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Chris Carter
Miscellany
Chris Carter the Throbbing Gristle / Chris & Cosey / Carter Tutti Void electronics wizard has collected some of his best solo work on this exquisite box set. You get the following albums, plus a booklet of unseen images (mainly of synthesizers):-
Mondo Beat (1985) – clear vinylDisobedient (1998) – double purple viny...view item »
Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert
Ghost Stories For Christmas
Who would you rather spend time with in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year than Aidan Moffat? He's bound to be a cheery presence around the table and here hooks up with pal RM Hubbert for an album of Christmas themed songs including a rendition of Mud's 'Lonely This Christmas'. Also contains th...view item »
This Mortal Coil
It'll End In Tears
Oh lord this is the album. Back in the 80's no-one had any time for the likes of Big Star or Tim Buckley. 4AD head honcho was different though. He had exquisite taste and was also ambitious enough to put together a floating member super group to re-interpret some of his favourite songs. It Will End In T...view item »
Levitation
Never Odd Or Even
Here is a nice neat clean-up release from Levitation, who existed for a relatively brief time in the early 90’s, but whose second album Meanwhile Gardens was never released until recently. There wasn’t, however, enough space to include everything, so the three lost tracks are now getting their own vinyl rele...view item »
Levitation
Meanwhile Gardens
Much to the band’s evident dismay (see the press release), Levitation’s second record Meanwhile Gardens was never released in 1993 when it was recorded. It has taken until now for the album to receive the full, proper release it was meant to: now, we can all hear the alt-guitar sound the band crafted back th...view item »
O/V/R
The World Remade
Karl O'Connor AKA Regis & James Ruskin are back at it as O/V/R with their first outing under the handle since 2016’s ‘Easy Prey’ 12” on Ruskin’s Blueprint label. ‘The World Remade’ is aimed straight at the ‘floor with pure menace and has something of classic Regis in its springing bassline. It&...view item »
Various (Caterina Barbieri, Space Afrika, Nkisi, Mannerfelt, Mumdance & Logos)
Shared Meanings
Here we have a 12” sampler featuring highlights from the huge Shared Meaning mix by Mumdance. It features tracks by Mumdance & Logos, Peder Mannerfelt, Kinega, Space Africa and Caterina Barbieri. The mus...view item »
The 7th Plain
Chronicles III
Luke Slater’s post-rave project The Seventh Plain changes gear for the third installment of his compilation series. Chronicles III. Here the music is more free form and built on fractured rhythms. The music here is taken from Slater’s releases on General Production Recordings label. Double LP and CD on A-Ton....view item »
The 7th Plain
Chronicles II
Chronicles II by The Seventh Plain compiles previously released tracks from the albums The 4 Cornered Room and My Yellow Wise Rug plus a bunch of previously unreleased tracks that any fan of Luke Slater’s work would not want to be without. The project set out to stretch the techno genre as far into outer s...view item »
Thomas Fehlmann
1929 – Das Jahr Babylon
Thomas Fehlmann may have turned 60 last year, but despite his advancing years the part-time member of The Orb shows no signs of slowing down. In fact he’s increased his output recently - 1929 -...view item »
The Beta Band
Heroes To Zeroes
I used to love The Beta Band. The 1st 3 Ep's were so fine.....
Since then I've had a love/ hate affair with 'em. They haven't recreated
the early magic as much as they used to.... there's the odd track here and
there.... Anyhoo they have a new album out which undeniably sounds like 'em
and it's a bit more polished...view item »
The 7th Plain
Chronicles
Techno legend Luke Slater is compiling his The Seventh Plain project over three releases. Chronicles I was released in 2016, now with the release of Chronicles II and III, we have this box set containing all three. The spacey, post-rave explorations were far reaching and emotionally affecting. 6LP box set w...view item »
Surfbort
Friendship Music
Surfbort are a Brooklyn band who take their influences from ‘80s US punk bands. This is in-your-face rock ‘n’ roll that is delivered with love. Friendship Music has been released through a joint venture between Fat Possum and Cult Records, the label owned by Julian Casabl...view item »
Orchestre Abass
De Bassari Togo
Analog Africa with yet another fine rare LP here. This one comes courtesy of Orchestre Abass, a West African rock group who scored a couple of hits in the early ‘70s before falling into obscurity. When the Analog Africa boss came across...view item »
Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society
Wow and Flutter
Producer and keyboardist Garry Hughes and producer and keyboardist Harvey Jones long since bonded over a shared love of producing, keyboarding and the work of BBC Radiophonic Workshop...view item »
Various
Unusual Sounds
Since launching in 2014 the Mexican Summer reissues offshoot Anthology Recordings have unearthed some excellent old things from the likes of Pharaoh Sanders...view item »
Andrew Hung
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn
Fuck Button, producer and solo artist Andrew Hung has created the original soundtrack to curious oddball rom-com film An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn. Th...view item »
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals At The BBC
Welsh psychedelic pop heroes Super Furry Animals are going to make some fans very happy with the release of this box set. It contains all of their BBC sessions dating from 1996-2001, very much their golden period. They were recorded for Mark Radcliffe, John Peel and The Evening Session. 4LP box set or 2CD set containing three tr...view item »
Larry Jon Wilson
New Beginnings
Larry Jon Wilson may have one of the loveliest voices I've ever heard, and yet odds are, you've never heard of him. Be With Records have taken on the important task of reissuing his early work, New Beginnings being his debut album recorded after a decade in corporate America....view item »
Larry Jon Wilson
Let Me Sing My Song To You
Larry Jon Wilson is compelling proof that spending time in corporate America isn't all corrupting. He spent ten years in a suit before starting a career as a musician. On Let Me Sing My Song To You, his second album, Wilson flexes his distinct funky country style alongside a voice that feels like the w...view item »
John Carpenter
The Fog
"Record shop collapses under weight of John Carpenter releases".
Thank god we have good solid flooring as the John Carpenter re-issue frenzy continues unabated with this 7" containing two of the most recognisable themes from his soundtrack to The Fog. Not many of these and they are on red vinyl so move ...view item »
Atmosphere
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
This thing’s ten years old already?! Blimey, that came around quick. With When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, Atmosphere solidified their rep a...view item »
Husbands
Karlstad EP
As 2018 draws to a close, Box Bedroom Rebels are a label that wants to help you forget all the nonsense that has gone on in the world with a joyful EP of unabashed indie-pop. Oklahoma band Husbands are the people who have made the right record at the right time to conjure up that carefree feeling with Karlstad EP. 7-track 7&rdqu...view item »
Various
Adventure Time - Come Along With Me
The long-running animation Adventure Time ended recently, which was sad for people who liked that particular cartoon. The show’s final episode, Come Along With Me, fe...view item »
Hans Zimmer
Widows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Hans Zimmer awakes on sheets of satin. Enrobed in a velour dressing gown, he rises from the bed and shuffles to the French window. He looks out over the idyllic Mediterranean island he calls home. A family of birds chorus in the olive grove outside his villa. He allows a smile to curl the corners of his mouth - ‘I have mad...view item »
The Sight Below
Glider 10
You wouldn't believe it but I just had the idea of blending shoegaze and dub techno but it turns out the Sight Below AKA Rafael Anton Irisarri had the same idea ten years ago with their Glider album now re-issued on Ghostly. The opening track 'At First Touch' is perfect. A dreamy 4/4 thump with ethereal smoke like whispers above subtle, minimal ...view item »
Depeche Mode
Some Great Reward | The 12" Singles
Some Great Reward The 12” Singles is a box set featuring various mixes of tracks from Depeche Mode’s 1984 album of the same name. Mixes of People Are People, Master And Servant and Blasphemous Rumours are spread over 6 12” singles and housed in a lovely box. The latter also featu...view item »
Depeche Mode
Construction Time Again | The 12" Singles
Construction Time Again - The 12” Singles by Depeche Mode includes different mixes of tracks from the band’s third album of the same name. Get The Balance Right, Everything Counts and Love In Itself all feature in various guises over 6 12” singles along with live tracks from the ...view item »
Sacred Tapestry
Shader Complete
Dizzyingly productive alias-hopper Ramona Xavier (Vektroid, Macintosh Plus, dstnt et al), best known as a vapourwave heavyweight, reworked her 2012 album Sacred Tapestry in 2016 and now here it is again, getting its first wax treatment from Aguirre. Ranges from cloudy ambience n...view item »
This Mortal Coil
Blood
Blood was the third and final This Mortal Coil album and like it's predecessor Filagree and Shadow, was presented as a double album. Once again large swathes of the 4AD roster were involved and the album has several highlights that compare favourably with their earlier work. There are two Chris Bell (Bi...view item »
New Dreams Ltd.
Sleepline
Ah so this is another project of Ramona Vektroid, the vaporwave pioneer who made that Floral Shoppe record you all so love as Macintosh Plus. Sleepline was written in 2013-14 but only released in 2016 saw Vektroid using her plunderphonic tactics pitch shifting found sounds to induce a hazy disorientating feel to her mus...view item »
Yoruba Singers
Fighting For Survival
Holding the prestigious title of longest running music group from Guyana (since 1971 would you believe!), Yoruba Singers created a blend of traditional rhythms, Highlife influenced guitar and calypso. Fighting for Survival was originally released in 1981 and is considered to be the band's finest.&nbs...view item »
Various
BoJack Horseman
Original soundtrack to the acclaimed animated celebrity satire BoJack Horseman. The show follows the life of its title character, a burnt out celebrity horse who was famous for generic 90s sitcom ‘Horsin’ Around’. The soundtrack features the score - composed by Jesse Novak - as well as songs made for the show by The Black...view item »
Have A Nice Life
Deathconsciousness
Enemies List first released 'Deathconsciousness', the project of home recording duo Have a Nice Life (Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga), in 2008. You can't sum this thing up in one genre description alone: it takes on torrid post-punk, Sunn O))) stylised drone, Stars of the Lid-esque ambient, industrial, shoegaze and doom metal, uniting them...view item »
Street Sects
The Kicking Mule
Debut album, End Position showed influences such as Chrome and Nine Inch Nails. Street Sects, the Austin, Texas post-punk industrial screamers change gear for album number two, The Kicking Mule. Here, they use Roxy Music, Brian Eno...view item »
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things: Halloween Sounds From The Upside Down (Picture Disc)
Spooky/nostalgia two-fer Stranger Things is pretty much held together by its solid soundtrack, created by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein who blew the dust off their dads’ old synths. They made an ambiance that breathed denim jackets, perms, and an unadulterated fear of the unknown. Now the kind folk at Invada...view item »
Kamaal Williams
New Heights / Snitches Brew
New EP from our big broken-beat jazz talent Kamaal Williams. After his success with Yussef Kamaal, producer Henry Wu delivers a follow-up to this year’s t...view item »
Liberez
Way Through Vulnerability
Alter bring you Southend-on-Sea duo Liberez and their mysterious, billowing lineup of guests with new album Way Through Vulnerability. This one’s a strange broth of cultural signifiers and styles. You’ve got your flamenco rhythms, ritualistic clapping, nods to classic Italian experimentalism and grim industr...view item »
Lee Ranaldo
Electric Trim Live At Rough Trade East
Ex-Sonic Youth man Lee Ranaldo has announced a new live album! Electric Trim Live At Rough Trade East was recorded solo at the intimate setting of the popular East London record shop, on the first date of the UK leg of his Electric Trim tour. Performed excitingly 'just-as-he-wanted-them-to-be', the songs in this set are...view item »
CTM
Red Dragon
Cellist/singer/composer Caecilie Trier lands on Posh Isolation (Varg, Croatian Amor) for th...view item »
Anal Trump
The First 100 Songs
Inspired by the late Seth Putnam’s pan-offensive Anal Cunt, this San Diego project transforms 100 of 45’s most absurdist utterances and disturbing ideals into blink-and-you-miss-em grindcore tracks. There’s a terrible fittingness in ‘I Like The Soldiers Who DON'T Get Captured’ and &...view item »
Sun Ra
Thunder Of The Gods
Previously utterly unheard, here is an album of Sun Ra material recorded around about fifty years ago (hard to say with precision due to the uncertain nature of Sun Ra scholarship). Three fairly wild cuts, two in mono and one in stereo, all displaying the ever-evolving wonder of Sun Ra’s u...view item »
Makaton
Immaculata
Birmingham techno veteran, Makaton, drops a 4-track EP on Voitrax. His first release for the label was club banger, Around The Floor, in 2017 and he has previously released on Token and Blueprint. On Immaculata he mixes club-ready beats with dub and industrial motifs, perfect loops, unstructured n...view item »
Veronica Maximova
Computerlove
Russian/Belgian artist Veronica Maximova releases her debut album Computerlove via VOITAX. It is a dark musing on modern life and the hyper-connectivity we have through technology and the ultimate lack of true connection we feel. It's a brooding pop/drone album that challenges a...view item »
Daniel Knox
Chasescene
Chicagoan vibrato-on-legs Daniel Knox scrambles Jarvis Cocker and Nina Natasia to lend their talents to new album Chasescene. Knox’s heartfelt, mongrel style of piano playing and weary, croaky voice drive his cinematic and noirish representations of nighttime heartbreak, intrigue and disar...view item »
Gri + Mosconi
Between Ocean and Sky
There seems to be a lot of excellent ambient, drone and soundscape coming out of Italy at the moment. Here, Francis M. Gri and Federico Mosconi come together to create Between Ocean and Sky, which is the third in the Slowcraft Presents series. Created between Milan and Verona, the album...view item »
Scientist
In The Kingdom Of Dub
It seems like ages and ages since I added Scientist's 'In The Kingdom Of Dub' and 'The Best Dub Album In The World' to the site. Now finally they have arrived and it was a most welcome sight to behold as I clocked them in my review pile. For seasoned dub freaks this man needs no introduction. Remastered...view item »
Aoud
SE MKII
Much needed repress of this slammer on Ancient Methods Persephonic Sirens label. Originally a digital-only release from back in 2016, these three superb cuts of deep, driving, melancholic and euphoric, hypnotic trancey techno were simply too good not to be pressed onto wax. The initial pressing sold out in a flash and q...view item »
Various (Pessimist, Overlook, Talker, Karim Maas)
STONETAPES001
UVB-76 Music has had a great 2018. As well as dropping some superb dark techno/d ‘n’ b through the main label they’ve also set up some cracking offshoots in the form of DROOGS and 4625...view item »
ASC
The Outer Limits
ASC drops another salvo on his own Auxiliary Records. As he did on earlier records like Heights Of Perception, Imagine The Future and Astral Projection, the one born James Clements again uses a title to set us up for an EP of thoughtful techno. The Outer Limits, full of moody ...view item »
Young Hunting
A List of Indignities
Young Hunting you may recall released an excellent CD on their own Agenda label back in 2010, followed by The 'The Night Of The Burning' 12" EP on Blackest Ever Black. Young Hunting was Marc Dall and Alex Ander's project prior to abandoning it to pursue their electronic music as Dalhous, who went on to release three albums and a couple of E...view item »
Kolorit (Kassem Mosse & Lowtec)
Workshop XXI
This latest drop from Workshop Records (Willow, Move D) finds two old label favourites pooling their resources. Kolorit ...view item »
Hieroglyphic Being & The Truth Theory Trio
Journey Through The Outer Darkness
The incredibly prolific Hieroglyphic Being (and technically also his pseudo-backing band Truth Theory Trio) drops a new mini-LP. Journey Through The Outer Darkn...view item »
Positive Centre
Forever Optimum
Positive Centre rounds off an excellent 2018 in which he has already dropped work via Opal Tapes and In Silent Series with an LP for Horo (ASC, Ontal). Forever Optimum oscillates between two equally menacing electronic styles. On the on...view item »
Chemtrails
Cuckoo Spit EP
Cutesie and sweeping indie rockers Chemtrails striking the iron while it’s hot. They only just released Calf of the Sacred Cow and now they’re following it up w...view item »
Bone Head
Soft Power
It was only a matter of time before the Oasis guitar player started making grime and dubstep inspired beats for warp sister label Arcola. Oh, hang on, this is another Bone Head - namely L.A. artist Joe Cocherell who is half of excellent post-punk/new wave/dark wave duo Dva Damas who released a few fine records on Downwards. He’s also had a...view item »
The Doubtful Guest
Voyage To Blacklantis
It's been like ten years since we last heard from Elizabeth Floyd as The Doubtful Guest. Erase any preconceptions about her music and previous work on Planet Mu as she's operating in an entirely different mode for this four-track EP on Warp sister label Arcola.
Reading the EPs title and track names, you can imagine this could be a lost D...view item »
Robotiko Rejekto
Rejekto
To celebrate their thirtieth release Optimo Trax have looked back, found this gem from 1987 that label boss JD Twitch loved, and thought it would be a fitting treat to release it for it’s anniversary as well. Produced by Ralf Henrich and Andreas Tomalla, Rejekto was techno before ...view item »
Ruskin & Broom
Domwen
So, it's time for a new Ruskin & Broom EP! James Ruskin and Mark Broom -- stalwarts both of the UK Techno scene -- are together and continuing their collaborative techno project. 'Domwen' features 3 new slices of razor-edged techno -- heavy on the bass, deep of groove with surreal synths. Tasty 12" on Blueprint....view item »
Bryce Hackford
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Style-roving New York producer Bryce Hackford is here with a EP on Youth. With previous work tracing from synthpop to ambient, this here trio of new tunes is all rather wonky, improvised lo-fi house. The A is particularly heavy and minimal with a pair of chunky cuts, all twanging bass and carbonised drones. Bryce reserves the B ...view item »
The Modern Institute
Another Exhibition
Golden Teacher spin-off The Modern Institute stick it to the bourgeoisie art world with Another Exhibition, complete with a Pseuds’ Corner press rele...view item »
Alec Cheer
Night Kaleidoscope (Original Soundtrack)
For the soundtrack to Grant McPhee’s multi-faceted indie detective film, Night Kaleidoscope, Alec Cheer looks to the heavyweights for inspiration. The sounds of John Carpenter, Brian Eno, Goblin and Fabio Frizzi have all played their part in sh...view item »
Langham Research Centre
Tape Reworks Vol. 1 – Remixes by Jim O'Rourke and Group A
Radiophonic experimentalists, Langham Research Centre, find their music going under more experimentations from Jim O’Rourke and Group A. Tape Reworks Vol. 1 sees Chicago producer and musician, Jim O’Rourke, build on the sparseness of t...view item »
Kate Bush
Remastered in Vinyl III
The third of the Kate Bush Remastered in Vinyl reissue series features three of the great artist’s more recent albums: the triumphantly-returning 2005 double album Aerial, her 2011 reworkings-of-earlier-material collection Director’s Cut, and 50 Words For Snow from the same year. All presented on v...view item »
Kit Grill
Obsession
Kit Grill is a musician and producer from London. His career so far has seen him taking in influences from everywhere, working with electronic music and weird and wonderful samples. Obsession, his latest cassette, focuses solely on the piano. Since 2013 he has released 3 additional albums and 5 12” EPs, all for Primary Col...view item »
The Sand Pebbles
Ghost Transmissions
The Sand Pebbles are a rock band from Melbourne whose sound is at the flowery end of the the psych rock scale, and if that sounds wrong to you, then think again. Their classic album, Ghost Transmissions, is being pressed on vinyl for the first time. It adds an updated freshness to the sound of 1967. Heavyweight vinyl with downlo...view item »
AMOR
Sinking Into A Miracle
Amor are a Glasgow-based dance outfit. Their eclectic line-up bleeds eclecticism into their music, however. The band consist of avant-garde musician Richard Youngs, Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler, Paul Thompson who played drums with Franz Ferdinand and Norwegian minimalist compo...view item »
The 1975
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
Extremely (and unfathomably to people over 40) popular group the 1975 return with the thankfully shorter titled follow up to the one with the extremely long title. Who knew that when Tim Healey and Denise Welch got together this would be the result but there we are. That last LP reached number one on both sides of the little pud...view item »
Shake
5% Solution
Prayers have been answered! This sought after 4-track EP is a secret weapon, high on many a Detroit techno fiend's wants list. Originally released on Juan Atkins hallowed Metroplex imprint back in 1993 -- the same year Anthony "Shake" Shakir released his debut under the Shake handle on Kevin Saunderson's KMS sister label Trance Fusion. Shake has...view item »
Various
Peace Radio Dublab
Radio Free Los Angeles - more commonly known as Dublab - drops a friends-and-family compilation. The non-profit internet broadcaster have made plenty of allies over the course of almost two decades in the game. On Peace Radio Dublab a selection of associates that includes Matthewdavid, Daed...view item »
Greg Beato
Cum In Peace
Cum In Peace is a slice of old school, club ready wax from Miami’s Greg Beato (Beato by name, beato by nature). This limited edition 12” EP is released on his own Ni Un Pero label, the quality matches his releases for L.I.E.S. and Apron. He has also released music on Russian Torrent Versions....view item »
Delroy Edwards & Dean Blunt
Desert Sessions
Dean Blunt is known for his genre-hopping and maverick approach to making music. He was previously one half of the duo Hype Williams. Delroy Edwards is from L.A. but now lives in New York and has previously work with Ron Morelli, found of the L.I....view item »
Mołr Drammaz
Times Before Emojis
The Polish underground is one of the most hyperactive in the world. Mołr Drammaz have been a crucial part of this underground since 1994, in ever-shifting permutations. ‘Times Before Emojis Came’ compiles material from many of the involved artists, it’s a sound genuinely unpredictable, both dank and ecstatic. ...view item »
Manchester Orchestra
The Black Mile Demos
Manchester Orchestra are from Atlanta, Georgia, but take their name from the beautiful northern city of rain and trams. The Black Mile Demos compiles recordings of songs that ultimately made up their fifth album, A Black Mile To The Surface. This record shows the songs in their most skeletal form,...view item »
This Mortal Coil
Filigree and Shadow
Filagree and Shadow was the follow up to the much loved debut It Will End In Tears from shadowy 4AD collective This Mortal Coil. Again leader Ivo Watts-Russell chose a supergroup made out of (mostly) artists on his label but this time there were more self penned compositions, enough to make it into a double alb...view item »
King Creosote
Rocket D.I.Y.
The first disc I have for review this week is a lovely one by King Creosote called 'Rocket D.I.Y.' Its really the most impressive thing I've heard him/them do. Its lovely quaint Scottish pop music that kind of reminds me of being on holiday in a Scottish coastal resort as evening falls, the lights twinkling in the distance. Ther...view item »
Acronym w Korridor
Untitled EP
Berlin label VAAGNER are doing magnificent work in making difficult to obtain cassette releases more widely available and pressing them onto vinyl. The first couple of releases from the label were OAKE’s ‘Live In Marseille’ and Zen Zsigo’s (Cremation Lily) ‘Winter Orbit’ EP. For their third release, fans of th...view item »
Lubomyr Melnyk
Fallen Trees
I can't stress enough how easy it is to write a description for Lubomyr Melnyk. You just bold his name, talk about how obscenely fast he plays the piano and sit back. Something he never does, because he's too busy playing the piano so fast. For his 70th birthday he's releasing Fallen Trees on Erased Tapes...view item »
OAKE
Live in Marseille
VAAGNER present a vinyl edition of a cassette originally released in 2015 on Ascetic House. 'Live in Marseille' documents a stunning performance from OAKE, the duo of Eric Goldstein and Konstanze Bathseba Zippora, captured in Marseille, France, 18 October 2014. If you've heard their records on Downwards, Strobosco...view item »
Hauschka
Patrick Melrose (Original Television Soundtrack)
Hauschka has pulled out all the stops for this one; 'Patrick Melrose' is the soundtrack composed by Volker Bertelmann for the 2018 TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. With each episode treading a very different path and the central character cycling through various moods, a variety of styles and approaches were opportune an...view item »
Weedpecker
II
You may already be up to your third ear in III, the latest offering by Warszawa rockers Weedpecker. Yet Toronto’s Stickman Records are still keen to remind you that before III came I and II, so here’s a reissue of the latter. This music is exactly what you think music by a band named Weedpecker sounds like....view item »
Straight Arrows
21st Century / Cyberbully
Sydney’s Straight Arrows return with 21st Century/ Cyberbully. In the press release it is implied that they are an A grade punk band, and they might just be right - a punk band in the sense that they channel ‘60s garage punk via a bit of ‘90s indie rock. The A side features gravelly vintage guitars and earwormi...view item »
Machinefabriek with Anne Bakker
Short Scenes
Walking electro-acoustic ambient factory Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt) converts sessions from another project with violinist-violist Anne Bakker into a suite of vignettes for Zoharum. They’re short. They’re scenes. They’re Short Scenes. If you’re familiar wi...view item »
Various
Uneven Paths (Deviant Pop From Europe 1980 - 1991)
Even by the standards of Music From Memory, this is an oddball. Label founder Jamie Tiller gets together with Parisian crate-digger Raphael Top-Secret to comb the annals of 80s/early 90s European music and find the weirdest stuff they can that still has a hint of a pop sensibility about it. Unsu...view item »
David Bowie
Glastonbury 2000
It's almost hard to fathom almost 20 years on that David Bowie's hair was so long and luxurious at his show at Glastonbury in 2000. But there you can see is pictorial evidence of it's length and lustre. It's only one reason why his performance was so legendary that night. Now for the first time you can hear (or see) the entire s...view item »
Kate Bush
50 Words for Snow
We're reviewing this off a stream of the album (thanks to our sponsors at NPR) as we don't want to open and ruin one of the CD copies. As I mentioned in an earlier review there are lots of winter/christmas themed records out at the moment but this is one that is surely welcomed. Kate as ...view item »
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Reverse Of Rebirth In Universe
If the previous 100-odd Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. records hadn’t slaked your thirst for the group’s brand of incantatory psych-rock then perhaps you should consider adding Reverse Of Rebirth In Universe to your collection. AMT&TMPUFO (Christ) have recently revamped their lineup...view item »
Rick and Morty
The Rick and Morty Soundtrack
Aww geez. Wubba lubba dub dub. Eek barba durkle. And so on. This Rick And Morty tie-in album was only a matter of time, given the popularity of the show and the general high quality of the soundtrack. Whatever format you buy the Rick And Morty Soundtrack on, you’ll be getting twenty-six tracks, eighteen of which are ...view item »
Emika
Falling In Love With Sadness
The first solo album in a little while for the busy multi-project artist that is Emika. Falling In Love With Sadness is perhaps a richer, denser listen than past ...view item »
Various
Welcome To Zamrock! Vol. 2: How Zambia’s Liberation Led To A Rock Revolution 1972-1977
Zamrock, in case you have been depriving yourself of its joy, is the sound that Zambia came up with in the 1970’s in response to the twin wonders of James Brown-esque funk and psychedelic rock from the likes of Jimi Hendrix. Welcome To Zamrock! Vol. 2 walks you through the story of the genre and g...view item »