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Cured Pink – As a Four Piece Band (2015)
No Wave is a funny thing: kinda nebulous, it can come in many guises, but it’s still instantly recognisable. It takes a lot of styles, all of which have to be dragged through the dust until they’re...
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Hip Hatchet – Hold You Like a Harness (2015)
Hip Hatchet is the chosen musical alias (adopted from a novel by Gary Paulson) of singer-songwriter Philippe Bronchtein. Whilst to some the name may conjure images of some sort of Southern Rock boogie...
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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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Byron Westbrook – Precipice (2015)
Since accepting responsibility for the technical end of Phill Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation in 2005, Byron Westbrook has been creating interactive performances and sound installations...
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Rat Columns – Fooling Around EP (2015)
Call it the result of strange attractors. Combine a dose of indie rock chops with a solid clump of Krautrock-style rhythms, and the results can surprise. On the one hand, that could serve as a solid...
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B.A. Johnston - Shit Sucks (2015)
He may shout bawdily, curse fiercely and joke filthily, but at heart, B.A. Johnston is a shameless romantic. Who else would be sentimental — and astute — enough to equate their sweetheart with the junk...
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Adem – Seconds Are Acorns (2015)
It’s been a few years since Adem’s last album of original material, and as soon as you hit play on Seconds Are Acorns you can hear a lot has changed. The shoe-gazing, reverb-drenched ‘By Everyone’...
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Bourbonese Qualk – 1983-1987 (2015)
Influential British industrial group Bourbonese Qualk were a fiercely independent operation, recording at their own studio, running their own label and venue, and booking their own tours. They rejected...
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Erdbeerschnitzel – The Attendants (2015)
Tim Keiling’s productions under the name Erdbeerschnitzel have always taken an offbeat approach to house music, slicing up samples in a rapid-fire manner similar to Akufen, but also emphasizing heavy...
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Common Objects – Whitewashed with Lines (2015)
Common Objects is the quartet of John Butcher with Rhodri Davies on harp, Angharad Davies on violin and Lee Patterson on amplified processes and objects. The group made their recorded debut (minus...
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Damon Eliza Palermo – Clouds of David (2015)
It can be a gamble when a dance music producer makes an ambient record: sometimes they take to it naturally, and other times the results are aimless and drifting. Magic Touch, real name Damon Eliza...
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Cardiacs – The Seaside [Original Edition] (2015)
Opinion is divided among Cardiacs fans as to which is the band’s best recorded work. Either 1989’s On Land and in the Sea or 1996’s Sing to God, depending perhaps on the era of the individual’s initial...
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John Chantler – Still Light, Outside (2015)
The sound of the pipe organ seems to inherently evoke a feeling of awe in the presence of the sublime along with images of the vastness of eternity, thanks to their affiliation with religious...
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Christopher the Conquered – I’m Giving Up On Rock & Roll (2016)
Christopher Ford, aka Christopher the Conquered, is a self-described “songwriter, recording artist, singer, performer, and pianist [who] partners with my instruments and other musicians to tell stories...
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Senyawa – Menjadi (2015)
Morphosis’ Morphine Records blow minds with a remarkable slab of experiments by Indonesia’s Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi a.k.a. Senyawa. Found in orbit between traditional Javanese folk music and...
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VA – Oxford American: Southern Music Issue No. 17 featuring Georgia (2015)
Oxford American magazine’s annual music issue, with its companion compact disc, has become one of the most expected and anticipated publications of the year among music and literary enthusiasts....
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Hunting Lodge – Will (1983, Remastered 2015)
The Port Huron group Hunting Lodge is formed in the early ’80s, the project of Full Moon Records employee Lon Diehl and a regular customer, Richard Skott. The pair bonded over a mutual love of...
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Ah! Kosmos – Bastards (2015)
Bastards might be the full-length debut by Istanbul-based producer and instrumentalist Basak Günak under the Ah! Kosmos name, but she’s no inexperienced neophyte. Two years ago she issued the Flesh EP,...
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Yonatan Gat – Director (2015)
Between 2005 and 2011, Israeli trio Monotonix played over a thousand live shows, almost all of which were spectacular displays of high-energy mayhem and explosive antics, gaining them a reputation as a...
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Kimmo Pohjonen – Sensitive Skin (2015)
Finnish accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen says, rather surprisingly, that Sensitive Skin is the first album he has made on which he had enough time to plan and record in the way he wants to. Time and...
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