baker, is packed thick with the sort of lyricism that would be triumphant if it weren’t so worrying. Ms....
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Coil – Backwards (2015)
Backwards was conceived as the follow-up to Coil‘s excellent, dance-leaning 1991 album Love’s Secret Domain, and was partially recorded and mixed at Trent Reznor’s studios in New Orleans with intention...
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