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Paper Beat Scissors – Go On (2015)
Go On formed from the ups and downs of a relationship. Paper Beat Scissors‘ Tim Crabtree isn’t interested in hiding out in the shadows of these emotions, though; rather, as the album’s purposeful title...
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Alex Smoke – Love Over Will [Bandcamp Edition] (2016)
Following on from a near two-year break which has been free of outings on R&S Records, Alex Smoke AKA Alex Menzies has since revived his relationship with the esteemed Belgian imprint in time for...
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Mario Diaz de León – The Soul Is the Arena (2015)
If you don’t follow classical music, it might surprise you to hear a living composer professing admiration for metal, noise, and ambient drones. But that’s how things have been for decades now — going...
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Great Lakes – Wild Vision (2016)
Less than a minute into 2016’s Wild Vision, the fifth full-length album from Great Lakes, group leader Ben Crum and bandmate Suzanne Nienaber join their voices and sing, “I say fare thee well/To all...
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Theo Verney – Brain Disease EP (2015)
Theo Verney’s unique blend of scuzz and rock and roll captivates your attention within an instant. Harnessing the energy of a full live band in his own hands, Verney’s self-produced work has drawn him...
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Sonic Youth – EVOL (1986, Reissue 2015)
By 1986, a still relatively recently formed Sonic Youth was in a time of transition. Born out of the noise of New York’s thriving-in-ugliness no wave scene and ensconced in the influence of Glenn...
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Martin Kennedy & Steve Kilbey – Inside We Are the Same (2015)
Steve Kilbey (writer of Under the Milky Way, The Church) and Martin Kennedy’s (instrumentalists All India Radio) fourth studio album Inside We Are the Same takes them to new and unexpected places....
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High Tides – High Tides (2015)
High Tides’ self titled album drips with melancholy. There’s no other way to really describe what Warren Kroll and Steven Lutes accomplish with their sun- drenched synths and oddly Florida-centric...
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Jonathan Bree – A Little Night Music (2015)
While getting ready to work on his second solo album, Jonathan Bree was given a stack of old classical albums as a gift. Something about the sounds he heard on the ballet scores by Tchaikovsky, the...
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Fine Points – Hover (2015)
San Francisco’s Fine Points are the enticingly laid- back psych-pop side project of Sleepy Sun guitarists Matt Holliman and Evan Reiss. Eschewing the more fuzzed-out, Byrdsian elements of their primary...
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Supergrass – I Should Coco [20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition] (2015)
Tearing by at a breakneck speed, I Should Coco is a spectacularly eclectic debut by Supergrass, a trio barely out of their teens. Sure, the unbridled energy of the album illustrates that the band is...
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Cocteau Twins – The Pink Opaque + Tiny Dynamine / Echoes in a Shallow Bay...
It’s been nearly 20 years since Cocteau Twins broke up, but now 4AD reissue Tiny Dynamine and Echoes in a Shallow Bay EPs, as well as their 1985 compilation, The Pink Opaque. Tiny Dynamine and Echoes...
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Iggy Pop, Tarwater & Alva Noto – Leaves of Grass EP (2016)
German electronic artist Carsten Nicolai, aka Alva Noto, and instrumental duo Tarwater are paying tribute to the great US poet Walt Whitman with an album voiced by Iggy Pop. A project first realised on...
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Choir of Young Believers – Grasque (2016)
Choir of Young Believer‘s third record, Grasque, began life as another project entirely. Frontman Jannis Noya Makrigiannis originally imagined the album as a new side-project, but changed his mind...
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Yoko Ono – Yes, I’m a Witch Too (2016)
The 82-year-old artist / Lennon widow / self- proclaimed witch has once again opened up her collection of tunes to indie artist collaborations on Yes, I’m a Witch Too, the followup to 2007’s Yes, I’m a...
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Essaie Pas – Demain est une autre nuit (2016)
Perhaps appropriately for a genre of music rooted in the enigmatic and the obscure, the minimal synth revival has quietly become a movement without ever quite becoming a bandwagon. Montreal duo Essaie...
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The Fall – Wise Ol’ Man EP (2016)
Wise Ol’ Man, 7 track EP features new tracks, remixes and alternate takes of songs from last year’s Sub-Lingual Tablet LP along with a reworking of “No Xmas for John Quays”. The discrepancy between...
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Venetian Snares – Traditional Synthesizer Music (2016)
Venetian Snares released Traditional Synthesizer Music, an LP comprised of songs created and performed live exclusively on a modular synthesizer with no overdubbing or editing. According to press...
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Jordan Klassen – Javelin (2016)
It’s not everyday that Vancouver-based indie musicians hunker down in Texas for an extended period of time and record an album, but that’s precisely the way in which Jordan Klassen chose to work on...
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Seth Bogart – Seth Bogart (2016)
Seth Bogart is better known by fans of rip-roaring garage punk as Hunx, as in Hunx & His Punx, a group responsible for a bunch of killer singles and two albums in the 2010s. He also released a...
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