Clik here to view.
Shiggajon – Sela (2015)
On the basis of Sela, Shiggajon would appear to occupy an entirely different universe than that of fellow El Paraiso outfits Papir and Causa Sui, firebrands whose instrumental rock has helped put the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mueller & Roedelius – Imagori (2015)
Music continues to pour out of krautrock figurehead Hans-Joachim Roedelius, who, at 80, shows no sign of pulling back from his work anytime soon. Still, Imagori comes at a difficult time for him,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Screature – Four Columns (2015)
Are you a Suicide fan turned cult leader looking to replace the worn out Bauhaus 45 gathering dust on your sect’s dusty turntable? If the answer to this question is ‘yes’ then Sacremento goth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
stilllife – archipelago (2015)
On stilllife’s debut album Yoru No Katarogu, Takashi Tsuda and Hiroki Sasajima highlighted a different sound on each of its ten tracks. Some pieces were straightforward field recordings that pointed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parquet Courts – Human Performance (2016)
Parquet Courts are like that crush you had in high school – they’re smarter, cooler, funnier and more interesting than you and all you can really do is bow down to them and hope their cred will rub off...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kodiak Deathbeds – Kodiak Deathbeds (2015)
“Mindful disengagement from self-perpetuating chaos” is how wispy vocalist Amber Webber has described Kodiak Deathbeds, her latest venture away from Stephen McBean’s excellent Canadian rock collective...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Radioson –радиосон (2015)
This latest release from the always provocative Helen Scarsdale Agency engages on multiple levels, though a brief history lesson is necessary for one to gain a better appreciation of Radioson‘s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vaguess – Bodhi Collection (2015)
Vinny Vaguess (pronounced “Vegas”) scrapped his first name, picked up a guitar and made rough rock’n’roll recordings on cassette tapes in the lead-up to his latest LP; Sinderlyn put together 21 of his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Zaac Pick – Constellations (2015)
Vancouver singer-songwriter Zaac Pick has released a handful of EPs since 2009, but he finally make the full-length leap with his debut album Constellations. The album was co-produced with Jonathan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Phoebe Killdeer & The Shift with Maria de Medeiros – The Piano’s Playing The...
Phoebe Killdeer & The Shift is a collaboration between Berlin based musician Phoebe Killdeer (Nouvelle Vague, The Short Straws), Thomas Mahmoud-Zahl (SFX, The Nest, Tannhäuser Sterben & Das...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Worriers – Imaginary Life (2015)
Plenty of punk bands with a political bent take it upon themselves to write rabble-rousing anthems intended to motivate audiences to chant along about whatever cause or social ill has made its way into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Axis: Sova – Early Surf (2015)
Chicago-based psych band Axis: Sova was started as a solo outlet by guitarist/songwriter Brett Sova as his former band, Mass Shivers, was falling apart and he was having a personal renaissance with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
AJ Cornell & Tim Darcy – Too Significant to Ignore (2016)
It would be very reductive to call Too Significant to Ignore, an electronic spoken word album, though, de facto, this description would be true and fitting. From the very beginning, it’s obvious that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teen Suicide – It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot (2016)
“How old were you when you first fell out of love with the world?” asks Sam Ray on “America,” midway through Teen Suicide’s second (and what they’ve been teasing as final) album. The question lingers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weezer – Weezer [White Album] (2016)
Well, it only took ‘em 20 years. The half-decade hiatus that Weezer started in 1996 after their epochal first two albums – and the sonically streamlined, emotionally neutralized third album they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Autolux – Pussy’s Dead (2016)
Legend has it that once every six years, on the night of a blood-red full moon, Greg Edwards and Carla Azar descend into the heart of a moss-encrusted crypt in the heart of Los Angeles and whisper the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Orson Hentschel – Feed the Tape (2016)
Düsseldorf-based experimental composer Orson Hentschel openly acknowledges the influence of classical minimalism and Steve Reich in particular on his debut album Feed the Tape. Yet while that might be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moderat – III [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
What, exactly, traumatized Moderat so badly during their first recording sessions that they named their 2003 EP the German equivalent of “At the Cost of Health,” and then took six years to follow it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gnod – Mirror (2016)
Nothing if not prolific, Salford’s favourite Krautrock connoisseurs (let’s ignore The Fall’s I Am Damo Suzuki for the moment) follow-up last year’s triple Infinity Machines LP with a release more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vandaveer – The Wild Mercury (2016)
Following the rustic tones of 2013’s traditional murder ballad set Oh, Willie, Please…, Mark Heidinger’s long-running alt-folk project Vandaveer turns inward on what is perhaps his most personal and...
View Article