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Eliza Hardy Jones – Because Become (2016)
Eliza Hardy Jones is from Philadelphia, and she makes music. A trained classical pianist who made the leap to the electric landscape, Eliza has played in Buried Beds, Nightlands, Strand of Oaks and...
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DIIV – Is the Is Are (2016)
Is the Is Are, the highly-anticipated sophomore release from Brooklyn-based DIIV, is an album years and many personal struggles in the making for it’s architect, Zachary Cole Smith. Recorded and mixed...
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Leo Abrahams – Daylight (2015)
Producer and guitarist Leo Abrahams has always been hard to pin down. There can’t be many people who have collaborated with both Paolo Nutini and Leafcutter John, while his 4 previous albums have run...
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Mutes – Starvation Age EP (2015)
What started out as the solo project of Birmingham based musician James Brown, Mutes has snowballed into something so much more. With their debut full band EP, the Midlands quartet have forged a...
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Casey Mecija – Psychic Materials (2016)
As if her melodious voice, emotive lyrics and songwriting weren’t beguiling enough, Casey Mecija has released her solo debut Psychic Materials with GIF artwork elements, too. Every song pulses with...
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Mission of Burma – Signals, Calls and Marches (1981, Remastered 2015)
One could argue that Mission of Burma‘s first 12″ release, Signals, Calls and Marches, was the point where “indie rock” as a separate and distinct musical subgenre well and truly began. Mission of...
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Guided By Voices – Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War (2015)
Four-CD box set Captain Kangaroo Won the War features 100 tracks of Robert Pollard-penned demos, alternate takes, B-sides and more, with its reach stretching across 20 years of the songwriter’s career....
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Savages – Adore Life (2016)
When Savages emerged in 2012 with the excellent song “Husbands,” a lot of talk of the London band revolved around their frenetic live shows, and that they wanted you to turn your cell phones off at...
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Giorgio Gigli – The Right Place Where Not to Be (2015)
Roman DJ/producer Giorgio Gigli has been releasing sparse yet subtly detailed hypnotic techno tracks since the mid-2000s, but his debut full-length, The Right Place Where Not to Be, departs from steady...
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Shearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow (2016)
Formed in 1999 by two members of Okkervil River — singer/songwriters Jonathan Meiburg (who still leads) and Will Sheff (who left in 2005) — Austin, Texas outfit Shearwater has earned plenty of critical...
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Roland P. Young – Confluences (2015)
Japan’s Koki Emura (EM Records bossman) is an incorrigible reissuer, putting out obscure and hard- to-find gems from all corners of the globe and with a distinctly elegant presentation every time....
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Field Music – Commontime (2016)
Field Music are back with their first new record since 2012’s Plumb and Play… New LP Commontime comes out February 5, 2016, via Memphis Industries Over the past four years, North-East siblings Peter...
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Meehan/Perkins Duo – Tristan Perich: Parallels (2015)
If you’re familiar with Tristan Perich as a music composer, you are aware of his affair with 1-bit music, or a sound that allows only one bit of music to be played at any given time. Minimalism,...
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Iggy Pop – Psychosonic Medicine (2015)
There’s a reason why many consider Iggy Pop the godfather of punk: every single punk band of the past and present has either knowingly or unknowingly borrowed a thing or two from Pop and his...
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The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum (2016)
If you like giant orbs, the great outdoors, hanging out in museums and being told creepy, candle-lit stories of strange beasts and ghostly happenings, you’ll fit right in with The Besnard Lakes. The...
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Suede – Night Thoughts (2016)
Blackstar isn’t the only album released this month to take on added poignancy in the wake of David Bowie’s passing. Suede are releasing a new album mere weeks after Bowie did the same — just like in...
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Eleanor Friedberger – New View (2016)
This past October, Eleanor Friedberger released “False Alphabet City,” a groovy one-off single all about the “city that betrayed her.” Like many musicians before her, Friedberger has long made New York...
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Pop. 1280 – Paradise (2016)
“War is god.” These are the words uttered by Judge Holden when he discusses the control of war in a mere card game within Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Holden takes his hand through McCarthy’s page...
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Chairlift – Moth (2016)
Moths seem like an error in evolution. Instead of morphing into the bright symmetry of a butterfly, a caterpillar becomes a dull and monochromatic flicker, flying in meaningless orbits around a light...
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Roly Porter – Third Law (2016)
In late 2013, Roly Porter released Life Cycle of a Massive Star, a mammoth LP of deep, celestial movement. The former Vex’d member was ambling away from his dubstep roots and toward a form of...
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