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Cio D’Or – All in All (2015)
Sometimes the twists of fate in the music industry can baffle even the most attentive observers. A case in point is Cio D’Or, the dub-drone techno producer turned experimentalist who, in her 2009-2011...
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Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe – I Declare Nothing (2015)
Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Tess Parks joined forces at the start of 2014. I Declare Nothing is the lingering consequence of their collaboration. Recorded in the heat of a Berlin...
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S. Araw “Trio” XI – Gazebo Effect (2015)
Sometimes listening to S. Araw’s Gazebo Effect feels like a beetle has crawled in your ear canal. Other times, it feels like you have water in there you can’t shake loose. Most times, it seems to...
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Cloud Nothings & Wavves – No Life for Me (2015)
Nathan Williams of Wavves and Cloud Nothings frontman Dylan Baldi officially announced their collaborative album back in March, but we knew that a release was kinda-sorta imminent a year before that....
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Sea of Bees – Build a Boat to the Sun (2015)
Julie Ann Baenziger’s previous albums showcased a singer with a warm, engaging voice and a strong handle on crafting emotional tunes of both the shy and muscular varieties. Build a Boat to the Sun...
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Good Old War – Broken Into Better Shape (2015)
The Philly-based indie pop duo makes a bid for commercial glory on its fourth studio long-player, the airtight, hook-filled, and heartfelt Broken Into Better Shape. Good Old War have always been a...
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Trembling Bells – The Sovereign Self (2015)
Back in the late 1960s, there was nothing that unusual about psychedelic folk rock bands churning out nine-minute epics about long-dead lovers and mythical heroes. The likes of Fairport Convention and...
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Matt Pond PA – The State of Gold (2015)
You can take Matt Pond out of Pennsylvania, but apparently you can’t take the PA out of Matt Pond. After 2013’s The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand, the prolific New York-based singer/ songwriter’s...
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Senses Fail – Pull the Thorns from Your Heart (2015)
Maintaining any sort of consistency is always a challenge for a band, but when you’ve had the kind of revolving-door lineup that New Jersey post-hardcore unit Senses Fail has had, it becomes especially...
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Meridian – Tuyeres (2015)
Meridian are the trio of Tim Feeney, N. Hennies, and Greg Stuart, percussionists all, and throughout their new album Tuyeres one is never in any doubt that the group is all about making surfaces...
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The Velvet Teen – All Is Illusory (2015)
The Velvet Teen has always had a flair for the sonically dramatic. In its initial early-2000s run, the NorCal band was the kind of weepy and twinkly rock outfit that might have soundtracked the...
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Motopony – Welcome You (2015)
Motopony is band that seem poised to breakout with their second album, Welcome You. Though their debut self-titled album was met with moderate success, the band’s EP Idle Beauty gave listeners a hint...
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The Supernaturals – 360 (2015)
Thirteen years have elapsed since the last iteration of Scotland’s least solemn rabble issued so much as a note of new music, during which time the most common reminder of their late ’90s success has...
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Self Defense Family – Heaven Is Earth (2015)
D. Boon of the Minutemen once famously said, “Punk is whatever we made it to be,” and Self Defense Family are one band who appear to have taken Boon’s words to heart. The group’s second album as Self...
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Anne Garner – Be Life (2015)
Following on the heels of 2011’s Trusting a Twirled World, the London-based songstress returns with a concise thirty-five-minute collection that might be her most enchanting release to date. Jointly...
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Peptalk – Islet (2015)
It’s a little bit hard to believe Islet is Peptalk‘s debut album, given the high quality of the material on the forty-minute outing. A quick scan of the personnel involved, however, begins to explain...
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Radioactivity – Silent Kill (2015)
Motorik, the percussive fixture of krautrock, has a particular mystique to it. The repetitive eight-note pulse, devotees claim, is the essence of rhythmic vitality. Or whatever — it’s rigid and...
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Aegri Somnia – Monde Obscure (2015)
Monde Obscure features 63 unsettling minutes of pitch-black soundscaping from Aegri Somnia (real name Jurica Santek). Though the dark ambient project was active between 2007 and 2008, the Croatia-based...
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Eyelids – 854 (2014)
You’d think a band with members of Guided by Voices and the Decemberists would get more attention by default. But even without those connections, the pure psych-pop of 854 is exactly the kind of thing...
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Tegan and Sara – So Jealous [10th Anniversary Edition] (2014)
Fresh off of a lengthy run in support of their 2013 pop opus Heartthrob, Tegan and Sara are looking back at their breakthrough album, 2004’s So Jealous, with a 10th anniversary edition (dubbed So...
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