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The Island Band – Like Swimming (2015)
The Island Band is an orchestra led by musician, composer and producer Lars Myrvoll. With the album Like Swimming he has constructed a highly unusual and emotionally charged stream of music together...
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VA – Kitsuné Maison Compilation 17: World Wild Issue (2015)
Kitsune Maison remains one of the most vital hubs for new music in Europe. Blessed with impeccable Gallic style, the Parisian imprint manages to see beyond trend and fashion, remaining ahead of the...
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VA – Kitsuné America 4 (2015)
The French label’s flirtation with America continues on this fourth volume of stylish Yankee indie music. As on Kitsuné America, Vol. 3, the focus is on lesser-known acts; the collection’s biggest...
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Terminal Cheesecake – Cheese Brain Fondue: Live in Marseille (2015)
The recently reanimated Terminal Cheesecake, now replete with newest recruits Neil ‘The Fish’ Francis (Gnod, 2 Koi Karp) and Dave Cochrane (God, Head Of David) are well and truly back on the scene....
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Petal – Shame (2015)
The debut full-length outing from Scranton, Pennsylvania-based singer/songwriter/actor Kiley Lotz, who operates under the nom plume de Petal, Shame is an unfussy, brutally honest, and often beautiful...
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Kita Kouhei – Endless Cycle of Rebirth (2015)
Kita Kouhei’s debut album Endless Cycle of Rebirth overflow with imagination and ideas. The record sound like the spawn of young Japanese producer who lived and breathed digital data since they took...
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And And And – The Failure (2015)
The debut album for Portland’s And And And, The Failure, begs to be analyzed in terms of a comparison between its namesake and success. Unfortunately for And And And, failure might not simply stop at...
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John Cooper Clarke – Anthologia (2015)
John Cooper Clarke has been referred to as The Bard of Manchester and a punk poet. Whatever you wish to call him his performance poetry has become legendary in his near 40 year career since early days...
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Timmy’s Organism – Heartless Heathen (2015)
Timmy Lampinen has been a Detroit garage-punk hero for nearly two decades, fronting bands like Human Eye, Clone Defects, and Epileptix. Timmy’s Organism initially formed as a experimental solo effort...
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The Chills – Silver Bullets (2015)
If there is one characteristic that has defined the music of the New Zealand group The Chills over the course of their 35-year, on-and-off, up-and-down existence, it’s their ability to summon a kind of...
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Young Galaxy – Falsework (2015)
The first words we hear Catherine McCandless sing on Young Galaxy‘s new album Falsework are, “Settle in here.” Cutting through the propulsive blips of the synthesized intro, she slides in with ease and...
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Wolf Eyes – I Am a Problem: Mind in Pieces (2015)
There’s still an utter disdain for normalcy propelling Wolf Eyes’ latest disc, I am a Problem; Mind in Pieces, its first for Jack White’s Third Man Records imprint. And despite the squalid fervor that...
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Younghusband – Dissolver (2015)
Younghusband first appeared in 2011 and their second LP has been a smoke stack on the road ahead since their 2013 debut ‘Dromes’. While that album defined a scene, this one sets them aside....
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GEMS – Kill the One You Love (2015)
Following their 2013 EP Medusa, DC duo GEMS‘ debut LP finds Lindsay Pitts and Clifford John Usher employing slick pop production to create a release that is atmospheric and fluid. GEMS’ misty synth...
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White Fang – Chunks (2015)
White Fang release their new album Chunks, on October 30th via Burger Records. The full-length was produced and engineered by Bobby Harlow (The Go) who became an instant fan for life after seeing them...
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White Cascade – Endless (2015)
Fusing a collection of genres into one immense psychedelic maelstrom is no easy feat & many bands fail dramatically trying to make it sound relevant without losing its shoegazing flair. Not so of...
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Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts – Manhattan (2015)
Since his early albums of the noughties Jeffrey Lewis has been on an unswerving mission to bring his singular world view to those who happen to chance upon him. Having long drawn comparisons to Daniel...
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Mano Le Tough – Trails (2015)
Mano Le Tough continues to manufacture slow cooker electronic expectancy and mild distress in high definition, with allowances of caffeinated dancefloor sojourns. Niall Mannion effectively gives debut...
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Cheatahs – Mythologies (2015)
Mythologies is London quartet Cheatahs‘ second full-length in as many years, and that doesn’t take into account the armload of singles and EPs they’ve produced since beginning as a solo project of...
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The Bevis Frond – Example 22 (2015)
Example 22 is psych rock veterans The Bevis Frond‘s third album since returning in 2011 after a seven-year hiatus. As with the Frond’s previous two albums, frontman/songwriter Nick Saloman (who founded...
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