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Cheval Sombre
Had Enough Blues / Hitch A Ride
Hailing all the way from a record studio in Tennessee called Fat Elvis Records (brilliant name: funny, clever and sadly clouded in an element of truth), Cheval Sombre is releasing a short EP called Had Enough Blues / Hitch A Ride. The lyrics in both songs are a psychedelic folk scream at everything that has, so far...view item »
Mountain Man
Magic Ship
In this, the age of instant content, an eight year gap between album can prove utterly deadly. Fortunately for us Mountain Man were able to survive such a gulf to bring us Magic Ship. As on their debut, this is an album which celebrates not just the voice, but voices. The genius of A...view item »
Philip Fullwood
Words In Dub
Pressure Sounds are good at what they do. They comb the annals of Jamaican music to find the best lost records, fix up the audio quality and send them back out into the world for a new generation to enjoy. The latest PS reissue is of Philip Fullwood’s ultra-rare 1979 LP Words In Dub. Assisted by ...view item »
I-Mo-Jah
Rockers From The Land of Reggae
Concurrently with their re-release of Philip Fullwood’s Words In Dub LP, Pressure Sounds (Peter Tosh, The Upsetters) are also dropping this rare-ass record he made with his I-Mo-Jah collective in 1982. Fullwood assembled a group that included ...view item »
Richard Reed Parry
Quiet River of Dust Vol 1
While Richard Reed Parry has previously explored neoclassical textures, Quiet River of Dust Vol 1 sees him move into exquisite songcraft matching Beach Boys harmonies with electronic pulses and songs culled from both the British and Japanese folk tradition. He's also a member of twenty plus-headed stadium rock beast ...view item »
Denzel Curry
TA13OO
The press release for Denzel Curry’s long-awaited third LP TA1300 (pronounced ‘Taboo’, though you could probably get away with calling it ‘Tattoo’) is written in all-caps. It’s fitting considering that, once this record is on, you won’t be able to concentrate on anything else. C...view item »
High On Fire
Electric Messiah
High On Fire’s eighth studio LP emerges via eOne Music. Electric Messiah is something of a metal love-in - Converge’s Kurt Ballou handles production, while High On Fire number members of Sleep, Zeke and Mindwar...view item »
Muscle Barbie
Muscle Barbie
This self-titled full length from Muscle Barbie is the band's second release and promises more of the same from their first release on tape All Your Stuff. This release has been described as being super super limited, so if you want one you need to act fast! Again, only available on vinyl LP, and released on Ha...view item »
Harmony Rockets with Special Guest Peter Walker
Lachesis / Clotho / Atropos
Harmony Rockets, better known as Mercury Rev, of course renowned for their free-wheeling psychedelic rock. Joining forces on Lachesis / Clotho / Atropos with Peter Walker, known for his American-folk approach to ragas. The record also boasts appearances from Steve Shelley from...view item »
Sudden Infant
Buddhist Nihilism
How could I not reference the press release here? "SUDDEN INFANT is a Swiss Industrial-Dada-Noise-Rock band based in Berlin". How bad-ass does that make this band sound? Buddhist Nihilism is the latest release from SUDDEN INFANT and contains 12 explosive tracks that, like the records before this (see Radiorgasm...view item »
James Holden + Maalem Houssam Guinia
Three Live Takes
What a combo: Maalem Houssam Guinia and James Holden; Moroccan Gnawa and modular synth. Three Live Takes presents us with three live cuts from a 2016 London performance, with these two very different sound palettes somehow combining into a coherent new sound-world. 12” out on Border Community....view item »
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Various (Melvins, Pallbearer, Mark Lanegan etc.)
The Wall [Redux]
Fancy another brick? The Wall [Redux] is Magnetic Eye Records' take on everyone's favourite concept album, Pink Floyd's The Wall. The artists they got to do this speak for themselves, the biggest names being Mark Lanegan, ...view item »
Elysian Spring
Glass Flower
French jazz from the late sixties is an underappreciated niche. Mais pas ici at Norman Records. Imagine the heartfelt joy we felt when our kind amis at Le Très Jazz Club announced their repressing of Elysium Spring’s cult classic, Glass Windows. Finally, these soft and gentle jazz...view item »
Felt
The Pictorial Jackson Review
The Pictorial Jackson Review is not only brilliantly titled but is one of the best of the latter day Felt records. It's full of wonderfully brief tunes which more often than not sound comically in thrall to Bob Dylan. Try listening to How Spook Got Her Man without thinking of the grizzled troubadour. ...view item »
bvdub
Drowning in Daylight
The illustrious esquires at Apollo represent sadcore-ambient titan bvdub’s label of the week for Drowning in Daylight, a quadrilogy of teary twenty-minute longuns with right poetic titles. Now passing the thirty album mark, Brock Van Wey can be counted on for the skills to pay the bills and give your ears some cin...view item »
Dot Dash
Proto Retro
Dot Dash, who presumably have taken their name from the Wire song, feature ex-Swervedriver drummer Danny Ingram, ex-Julie Ocean bassist, Hunter Bennett and Terry Banks from Tree Fort Angst and Sarah Records band St. Christopher. Proto Retro is t...view item »
Sha La Das
Love In The Wind
Something of a Daptone Records love-in here. The Sha La Das are three Staten Island brothers (surname Schalda, hence the moniker of the group) who grew up singing backing harmonies for their dad Bill, hi...view item »
Heavenly Music Corporation
In a Garden of Eden
Extremely calm mood music from Heavenly Music Corporation. On In a Garden of Eden, a five track EP released by Astral Industries, HMCorp play the softest of synths over the gentlest of field recordings. The sonic equivalent of being slowly rocked to sleep by a benevolent...view item »
Giant Swan
Whities 016
Giant Swan are the gosh darn dopeness. Anyone who’s caught an earful of the Bristol duo’s recent drops on Timedance, FuckPunk or Mannequin can attest to the visceral majesty of their anarcho-techno sound. It was probably only a matter of time before they ended up on ...view item »
Low
Double Negative
Two years on from the excellent Ones and Sixes Low have headed back down Highway 53 to Eau Claire to resume work with producer B.J. Burton (Bon Iver, James Blake) on an album which is said to be an unflinching eleven track quest to be loud, abrasive and commanding. A Low recor...view item »
BEAK>
>>>
Beak’s third album, >>>, follows on from > and >>. Does this show a lot or very little imagination when it comes to naming albums? Anyway, the classy electronic three-piece who are led by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow have taken another step forward and their sound grows along with the stages they’re invited to pl...view item »
Eyelids
Maybe More
Eyelids have been touring the world and elsewhere with a brand of jangly, hook laden college rock that will appeal to fans of the Byrds, R.E.M and XTC. Sounds good to us. Having got back home they went straight into the studio to record another batch of songs for public consumpt...view item »
Rosali
Trouble Anyway
After stints in the bands Long Hots and Wandering Shade, Rosali is now sharing both her strength and vulnerability on her new album Trouble Anyway. Charlie Hall from War On Drugs, Purling Hiss mainman Mike Polizze and critically a...view item »
Nots
Anxious Trend / In Glass
Having taken in the sedate pastures of Heavenly and Goner, Memphis garage-punks Nots wind up on Famous Class (Future Islands, Ty Segall) with a new 7” single. Both ‘In Glass’ and ‘Anxious Trend’ are fast, paranoid r...view item »
Dunbarrow
Dunbarrow II
RidingEasy (Here Lies Man, Monolord) drop the second LP from Norwegian metalheads Dunbarrow. Dunbarrow II features some cuts of hard rock very much of the Black Sabbath school. Singer Espen Andersen’s Ozzy impress...view item »
The Intelligence
Live In San Francisco
The latest release in Castle Face’s Live In San Francisco series comes courtesy of The Intelligence. ...view item »
Flamingods
Kewali Remixed EP
Flamingods follow-up 2017’s Kewali EP with a selection of remixes for the impressive Byrd Out (Andrew Weatherall, Mad Professor, Mosca). Kewali Remixed is a nice and varied triple-threat. Vanishing Twin run with the frenz...view item »
Mutual Benefit
Thunder Follows The Light
In his Mutual Benefit guise, NYC singer-songwriter Jordan Lee has recorded with artists like Julie Byrne and covered Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day in full. Safe to say that you can go into his latest full-length Thunder Follows The Light expecting a light touch...view item »
Whitehouse
Thank Your Lucky Stars
You may have noticed that Whitehouse’s 1990 LP Thank Your Lucky Stars shares its name with a Beach House album...view item »
Gazelle Twin
Pastoral
Gazelle Twin is an artist, musician, and uh.. Adidas model? Her new album Pastoral continues the fascination the current wave of English psychedelic musicians has with the English countryside and the rot within. These tales are told through twisted electronics and Gazelle Twin's own mangled vocals. ...view item »
Nazamba
Vex
Ahead of a full album due on O.B.F. Sound System later in the year, Kingston artist Nazamba drops a debut twelve through The Bug’s eclectic new imprint Pressure. Over a marching tempo, growling bass and dub-delayed samples, Nazamba spits a long and relatable shopping list of things that make him vex. Absol...view item »
Aphex Twin
Collapse EP
With mysterious artwork appearing everywhere from Turin to Kippax - on people's coffee cups, on the back of tea towels, on the last sheets of loo paper - it's that time again: a new Aphex Twin marketing campaign. Which means only one thing - new music from the maverick electronic producer. This time, a 12" issued with bizarre sp...view item »
Constant Mongrel
Living In Excellence
Although not all surfers are Australians, it is sometimes said that every Australian is by definition a surfer. Aussie punkers Constant Mongrel make no effort to disprove this bland oversimplification. Living in Excellence mixes their punk violence with a laid-back surfer’s attitude, and then lace th...view item »
The Blinders
Columbia
Energetic, goth-tinged Yorkshire three-piece The Blinders take their influences from great lyricists, poets and writers such as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, John Lennon, Rimbaud, Allen Ginsberg, George Orwell and William Burroughs, but also count Charles Manson and the devil among their influences. Their debut album, Col...view item »
Prince
Piano & A Microphone 1983
Prince presented himself to the world with consummate showmanship and an enigmatic persona that made his fans want to know even more about him. Piano & A Microphone gives fans a insight into his inspiration and songwriting process. Taken from a home-recorded cassette in dating from 1983, this album features Prince playing ea...view item »
Spencer Zahn
People Of The Dawn
Debut album from bassist Spencer Zahn. On People Of The Dawn he takes the vocabulary of jazz but plays with the semantics. The bass is still the thing holding it together but rather than melodic improvisation Zahn plays with texture. Helped by Darkside's Dave Harrington who did th...view item »
Capital Punishment
Roadkill
Capital Punishment were a teenage band who formed in New York City in 1979. They took their influences from Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno, Chrome and Cabaret Voltaire. Roadkill was their only album and was self-released. The interesting thing about them is their ...view item »
The Holydrug Couple
Hyper Super Mega
Chilean psychsters The Holydrug Couple return to Sacred Bones for their third LP on the esteemed indie imprint. The band have said all the right things in the run-up to ...view item »
Pierre Bastien & Cabo San Roque / Anna Homler, Adrian Northover, Dave Tucker
FTS003
Another split 12” from the First Terrace label. This one here features improvisations from the fresh and adventurous trio of Adrian Northover, Anna Homler and Dave Tucker on the one side, and a Pierre Bastien piece for Cabo San Roque’s massive orches...view item »
Brandon Coleman
Resistance
The fun times just keep coming as the party fortress Brainfeeder offers us Resistance, the new cut from Brandon Coleman. To put things in perspective, he happens to be a member of saxophonist Kamasi Washington's band, padding out that symphonic sound with fusion sounds on his keyboard and...view item »
Joyce Manor
Million Dollars To Kill Me
One of the best bands to emerge in the recent revival of Good Old-Fashioned Proper Emo, Joyce Manor’s fifth LP sees the group take the big leap into adulthood. The songwriting on Million Dollars To Kill Me is more mature, more considered, and wiser than anything they’ve released previously. Even among their ...view item »
The Declining Winter
Belmont Slope
No one evokes the emotional atmospheres of the North quite like Richard Adams, so thank god he's made Belmont Slope, a musical fable about the M62. Mysterious and muffled, he returns with his Declining Winter moniker to detail further secrets hiding in the Yorkshire soil. If it's anything l...view item »
Black Honey
Black Honey
The press release for the eponymous debut LP by Black Honey begins by claiming that there’s no band around who’s quite like this Brighton quartet, but in the following paragraph it name-checks Garbage...view item »
DJ Overdose
Time Compensation EP
Though DJ Overdose has been putting out music since the late 90’s, the past few years have seen the Dutch producer really up his work-rate. Time Compensation is the e...view item »
Retiree
House Or Home
After a couple of singles away from Rhythm Section Intl, Australia’s Retiree return with their debut album, House Or Home. The three-piece have honed their disparate influences to make coherent and credible ‘80s influenced pop with yearning vocals, glacial synth washes and occasional, understated guitar. LP on Rhythm...view item »
Garage Class
Terminal Tokyo
Terminal Tokyo was released as a single four years after it was originally recorded in 1980. Garage Class were amongst the underground pioneers of the DIY punk sound that helped to shape British music into the somewhat confused mess it is today. Grand. Available on vinyl 7", includes a JD Twitch edit, and reissued on Ou...view item »
Ratgrave
Ratgrave
Ratgrave is the new project from Julius Conrad and Max Graef. From squelchy electro-funk to smooth, chilled vibes via some more erratic beats, this album has everything you want for a good night in or out. It was recorded over a three year period in three different locations, although they are k...view item »
Linkwood
Fresh Gildans
Are you allowed to go at 150 BPM? Isn't that one of the forbidden tempos? Well no one ever told Linkwood who's determined the make you dance (fidget?) faster than you thought you could. Fresh Gildans features three new tracks from the electrofunk producer. But don't get too excited, the B-side tak...view item »
T&K Crew
Memory Child
Posthuman’s Balkan Vinyl imprint (Mark Archer, Perseus Traxx) drop an EP centred on T&K Crew’s ‘Memory Child’. The original is acid (it’s always acid with this lot) with a nice techno bite to it. Three remixes each give the tune...view item »
Olan Mill
Curves
Olan Mill's Alex Smalley made his new album 'Curves' before and after his trip to Myanmar at the tail end of 2016. At the time, Smalley was looking forward to becoming a father and moving to Germany; it therefore chronicles a story of personal upheaval with all the feelings you'd expect to come with such milestone events. Built ...view item »
Ben Chatwin
Drone Signals
Former Talvihorros chap Ben Chatwin has not been content with releasing one album this year. Instead he has gone back to his sound sources for 'Staccato Signals' and created an entirely new work. 'Drone Signals' as you might guess by the title is a more ambient stretched out work that will appeal to all your dro...view item »
Oneness of Juju
African Rhythms
Strut have already reissued this 1975 soul-jazz classic from Oneness Of Juju a couple of times, but the latest pressing of African Rhythms comes with a few upgrades. The most notable tweak is the recently-discovered ‘Afrobeat’, taped at the original album sessions but lost to the winds until...view item »
Trio Ternura
A Gira / Last Tango In Paris
A shining golden piece of Música Popular Brasileira from the 70’s, recorded by two sisters and a brother. Trio Ternura learned their craft from their father, Umberto Silva, and A Gira / Last Tango In Paris is a beautiful example of what they could do. Lush strings, smooth rhythms, heavenly ...view item »
Christine and The Queens
Chris
Héloïse Letissier is back with a new album as Christine and The Queens! The French singer-songwriter now gives us 'Chris' as the follow-up album to 2014's 'Chaleur Humaine' which took France by storm and sold shedloads (millions, actually) just about everywhere else; including here at your humble Norman, in an expand...view item »
Black Belt Eagle Scout
Mother Of My Children
Black Belt Eagle Scout seems to be taking off. The solo-project by Katherine Paul brims with the different musical influences from her youth--from her Native family’s powwows to old grunge mixtapes, and is already a big hit on the blogs and streams. And we get it, Mother of my Children is a fuzzy and also ver...view item »
Tentenko
Tentenko
Kicking off new label Toothpaste Records is the latest effort from j-synthpop purveyor Tentenko. Half of experimental duo MikaTen and an ex-member of punkish, personnel-revolving BiS, she also already has quite the solo discography. But this is her first work released outside Japan, and shows we...view item »
Carrie Cleveland
Looking Up: The Complete Works
Carrie Cleveland’s 1978 LP Looking Up is catnip to record collectors and connoisseurs. Recording alongside her husband in their home studio, Cleveland is a poised and charismatic presence atop instrumentals that range from swooning soul (‘Take A Moment’) to dancefloor boogie (the acclaimed ‘Love ...view item »
Terry Callier
The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier was the debut album by the celebrated guitarist. The album was recorded in one afternoon in 1964, capturing a raw talent in his element. With just voice, guitar and a pair of bass players, Callier infuses jazz and soul with folk to create a unique sound. The alb...view item »
Max Richter
White Boy Rick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
So. He's only done it again, hasn't he? Another stellar soundtrack work under the expanding belt of Max von Richie Richter. This time, it's 'White Boy Rick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'. The music accompanies a story in the film where the teenage Richard in the title becomes an undercover FBI informant a...view item »
Alexandra Streliski
Pianoscope
Alexandra Streliski’s album Pianoscope was initially released in 2010, so many neoclassical albums ago, and it is quite right and deserving that it should be introduced to the record buying public again now. Luscious arpeggios and melancholy melodies abound on this set, which is sure to accompany your next session...view item »
Hood
Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys
'Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys' was Hood's first album for Domino following on from their two earlier lo-fi albums for Slumberland. It announced a drastic departure in their sound from the previous inventive indie to a less noisy, more tranquil approach that haunted the edges of post-rock. These six lengthy songs sprea...view item »
Hood
The Cycle of Days and Seasons
Hood's fourth full-length album and their second for Domino Records. This one sees them deconstructing their songwriting with a dub-inflected sound incorporating decaying tape loops, found samples and half-speed beats alongside their usual gentle guitars and hushed vocals. Co-produced by Matt Elliott (Third Eye Foundatio...view item »
Lonnie Holley
MITH
The legendary Lonnie Holley returns with Mith. It's an album filled with righteous fire aimed at the chaos and injustice of American life. His impassioned spoken word delivery gives topics like Standing Rock and Black Lives Matter the weight they deserve. As does the beefy instrumentation: wild dr...view item »
Blaze Foley
Sittin' By The Road
Blaze Foley was an Arkansas folksman who was shot to death in suspicious circumstances in 1989. Despite relatively little success in his lifetime, Foley is admired by the likes of Willie Nelson and Caleb Followill. Sittin’ By The Road collects a dozen of his earliest known recordi...view item »
Spiral Deluxe
Voodoo Magic
Rather than a lady, Spiral Deluxe are channelling Voodoo Magic but thats not the only thing of note about this supergroup, their drummer and percussionist is none other than Jeff Mills. Yes that Jeff Mills. They are a group of skilled musicians making music with no creative boundaries blending jazz, funk pop, house and techno in...view item »
Felt
Train Above The City
Possibly one of the strangest albums ever made in that Felt leader Lawrence is nowhere to be seen and instead of their usual arty indie-pop you get an album of jazzy instrumentals composed by keyboardist Martin Duffy and drummer Gary Ainge. Musically it bears no resemblance to anything else they've ever done but still fits in wi...view item »
The Primals
All Love Is True Love
The Primals sound exciting. They feature members of Darkest Hour, Dead to Fall and the Explosion and are said to be bringing back the visceral thrill of grunge. Their thrilled record label Southern Lord suggest that fans of Wand, Ty Segall...view item »
Various
Spectral 139
Spectral Sound are turning 18! And to celebrate their newfound ability to legally purchase pints, they’re releasing a fantastic sampler covering a wide range of genres, from dub to techno to acidic funk. Spectral 139...view item »
Felt
Forever Breathes The Lonely Word
The first Felt album for Creation and the first not to feature guitar wizard Maurice Deebank. Forever Breathes the Lonely Word is kind of a bridge album between their old sound and the lighter more varied work in the second half of the eighties. As a result of Deebank's departure Martin Duffy's organ takes centre stage, wanderin...view item »
Felt
Poem Of The River
For anyone that thinks all the best Felt stuff came in the first part of their career you need to hear Poem of the River. This is a glorious low key album full of glistening guitars and Lawrence's whispered vocals. Six lovely songs including career highlights Stained Glass Windows in the Sky and Dark Red Birds. Utterly essential...view item »
Felt
Me And A Monkey On The Moon
The final Felt album saw the band go out on a rather sombre and perhaps disjointed note on an album that somewhat lacked the distinctive creativity of their previous work. That said it shows a hitherto unseen maturity with a slight country-ish feel and is notable by the appearance of pedal steel player B J Cole. ...view item »
Ocoeur
Inner
Ocoeur is the neo-classical/ambient project from French composer Franck Zaragoza. The name is a play on the French meaning ‘to the heart’. On Inner, his fifth long-player, Zaragoza brings synths to the fore highlighting the ambient passages. However, the usual piano, strings and production are very much in evidence t...view item »
The Durutti Column
M24J (Anthology)
The Durutti Column were Tony Wilson’s first signing to Factory Records, and remained an understated constant throughout the label’s existence and beyond. Vini Reilly’s minimal, mostly instrumental arrangements, fluid guitar playing and gentle introversion were ...view item »
23 Skidoo
Seven Songs
Reissue of 23 Skidoo’s (indie) chart-topping debut LP Seven Songs, coming courtesy of LTM. A favourite of post-punk savants Paul Morley and Simon Reynolds, the London group made a raucous and visceral sound on this 1982 record. Their manic punk-funk style took in ...view item »
Colored Music
Colored Music
Japanese duo, Colored Music’s 1981 debut is for fans of weird and obscure music. Their sound is utterly their own, however, if you imagine David Bowie’s Berlin trilogy spliced with the work of Japanese electronic pioneer Haruomi Hosono, it may give you an insight into their world of ...view item »
Brujeria
Matando Güeros
Straight out of 1993 is this classic of Mexican grindcore: the debut album of Brujeria. Matando Güeros, which features a photo of a genuine severed head on the cover, is all about narco and border violence, and takes an extremely anti-American position: check out the opening skit, in which a cocky American dude has...view item »
Léonie Pernet
Crave
Leonie Pernet, from Paris, has completed her debut full-length album and is now ready to send it out into the world. Crave features the vocal, piano and drumming talents of Pernet, also arranging the whole affair to her precise specifications. Crave is a dramatic and multi-faceted album, full o...view item »
The Field
Infinite Moment
Hope is something we could do with in 2018. Axel Willner AKA The Field had been toying with various new ideas for his sixth full length album before realising perhaps that we could do with an album that is warm and comforting. Therefore 'Infinite Moment' is hued with a rich gauze of straight to the heart electronics to soot...view item »
Get The Blessing
Bristopia
Get The Blessing, who choose to broadcast the fact that they come from Bristol with the fairly poor album title of Bristopia, are a mutant jazz group who liberally use electronics, rock and post-rock forms, and party rhythms to take their music to wherever they want to go. This one features bonus pedal-steel from ...view item »
L.B. Dub Corp
Roar
Luke Slater. A totemic figure in the world of Techno. A fixed point in the graph since techno existed and a stalwart of the UK midpoint in the Detroit - European scene / axis. Here he is, doing his 'stripped-back', mechanistic and hard-grooving thing as L.B. Dub Corp: three tracks of hand-carved majesty brought ...view item »
Various
Britxotica Goes Wild! Percussive Pop and Crazy Latin
Trunk brings us the latest instalment -- volume 5! Five! -- of the ongoing Britxotica series of compilation LPs. Legendary tastemakers Johnny Trunk and Martin Green cull and round up 16 more obscurities from pre-Beatles Exotica Britain with the emphasis on lively and fun, always...view item »
Alvin Lucier
Illuminated By The Moon
Beloved experimentalist and drone pioneer Alvin Lucifer certainly deserves to have a birthday as much as any of us. This Black Truffle reissue captures the joyful happenings of his 85th birthday, which was celebrated in Zurich back in 2013. This massive boxset collects four live LPs alongside a booklet of info and frie...view item »
Suede
The Blue Hour
Well. They are back. David Bowie might be dead but Suede are still alive right? So everything is ok. This one follows on fairly swiftly from their successful 'comeback' LP 'Night Thoughts' and shares the line up with their classic 'Coming Up' record. Expect a lot of wrought songs about being outsiders in suburbi...view item »
MIKE
Renaissance Man
The prodigiously talented Bronx teen MIKE swiftly follows May’s Black Soap tape with a new LP on Lex (Andrew Hung, JJDOOM). Across the thirty-odd minutes of Renaissance Man, the 19 year-old rapper/producer offers up a wealth of hazily soulful beats a...view item »
Field Works
Metaphonics: The Complete Field Works Recordings
Loads of artists club together with a luxury release dedicated to the found sound archives of Stuart Hyatt. The seven LPs in this box set all take Hyatt’s field recordings as starting points from which to build rich and varied song cycles. The list of contributors to Metaphonics: The Complete Field Works Reco...view item »
MC5
Total Assault
Get ready for a Total Assault! Available as a triple LP box set for the first time -- on red, white and blue vinyl -- are the band MC5's first three studio albums. Their incendiary debut 'Kick Out The Jams' is presented on red vinyl; 'Back In The USA' is coloured white and 'High Time' on blue vinyl. The sleeves ar...view item »
Cowboy Junkies
The Caution Horses
Cowboy Junkies. Love it. The Caution Horses was the third studio LP from this Magic Mike-ass band. This album was originally released in 1990, meaning it just missed the being caught up in the slipstream of Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game’ (that song would hit the Billboard top 10 ...view item »
Mikael Lind
Strings and Clusters
Bradley “anthéne” Deschamps’ Polar Seas label introduces another grand player in Reykjavik musician Mikael Lind, whose previous ports of call include Morr Music and Time Released Sound. Although it does nothing to help clichés about music from Iceland, Strings and Clusters does br...view item »
Villagers
The Art of Pretending to Swim
The return of ol' wobble voice, Conor O' Brien has sat and made this latest Villagers record all by himself in his Dublin studio. Despite this lonesome pursuit, it's an album that adds all kinds of sonic detail and soulfulness to his songwriting resulting in possibly his most accessible music to date. There's an indie's only red...view item »
Brocker Way
Wild Wild Country - Original Music From The Netflix Documentary Series
Can’t help but feeling that Wild Wild Country, the popular documentary series to which this is the soundtrack, might be titled with Bill Callahan in mind, especially ...view item »
Gareth Sager & The Hungry Ghost
Juicy Rivers
Hang on, look at the sleeve. A lion mauling a moustachioed man who is eating ....a biscuit? It's a typically eccentric sleeve for this founding member of the Pop Group / Rip Rig & Panic and Head. Quite the career. Ten tracks of punk funk with collaborations with Jock Scot and Dave...view item »
Sauna Youth
Deaths
Sauna Youth’s third album, Deaths, mixes a whole lotta genres into their punk sound. The London-based group forced a deadline on themselves by booking the studio time before anything was written. This meant the creative process was turned on its head and time limits meant whichever band members could make it to sessions ea...view item »