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Cub Sport – This Is Our Vice (2016)
Brisbane’s Cub Sport took their time releasing a debut album, but now we finally have This Is Our Vice, and it was certainly worth the wait. The band have all but traded in their earlier tropical surf...
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Pony Girl – Foreign Life (2015)
Before Pony Girl had even released their 2013 debut album, Show Me Your Fears, many of Foreign Life‘s songs had already been written. Though they were itching to be heard, the tracks would only be...
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Joshua Bonnetta – Lago (2016)
Joshua Bonnetta’s Lago opens with a man talking quietly, in southern Californian English, as he recounts the arson attack that destroyed his family home. In the background, as he speaks, other sounds...
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Mothers – When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired (2016)
When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired is the mood-capturing title of the debut from Athens, Georgia indie quartet Mothers. The group was formed by then art-school student Kristine Leschper, who...
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subtractiveLAD – Nucleus (2016)
An entire history of electronic music can be gleaned from Stephen Hummel’s latest subtractiveLAD collection, his tenth full-length issued under the moniker and the third to have been released...
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Masami Akita & Eiko Ishibashi – Kouen Kyoudai (2016)
Prolific Japanese artist Masami Akita, aka Merzbow here teams up with session musician, producer, and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi for a new work which showcases yet another side to Akita’s...
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Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place – You’re Doomed. Be Nice. (2016)
Rob Crow of Pinback is officially back with You’re Doomed. Be Nice., the first album to be released since his near withdrawal from music. In his past solo work Crow performed, recorded, and mixed...
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Kedr Livanskiy – January Sun EP (2016)
The first thing you hear on Russian singer/electronic producer Kedr Livanskiy‘s debut EP January Sun is a Nintendo-like synth figure fading away, an envelope filter squeezing the life out of it. A...
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The Miamis – We Deliver: The Lost Band of the CBGB Era (1974-1979) (2016)
Many folks seem to believe that the Ramones took the stage at CBGB one night in the mid-’70s, played a few fast and loud tunes, and the entire punk movement emerged fully formed in a matter of days....
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Bianca Casady & The C.i.A – Oscar Hocks (2016)
Bianca Casady, or Coco of CocoRosie, is diving further into carnivalesque folk with Bianca Casady & The C.i.A.’s debut album, Oscar Hocks, released by JD Samson’s label Atlas Chair/FANTASYmusic....
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Lust for Youth – Compassion (2016)
Better Looking Brother, Compassion’s marathon lead single and standout moment, represents both the quintessential Lust for Youth track and a first step into new territory. It’s the triumphant...
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Violent Femmes – We Can Do Anything (2016)
The Violent Femmes spent the bulk of the 21st century either touring their old hits or suing each other over the proper royalty payment of said hits. Gordon Gano and Brian Ritchie buried that hatchet...
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Qluster – Echtzeit (2016)
The sixth full-length by Qluster finds the trio of Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Onnen Bock, and Armin Metz creating their most sparse, tuneful material to date, with Roedelius’ piano melodies taking center...
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Mary Lattimore – At the Dam (2016)
Following two solo albums as well as one in collaboration with engineer and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Zeigler, in addition to their joint appearance on the Ghostly Swim 2 compilation, Mary Lattimore...
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Anenon – Petrol (2016)
Anenon‘s Petrol is bookended by the sounds of freeway noise, so you don’t have to look very far to find the meaning behind the title. But it’s fortuitous that the album, with its viscous, reverberant...
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La Sera – Music for Listening to Music To (2016)
As you’d expect from a country record, La Sera’s fourth album is full of love. This love includes good and bad romances, adoration of Johnny Marr’s guitar playing and classic songwriting, but...
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Anna Meredith – Varmints (2016)
So, we’ve all been waiting for an experimental yet accessible album of electronic, big band hair metal which at once evokes ’80s computer game sound-effects and the future – right? Right. Even if we...
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Big Ups – Before a Million Universes (2016)
A nervy, fractured blast of millennial unease, Before a Million Universes, the sophomore studio long player from the Big Apple-based punk/post-hardcore quartet, is as fiery as it is laconic, invoking...
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Wintersleep – The Great Detachment (2016)
True to its name, “Weighty Ghost” (the lead single from Wintersleep‘s third album, Welcome to the Night Sky, and undoubtedly their most popular song to date) has kind of haunted the band ever since its...
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Robert Pollard – Of Course You Are (2016)
While speculation abounds about a new Guided By Voices album and future tour dates, the pressing matter at hand is Of Course You Are, Robert Pollard’s latest solo album. Spending the bulk of 2015...
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