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The Donkeys – Midnight Palms EP (2016)
The Midnight Palms EP is the fifth release by amiable San Diego indie rock outfit The Donkeys. Recorded in Los Angeles by longtime friend and co-conspirator Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver),...
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Motorpsycho – Here Be Monsters (2016)
Here Be Monsters started life as a commission for the centennial jubilee of the Norwegian Technical Museum in November, 2014. The music was written for the expanded version of Motorpsycho that features...
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Graham Lambkin & Michael Pisaro – Schwarze Reisenfalter (2015)
On paper, this collaboration seemed an odd conjunction of two very different artists operating at distinct corners of the experimental music scene. Michael Pisaro is best known as a composer and member...
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øjeRum – The Forest Is Sleeping Within the Trees EP (2015)
Paw Grabowski is øjeRum, a Copenhagen-based artist mining melancholy with a minimalist toolset. Much of his catalog has been released on low-run cassettes, carrying lo-fi, spindly, surreal guitar or...
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Pigeons – The Bower (2015)
The Bower is psych-folk group Pigeons‘ first LP since moving from The Bronx to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York and revamping their lineup. Their previous LP, 2011’s They Sweetheartstammers,...
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Peter Katz – We Are the Reckoning (2015)
Since his 2012 Juno Award nomination, Canadian singer-songwriter Peter Katz has quietly ascended to the role of staple troubadour, making leaps and bounds through the industry with achievements those...
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James Supercave – Better Strange (2016)
Better Strange, the debut album from Echo Park, California band James Supercave, is a blissful psych-pop panoply of sounds, textures, and influences. Recorded at Fairfax Studios with producer Gus...
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Ra Ra Riot – Need Your Light (2016)
Need Your Light, the fourth full-length from Brooklyn’s Ra Ra Riot, is the sound of a band being reinvigorated by their own existence. Correspondingly, the album sees the band — Wes Miles (vocals),...
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TW Walsh – Fruitless Research (2016)
Veteran singer/songwriter and engineer T.W. Walsh has been using drum machines in his solo work since his 1999 debut How We Spend Our Days, but his songs have always maintained a sparse, rootsy feel to...
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VA – Christmas Time Again! (2006, Reissue 2015)
Christmas Time first arrived as a holiday vinyl EP from the Chris Stamey Group in 1986. Seven years later, in 1993, the collection was expanded for a new CD release, with the track count jumping from...
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Nurse with Wound – Soliloquy for Lilith (1988, Reissue 2015)
Originally a limited-edition 3-LP set, this new edition contains the entire album plus 40 minutes previously unreleased music from the original sessions. Where did this come from? An ambient album from...
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Cloud Cult – The Seeker (2016)
Cloud Cult‘s tenth full-length album is also the soundtrack to their third movie; they’re both named The Seeker and both out on February 12. Craig Minowa, the octet’s frontman and founder, leads them...
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Creeping Pink – Mirror Woods (2015)
While listening to Mirror Woods, Landon Caldwell’s debut album under the moniker Creeping Pink, one can easily imagine him hard at work in a messy home studio cluttered with junky, thrift...
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Gate – Saturday Night Fever (2016)
It’s a sentence some rock fans may want to read twice: Saturday Night Fever is The Dead C’s Michael Morley toying with disco. That’s right, the guitarist and singer of the best rock band of the past...
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Maoupa Mazzocchetti – Laugh Tool (2016)
In an interview for French site hartzine last year, Maoupa Mazzocchetti declared all he wanted to do is play with drum machines and with chance. He talked of the liberating feel of working alone, when...
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Animal Collective – Painting With (2016)
On the face of it, at least, it seems faintly ridiculous to ever use the word ‘stale’ in relation to Animal Collective, given how pointedly they’ve always looked forward, and seldom back, over the...
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12z – Trembling Air (2016)
Hungarian electroacoustic duo 12z (pronounced “one two zed”) present Trembling Air, an eclectic collection of intricate, improvisatory tone poems. Hailing from the city’s capital of Budapest, the...
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Mats Gustafsson – Piano Mating (2016)
A couple of years ago, a letter that revered free jazz saxophonist Mats Gustafsson received from legendary underground cartoonist/moldy fig Robert Crumb made the usual internet rounds. In this...
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Kula Shaker – K 2.0 (2016)
Kula Shaker get to the Version 2.0 joke nearly two decades after Garbage, but never let it be said that the band wishes to live in the present. Ever since forming at the height of Brit-pop, Kula...
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Jack Oblivian & The Sheiks – The Lone Ranger Of Love (2016)
Good things come to those who wait, or so the saying goes. In the case of local roots-garage rocker Jack “Oblivian” Yarber, the wait for his seventh solo album, “The Lone Ranger of Love,” was a lot...
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