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Biota – Funnel to a Thread (2015)
Every three years or so, the collective known as Biota releases a new album of unclassifiable music. These releases, woefully missed or ignored by many, are events of singular importance in my basement...
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Wimps – Suitcase (2015)
The Wimps are a Seattle trio whose music is so punk it doesn’t always sound like punk. The band’s lean, no-frills attack sometimes lacks the speed and adolescent aggression that’s come to be the...
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Duane Pitre – Bayou Electric (2015)
This is Duane Pitre’s roots record. The New Orleans- based multi-instrumentalist and composer’s personal history has always been cause for comment, if only because the narrative of retiring from...
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Kosmischer Läufer – The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic...
The story of Kosmischer Läufer is one of the most wonderfully apocryphal tales in the current music world. According to Unknown Capability Recordings, the tracks compiled on this and the previous two...
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Fernando – Leave the Radio On (2015)
Oregon-based singer/songwriter Fernando Viciconte has been doing his thing for the better part of two decades, during which time he has caught the ear of many a discerning music enthusiast with his...
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Jonah Parzen-Johnson – Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow (2015)
This could be a weird form of cognitive dissonance. An album that kicks against the emotional crutch of nostalgia yet is constructed with those icons of retro-fetishism, the saxophone and analogue...
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The Catenary Wires – Red Red Skies (2015)
Indie pop legends Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey have an indie pop musical partnership that stretches back to Heavenly in the ’80s, through to Marine Research, Sportique, and, most recently, Tender...
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Uniform – Perfect World (2015)
Uniform, a new Brooklyn duo composed of ex-The Men bassist Ben Greenberg and ex-Drunkdriver singer Michael Berdan, don’t joke around when it comes to their dreary worldview. Perfect World is not meant...
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Autistici – Temporal Enhancement (2015)
It’s telling that the instrument contributions by the sole guest on Temporal Enhancement are clearly identified, yet those by the artist responsible for the recording are only vaguely referenced. More...
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Hinds – Very Best of Hinds So Far EP (2015)
Despite the hype surrounding them, Hinds seem as unfussed about it as they did when, for legal reasons, they had to change their name from Deers. Yet the Very Best of Hinds So Far is a thrilling...
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Hinds – Leave Me Alone (2016)
The Madrid-based quartet Hinds makes fuzzy garage pop that seems as intrinsically linked to the warmth and sunshine of their home as California-infused idleness is to many Burger Records bands. They...
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Villagers – Where Have You Been All My Life? (2016)
Where Have You Been All My Life? is a collection of songs that distils five years and three albums of Villagers’ songwriting into one flowing narrative. Recorded in one day at London’s RAK Studio with...
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Spin Marvel – Infolding (2015)
As a Professor of Jazz (Drums/Percussion) at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and as contributor to recordings and performances by Lee Konitz, Dave Holland, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks and other...
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Heather Maloney – Making Me Break (2015)
Always straddling indie pop and folk, Heather Maloney falls into a more low-key indie folk production on her fourth LP, Making Me Break. Consisting of several acoustic guitar-centered tunes and slower...
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Troum – Acouasme (2015)
After the much praised collaboration with Raison d’Etre released summer 2015 (“De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu”) and the final volume of the ‘Power Romantic’ trilogy with “Mare Morphosis” in late 2013,...
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Death and the Maiden – Death and the Maiden (2015)
While travelling through Berlin in 2012, Lucinda King ripped a sketch of a skeleton and a woman from a book, and stored it in her wallet. The piece was Death and the Maiden, a 19th Century engraving...
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Sunday Painters – In My Dreams (2015)
What’s Your Rupture presents another farflung chapter in the history of DIY music. Sunday Painters hailed from Wollongong, Australia, and TBD collects their first three 7″ EPs, all self-released by...
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Mechanimal – Delta Pi Delta (2016)
Secret Science, the ‘difficult second album’ from Mechanimal sounded like a breeze in the park for the act led by programmer and writer Giannis Papaioannou. It’s dark, industrial soundscapes provided...
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Sea Pinks – Soft Days (2016)
From it’s drone laden opening minute, Soft Days, the new record from Sea Pinks, confounds the listener and consolidates the Belfast three piece as one of the most distinctive guitar bands around right...
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Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix Heule – Colonial Donuts (2015)
Since re-emerging late last decade from an extended post-Harry Pussy hibernation, angular blues guitar firebrand Bill Orcutt has been quite prolific. The past few years have given rise to a number of...
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