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The Mistys
Pregnant Mannequin
Boomkat really know how to big up their own releases. Their description of this, the second album from the Mistys uses all the phrases we're growing to know and love...'tape worn' for example. Certainly saccharine shoegaze/dreampop album recorded to a salvaged D90 tape that's about to disintegrate will catch a few ...view item »
The Blue Angel Lounge
The Blue Angel Lounge
German soundscaping duo The Blue Angel Lounge take their name from the club that first showcased The Velvet Underground’s German contralto, Nico. Their self-titled debut was originally released in 2008, and whilst existing outside of the mainstream for the l...view item »
Starcrawler
Hollywood Ending
L.A well-to-do's Starcrawler release a brand new single with (thankfully) no songs taken from their earlier self titled debut. They've upped the ante, poured even more money into it and have come up with something the press release describes excitedly as a 'bold but winsome pop jam'. Rough Trade have pinned their flag to t...view item »
Aleksi Perala
Sunshine 1
Aleksi Perala’s miniature album proposition Sunshine 1 is a very fine piece of IDM-leaning electronics, with sexy titles like ‘NL-L56-18-07382’ setting the tone. Really though, for all the inte...view item »
SHXCXCHCXSH
OUFOUFOF
Swedish pranksters SHXCXCHCXSH quickly follow up August’s SHULULULU EP with a new full-length. The title of OUFOUFOF is to be read onomatopoeically. Rather than attempting to pull the sonics of club music apart as they have done on previous records, their fourth LP finds them lock into one rhythmic idea f...view item »
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Georgia / Bellows
Decouple ][ Series
OOH-Sounds (Bangalore, Backwords) with a new ooh-series of ooh-music here. Ooh! The Decouple ][ Series...view item »
Ekoplekz
Radiochronikz
First in a series of a 'tool kit' series from WNCL Recordings sees the Bristol behemoth Ekoplekz present 12 unique pieces culled from sessions he made in what he humorously calls his radiochronic workshop. We are informed that this is music both for discotheque and home stereo use. Vinyl only at the moment. ...view item »
Esquivel & His Orchestra
King Of Space-Age Pop
As the title of this LP points out, Esquivel was The King Of Space-Age Pop, otherwise known as lounge music, lounge jazz or even space-age bachelor pad music. Mexican band leader Juan Garcia Esquivel was a pianist of some repute and wrote music for TV and film in the ‘50s and ‘60s. His music has influenced St...view item »
Les Baxter
Space Escapade / Music Out Of The Moon
Les Baxter has been officialling dubbed 'the founding father of Exotica', and here's a timely reissue of one of his greater works. 'Space Escapade' was Baxter's spectacular 1958 piece de resistance, featuring his trademark eclecticism and lush orchestral effects. Also included is 'Music Out Of The Moon' with its six songs origin...view item »
Prince Jammy
Kamikaze Dub
The Jammy old fella himself gets himself a reissue of one of his seminal dub LPs. 1979’s Kamikaze/Kamikazi Dub (spellings differ) is a record of Jamaican deepness ...view item »
Bob Andy
Lots of Love and I
Lovely old reissue here. Bob Andy’s third LP Lots Of Love And I was originally released in 1978, a time when reggae offshoots such as Jamaican soul and lovers rock ha...view item »
Oren Ambarchi, Crys Cole, Leif Elggren
Certainly
This unholy alliance between Oren Ambarchi (AUS), Crys Cole (CAN) and Leif Elggren (SWE) took place at a residency in Stockholm’s EMS Studios in 2016. The story goes that the harsh winds blew off the windows, prompting the trio to take desperate measures to stay warm and record. Sounds mor...view item »
Hen Ogledd
Mogic
Hen Ogledd is, if you remember, the project started by folk maverick Richard Dawson alongside harpist Rhodri Davies. Here, they are joined by Mrs Richard Dawson Sally Pilkington and Dawn Bothwell to make music which, if you believe the Guardian (and often it's a good idea not to) sounds more lik...view item »
Josephine Foster
Fairy Faithful Harmony
I wonder if she can remember the time she played in Shipley? Here is a song cycle of 18 new songs by the Spain based singer songwriter. Here she self produces and accompanies herself on all kinds of instruments including guitar, piano an organ on an album exploring themes of morality and mortality. Which you do when you've been to Shipley. ...view item »
Invisible Minds
Make Up Your Own Stories
No-one's sure who the person behind Invisible Minds is, but that hasn’t stopped them spiking in popularity since the release of debut single ‘Yo Mae Leh’ at the back-end of 2017. Now Moshi Moshi have gone and snapped up their debut LP. Make Up Your Own Stories is a varied listen - some...view item »
Richard Neale
Growth + Decay
Bespectacled producer Richard “Hexagonal Packaging” Neale follows last year’s Eves with new EP Growth + Decay. Though it retains its folky tinges, the spontaneous live instrumentation of Eves largely gives way to digital loops of short phrases, layered and built up in...view item »
Mumford & Sons
Delta
You know when a band is expected to shift a few units when the press release bangs on about the massive tour the band are about to embark on. In this case it’s the trust-fund Wurzels (thank you, Charlie Brooker) Mumford & Sons. Their new and fourth album filled with anthemic folk-rock is locked and loaded and ready to ...view item »
Emperor
In The Nightside Eclipse
This is the very first album released by true Norwegian black metallers Emperor. As one of the founding fathers of the symphonic wing of the genre, Emperor have a highly dramatic sound, balancing melodic dark synth melodies with ferocious howling forward movement. In The Nightside Eclipse is reissued on...view item »
Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek
A Sides and B Sides
Big Thief duo Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek bring together their 2014 EPs A-Sides and B-Sides on one slab o’ wax/disc o’ polycarbonate. Anyone who copped the records when they first saw light of day will know that these are spare indie-folk affairs that any Zooey Deschanel...view item »
Adrianne Lenker
Hours Were The Birds
Adrianne Lenker has been causing a stir with her stunning voice and songs with Brooklyn-based indie/folk band Big Thief. In 2013, prior to her hooking up with them, she lived in Minneapolis and recorded an album called Hours Were The Birds. The album features just Lenker’s voice and guitar and was mixed by...view item »
Spontaneous Overthrow
All About Money
All About Money is one of those popular music curios that defies easy categorisation. The LP originally emerged from New Jersey in 1984 and is now being re-pressed by Numero Group. Its creators, a group called ...view item »
Various
Spaciousness - Music Without Horizons
Lo Recordings kicks off a series on ambient music with Spaciousness - Music Without Horizons. The compilation and the ongoing series looks to highlight music labelled as ambient and new age. Spaciousness features musicians including Abul Mogard, Matthew David...view item »
The Rolling Stones
Voodoo Lounge Uncut
Finally, the definitive document of The Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge tour. 'Voodoo Lounge Uncut' presents for the first time the full, unabridged performance from the Stones' 25th November, 1994 date at Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium. A full 10 songs included here were edited out of the original '90s release. Sheryl Crow, Robert Cr...view item »
Grant Kirkhope
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Grant Kirkhope - the video-game composer responsible for the music of Goldeneye and Banjo-Kazooie - served up a predictably zany soundtrack for Ubisoft’s 2014 game Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. The fully-orchestrated score draws strongly from Kirkhope’s previous work as well as Ca...view item »
Kallaloo
Star Child
Reissued for the first time: a splendid, sought-after Caribbean disco number from 1982 with uplifting duet vocals, bass too hot for TV, psychedelic guitar and synth and drums with enough claps to wear out an entire production line of sound-activated switches. Side A is the five-minute ‘Short Version’, which is all well and good, but ...view item »
Mariel Ito
2000-2005
After more than a decade of silence Maceo Plex has revived his Mariel Ito alias in 2018. First we got the 2e Komst EP back in January, now we’re blessed with the retrospective full-length 2000-2005. The nine tracks of this LP all date from that period (you'd probably already wor...view item »
Marc Almond
Hits & Pieces: The Best Of Marc Almond and Soft Cell
Here we have a vinyl version of Hits And Pieces by Marc Almond. A CD version was released in 2017. Now it’s been spread across two lovely LPs, comprehensively showcasing the singer’s best bits. His solo work, work with Marc & The Mambas and Soft Cell...view item »
Le Matos
Summer Of 84 (Original Soundtrack)
What with us all loving '80s throwback horror at the moment, Death Waltz Records have been helping us get our fix with some stellar releases. Summer of 84 continues where Stranger Things left off - kids with flashlights (torches, please) and menacing clouds galore. The original score by ...view item »
The Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet (50th Anniversary Edition)
Beggars Banquet was the first in a run of four classic albums made by The Rolling Stones between 1968 and 1972 where they took their blues roots and fused them with hard rock, country and gospel to create a, well, Stonesy sound that has been copied, but never bettered, by so many bands since. Under the guidance of producer Jimmy...view item »
Sofheso
Sofheso Archive
Over two hours of prolific Japanese producer Sofheso's recordings have been collated onto this deluxe archival double cassette retrospective, spanning the years 2014-2017. The selection was whittled down from eleven hours of material he sent the First Terrace label and is a revelatory showcase of the artist's unorthodox appro...view item »
Robert Hood
DJ-Kicks
The latest instalment in the ever-growing catalogue of stellar mixes in the 'DJ-Kicks' series arrives from truly a giant. It's pioneering Detroit techno legend Robert Hood of course. The Motor City's very own, and a founding member of Underground Resistance with Banks and Mills, Hood laid down a blueprint for minimal techno. His...view item »
Khruangbin
Christmas Time Is Here
Sorry folks, but Christmas Time is indeed Here, or at least near enough that the seasonal releases start trickling in. Here we have the three members of the band Khruangbin converging on their collective favourite Christmas song, in a spontaneous recording that was apparently nailed in just fifteen minutes! Two versions pr...view item »
The Beatles
The Beatles (White Album)
The Beatles. Now there's a thing. The White Album (initially known as just the Beatles) was the blueprint of what became known as 'the classic over indulgent double album that would have made a great single LP'. It was released 50 years ago today and still much of it sounds like Guided By Voices 'August By Cake'. This supe...view item »
The Liminanas
I’ve Got Trouble In Mind Vol 2 (7-inch and Rare Stuff 2015 / 2018)
I've Got Trouble in Mind Vol. 2 is the sequel to 2014's Vol. 1. Here France's The Limiñanas offer a selection of unreleased tracks, rarities and more. It also features a remix by Anton Newcombe of the Peter Hook featurin...view item »
Chris Cornell / Soundgarden / Temple Of The Dog
Chris Cornell
Over a year after the sad and tragic death of Chris Cornell, his estate and Universal Music are about to release the 17-track self-titled album 'Chris Cornell', as well as a 64-track limited-edition deluxe box set. 11 of the tracks in the expanded deluxe edition are previously unreleased. Selections were taken from performances ...view item »
Emperor
Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Candlelight return to the true cult, and have revisited Emperor’s back catalogue. Remastering and reworking cover art, all with the strict guidance of the band.Emperor pretty much defined Norwegian symphonic black metal. Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk was their second full length album ad featured ...view item »
whenyoung
Given Up EP
There once was a band called Whenyoung / Who left Limerick for London / With Cranberries covers and numerous others / They’ve now quite a reputation! With apologies to Whenyoung and the people of Limerick in general. The trio’s new single ‘Given Up’ goes for snappy and poignant alt-radio-rock with a winni...view item »
Brian Eno
Music For Films
The Bonce himself gets his 1978 LP Music For Films reissued. This is, y’know, one of those Brian Eno albums. Sure, it’s a bit of an odds-and-sods collection; yes, the tracks here are quite short when compared to the long-form half-music of something like Music For Airports; OK, it’s not that s...view item »
Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Brian Eno's seminal masterpiece is quite simply beyond being among the best ambient albums of all time. The fact that this album was recorded in 1978 is very impressive, since it became a landmark of the ambient movement to follow in future decades. But the fact that it was recorded at all and it reaches such levels of (almost) painful beauty wo...view item »
Bauri
Vinkelvolten II
Bauri returns to B12 offshoot FireScope Records (Derek Carr, Steven Rutter...view item »
Cigarettes After Sex
Crush
Here they are, the worst named band in the entire universe but one which has a rather palatable sound which will appeal to fans of Mazzy Star, Low and Galaxie 500. Here is a one off single following on from their much loved debut album with two tracks which have yet to see the light of day. Let'...view item »
Choir Boy
Passive With Desire
Synth-pop! Passive With Desire, by Choir Boy, has the intimate lonely feel of bedroom DIY productions, though the detailed band arrangements and even live instrumentation(!) actually give it a broader scope, crossing in places into the feel of actual eighties hit pop. Heavy feels and light synth melodies: out on Dais....view item »
SRSQ
Unreality
Unreality is a phoenix from the flames. SRSQ is the solo project of Them Are Us Too’s Kennedy Ashlyn - the same Them Are Us Too who lost collaborator and dear friend Cash Askew in the 2016 Ghost Ship Fire. This LP is the sound of Ashlyn coming to terms with the grief. Sonically th...view item »
Fall Therapy
You Look Different
According to his biography on the n5MD website, Eymeric Amselem produces ‘nostalgia electronica’. What that means is that his work as Fall Therapy combines various club styles - by turns house, techno and UK Garage - with the sort of stargazing instrumental licks that one finds cropping up on records...view item »
Camera
Emotional Detox
Berlin-based Krautrockers Camera drop their fourth full-length record courtesy of Bureau B (Die Wilde Jagd, Faust). Emotional Detox finds the group using the Motorik groove as a base from which they can incorporate elements of synth-pop, psych-rock and dream-pop. All in...view item »
Calender
It's a Monster
‘70s New Jersey funksters Calender were led by Paul Kyser. They released one album, It’s A Monster, in 1975. They are known for their hit, Hypertension, which foreshadowed the disco sound that exploded soon after. Kyser went on to work with Stevie Wonder, The T...view item »
Stephen Steinbrink
Utopia Teased
And I thought Stephen Steinbrink was such a nice clean living young man. Well understandably perhaps, after the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland he went a bit off the rails... eating LSD daily, refusing to sleep and locking himself in his studio. The results are contained within Utopia Teased, an album which eschews the clear...view item »
Jay Bolotin
No One Seems To Notice That It's Raining
Jay Bolotin is one of the great ‘what-if’s of the American songbook. A singer-songwriter contemporaneous with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, Bolotin’s wo...view item »
The Mon
Doppelleben
The Mon is the solo project of Ufomammut bassist/vocalist/synth player Urlo. On Doppelleben he...view item »
Maze & Lindholm
Where The Wolf Has Been Seen
New collaboration between Maze, who's part of Orphan Swords, and Otto Lindholm, the producer. Where The ...view item »
Michael Hoenig
The Blob (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Although it’s essentially about an animate piece of strawberry jam, the 1958 original gave me quite the nightmares as a child. Here’s the soundtrack to the even-creepier 1988 remake of The Blob by Michael Hoenig. Hoenig went for something a little more sober than the original’s bouncy theme song, whose...view item »
Wume
Towards The Shadow
Northern Spy has spied out Wume (April Camlin drumming and singing, Albert Schatz keying and twiddling) and seen fit to bring us their new album Towards the Shadow. The pair are doing very engaging and enjoyable neo-prog pop jams, polyrhythms aflutter and synth harmonies gurgling away. Sounds a ...view item »
Low Sea
Portals
Ireland-based duo, Low Sea continue their goth/coldwave/synth-pop explorations on Portals, their third release. This time, their music is lightened at the edges and there are themes of winning and losing, loneliness and elation. Once again they have called in the the talents of American producer Stephen Hague to mix the album&rs...view item »
Axel Rigaud
Transformation
Alex Rigaud mixes electronic music and jazz on his debut album, Transformation. The multi-instrumentalist, who hails from Paris, France, uses analogue synths and reed instruments such as sax and flute, which he often manipulates to create his original sound. Red and white coloured vinyl or CD on n5MD....view item »
Guttersnipe
My Mother The Vent
If your music needs a bit of weirdness then Guttersnipe are your people. The Leeds duo have been tantalising crowds far and near for the last few years with their blend of Aids Wolf-like racket and Whitehouse intensity. Theirs is a musical language not even invented yet so get this debut wax off...view item »
Smashing Pumpkins
SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1 / LP: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN.
The Smashing Pumpkins are so excited about the release of their brand new album that they’ve given it two or three titles! Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (didn’t I t...view item »
Paul McCullough
Night Of The Living Dead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
As we’re sure you’ve already deduced from the title this is a new edition of the music from Tom Savini’s 1990 remake of George Romero’s classic horror flick Night Of The Living Dead. What you may not be aware of is that this Strange Disc reissue is the first time that Tom McCullough...view item »
HMS Morris
Inspirational Talks
HMS Morris are a Welsh band who blend the avant-garde with catchy melodies quite seamlessly. They take their influences from Syd Barrett along with trailblazing Welsh musical heroes, Gruff Rhys, Cate Le Bon and Gwenno. Inspiration...view item »
itoldyouiwouldeatyou
Oh Dearism
The name itoldyouiwouldeatyou sounds like a potential collaboration between iamamiwhoami and Thom Yorke, but is in fact an NME indie band from London: Los Campesinos! meets Titus Andronicus, that sort of thing. Their debut album Oh Dearism is pressed en...view item »
Hunters Chorus
Old Growler
Old Growler is the debut album by Hunters Chorus. It is the work of Ramon Fermin, who has previously worked with Sun Kil Moon, Magik*Magik Orchestra and Ignition Duo. It is an instrumental album with Fermin playing all the guitar and bass parts, assisted by Haig Shirinian on drums. It was recorded by Deafheaven producer, Jack Sh...view item »
Spectral Empire
Iron Muscle
Iron Muscle by Spectral Empire comes across like a lost soundtrack to a dystopian sci-fi movie from the ‘80s. Dark, spooky synths interlaced with demonic electronic stabs and dramatic, tension-building beats. The duo are made up of George Thompson from Black Merlin and Kyle Martin from Vactrol Park. 180g vinyl 12” EP...view item »
My Name Is Ian
The Point Of No Return
We have an Ian here in the office and on occasion he is heard saying 'My Name Is Ian' but he has nothing to do with these alt/garage mavericks who also say their name is Ian. They veer across disco, punk, lo-fi and garage rock which, weirdly, our Ian does as well sometimes. Comes on what is described as a lucky dip mash of coloured vinyl. ...view item »
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Merrie Land
Well I'm excited. You may remember the 2007 The Good, the Bad and the Queen album as being the best thing Damon Albarn has ever been involved with so it's a thrill to see this follow up also featuring the band of Paul Simonen, Tony Allen and Simon Tong. You can bet your bottom pound note that Albarn has som...view item »
Kate Bush
The Red Shoes
Kate Bush’s 1993 album The Red Shoes, newly remastered and reissued on CD and double LP formats. Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen...view item »
Kate Bush
The Sensual World
She’s not wrong, y’know - it really is a Sensual World that we live in. Kate Bush had a tough task following up Hounds Of Love (who wouldn’t?), but with her sixth studio LP she passed the test with ease. The Sensual World is a quixotic art-pop masterpiece from the artist who wrote the...view item »
Kate Bush
Hounds Of Love
Hounds Of Love is one of those LPs that you can end up skipping over because you feel like you already know it too well. In particular ‘Running Up That Hill’, ‘Cloudbusting’ and the title track are all old friends at this point. But here’s the thing - as frequently as you might hear its famous sin...view item »
Kate Bush
Remastered in Vinyl I
Volume one of the Kate Bush Remastered in Vinyl box-set series features those ground-breaking and still jaw-dropping first four albums, from 1978’s The Kick Inside...view item »
Dan Mangan
More or Less
With his new album, More Or Less, Canadian songsmith, Dan Mangan has made music that is both more sparse and more direct than on previous albums. He was inspired to take this path by listening to classic albums such as Pink Moon by Nick Drake and Astral Weeks by Van Morrison during the recording...view item »
Kate Bush
The Kick Inside
(8) Bad dreams in the night
Would they ever reissue The Kick Inside?
Now we have a remastered, remastered,
Remastered version,
Kate Bush! It’s she, it’s Katy,
She’s come home! Yes we, Norman Records™,
Let her in at our window.
...view item »
Kate Bush
Lionheart
Lionheart was the second album by Kate Bush and was originally released in 1978 - the same year of her debut, The Kick Inside. The album was commercially successful but failed to impress the critics much. Now we have it remastered on CD and LP so we can listen with new ears. Contains the hit single 'Wow'....view item »
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David Bowie
Breaking Glass [Live E.P.]
Yet more gold from the David Bowie vaults here. A Breaking Glass [Live EP] was originally issued in 1978 to promote Bowie’s second live LP ...view item »
Kate Bush
Remastered in Vinyl II
The second of the Kate Bush Remastered in Vinyl reissue series features three of the great artist’s albums, dating from the eighties and nineties. We have Hounds of Love...view item »
Kate Bush
Never For Ever
After a two year break, Kate Bush released her third album, Never For Ever in 1980. It hit the number one spot in the ol’ album charts and album spawned three hit singles - Babooshka, Army Dreamers and Breathing. She even got Roy Harper to sing backing vocals on the latter. Remastered LP and CD on Parlopho...view item »
Kate Bush
The Dreaming
New editions of Catherine Bush’s fourth LP here courtesy of Parlophone. People weren’t sure what to make of The Dreaming when it came out - too uncommercial, they said. However, time has been kind to the record. The Dreaming is now regarded as an unsung gem of Bush’s...view item »
Qujaku
Qujaku
Qujaku are a Japanese band who are building themselves a serious reputation as heavyweight guitar-wielders, working with a psych sound with all airy lightness stripped away in favour of super-taut bass power. Qujaku has been imported all the way from Japan’s So I Buried Records just so you can get blasted by it: c...view item »
Cantaloupe
Error States
Lithe Nottingham electro-synthpop quartet Cantaloupe lost a couple of members to boring life stuff (jobs, babies, you know) following 2015’s well-received Zoetrope, so follow-up Error States is mainly the work of drummer Aaron Doyle and synther John Simson plus a host of guests, all of them apparently fro...view item »
CTMF
Not Fade Away / I Wanna Be Your Man
Billy Childish awakes, disorientated and with a splitting headache, in a small room lit by a single naked lightbulb. There is nothing in the room save for him and the chair he sits on. His hands and feet are tied to the chair he sits on. He has no idea how long he’s been in the room and has no idea how he got there. Within...view item »
Ryley Walker
The Lillywhite Sessions
Dave Matthews Band recorded an album with producer Steve Lillywhite which was scrapped at the label’s behest. Now, this bit confuses me - the press release here describe the album in terms I would not match with Dave Matthews Band such as ‘art rock’ and ‘masterpiece&rsquo...view item »
Echo Ladies
Overrated (Robin Guthrie Version) / Rebel Rebel
Echo Ladies made an ok album earlier in the year and now the Swedish shoegaze trio have had the ultimate stamp of approval from former Cocteau Twins guitar whizz Robin Guthrie. He's remixed their track Overrated to sterling affect and over on the flip is something wholly unexpected - a cov...view item »
Pere Ubu
Final Solution
Reissue of the second and arguably best single by Pere Ubu. Controversially titled, Final Solution was informed by the bleakness of the band’s hometown, Cleveland, Ohio in the mid-seventies. It’s a prime slab of noisy, American punk rock and pretty essential to any record collection. Limited to 1000 copies, 7" on Fir...view item »
Sufjan Stevens
Songs For Christmas
How nice it would be to live in Sufjan world. Each year around the festive season he'd gather round with friends to make a Christmas EP. He'll be there in a massive jumper singing away. Heartwarming. Well this tradition went on for a few years and now you can get all the yuletide fruits on this box set of all the songs. Sufjan's folky and melanc...view item »
Quaker City Night Hawks
El Astronauta
Influenced by both ZZ Top and science fiction (surely mutually exclusive) Quaker City Night Hawks won the prestigious Dallas Observer Best Band Of 2015 award and have since gone from strength to strength releasing this, their full length debut. Expect classic 70s rock with just a hint of spacey v...view item »
mmph
Serenade
Last April came mmph’s debut EP Dear God. Now the young musician, aka LA-based Sae Heum Han, follows it up with Serenade and a view of what else is on his wall. This newun shows a continued interest in wild dynamics, dense, flitting sound design and melodramatic flourishes of choir, cinematic bass and hea...view item »
Eiko Ishibashi
The Dream My Bones Dream
Eiko Ishibashi is a remarkable artist, somehow equally at home singing heartfelt, delicate lounge-jazz pop music and collaborating free-improv style with Darin Gray and, er, Merzbow. The Dream My Bones Dream is a songs record, though it is rich with details of instrumentation and textur...view item »
Joseph Shabason
Anne
Yeah this is a good one. Anne was composed for Joseph Shabason’s mother in honour of her struggles with degenerative illness. The personal and familial turmoil of this experience crinkles the edges of these milky instrumentals. There is a feeling of tender, quiet sadness to the likes of ‘Forest Run’ th...view item »
Makaya McCraven
Universal Beings
Get ready for some more Epic Jazz -- 2018 has been another good year for it, what with Kamasi and all -- it's hot jazz drummer and producer Makaya McCraven with his latest LP 'Universal Beings'. The record was cut at two intimate live sessions and two impromptu studio sessions, in four cities: New York, Chicago, London ...view item »
Michele Mercure
Beside Herself
RVNG Intl collects some of Michel Mercure’s early minimal synth and experimental electronics compositions. All of the tunes that make up Beside Herself were initially issued on cassettes self-released by Mercure between 1983 and 1990. These lo-fi ditties will appeal to fans of Pauline...view item »
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Electric Ladyland - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Jimi Hendrix and his Experience released their last studio album Electric Ladyland an entire half of a century ago. Any of the 321 pressings of this album ...view item »
Coil presents Black Light District
A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room
More Coil re-issues and this is from 1996 when Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and John Balance were joined by Drew McDowall but rather than being the 'poochie' of the show, the new name helped the group take a left turn back to the more avant garde pursuits and experimental electronics. ...view item »
Drake
Scorpion
Drizzy/Champagne Papi/October’s Very Own/Aubrey Graham/Wheelchair Jimmy/Drake continues to dominate the world of pop with a polite ruthlessness. His fifth LP Scorpion comes out at just the right time to jack the momentum Kanye West has built up this past month. This thing is 25 tracks long (!) and...view item »