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Harmonia – Documents 1975 (2015)
Individually released as a cassette, Documents 1975 is the sole previously unreleased album included in Harmonia’s 2015 Complete Works box set. The collection consists of two unearthed live recordings,...
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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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exmagician – Scan the Blue (2016)
Even longtime partnerships aren’t always set in stone. Lifelong friends Daniel Todd and James Smith used to make music as Cashier No. 9; their lone album under that name, To the Death of Fun, was...
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Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
Three years have passed since Scottish indie rockers Frightened Rabbit released their critically acclaimed major label debut, Pedestrian Verse. The record was their fourth studio LP and was the...
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The Lumineers – Cleopatra (2016)
The Lumineers were never entirely the smiley, foot-stomping folkies they seemed to be on “Ho Hey,” their inescapable Top 10 hit in 2012. Four years later on their second album, Cleopatra, they put...
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September Girls – Age of Indignation (2016)
Noisy Irish quintet September Girls shed any remaining indie pop affectations on their cavernous sophomore album, Age of Indignation. It’s a sound that was hinted at on their 2014 EP, Veneer, but...
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M83 – Junk (2016)
The success of Saturdays = Youth and Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming led M83‘s Anthony Gonzalez to even bigger, arguably less personal, projects like his score for the 2013 sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion, so...
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Quentin Sirjacq – Far Islands and Near Places (2016)
Paris-born pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Quentin Sirjacq has recorded a number of albums for Schole, most of them centered around his highly developed piano playing (he studied at the...
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Lush – Blind Spot EP (2016)
The first new music from Lush for 20 years, and the first the band have released since their single 500 (Shake Baby Shake), taken from their last album Lovelife, in July 1996. The four tracks were...
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Teleman – Brilliant Sanity (2016)
2014 saw the return of Reading’s Pete and The Pirates, albeit in a different guise, this time under the moniker of Teleman, a name taken from an 18th century German composer. The Bernard Butler...
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Ben Watt – Fever Dream (2016)
With 2014’s Hendra, DJ, producer, label owner, and author Ben Watt resumed his career as a solo singer /songwriter after 31 years as a collaborator with Tracey Thorn (his wife) in Everything But the...
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Youth Code – Commitment to Complications (2016)
For the past few years, Sara Taylor and Ryan George of Youth Code have done everything in their bodies to make aggressively contemporary and captivating industrial music. The LA-based duo started as a...
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Dylan Mondegreen – Every Little Step (2016)
The third Dylan Mondegreen album was a career high point for the man behind the name, Norwegian singer/songwriter Børge Sildnes. The self-titled record’s warmth, easygoing melodic grace, and Sildnes’...
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Himmelsrandt – Schneeland (2016)
Peter Honsalek chose to title the eight pieces on his debut Himmelsrandt collection using Roman numerals so that no concrete impression would form in the listener’s mind before hearing them. He needn’t...
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Sébastien Tellier – Marie et les naufragés (2016)
Sebastien Tellier‘s music has always fused perfectly with images. Some directors have come to Tellier for original scores such as Gilles Lellouche & Tristan Aurouet’s Narco (2004), as well as being...
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Greg Laswell – Everyone Thinks I Dodged a Bullet (2016)
While heartbreak isn’t necessarily an unexplored topic for Greg Laswell, his moody seventh LP, Everyone Thinks I Dodged a Bullet, feels particularly haunted. Solipsistically handling every task except...
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The Go – Live at the Gold Dollar (2016)
Recorded at the Gold Dollar on November 25th, 1998, the ferocious set by the Go highlights the momentary period before the band had signed to Sub Pop and was still honing material for its Whatcha Doin...
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Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Kim Myhr & Jenny Hval – In the End His Voice Will...
When guitarist, improviser and composer Kim Myhr had an opportunity to collaborate with the never-stagnant Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for the second time, he invited Jenny Hval to join him. He had known...
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Steven Wilson – Insurgentes (2008, Remastered 2016)
It caused a stir when it was announced: Steven Wilson (of Porcupine Tree and No-Man fame) was to release his first-ever full-length solo album. The first question to pop up was: why? After a couple...
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Brad Fiedel – The Terminator (1984, Remastered 2016)
Synthesizer music was hardly a new phenomenon in 1984, the year of The Terminator’s release, but the movie theater proved a remarkably successful means of injecting experimental electronic sounds...
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