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Balam Acab – Child Death (2015)
Pennsylvania producer Alec Koone meshes disembodied vocals with fragmented pop and R&B under the alias of Balam Acab. Koone was introduced to the world with the release of his See Birds EP on Tri...
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Meridian Brothers – Los Suicidas (2015)
The Meridian Brothers’ Salvadora Robot was one of 2014’s quirkiest and most musically compelling recordings. The Colombian ensemble was founded by composer, multi-instrumentalist, and strategist Eblis...
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Ulaan Khol – Salt (2015)
“Ulaan” (or sometimes “ulan”) is a Mongolian word that means “red.” The word emerges often in Mongolian place names. Sometimes it’s a product of Soviet convention, like the name of the Mongolian...
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Flyying Colours – EPX2 (2015)
Australian shoegaze revivalists Flyying Colours arrived in 2014 fully formed; their self-titled debut EP sports songs with tightly interlocked guitars and vocal harmonies, a propulsive rhythm section,...
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David Wax Museum – Guesthouse (2015)
The title of David Wax Museum’s fifth album, Guesthouse, is fitting for a grass-roots band that depends on the kindness of strangers as it tours the continent in its van. The core of the group, lead...
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Max Guld – For Enden Af Corridoren (1985, Remastered 2015)
Max Guld was a synth-pop/post-punk musician from Glostrup, Denmark one of the western suburbs of Copenhagen. In 1983 he formed a band called Den Forspildte Elite with a friend from high school taking...
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Consumer Electronics – Dollhouse Songs (2015)
Last year, Consumer Electronics, the power electronics duo of ex-Whitehouse member Philip Best and his wife Sarah Froelich, bolstered by producer Russell Haswell, released one of the most brutal,...
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Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Horse Dance (2015)
A lot of things strike you about Horse Dance, the debut album from Stockholm-based Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation. First of all, the album name is a weirdly perfect fit for the music. The collection of...
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James Hoffman – Fault Lines (2015)
Hamilton, Ontario-based Other Songs Music Co. was founded by singer-songwriter Scott Orr in order to issue his own debut. Involved as producer and/or musician in most of his label’s catalogue to date,...
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B12 – Orbiting Souls (2015)
B12 ended a five-year silence earlier this year, resurfacing with a four-track EP called Bokide 325. The project is now solely the work of original member Steve Rutter, and he’s followed up Bokide with...
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No More – A Rose Is a Rose (2015)
No More are a band from Kiel, Germany, founded in the summer of 1979. Hardly a sunny record, A Rose is a Rose compiles the band’s early discographic output, the EPs A Rose is a Rose, Too Late and the...
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Knowlton Bourne – Songs From Motel 43 (2015)
The debut long-player from the Jackson, Mississippi-based singer/songwriter with a name that sounds like it should adorn the cover of an Antebellum-era etiquette guide, Songs From Motel 43 finds...
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John Foxx – 20th Century: The Noise (2015)
Metamatic Records’ first major compilation of John Foxx material is the first part of a double release spanning 35 years as a solo artist. 20th Century: The Noise covers the years from his debut single...
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Gigi Masin – Wind (1986, Remastered 2015)
Restored and re-mastered from the original tapes comes Gigi Masin’s much sought after first album Wind. Never commercially released the LP was in fact only given away at a number of small concerts,...
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VA – Ork Records: Complete Singles (2015)
At the epicenter of New York’s most significant music scene was an instantly-forgotten record label: Ork Records, the first punk label and the original “indie.” Co-founded by Television manager Terry...
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Alessandro Alessandroni – Industrial (2015)
Even if you haven’t heard of Alessandro Alessandroni, you’ve probably heard at least one of his contributions to musical culture – he was responsible for the guitar riff at the heart of Ennio...
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Teenage Jesus & The Jerks – Live 1977-1979 (2015)
This spring, Nicolas Jaar reissued a spoken word album from no wave pioneer Lydia Lunch through his Other People label. Next, Jaar release archival live tracks from Lunch’s exploratory former band...
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Lydia Lunch – Conspiracy of Women (1990, Reissue 2015)
Last year, no wave icon Lydia Lunch saw a vinyl reissue of Shotgun Wedding, her collaboration with Rowland S. Howard. Continuing the Lunch celebration, her iconic 1990 album Conspiracy of Women is...
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Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Lost Tracks vol. 1 EP (2015)
Miss Kittin and The Hacker themselves had cemented their affiliation to the more mainstream shores of new wave in their own “1982” a few years before then – it’s not the ‘80s, but it’s a...
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Nordic Giants – A Séance of Dark Delusions (2015)
A formidable and intriguing cross between the extra-terrestrial and the instrumental, Nordic Giants have for years been consistently pushing the boundaries of what constitutes “normal” music (whatever...
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