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Leif – Taraxacum (2015)
Over the past 11 years, Leif Knowles has produced 25 EPs and two full-lengths, most of which are excellent, and yet he’s far from well-known. A product of the Welsh scene that peaks each year with the...
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Aidan Knight – Each Other (2016)
On Twitter, Aidan Knight writes often and fondly about food, so it’s fitting that his third LP, Each Other, features serving instructions in the liner notes: “To achieve the greatest quality, please...
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Shred Kelly – Sing to the Night (2015)
The name Shred Kelly screams out boisterous in-your-face hair-metal but instead gives you boisterous, in-your-face folk music. Their latest, Sing to the Night, is gushing with the same youthful energy...
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Otomo Yoshihide – Guitar Solo 2015 LEFT (2015)
After more than a couple of decades of serious activity and numerous recordings (nearly 100 at last count), Otomo Yoshihide‘s recordings are being released more slowly. Recorded in January this year,...
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Sun Club – The Dongo Durango (2015)
Sun Club‘s charged and (appropriately) sunny debut LP, The Dongo Durango, sets the stage with its intro, “Glob,” which overlaps coughing, laughing, unintelligible chatter, and sounds of children...
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NZCA Lines – Infinite Summer (2016)
Londoner Michael Lovett, also know as NZCA Lines, has returned with his second album and his first release on the stellar Memphis Industries, home to the likes of Dutch Uncles and Outfit. Expanding the...
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The Duke St Workshop – Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (2016)
Though largely ignored during his lifetime, H.P. Lovecraft is a writer whose worldview and ideas have subsequently gone on to be profoundly influential. Like J.G.Ballard and Philip K. Dick, one of his...
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Feral Conservatives – Here’s to Almost (2016)
Feral Conservatives are on the rise, and we’re not talking about the latest polling numbers out of Iowa. Their name may evoke a Trump campaign rally, but the Virginia-based trio’s sound is more along...
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The Set Ensemble – stopcock (2015)
The Set Ensemble is a UK-based collective dedicated to the performance of interesting experimental music. Their repertoire draws heavily on the works of members of the Wandelweiser group of composers,...
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Andrew Weatherall – Convenanza [Japan Edition] (2016)
Andrew Weatherall, one of the UK’s foremost musical innovators, will return with his first proper solo album since 2009, Convenanza. The musician, who began his musical exploits on the decks at Danny...
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Insect Ark – Portal/Well (2015)
Dana Schechter has a long history with music that’s both lulling and crushing. In the early ’90s, she co-founded the noise-rock band Gift Horse with Jef Whitehead (later of Wrest and Leviathan infamy)....
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Federico Durand – A Través Del Espejo (2016)
A Través Del Espejo is another highly accomplished album from composer Federico Durand, his first on 12k. Whilst employing a similar palette of instruments and techniques to previous (excellent) albums...
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Keys N Krates – Midnite Mass EP (2016)
Following a steady stream of singles and EPs over the last couple of years, Toronto trio Keys N Krates hit the ground running in 2016 with another short- form release on Steve Aoki’s bells-and-whistles...
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Fat White Family – Songs For Our Mothers (2016)
To some, Fat White Family represent the shit stains on twenty-first-century rock and roll’s carefully-packaged Calvin Kleins. An impoverished speck of residue that disappears every wash day yet comes...
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Tangerine Dream – Quantum Key EP (2015)
Quantum Key will be the vanguard of the coming Quantum Gate album which Thorsten, Ulrich and Hoshiko are currently working on. Edgar Froese, the head and founder of Tangerine Dream, had the wonderful...
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Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O – Are You Land or Water (2016)
The Barbarossa Cave is located in the Kyffhäuser region of Germany, and takes its name from a local legend. According to such lore, Frederick Barbarossa – former German monarch and Roman Emperor of...
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Dubcon – Martian Dub Beacon (2016)
Dubcon is the symbiotic project between long-time collaborators cEvin Key (Download, Skinny Puppy, PlatEAU) and Ryan Moore, a former member of The Legendary Pink Dots, who nowadays is an acclaimed dub...
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Autechre – AE_LIVE (2015)
Electronic duo Autechre have outdone themselves, quantity-wise. Known for both their generous output as well as their radically abstract approach to the glitch sect of electronic music, Sean Booth and...
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Jason Lescalleet & Kevin Drumm – Busman’s Holiday (2015)
Busman’s Holiday opens with audio taken from an iconic scene in John Boorman’s Point Blank. Walker, played by Lee Marvin, has just been betrayed and left for dead by his accomplice Reese and his wife...
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Takahiro Kawaguchi & Utah Kawasaki – Amorphous Spores (2015)
Before listening to Takahiro Kawaguchi and Utah Kawasaki’s Amorphous Spores, one first experiences Hirozumi Takeda’s beautiful design for the album. The photographs that adorn the packaging are...
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