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Pere Ubu – The Pere Ubu Moon Unit (2015)
Since the American Federation of Musicians have blocked Pere Ubu from performing in America, the band has renounced not only its American ‘citizenship’ but also its American past. The Pere Ubu Moon...
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Marshmallow Coast – Vangelis Rides Again (2015)
Nearly two decades into his career, indie pop auteur Andy Gonzales returns with Vangelis Rides Again, his ninth LP under the Marshmallow Coast banner. Mysterious, with a murky, almost sensual attitude,...
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Bang Gang – The Wolves Are Whispering (2015)
Iceland act Gang Bang are essentially the project of artist Bardi Johansson, who’s been coming and going from the music scene since 1996. Counting three album releases already in his cannon, his second...
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Kelley Stoltz – In Triangle Time (2015)
Sixteen years on from his debut, Kelley Stoltz is still one of the titans of psych-infused indie pop, generating new material at a rate that’s inspiring in terms of both quantity and quality. After the...
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Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded + Temperamental [Deluxe Editions]...
Quite what these two Everything But the Girl records would have sounded like had Todd Terry’s sleeping giant remix of ‘Missing’ not gradually conquered the world in the mid-’80s is anybody’s guess. In...
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Soichi Terada – Sounds from the Far East (2015)
Whether they realise it or not, millions of people know the music of Soichi Terada. After all, the Tokyo producer’s childlike melodies have bleeped out of consoles across the world as the soundtrack to...
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Charles Murdoch – Point (2015)
Charles Murdoch’s world is made of humid slo-mo sex and dreams of bathing in neon lights. The Brisbane producer, who signed to the Australian label through a remix competition, dropped his first...
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Rafael Anton Irisarri – A Fragile Geography (2015)
A Fragile Geography’s cover artwork sums it up entirely: a faded, scratched and blurry black & white photograph of a distant manor house shrouded by trees and obscured by what looks like rain or...
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The Ruts – The Virgin Years (2015)
With their unique blend of raucous punk rock laced with reggae and dub, the Ruts were one of the most exciting bands to emerge from Britain’s late-’70s scene. Their career was cut cruelly short by the...
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The Intelligence – Vintage Future (2015)
Based on how catchy and mordantly funny Vintage Future is, it seems that the more discontented Lars Finberg is, the better it is for The Intelligence‘s music. As the band moved farther away from its...
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Atlantic Thrills – Vices (2015)
“Indulgence” and “excess” must be scribbled somewhere in the guidelines section of the rock and roll handbook. These concepts of going full-bore have been evidenced in everything from hair metal acts...
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Danielle de Picciotto – Tacoma (2015)
Danielle de Picciotto is a wanderer. She explores the regions between the inner and outer realms of our collective psyche and gathers impressions, which accumulate into the many-tentacled beast that...
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Gabrielle Papillon – The Tempest of Old (2015)
Gabrielle Papillon is one of those artists whose music is driven by her voice, lyrics and guitar. To call her simply a singer/songwriter would miss the point by leaving out a whole other dimension: the...
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The Anchoress – Confessions of a Romance Novelist (2016)
The Anchoress is the stage name of Welsh musician and songwriter Catherine Anne Davies, who also records under the nom de plume Catherine A.D. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, chanteuse, and...
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The Explosion – The Explosion (2015)
In May 2014, Chateau Flight released Terry Riley Covers, a two-track 12” that saw them deliver fresh interpretations of two works by the great American minimalist, with the assistance of new wave...
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Jack Latham – Lux Laze EP (2015)
Lux Laze is Jam City’s soundtrack to Daniel Swan’s retro-dystopian sci-fi short of the same name, originally issued in a limited run in 2010. Classical Curves, which was at that point barely a glint in...
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Total Babes – Heydays (2015)
Seldom does a record root itself so exclusively in the grey as Total Babes’ Heydays. The Babes’ is a sound caught between the exuberant and the esoteric; the juvenile and the nostalgic; the reactionary...
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Olivia Block – Aberration of Light (2015)
The genesis of Aberration of Light is a response to one of the grander sensory-cultural experiences accessible in the 20th and 21th centuries, but it has been released on two of the humbler audio...
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Craw – 1993-1997 (2015)
Northern Spy reissues the first three records by Cleveland, Ohio, post-hardcore band Craw in a limited-edition box set, 1993–1997. All out of print for two decades or more, these full-lengths — 1993’s...
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Kevin Parks & Vanessa Rossetto – Severe Liberties (2015)
The pairing of Kevin Parks & Vanessa Rossetto may, at first, seem odd. Parks seems largely interested in pure portrayals of improvisation — his collaborations with Joe Foster and Alice Hui-Sheng...
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