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Shigeto – Intermission EP (2015)
Over half a dozen years Shigeto, has tweaked his headphone electronica, pulling in jazz, hip-hop, his ear for texture and ability on the drums to create inimitable midnight bedroom bliss. With the...
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Son Volt – Trace: 20th Anniversary Edition (2015)
Son Volt’s 1995 debut, Trace, is an album full of highways and backroads, maps and legends. Sturdily constructed from scraps of rusted country and strange, white-line-feverish imagery, these songs...
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My Disco – Severe (2015)
Australian post-punk minimalists My Disco have inverted their method of attack on their 4th album, Severe. Instead of traveling abroad and recording with the staunchly pro-analog Steve Albini this time...
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Levantis – Romantic Psychology 1 (2015)
The Halloween-adjacent release date for this album is well timed; Romantic Psychology 1 presents listeners with a house of haunted synths. Darren J. Cunningham dons the Levantis moniker and, working...
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SPORTS – All of Something (2015)
Ohio-based five-piece Sports have delivered an irresistibly catchy, and incredibly well executed set of songs with their sophomore release, All of Something. Balancing equal parts jangling guitar pop...
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Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (2015)
Eleni Mandell released her sixth album, Miracle of Five, back in 2007. The fact that the L.A.-based singer-songwriter’s new album, Dark Lights Up, is her 10th could perhaps be considered a minor...
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Admiral Fallow – Tiny Rewards (2015)
The Admiral Fallow you thought you knew is dead. The Scottish quintet used to be what you could call a folk-rock band, but they got swept up in their own ambitions and waved goodbye to the Tree Bursts...
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XTC – Oranges & Lemons (1989, Steven Wilson Remix 2015)
Skylarking was an ambitious yet concise record, one that recalled such graceful concept albums as Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper, so it wasn’t entirely a surprise that XTC embraced psychedelia on its...
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Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl – We Are Not the First (2015)
“fuck the ghetto. Think about outer space”. The mantra from the central track on We Are Not the First is probably Jamal Moss’ most direct and straightforward explanation of his philosophy to date,...
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The Big Sound Authority – An Inward Revolution [Special Edition] (2015)
If you’re a child of the ’80s you might remember The Big Sound Authority. A refreshing brand of pop-soul that graced the airwaves with the superb This House (Is Where Your Love Stands) and popped up on...
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Ahleuchatistas – Arrebato (2015)
Over eight albums, Asheville, North Carolina’s Ahleuchatistas have built a sound in slow bloom. Even as they group pared down a few years back from a trio to a drum and bass duo, the sound of each...
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Renny Wilson – Punk Explosion / Extension (2015)
Punk Explosion / Extension, or Punk Ex for short, is the latest musical detour from the loins of Canadian avant-pop artist Renny Wilson. Recorded between 2007 and 2014, Punk Ex follows Wilson’s natural...
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Nicholas Krgovich – On Cahuenga (2015)
Nicholas Krgovich isn’t the first musician to record a stripped-down version of an already released album, but he might be the artist who’s benefitted from it the most. That’s not to say last year’s On...
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Deerhoof – Fever 121416 (2015)
San Francisco-based art-rock unit Deerhoof blurred the lines between science and music on their recent collaboration with a large hadron collider, but hopefully you won’t have to flex your brain...
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Christian Wallumrød & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra – Untitled Arpeggios and...
Christian Wallumrød has, together with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, created a new and exciting album that confirms his abilities as a unique composer and the flexibility of the never-static jazz...
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Hey Colossus – Radio Static High (2015)
Releasing two albums in one year (so far, at least…) is a good strike rate for any band. But when a group hits such a rich vein of form as the London-via- Somerset-and-Watford troupe of Hey Colossus,...
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VA – Punk 45: Extermination Nights in the Sixth City – Cleveland, Ohio: Punk...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Punk 45 album charts the rise of underground punk in the mid-west city of Cleveland, Ohio, which for many people is the true birthplace of punk music in the mid-’70s. Featuring a...
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Robin Fox – A Small Prometheus (2015)
Following his last solo release on Editions Mego in 2010 ‘A Handful of Automation’, Robin Fox returns with A Small Prometheus, a significant new work which exposes a very different audio world to that...
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Another View – A Career in Dancing: The Abstraction Years 1979-81 (2015)
Multi-talented Luton-based Adrian Smith started his first musical exploration in the field of electronic and experimental music in the mid 70’s with projects called Underland and Electrodub. With the...
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Ensemble Economique – Blossoms in Red (2015)
California-born artist Brian Pyle, the mastermind behind the project Ensemble Economique, describes his own music on his Facebook page “as if day and night are colliding,” a notion that especially...
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