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Memoryhouse – Soft Hate (2016)
After an almost four-year hiatus, Guelph dream pop duo Memoryhouse have returned with their second album, Soft Hate. In 2011, the duo created The Years, a quaint and refreshing EP that possessed the...
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Tricky – Skilled Mechanics (2016)
Like his 1996 LP Nearly God, Tricky’s 2016 release Skilled Mechanics falls somewhere between a proper artist album and a side project. Collaborators are heavy in the mix, many of them coming from the...
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Monuments – From the Future: The 1982-1983 Tapes (2015)
Mannequin Records’ excavation into early ’80s Italian minimal synth continues with the previously unreleased 1982-1983 demo tapes of Turin’s Monuments, following the label’s 2013 reissue of their only...
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USA Nails – No Pleasure (2015)
Let’s get it out of the way: USA Nails are a post-hardcore supergroup featuring members of the British underground scene’s finest acts of the past decade, including Oceansize, Future of the Left, Kong...
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Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook – The Dark Side of the Moog, vol. 1-4 (2016)
Peter Kuhlmann, the artist best known as Pete Namlook who passed away in 2012, was very prolific on his own and alongside many others, including Biosphere, Richie Hawtin and Move D. His work with Klaus...
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Pinegrove – Cardinal (2016)
Montclair, N.J. band Pinegrove‘s debut LP Cardinal doesn’t initially come off like a hefty work. Its eight songs, which never move at too hurried of a pace, recall some of the most consistently...
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Abi Reimold – Wriggling (2016)
Abi Reimold‘s voice is ripe with pure emotion. On her debut full-length, Wriggling, the 23-year-old Philadelphia singer wields her voice like a crooked sword she only just learned she’s rather good at...
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Matt Kivel – Janus (2016)
With his first two LPs, the Los Angeles-based singer/ songwriter Matt Kivel established a unified mood. Both Double Exposure in 2013 and the next year’s Days of Being Wild sounded hushed-yet-tense,...
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The Jezabels – Synthia (2016)
The Jezabels have always dreamed boldly, and beautifully. Their early EPs were colossal New Wave rock screams into a canyon abyss; the production by Lachlan Mitchell on She’s So Hard (2009) and Dark...
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Marcus Fischer & Taylor Deupree – Twine (2015)
In signal processing terms, an artefact is information that is not considered part of the signal being transmitted, but is rather the result of external interference or internal technical deficiencies....
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School of Seven Bells – SVIIB (2016)
“Ablaze,” from School of Seven Bells’ fourth and likely final LP, is composed of the same elements SVIIB have threaded together for years: heroic riffs, a colossus of a percussion track and Alejandra...
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El Guincho – Hiperasia (2016)
Album número tres from astro-exotica producer Pablo Díaz-Reixa plays like a radio shuffling through stations. Hiperasia – named after a string of Chinese discount shops in Madrid – is an associative,...
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Samuel Kerridge – Always Offended Never Ashamed (2015)
Samuel Kerridge‘s releases on Horizontal Ground, Blueprint, and Downwards have established him as a striking force in experimental electronic music. Although his music has frequently been categorized...
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Samuel Kerridge – Fatal Light Attraction (2016)
2016 sees Samuel Kerridge return to Regis’ Downwards imprint with Fatal Light Attraction, a double LP born out of a live A/V show in collaboration with Andrej Boleslavský and Mária Júdová, premiered at...
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Flowers – Everybody’s Dying to Meet You (2016)
After a debut album that found the young London trio Flowers finding their noise pop feet, their second album, Everybody’s Dying to Meet You, shows some newfound confidence along the way to becoming a...
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Saroos – Tardis (2016)
The improbable German trio Saroos release their 4th album, Tardis, on the Notwist-run imprint Alien Transistor. Any casual fan of the long-running sci-fi TV series Doctor Who will recognize the album...
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Contact – Brian Eno: Discreet Music (2015)
On the 40th anniversary of the release of Brian Eno’s electronic ambient masterpiece Discreet Music, Toronto’s classical Contact ensemble, led by artistic director and percussionist Jerry Pergolesi,...
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The Frights – You Are Going to Hate This (2016)
First of all, one has to admire the courage of The Frights in naming their second album You Are Going to Hate This, a title that practically begs for an insulting response in the grand tradition of...
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Matmos – Ultimate Care II (2016)
For everyone who’s grown up doing their own laundry, especially those of us with a musical ear, the rhythmic hum of a washing machine has always been an entrancing experience. So if ever there was a...
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Electric Eye – Different Sun (2016)
There’s a lot of psych-rock around these days, for sure. But you only have to see how successful bands like TOY, Temples and Tame Impala have become – and that’s only bands beginning with one letter –...
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