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Mount Moriah – How to Dance (2016)
You could be forgiven for assuming that Heather McEntire was moonlighting on Mount Moriah’s first album. Before her foray into country music, the singer had led the Chapel Hill band Bellafea through...
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Prins Thomas – Principe Del Norte (2016)
Best known for his swirling space-disco tracks, produced both as a solo artist and with frequent collaborator Lindstrøm, Prins Thomas explored more of his ambient, Krautrock, and downtempo influences...
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Chuck Johnson – Velvet Arc (2016)
On top of some great soundtrack work, Chuck Johnson has spent the last few years carving out his own corner of the solo acoustic guitar landscape. His work culminated in last year’s excellent and way...
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CFCF – On Vacation (2016)
CFCF‘s Michael Silver knows his way around a smart chord change and has a lovely voice, but he tends to work less as a songwriter than a collector of atmospheres. These can take a variety of forms:...
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Golden Daze – Golden Daze (2016)
Underneath the gauzy, lo-fi patina of their self-titled debut, California’s Golden Daze have buried some richly realized pop songs. Late-’60s enthusiasts Ben Schwab and Jacob Loeb approach their brand...
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Sioux Falls – Rot Forever (2016)
In its more expansive moments, Rot Forever, the debut double album from Portland band Sioux Falls, seems to test its own capacity for decay. The songs often stretch until they start to dislocate,...
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Rae Spoon – Armour (2016)
Rae Spoon is nothing if not accurate in their titles. While My Prairie Home was as wide open as the land west of Regina, Armour is as tightly contained as the armadillo on the cover. This album is less...
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Submotion Orchestra – Colour Theory (2016)
On their fourth album, UK electronic group Submotion Orchestra chose to focus on the wide-ranging musical talents of each of its seven members. An immensely polished collection of tracks that fuse...
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Michael Nau – Mowing (2016)
From the pastel indie pop of Page France to the Americana of Cotton Jones, there’s an airiness to frontman Michael Nau’s songwriting that belies its melodic durability. His masterful instinct for...
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TEEN – Love Yes (2016)
Its sharp pop sensibilities could fool you into thinking it’s not quite as weird as it is, but don’t be tricked: Love Yes is away with the fairies and delightfully so. TEEN‘s off-kilter oeuvre,...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Gimme Danger (2016)
1. Iggy Pop – Break Into Your Heart 2. Mark Lanegan – Harvest Home 3. Masters of Reality – Counting Horses 4. Turbonegro – Back to Dungaree High 5. UNKLE – Restless (feat. Josh Homme) 6. Desert...
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Brood Ma – Daze (2016)
There was a time when you mostly knew what to expect from a Tri Angle release, even if the sound was notoriously hard to describe. But the New York / London label has evolved in the six years since its...
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The Shivas – Better Off Dead (2016)
Languid and lazily blissful, like a lo-fi Brian Wilson on a heavy dose of pain killers, The Shivas sound a little less retro but no less poppy on their third proper album, 2016’s Better Off Dead, which...
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Tracy Bryant – Subterranean (2016)
Emerging from some sonic netherworld where ’60s garage rock and early psychedelia dance cheek to cheek as if the year 1966 represented the peak of human evolution, Corners frontman Tracy Bryant lets...
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Gazebos – Die Alone (2016)
Hailing from Seattle, Gazebos (no articles, please!) are a punk-pop band whose punk side is more a matter of smarts and attitude than the ferocity of their attack. In fact, on much of their debut album...
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The Tapes – Selected Works 1982-1992 (2016)
In the tradition of bolstering the oft-forgotten Italian underground of the ’80s, Ecstatic Recordings release a compilation of “primitive industrial minimalism” tape recordings from brothers Giancarlo...
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Jim Bryson – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place (2016)
“This is not a sing-along song / It will not rally anyone,” Jim Bryson sings wearily on “Stuck in the Middle,” a subtle standout performance three songs in to Somewhere We Will Find Our Place, the...
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Chihei Hatakeyama & Dirk Serries – The Storm of Silence (2016)
Dirk Serries has issued a staggering number of releases, many featuring the Belgian-based guitarist playing solo and many in collaboration with others, whether it be a single partner or group....
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Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion (2016)
Listening to Heron Oblivion‘s album feels like sitting in a lovely meadow in the shadow of a dam that’s gonna heave-ho’ any minute. Members of this new San Francisco combo have put in time in both...
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Doug Tuttle – It Calls On Me (2016)
After releasing a brilliant debut full of lo-fi psych- pop splendor, Doug Tuttle‘s second album, It Calls On Me, delivers more of the same with a few alterations here and there. The former leader of...
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