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Stove – Is Stupider (2015)
Before launching Stove as his solo vehicle, Steve Hartlett spent six years fronting Newtown, Connecticut indie trio Ovlov, who officially called it quits in early 2015. Ovlov, who also featured Steve’s...
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Germany Germany – Willow (2015)
Hailing from the seemingly sleepy city of Victoria, BC — although its quietly growing electro scene has been expanding for years — electro-indie-pop producer Germany Germany cements his growing...
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Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy [10th Anniversary Edition] (2015)
10th anniversary edition featuring the original 2005 LP, its companion compilation ‘Black Sheep Boy Appendix’, and ‘There Swims a Swan’, a collection of previously unreleased covers of Washington...
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Swings – Sugarwater (2015)
The origin story of Washington D.C.-based band Swings is a rare one: guitarist Jamie Finucane and percussionist Dan Howard’s creative relationship began when they played baseball together, way back in...
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Lusts – Illuminations (2015)
Hailing from Leicester, Andy and James Stone have so far been pretty explicit in their trajectory. The sepia toned pictures, the videos filmed by hand held camcorders, fuzzy visuals all scream out that...
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The High Dials – In the A.M. Wilds (2015)
In discussing the theme of the new High Dials album, vocalist Trevor Anderson revealed that he spent a lot of time leading up to the recording working as a DJ and immersing himself in Montreal...
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Peter Buck – Warzone Earth (2015)
Third record, same as the first: once again Peter Buck taps into garage gunk, 3-chord ravers, and weirdo folk-psychedelia, all of which would find a home during the graveyard shift on college radio....
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Rabit – Communion [Extended Edition] (2015)
Eric Burton produces a dark, genre-transcending sort of electronic music, yet has recently been lumped in with the new wave of grime, alongside the likes of Visionist and Filter Dread. Unlike those...
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Los Angeles Philharmonic & Los Angeles Master Chorale – Frank Zappa: 200...
A new 2-CD release showcases the live performance of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels (The Suites) by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and L.A. Master Chorale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on 23 October 2013....
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Club 8 – Pleasure (2015)
After making the most musically diverse album of their long career with 2013’s Above the City, Club 8 return with possibly their most focused. On 2015’s Pleasure, the duo of Johan Angergård and...
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Heather Leigh – I Abused Animal (2015)
Heather Leigh isn’t exactly new to the experimental music scene; aside from co-running Volcanic Tongue since 2004, she’s performed with everyone from Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, and Jandek to...
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Danny Wolfers – Swan Song of the Skunkape Original Soundtrack (2015)
Formed late this year, Danny Wolfers’ Nightwind Records has proved an immediate outlet for the Dutch artist to slip out short run cassettes and low key digital releases under all new aliases like Saab...
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Basic Soul Unit – Under the Same Sky (2015)
Stuart Li, the man behind Basic Soul Unit, has been releasing tracks regularly for over a decade, only finally putting out a full release in 2012. His sophomore LP, Under the Same Sky, cements his...
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The Butterscotch Cathedral – The Butterscotch Cathedral (2015)
Under the banner of the Resonars, Matt Rendon has been making top-notch powerful psych-pop for a long time. Anyone with even a tiny interest in that sound really needs to be up to date on all their...
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HOLY – Stabs (2015)
Flooded with lo-fi aesthetics, garage sensibilites, and soaring psychadelia, the debut LP from HOLY has finally arrived – and with it, an unparalleled appreciation for the Swedish quintet. Led by Umeå-...
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Jaala – Hard Hold (2015)
The debut album by Melbourne four-piece Jaala constantly shifts between time signatures, but it’s not a virtuoso showcase. The band’s guitarist, singer, and songwriter Cosima Jaala has said that she...
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So Stressed – The Unlawful Trade of Greco-Roman Art (2015)
Some punk singers rant, some speechify, some growl, some hector, but if you’re looking for someone who throws a full-on temper tantrum whenever he steps up to the vocal mike, your new hero is Morgan...
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Bruce Ditmas – Yellow Dust (2015)
As an artist whose name has become mutually synonymous with the instrument he plays Bruce Ditmas is a very unique heavy musician from one of those special tightknit communities that tried (and almost...
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VA – Lows in the Mid Sixties, Volume 54: Kosmic City, Part 2 (2015)
In the spirit of AIP’s dodgy regional garage rock series Highs in the Mid Sixties comes Lows in the Mid Sixties Volume 54: Kosmic City Part 2. This set of roughhewn cobblestones was culled from the...
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VA – Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics (2015)
Following his phenomenal Metal Dance collections of industrial and post-punk tracks, DJ/producer/ graphic designer Trevor Jackson was asked to compile an extensive retrospective of British producer...
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