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Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Angels & Ghosts (2015)
Dave Gahan has sung about a soul that needs saving since his earliest murmurings as the frontman of Depeche Mode. Now, he’s recorded his second collection of collaborative songs with Soulsavers since...
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VA – Prins Thomas: Paradise Goulash (2015)
Prins Thomas‘ Paradise Goulash is seamless like a DJ set and wildly idiosyncratic like an independent radio broadcast. Spanning three CDs totaling nearly four hours’ worth of music, it represents a...
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Blond:ish – Welcome to the Present (2015)
Canadian expat duo Blond:ish have been releasing deep and tech-y house EPs on the Kompakt label since 2012. On their debut album, they slow the pace and embrace otherworldly atmospherics, crafting a...
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Vanessa Carlton – Liberman [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Let’s get “A Thousand Miles” out of the way. Fourteen years ago, Vanessa Carlton made a very popular song that will follow her around forever. Fair enough; it’s very catchy. But times have changed....
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Levitation – Meanwhile Gardens (1993, Remastered 2015)
It’s 22 years since Levitation‘s frontman, Terry Bickers – who’d been removed from a House of Love tour bus after setting light to bank notes in the midst of a nervous breakdown – evicted himself...
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Long Beard – Sleepwalker (2015)
While also using some existing home recordings, New Jersey bedroom recordist/singer/songwriter/ guitarist Leslie Bear, who goes by the stage pseudonym Long Beard, made the voyage to the studio and...
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Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott – Wisdom, Laughter and Lines (2015)
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott’s vocal sparring fired the Beautiful South’s most successful period, and since reuniting they have picked up where they left off. Their second album together sees rich,...
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Ivar Grydeland – Stop Freeze Wait Eat (2015)
Ivar Grydeland is probably best known as a member of improvisational bands such as Huntsville and Ballrogg as well as Dans les Arbres (ECM), which was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize this...
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Joanna Newsom – Divers (2015)
Joanna Newsom’s Divers is an album about a profound love, but it hardly features any love songs. The singer/songwriter recently explained to Uncut that her marriage in 2013 had invited death into her...
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Fuzz – II (2015)
While California garage rock busybody Ty Segall recently announced he’s gathering some old T. Rex covers for his upcoming Ty-Rex collection, it looks like we’ll also have some new tunes from the guy’s...
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Perils – Perils (2015)
Mutual admirers of each other’s work, Thomas Meluch (Benoît Pioulard) and Kyle Dunn (Kyle Bobby Dunn) endeavored to put together a collaborative recording that ruminates on painful realities,...
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Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Style (2015)
“All of my friends are getting married / All my friends are right with God / All of my friends are making money / But art gets what it wants and art gets what it deserves.” Will Toledo makes smart...
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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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Son Little – Son Little [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Son Little‘s self-titled debut album is nu-soul, not neo-soul, and the distinction is drastic. Little doesn’t strive to reproduce his influences; he recombines them into something new. The record opens...
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The Chapin Sisters – Today’s Not Yesterday (2015)
Their first album of original songs in five years (with an Everly Brothers cover album in between), Today’s Not Yesterday was inspired partly by the duo’s move from Los Angeles to New York and the...
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Maserati – Rehumanizer (2015)
Fifteen years into its existence, Maserati might have finally found its time. One side of the Georgia band’s sound — a dramatic soar that evokes ’80s movie-thriller soundtracks — is currently back in...
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Stara Rzeka – Zamknęły się oczy ziemi (2015)
The disconnect between virtual and physical realities has been a prevalent theme in art and philosophy since the first humans closed their eyes, and realised the images don’t necessarily disappear....
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Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete (2015)
Experimental composer Daniel Lopatin — who writes and performs as Oneohtrix Point Never — crafts swirling, kaleidoscopic sounds that could pass as glitchy satellite transmissions from other worlds....
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Motorpsycho – Supersonic Scientists: A Young Person’s Guide to Motorpsycho...
The first-ever Motorpsycho anthology, released in conjunction with a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Rockheim, Norway’s national museum of pop and rock music, in the band’s hometown of Trondheim. For...
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Phylums – Phylum Phyloid (2015)
Phylums’ debut album, Phylum Phyloid, is a pleasant blast of retro garage rock. The Milwaukee- based band is made up of veterans of other local Wisconsin acts, which shows in the generally tight...
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