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Le Berger – Music for Guitar & Patience (2015)
Random occurrences. Sunlight bursting through treetops. Accidental beauty. These things are not just confined to nature and landscape. Le Berger is Montreal native Samuel Landry. Deeply moved and...
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Angelic Upstarts – Bullingdon Bastards (2015)
Angelic Upstarts formed in 1977 in South Shields, North-East England. A working class punk band with strong anti-fascist views and beliefs. Influenced by bands such as The Clash and The Sex Pistols,...
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Maasai – Feeling Blue, Seeing Orange (2015)
Swedish “cinematic pop” pair Maasai originally emerged when members Dominique Teymouri and Zackarias Ekekind encountered each other in between different endeavours. After deciding to team up, they...
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Alberta Cross – Alberta Cross (2015)
In 2013, Terry Wolfers, co-founding member of Alberta Cross, quit the band, leaving Petter Ericson Stakee as the sole member. It’s fitting, then, that on Alberta Cross’ third full-length record, and...
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jennylee – Right On! (2015)
When members of distinctive-sounding bands step out on their own, they risk sounding too much like their main projects, or trying too hard to sound different. Fortunately, Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg...
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Gnoomes – Ngan! (2015)
Gnoomes are vocalist/bassist Alex Pyankov, drummer Pavel Fedoseev and guitarist Dmitriy Konyushevich. They come from a place in Russia called Perm, which translates as ‘Faraway land’; the location of...
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Pujol – Kisses EP (2015)
Nashville songwriter Daniel Pujol, aka Pujol, has always been an impulsive songwriter. His whims led to the exciting, jittery indie rock opus, 2012’s United States of Being, which he followed up last...
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Penetration – The Virgin Years (2015)
Fronted by Pauline Murray, Penetration debuted in late ’77 with the seminal ‘Don’t Dictate’ 45 and over the next two years issued two albums and five singles all of which are included on this 62 track...
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Laddio Bolocko – Live and Unreleased 1997-2000 (2015)
Formed in 1996 and over and done within 4 years, Laddio Bolocko was the strangest, most slept-on New York band of its time. They had some precedent in far-out outfits like Faust and This Heat, who used...
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Cage the Elephant – Tell Me I’m Pretty (2015)
If your sister were Anita Miller from Almost Famous, she might tell you to listen to Tell Me I’m Pretty with a candle burning. Matthew Shultz has hit the mark lyrically and vocally here, inviting...
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Bill Wells & Friends – Nursery Rhymes (2015)
Scottish jazz pianist and composer Bill Wells has made his career out of eclectic collaborations, pairing his talents with a variety of indie rock fringe-dwellers and generally operating outside of the...
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Swans – White Light from the Mouth of Infinity / Love of Life (2015)
In the half-decade since Swans reformed, they have hammered away at a monolithic, all-consuming sound with unwavering focus. The three albums they’ve released since Michael Gira resurrected the project...
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Personable – New Lines (2015)
With New Lines, the Los Angeles based M. Geddes Gengras strays from his well-worn, new age, Tangerine drones and alights on a path he last visited on 2012’s Spontaneous Generation. Opening track...
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Warm Brains – Big Wow (2015)
An album built around the paradoxical combination of self-deprecation and self-satisfaction, Big Wow is, by its very nature, a record at odds with itself from the word go. A cacophonous and lightly...
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Pekka Airaksinen - Buddhas of Golden Light (1984, Reissue 2015)
Pekka Airaksinen is best known as the founding member of The Sperm, a batshit ’60s Finnish ensemble that combined garbled improv, zoned minimalism, and Artaudian theatrical hijinks in a fashion that...
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Nine Inch Nails – Halo I-IV (2015)
Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor’s industrial rock outfit, released a vinyl box set entitled Halo I-IV for Record Store Day Black Friday. Three of the collection’s four 12-inch vinyl records are dedicated...
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Ringo Deathstarr – Pure Mood [Japanese Edition] (2015)
The return of Slowdive and Ride may have seen an upsurge of interest in the ‘shoegaze’ scene recently. However, let’s not forget those bands who’ve been carrying its torch long before the first wave’s...
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Brad San Martin – Tell Someone (2015)
Prior to striking out on his own, Boston-based singer/songwriter Brad San Martin‘s primary music-making endeavor involved flitting from instrument to instrument as part of the indie pop mini- orchestra...
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VA – 30th Century Records Compilation, Volume I (2015)
In the summer of 2015, Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) announced details about 30th Century Records, his imprint in collaboration with Columbia Records. The first release that comes from the...
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The Ocean Party – Light Weight (2015)
Light Weight is Melbourne-based band The Ocean Party‘s fifth album in the last three years, and is their first professionally recorded effort to date. It’s then a testament to the band’s own production...
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