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Living Hour – Living Hour (2016)
Guitar-centric bands obsessed with reverb are a dime a dozen. Sure, there are variations to the sound that still surprise, but they’re getting harder and harder to find. While Living Hour’s self-titled...
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VA – 20 Years of Henry Street Music: The Definitive Collection (2015)
Physical copies of Henry Street Music: The Definitive Collection were rather compact, perhaps a bit unassuming considering the set’s scope, but its outer shell holds five discs, or well over 50 cuts...
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Steve Mason – Meet the Humans (2016)
Steve Mason‘s third solo album under his own name finds the erstwhile Fifer embracing a folktronica style familiar from those Beta Band days. There’s a move away from the man-the-barricades politics...
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Deep Sea Diver – Secrets (2016)
How deep must one go to officially be deep sea diving? Thirty meters, according to Wikipedia. The task itself can be recreational but requires strenuous training and discipline to enjoy the underwater...
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Hearts Hearts – Young (2016)
From the British side of the English Channel, Austria’s contribution to twenty-first-century indie is damn near undetectable. Most of us would be hard pressed to cite much further beyond Falco and his...
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VA – Star Wars Headspace (2016)
In April 2015, the emotional juggernaut that was the first two-minute Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer was released online. Drawing heavily on the iconography of the original trilogy — a beached...
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Axel Dörner, Franz Hautzinger, Mazen Kerbaj, Carl Ludwig Hübsch – Ariha Brass...
The visual component of music has seemingly always been given short shrift by critics, and for that matter, listeners too. Except for the rare instances where a person is born with an acute...
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The Microdance – New Waves of Hope (2015)
London-based band The Microdance don’t do things by halves. Their debut album, ‘New Waves Of Hope’, is a 70 minute-plus opus of melodic, lush sounding dreamscapes recorded over a two week period in LA...
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Red Jezebel – Coup De Grâce (2015)
Coup De Grâce is the new album from Perth indie- rock veterans Red Jezebel – the band’s first in eight years. It contains the previously released singles “Closer To You”, “Bodyline” and the recent...
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Lorenzo Masotto – Rule and Case (2016)
With all eleven of its pieces written, arranged, and produced by Lorenzo Masotto, Rule and Case very clearly presents an in-depth portrait of the artist. Hailing from Verona, the Italian pianist /...
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The Snails – Songs from the Shoebox (2016)
In April 2013, a little band out of Baltimore called The Snails put out a double 7” EP called Worth the Wait. Two of the band’s members, bassist William Cashion and frontman Sam Herring, had higher...
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Ride – Original Album Series (2016)
Ride have released a 5CD boxset including their 4 studios plus Smile, a compilation of Ride’s first two EPs, Ride and Play, both of which were originally released in the first half of 1990. First up,...
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Mai Mai Mai –Πέτρα (Petra) EP (2015)
Petra continues Italian noisemaker Mai Mai Mai‘s inexorable downward spiral into the core of the aural unknown. Following a triptych of records marking out a topography of aural (extra)terrestrial...
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Northcote – Hope Is Made of Steel (2015)
Matt Goud has been softening up his hardcore roots and showing off a folksier side as Northcote in recent years, and the Victoria-based musician is return with his third LP Hope Is Made of Steel. The...
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Africaine 808 – Basar (2016)
Three songs into Africaine 808‘s debut album, over rippling drum machine and hand percussion, a British DJ named Alex Voice declares, “Sound systems — that’s where it began.” He’s talking about the...
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Matthew Logan Vasquez – Solicitor Returns (2016)
What many don’t know about Delta Spirit frontman & Middle Brother amigo Matthew Logan Vasquez is how prolific of a songwriter he is. Despite being a primary writer for both projects, Vasquez still...
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DUST – Agony Planet (2016)
Agony Planet is the debut blast from the self-described fantasy techno collective DUST. Bringing together audio engineer Michael Sherburn, the multi-talented maestro Greem Jellyfish and nighttime...
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The Natural History Museum – Attenborough (2016)
Dublin vocalist Carol Keogh has been in and around the country’s music scene for almost two decades and while her various ventures and collaborations, criminally, either never gained the traction they...
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Jim O’Rourke – Steamroom 25 (2016)
American post-classical composer Jim O’Rourke has been a key component in the increasing overlap of the American and European experimental music avant-garde, working in everything from jazz and rock...
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Feels – Feels (2016)
If you’ve seen Feels at a show recently, you’d have heard some of these new tracks in their setlist. “Close My Eyes” and “Tell Me” is on their self-titled album, which was produced by none other than...
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