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sleepland – for Silentseeing (2015)
In certain respects, Kengo Yonemura’s second physical sleepland release is retiring in nature and restrained in approach. There’s the lower-case moniker for one, plus the fact that for Silentseeing...
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Michelle McAdorey – Into Her Future (2015)
Michelle McAdorey hasn’t released an album for more than a decade, but the former Crash Vegas singer finally break her silence with the solo effort Into Her Future. The nine-song effort was produced by...
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Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Most Important Place in the World (2015)
Ahead of the release of second album The Most Important Place in the World singer Aidan Moffat talked about how the record was “a song for the city and the secrets she hides” and while the subject of...
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DMA’s – DMA’s EP (2015)
The past 20 years have seen no shortage of bands build careers out of the swagger of Oasis, but few manage (or bother) to match the transcendent songwriting of the Mancunian’s early heights. Aussie...
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IX Tab – R.O.C. (2015)
Where IX Tab’s earlier Spindle and the Bregnut Tree was lusciously and admirably in thrall to the heroically named Saxon Roach’s observance of all things Coilish and tentacular, on R.O.C. he takes what...
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The Hermit Crabs – In My Flat (2015)
The Hermit Crabs also explored matters temporal on their last release, “Time Relentless”, part of a discography which has also been building for around a decade, even if we only really started to warm...
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Henry Kaiser / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter – Plane Crash Two (2015)
This album was created shortly after experimental guitarist Henry Kaiser’s large ensemble collaboration with fabled Brit guitarist Ray Russell The Celestial Squid (2015), as Plane Crash Two marks the...
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Nick Ferrio – Amongst the Coyotes and Birdsongs (2015)
Nick Ferrio‘s sophomore album, Amongst the Coyotes and Birdsongs, is a gentle frolic into even-paced and country-laced folk songs. Diving into a full listen of the album is like shambling through a...
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Dean McPhee – Fatima’s Hand (2015)
Dean McPhee is a solo electric guitarist from Yorkshire – still a relatively rare sighting compared with the legions of acoustic soloists and singer-songwriters. Partly as a result of this, his music...
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André Stordeur – Complete Analog and Digital Electronic Music 1978-2000 (2015)
Another installment in Sub Rosa’s Early Electronic series: the complete works, for the most part previously unreleased, by a key composer of Belgian electronic music. André Stordeur‘s musical career...
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Oppenheimer Analysis – New Mexico (1982, Remastered 2015)
Formed in 1982 in London by Andy Oppenheimer and Martin Lloyd, Oppenheimer Analysis were fans of early synthesiser bands like The Human League and Soft Cell. They also explored their interest in old...
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Tom Carter – Long Time Underground (2015)
As American psychedelic music goes, Tom Carter is a modern titan. From his pensive folk manipulations with Charalambides to his noise sprees with Mudsuckers, and from his jams with Bardo Pond and...
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Delphine Dora & Sophie Cooper – Distance Future (2015)
France’s Delphine Dora and England’s Sophie Cooper have both made impressively uncategorizable music over the past decade, and while they’ve been mutual supporters (Dora released Cooper’s excellent...
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Arca – Mutant [Japanese Edition] (2015)
Though his music sometimes exhibits the romantic sweep of chamber music and can be marked with skittering beats, Venezuela-born producer Alejandro Ghersi’s work as Arca is defined above all by its...
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The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Masters of the Molehill (2015)
With a name like that, psyche rockers The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol are deliberately playing hard to get and their release schedule and relatively obscure status to date confirm it. Blowing select...
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Mind Over Mirrors – The Voice Calling (2015)
Jaime Fennelly’s music as Mind Over Mirrors has always felt massive; the hypnotic loops he creates with Indian pedal harmonium feel endless. But The Voice Calling is more expansive than any previous...
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Jon Mueller – A Magnetic Center (2015)
Over the years, Jon Mueller has been the powerful, full-kit force behind Death Blues, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Volcano Choir, and Pele. Solo or with a wide net of collaborators, he’s combined...
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The Jungle Giants – Speakerzoid (2015)
This is the kind of fun, indie-poptastic music that tells us winter is coming… to an end. The Brisbane four-piece return with their second full-length; a mature, considered and uncompromising...
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Trevor Wishart – Red Bird: A Politcal Prisoner’s Dream (1978, Reissue 2015)
Multi award-winning composer Trevor Wishart‘s electro-acoustic masterpiece, Red Bird: A Political Prisoner’s Dream reissued for the first time in nearly 40 years. Composed between 1973 and 1977, and...
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Expert Alterations – Expert Alterations EP (2015)
It’s clear from the start of this record that the Baltimore trio Expert Alterations have done their homework. Their debut EP is steeped in the jangliest, scrappiest indie pop, the kind that started off...
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