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James Leg – Below the Belt (2015)
With its opening blast of thick, distorted piano banging out a dirty rock & roll stomp while the singer wails like Tom Waits on cheap trucker’s speed, James Leg‘s second solo album (third if you...
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Patrick Cowley – Muscle Up (2015)
Following Dark Entries’ 2013 release School Daze, a collection of experimental recordings Patrick Cowley recorded between 1973 and 1981 that were used as soundtracks to gay pornographic films, the...
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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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Sugarplum Fairies – Sunday, Suddenly (2015)
The folk noir on Sugarplum Fairies’ new album Sunday Suddenly comes with one foot in a European sidewalk café and the other boot on a dusty road in the vast American West. In either locale,...
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Ricked Wicky – Swimmer to a Liquid Armchair (2015)
Dayton, Ohio-based supergroup Ricked Wicky pulls off a rarely ventured and even more rarely gained three-peat with its third album — all recorded and released in the span of a year — Swimmer to a...
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Frantz Loriot & Manuel Perovic Notebook Large Ensemble – Urban Furrow (2015)
French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot use to keep a little notebook with him, in which he writes all the musical ideas coming to his mind. One day, he noticed there was sufficient material to work...
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Chihei Hatakeyama + Federico Durand – Magical Imaginary Child (2015)
Chihei Hatakeyama would appear to be an inexhaustible fount of energy, given the number of solo and collaborative releases with which he’s been involved during the past couple of years. And as if that...
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Skatebård – CDIII (2015)
To best understand electronic producer Bård Aasen Lødemel’s mischievous, irreverent musical nature, cue up his 2008 remix of fellow Norwegian Annie’s “Two of Hearts.” A cover of Stacey Q’s 1986...
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Elvis Costello – Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (2015)
Do not take the “Soundtrack” portion to the title of Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album lightly. This companion album to Elvis Costello‘s 2015 memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is...
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Drive-By Truckers – It’s Great to Be Alive! (2015)
Halfway through the Drive-By Truckers‘ new live record, Patterson Hood abruptly stops singing four minutes into “Goode’s Field Road”, a dark song with a paint-by-numbers Truckers premise: a junkyard...
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BOB – The Singles and EPs (2015)
British indie-poppers BOB released only one album in their lifetime, and it came in 1991, at the end of their existence. As unfortunate as it might seem, like many independent bands of the era, they...
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Doug Hream Blunt – My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt (2015)
Discoveries are, necessarily, becoming harder to find. Every secondhand record shop has been picked over; every obscurity has been sampled, located and propelled to niche renown – occasionally...
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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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Gold Class – It’s You (2015)
Adam Curley sings like a man from nowhere. On Gold Class‘ debut album, Curley’s morose baritone falls somewhere between Ian Curtis and Andrew Eldritch without the English tone, an affectation that...
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Lou Doillon – Lay Low (2015)
You’ve probably heard of Lou Doillon before; she’s Charlotte Gainsbourg’s half-sister, the daughter of Jane Birkin and French filmmaker Jacques Doillon, and, like her famous half-sibling, she also dabs...
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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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Eartheater – RIP Chrysalis (2015)
Alexandra Drewchin has roughly 100 different voices, and she employs all of them to chilling effect on RIP Chrysalis, her second record as Eartheater. There’s the high, weeping one that turns up at the...
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Shellshag – Why’d I Have to Get So High? (2015)
Why’d I Have to Get So High? is Shellshag’s fifth LP, and the culmination of 20 plus years of resilient effort and artistic growth. Recorded by Jerri Queen and John Petty at The Lodge (Kentucky), the...
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Beat Connection – Product 3 (2015)
Seattle’s Beat Connection continue to evolve on their sophomore LP, Product 3, a mostly laid-back affair that ups the quotient on shimmering R&B sounds and textural sonic pastiche. Over the course...
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Caspian – Dust and Disquiet (2015)
Boston, Massachusetts band Caspian have been building a substantial body of work, and a passionate and devoted following, since the release of their debut EP You Are the Conductor, in 2005. Dust and...
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