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Jlin – Free Fall EP (2015)
Jlin‘s debut album Dark Energy felt like a keyhole peek into a bedroom producer’s mind. In the broad array of vocal and synth samples, off-beat time signatures that varied from song to song, and even...
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Dinosaur Pile-Up – Eleven Eleven (2015)
Brandishing a sound as heavy as their name suggests, this Leeds trio hark back to the days when Seattle was the epicentre of the musical universe. To label them mere grunge revivalists would, however,...
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Artificial Intelligence – Timeline (2015)
Full stop: Timeline doesn’t present the next innovative chapter in drum’n’bass; listeners hungry for advances to the form will have to look elsewhere for that. What Artificial Intelligence’s Zula...
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Blindness – Wrapped in Plastic (2015)
Guitarist Debbie Smith (Curve, Echobelly, Snowpony) debuts her new band, Blindness, with a solid full-length that brings her versatility as a musician and songwriter to the forefront. From the opening...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Best of 2015 (2015)
1. Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian at Best 2. Sleater-Kinney – Bury Our Friends 3. New Order – Restless 4. Songhoy Blues – Soubour 5. Gaz Coombes – 20/20 6. Bill Ryder-Jones – Two to Birkenhead 7. Jim...
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Randal Collier-Ford – Remnants (2015)
The Oregon-based sound artist Randal Collier-Ford has been operating in the Dark Ambient field since 2012, and on this second Cryo Chamber outing he arms ten grandiose visions with image-generating...
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Post War Glamour Girls – Feeling Strange (2015)
Post War Glamour Girls‘ second offering has cemented their reputation as one of the most exciting and inventive new acts on the music scene, being lauded by music critics and fans alike – much like...
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En – City of Brides (2015)
In their five years of making music as En, Maxwell August Croy and James Devane have built a career imbuing drone music with innocence and wonder — a little glimmer of light from the depths of a well....
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Markus Guentner – Theia (2015)
If Markus Guentner‘s Theia is a rather more tonally dramatic collection than one might have come to expect from the ambient veteran of Kompakt, Sending Orbs, and Moodgadget, it’s easily explained by...
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Oskar Offermann – Le Grand to Do (2015)
Daniel ‘Oskar’ Offermann has done a grand job of building up his White label empire with Adam Zawadzki, largely orbiting around releases from artists such as Edward, Nu and of course his own music....
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Marcus Marr & Chet Faker – Work EP (2015)
This four-track EP emerges from a friendship that unexpectedly blossomed between Marcus Marr and Chet Faker online, after they exchanged compliments on Twitter. Conversations about production and gear...
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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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Zora Jones – 100 Ladies EP (2015)
Zora Jones has described 2010 as her year zero. She saw DJ Rashad spin for the first time at a party in Montreal, which was pretty much everyone’s first encounter with footwork in a club setting. She...
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Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit...
A convincing argument that rock & roll doesn’t need reinvention in order to revive itself, Courtney Barnett‘s full-length debut Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit. falls into a...
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d’Eon – Foxconn / Trios (2015)
Multi-talented Montrealer d’Eon is at it again — or should we say was at it, and is just telling us now. Foxconn / Trios was recorded back in 2012, around the same time as the Music for Keyboards...
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Annabelle’s Curse – Worn Out Skin (2015)
This Tennessee/Virginia five piece come on like an Appalachian Los Campesinos with their ebullient mix of male and female vocals, their changes of mood and texture; they’re not afraid to be fragile and...
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Astropol – The Spin We’re In (2015)
Four years in the making, Astropol‘s debut album The Spin We’re In is a confident, resonant modern pop record made with precise craft and deeply felt emotions — not surprising since it was made by...
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Aberdeen – It Was the Rain: Lost Recordings 1993-1995 (2015)
Aberdeen is an American band who first signed on legendary Sarah Records. Though Aberdeen signed on the label in 1993 and Sarah Records stopped in August 1995, they released two singles Byron and...
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Prequel Tapes – Inner Systems (2015)
Blurry radio transmissions emanate from some industrial bunker; pulsating sequencer patterns and mutant techno, stripped bare of beats, ripple through granular, sheet-metal haze — these are but a few...
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Sun City Girls – Torch of the Mystics (1990, Remastered 2015)
The arc of Sun City Girls’ 26-year history was long, but it bent toward chaos. Their music was an unpredictable pile-up of rock, jazz, blues, psych, noise, improv, and many far-flung global sounds —...
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