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David Vassalotti – Broken Rope (2015)
Following 2011’s beautiful Book of Ghosts, the multi-talented artist David Vassalotti, also known as guitarist of Tampa’s greatest export Merchandise, is releasing his second full-length LP Broken Rope...
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Andrew Weathers – Littlefield (2015)
Littlefield, Andrew Weathers‘ latest release on Full Spectrum Records (more precisely on the sub-label Editions Littlefield), is a seven-song collection issued on cassette. The format chosen for the...
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Autistici & Justin Varis – nine (2016)
When they’re successful, collaborations catalyze the contributions of each participant into something greater than might have produced by the artist alone. Those involved surrender some degree of...
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Ship Thieves – No Anchor (2016)
The title of Chris Wollard‘s new Ship Thieves album, No Anchor, is as appropriate as it is a misnomer. The sound here is nothing like their very folk tinged self-titled debut here — it seems like the...
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Old Man Canyon – Delirium (2016)
Vancouver songwriter and Old Man Canyon band leader Jett Pace has always thrived on change. After graduating high school, Pace ventured abroad to Europe and Central America. It was a transformative...
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Skeletal Family – Eternal: Singles, Albums, Rarities, BBC Sessions, Live,...
Fronted by glamorous singer Anne-Marie Hurst, The Skeletal Family were at the forefront of the goth rock movement of the ’80s. Compiled with the full involvement of the band, who have opened up their...
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Irezumi – Thirty (2016)
Thirty comes with a dedication to Irezumi‘s late brother, and without wanting to fixate too much on the detail it does perhaps account for the album’s oft-hymnal tone. It’s an exceptionally lovely...
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The High Llamas – Here Come the Rattling Trees
After a career spent making albums that felt like soundtracks, filled with repeating motifs, cinematic banjos, and the kind of cheerful, wistful melodies it was easy to envision someone cuddly like...
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Capac – Sea Freeze (2015)
Naming their debut album Sea Freeze was a good move, because it seems as though it took quite a while for UK-based electronic collective Capac to thaw out. The quartet have spent most of their career...
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Video – The Entertainers (2015)
“There is no god that can save me / Because I was not created by one!” Daniel Fried yells on New Immortals, one of the tracks from VIDEO’s new LP, The Entertainers. Diabolical anguish is just one of...
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A Pleasure – Jream House + Remixes (2015)
The debut album by New York producer Mark Hurst, aka A Pleasure, was made using “a process of numerical transposition” to turn the names of some of his favorite composers and groups into drum patterns....
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Eric Prydz – Opus (2016)
A Swedish producer based out of L.A., Eric Prydz first hit in 2004 with the Steve Winwood-sampling “Call on Me” and then became better known for “Proper Education,” a 2006 cut that turned Pink Floyd’s...
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Jason Collett – Song and Dance Man (2016)
A now long-respected stalwart of the Toronto indie scene, singer/songwriter and former Broken Social Scene guitarist Jason Collett returns after his longest gap between solo albums yet with 2016’s Song...
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Dressy Bessy – Kingsized (2016)
After taking a long break from making albums and touring, Dressy Bessy returned in 2016 with Kingsized, an album for Yep Roc that sounded revitalized and on par with their best work from years before....
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Field Music – Commontime (2016)
Comprised of brothers Peter and David Brewis and abetted by a revolving cast of supporting players, Field Music have released five studio albums over the past decade, each of them distinguished by a...
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Wild Nothing – Life of Pause (2016)
Life of Synth may have been a more apt title for Wild Nothing’s third record, cultivated as it is around layers of woozy electronic timbres. Nowhere is this better delineated than on opening track...
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Junior Boys – Big Black Coat (2016)
There was a point between the release of It’s All True and Big Black Coat when Junior Boys seemed finished. Talk of a planned EP was heard in 2012. Nothing surfaced. Years passed. All along, Jeremy...
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Anna Homler & Steve Moshier – Breadwoman & Other Tales (1985, Reissue 2016)
Brooklyn label RVNG continues its program of idiosyncratic and avant-garde releases with this reissue of Anna Homler and Steve Moshier‘s 1985 foray into imagined myth, invented language and ambient...
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Dr. Dog – Psychedelic Swamp (2016)
It’s no surprise that a band called Dr. Dog might tend toward loopy, loping outsider rock with a slightly goofy streak. If there were any doubt, it’s quickly dispelled by The Psychedelic Swamp, a...
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Working for a Nuclear Free City – What Do People Do All Day? (2016)
Five years ago, Working for a Nuclear Free City released Jojo Burger Tempest, an epic kaleidoscope of psychedelic drum loops, found sound samples and groove-burrowing basslines. What Do People Do All...
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