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Lord Huron
Vide Noir
I hope Lord Huron are okay. Their new album Vide Noir, meaning 'empty black', is an indie folk communion with the void. Assuming the seasons continue their endless deferral it might be the ideal album to listen to this supposed 'spring'. Haunting but warm, Lord Huron are the ideal companion to face the darkn...view item »
Richard Hawley & Ollie Trevers
Funny Cow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
'Funny Cow' looks like it's going to be a great film. It stars Maxine Peake and is filmed in Saltaire. What could go wrong? Nothing especially as the soundtrack has been composed by that lord of northern English melancholy Richard Hawley. Corinne Bailey Rae and Ollie Trevers also contribute but this is mostly H...view item »
Concretism
For Concrete and Country
Some good old-fashioned idiosyncrasy from Concretism here. For Concrete And Country synthesises much of the Great British oddball lineage - the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Ghost Box Records, Public Service Broadcasting etc. - with a newly-resurfaced Cold War paranoia. It’s the aural...view item »
Minami Deutsch
With Dim Light
Minami Deutsch is the kind of name of band that ensures I studiously ignore their output. This is probably the little Englander in me coming out. I don't know what it means and I can't say it all that well. Now if they were called Sausages then I might take a bigger interest.
The press blurb suggests that these are psych freaks who...view item »
Alabaster dePlume
The Corner Of A Sphere
The fourth LP from Alabaster dePlume sees the East London jazz-savant balancing positivity and hardship. Born from his monthly PEACH sessions at Dalston’s getting-a-reputation-for-itself Total Refreshment Centre, The Corner Of A Sphere seeks to make good of the troubles afflicting many a Millenial youth. dePlume&r...view item »
Chihei Hatakeyama
Journey To The End Of August
Ukraine’s Hidden Vibes is a cute little label. Their highly limited releases all come nicely packaged, and they tend to contain music of tranquil beauty. Chihei Hatakeyama’s ...view item »
Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvaer feat. Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay
Nordub
Sly & Robbie, Nils Petter Molvaer, Elvind Aarset and Vladislav Delay - how’s that for an unholy alliance? Sly & Robbie and trumpeter Molvaer have been touring together for some time, and to this collaboration Aarset adds guitars and Vladislav Delay electronics and ...view item »
Disco Inferno
Technicolour
By the time 1995 rolled round Disco Inferno had probably had enough. Not only had their stunning run of forward thinking records been ignored by all but the most discerning music listener but they'd had all their gear nicked resulting in most of an album having to be thrown in the bin and they'd been hawked round on ill considered support slots ...view item »
Jane Weaver
The Lightning Back
To accompany her very large tour with the Public Service Broadcasting, vintage synth loving fan of all things kosmiche Jane Weaver has unleashed a single from her highly acclaimed 'Modern Kosmology' album and dragged those squirming, wriggly noise people Sex Swing in for a remix. Limited ed...view item »
Belong
October Language
Back in 2006, New Orleans’ Belong released their debut album ‘October Language’. Though well received at the time, it deserves so much more. Then it was compared to the shoegaze greats, a much deserved comparison, but I think the spirit of ‘October Language’ has more in common with the bittersweet heft of ...view item »
Woolymammoth
Filling Spots
Woolymammoth is a San Francisco-born, Los Angeles-residing DJ and producer who is not to be confused with the Washington DC hardcore punk band Wooly Mammoth. This Woolymammoth, apart from disregarding spaces, trades in beats, bass, experimental electronic and samples. Filling Spots is his new al...view item »
Bones & Beeker
Inside A Different Mind
Bones & Beeker are Anthony Newes and BK-One, who off the back of their 2015 debut album, have let loose some of their friends to create Inside A Different Mind. Featuring remixes from big names like Cut Chemist, Brother Ali, and Open Mik...view item »
Still Circles
27:36
Let's talk about Bradford for a minute. It's really good. Honest. It has the Record Cafe, the Triangle, Sunbridge Wells, the Curry Beck and it was recently voted the Wonga Cheapest Night Out in Britain. Also look up at the buildings and it's gorgeous. One other thing is that Still Circles are from Bradford and have here teamed up with 'super' pr...view item »
Charly Kingson
Born In Africa
The people at Africa Seven unearth another lost gem with Charly Kingson’s 1978 LP Born in Africa. Kingson - cousin of Manu Dibango, no less - recorded this album after relocating from Cameroon to Germany. It’s a record of popping synth-funk and hi-life disco, with tracks lik...view item »
Plush / Liam Hayes
Korp Sole Roller
Liam Hayes initially recorded for Domino under the Plush moniker. Since leaving Domino, however, he has seemingly had difficulty getting records released. Korp Sole Roller, Hayes’ fourth album, treads a similar path to previous releases: echoes of Burt Bacharach and Jimmy Webb...view item »
Beta Evers / Spatial Relation
Split EP
New York duo Spatial Relation and Augsburg’s Beta Evers contribute three tracks a-piece here for Peripheral Minimal. The trio from Evers are tinny, lo-fi tracks which jump between dark electro (‘Hiding’) and synthwave (‘Soundtrack For A Tomorrow’). Doppleref...view item »
Shorelights
Ancient Lights
Rod Modell AKA Deepchord (see also Echospace, Waveform Transmissions, Transformations) has hooked up with the two blokes from Detroit’s nospectacle, Chris McNamara and Walter Wasacz to become ...view item »
Trap Configurations
When someone drops a record called Trap Configurations in 2018, forgive this blurb writer for expecting booming kicks and rattling hi-hats of the Metro Boomin/Mike WiLL Made-It school. But June Records have thrown us a red herring with that title. TC is, in fact, a record of da...view item »
Vakulism
Edelweiss Reflection
Ukrainian producer Vakula appears as Vakulism for this one. I for one welcome the new Vakulist movement. In any case, things aren’t sounding too different from his February LP Metaphors, especially the closer ‘The Eve of Metaphors’ - title’s a clue. A chill range of midtempo tech...view item »
Ludgate Squatter
U.K. Steel EP
Glaswegian imprint West End Communications (Perth Drug Legend, Obstrct) drop an EP from Ludgate Squatter. U.K. Steel really lives up to its name, containing as it does four dirty, rasping techno jams and a (slightly) softer closer, the Ross From Friend...view item »
L/F/D/M
X-Enter-O EP
L/F/D/M - that’s Love’s Flacid Disco Muscle, by the way - drops an EP of brain-bending futuro-acid for Singaporean label Midnight Shift (KiNK...view item »
Theo Parrish
Gentrified Love Part 4
Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature may be turning twenty this year, but that doesn’t mean that the Detroit legend is resting on his laurels. Rather, the fourth instalment of his Gentrified Love...view item »
Levon Vincent
NS-20
I once heard someone refer to him as Levon "The Don" Vincent and now I can't think of him as anything less. Limited edition 12" featuring the enormous 'Kissing' and 'Only Good Things' from The Don's recent album. Is he The Don, or does it just rhyme with his first name? You decide! Released on Novel...view item »
Spongebob Squarepants: Original Theme Highlights
We know you’ve been sad lately, and we know why. It’s because Bikini Bottom’s most famous, friendly, absorbent, yellow and porous resident has never once enjoyed the vinyl treatment. It’s time something was done. That’s what Enjoy the Ride were thinking, and they’ve done the honourable thing of bringing the be...view item »
Melvins
Pinkus Abortion Technician
Being a Melvins fan for well over half of my life on this planet, despite the fact that recent albums have less than blown me away, I always check what they’re up to.
Having done the two drummers thing, this time around they have two bass players on this record. Steven McDonald (Redd Kross, ...view item »
Henry Blacker
The Making Of Junior Bonner
Sludge is sometimes dressed up hard rock. This is one of those times but in a good way; Henry Blacker, a regional offshoot of Hey Colossus, initially started as a way of exorcising some of their doom demons away from home (stuck in Somerset, not London -- you know the drill), and now have their third record of ...view item »
Tommy Mandel
Mello Magic
Best known as some 80s fingers for hire - he played keys for Bryan Adams, The Clash and plenty of others - Tommy Mandel has also self-released plenty of his own work down the years. Invisible City hoover up some of the stuff he put to tape in the 80s for a compilation of ‘...view item »
Tony Allen / Ricardo Villalobos
Dekmantel 10 Years 10.1
Wrapping up a ten-EP series in celebration of as many years active, the Dutch imprint Dekmantel commissions from minimal techno heavyweight Ricardo Villalobos a whopping half-hour remix of Tony Allen’s 1999 tune ‘Asiko (In A Silent Mix)’. Villalobos weaves new effects and synthetic materials in...view item »
Slowglide
Reigi / Haipa
Metallic, mid-fi dancefloor moods from somebody called Slowglide. These rhythms are immediately likeable, let alone danceable. There’s a trace of throwback to early 1990s IDM in the squelchy FX on some of the pads, as well as the discreet, brooding synths beneath. Piano hooks on the a-side also colourfully suggest eurodanc...view item »
Various / Lena Willikens
Selectors 005
Salon des Amateurs resident Lena Willikens becomes the latest artist to contribute to Dekmantel’s Selectors series. As opposed to previous releases, Selectors 005 puts the emphasis on new material. The music is as diverse as Willikens’s DJ sets - among other things we get weightless...view item »
Pablo's Eye
Spring Break
Belgium’s STROOM.tv have proved themselves a natty little label over the past couple of years. Their run of unearthing some leftfield electronica gems continues with a release from long-running experimental ambient project Pablo’s Eye. Spring Break compiles eight tracks from down the years, ...view item »
Christina Vantzou
No. 4
Thank you, hell. Having booted us out of the soul-sucking eternity that was ‘No. 3’, Christina Vantzou returns with another startling record in her ambient classical series, offering a more focused meditation performed by herself and collaborators Angel Deradoorian, ...view item »
Sterile Hand (Silent Servant)
Sterile Hand
Los Angeles techno producer Juan Mendez (Sandwell District, Jealous God) aka Silent Servant delves even further into his recent foray into EBM, teaming up with Ori Ofir on vocal duties for some ice cold Electronic Body Music.
The Sterile Hand sound is part homage to 80s influences but still has Mendez’s sound stamped all over it. T...view item »
The Coke Dares
Fake Lake
To Jason Molina they were known as the Magnolia Electric Co; to themselves, they were and are the Coke Dares, the same band with an entirely different sound. Molina used them to create terrestrial, earth-shattering Americana, and while you can see the weight and the crunch the band used for his twang songs here, their sound couldn’t be fur...view item »
The Great Electric
The Great Electric
I needed this. I needed the version of old-days homaging krautrock and kosmische that is, in fact, really goofy, living with a song in its heart, the trees swaying over it like a kindly guardian. The shiny, unabashedly silly sound of the Great Electric makes their rather well-worn aesthetic newly blissful, the melodies playing out with new, simp...view item »
Drowse
Cold Air
Oh what has happened now? Almost every record released these days seems to be on the back of a breakdown, a relationship catastrophe or some kind of hardship. It's terrible. People have it bad - especially musicians.
All this happened to Kyle Bates during the making of this record: - a nose broken while blackout drunk, ...view item »
Mouse On Mars
Dimensional People
It does look somewhat like Mouse on Mars skimmed through the Pitchfork Book of Indie Cool to choose their guests for this opus. For Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) Aaron & Bryce Dessner (the National) and Zach Condon (Beirut) feature alongside 40 other guests. Impressive though their l...view item »
King Tuff
The Other
King Tuff is the guy who can’t quite stop himself from dabbling in psych rawk pomp due to his part in Ty Segall’s old backing band the Muggers, and, maybe, I don’t know, some other things. His new record, ‘The Other’, starts simply enough, but soon it’s decorated in bombast, a s...view item »
PYRIT
Control
Pyrit has lovingly compared this creation ‘Control’ to both maze and prison, and I’m inclined to give him a reluctant co-sign: his work is heavy on the queasy and long on horror house fiction, a kind of Blanck Mass meets It creation of looming dread. Except when he sings: then, all spells are b...view item »
Caudal
Fight, Cry, Fight
Post-rock in the extremes of low-key, Caudal will lead you to believe they’re about to do something propulsive and off-the-charts before just keeping on with what they were essentially doing already. Therefore: tension, but also comfort. ‘Fight, Cry, Fight’ is the sound of a band looping some ideas around in a jam and seeing wh...view item »
Stars Of The Lid
Gravitational Pull vs The Desire for an Aquatic Life
Before it was beautiful it was dark, like dusk, and there was fog. Stars of the Lid went on to make two gorgeous, sunshined drone classics in ‘Refinement’ and ‘Tired Sounds’ -- both so hopeful and lovely that they often got compared to the narrative driven music of post-rock -- but once there was disquiet. Their second re...view item »
Sufjan Stevens
Tonya Harding
Someone doesn't like Sufjan Stevens and it's a shame that it happens to be Tonya Harding who hates the song. Oh and the people who made the documentary about her who rejected it as part of the soundtrack. But it's ok, Sufjan. We still like you.
Strange format this. 7" makes sense but cassingle? Well it's a nice collectors thi...view item »
Alexis Taylor
Beautiful Thing
You really have to hand it to him. Alexis Taylor really has some chutzpah. His last album was a disc of him singing solo piano songs endlessly whilst he managed to ingratiate himself with Charles Hayward resulting in the About Group's blot on the latter's otherwise ...view item »
Louise Landes Levi
Ikiru or The Wanderer
Louise Landes Levi is worried about the butterfly. And who wouldn't be! I'm sure almost all of us have fond memories of heading to the Butterfly House for birthday parties when we were kids. Levi has channeled her concern into Ikiru or The Wanderer, a rare solo effort from this vital musical traveller....view item »
Jeffrey Lewis
Works By Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010)
What is he up to now? Well, Jeffrey Lewis has been putting on a tribute concert for Tuli Kupferberg (Fugs) every year since the latter's death in 2010. He keeps meaning to get round to recording an album of Kupferberg songs and at last he's done it including some unreleased poems he's set to m...view item »
Be My Friend In Exile
Portraiture Of Your Ashes / Dancing Through The Rubble Of An Abandoned Cathedral
Bristolian micro-label Aphelion Editions are back with another very limited run. This time they’ve turned their attention to ambient artist Be My Friend In Exile and his lengthy takes Portraiture Of Your Ashes / Dancing Through The Rubble Of An Abandoned Cathedral. Utilising electric guitar loops,...view item »
Brown Acid: The Sixth Trip
A mind-blowing, limited-edition, green vinyl compilation of obscure hard rock, psych and proto-metal from the 60s and 70s from the folks over at RidingEasy records. Dive into 10 deep cuts from bands across America and Canada, including Truth & Janey, Travis, Johnny Barnes and Ze...view item »
Pali Meursault
(Échos)
Dôme records presents this new, limited edition LP collecting music and field recordings by Pali Meursault. (Échos) includes music made by Stephen O’Malley, Clara De Asís & Laura Vasquez and Bear Bones to assemble a series of evocations in collaged sound-journalling. Abstracted location rec...view item »
Mike Donovan
How to Get Your Record Played in Shops
San Fran rocker and Sic Alps & Peacers lead singer Mike Donovan is in the mood for dishing out advice on his latest solo outing, How to Get Your Record Played in Shops. He’s often in a gentle, piano-led garage or rock & roll mode for this collection, with a lot of peace an...view item »
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Wolf of the Cosmos
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy has always been of particular interest to me - not because of his music - but because of his name. Why exactly does he need to claim to the 'Prince' status? Is he actually a prince? Or is he actually an unnecessary ego? Who knows. Either (or neither) way, Wolf of the Cosmos is available on vinyl LP and CD on Domino. ...view item »
Mark Peters
Innerland
First things first. Mark Peters isn't toilet brush haired former the Alarm rocker Mike Peters. This is Mark Peters who used to be in Engineers, might still be for all we know. Here he steps out solo for the first time and you can only get it on tape.
It's a series of g...view item »
Elliott Smith
Division Day
Division Day by Elliott Smith was a non-album single, originally released in 1996 in between his self-titled second album and his masterpiece, Either/Or. Division Day is Elliott’s first foray into more upbeat pop following two acoustic albums. Now repressed on tri-colour vinyl and limited to 1000 copies. An absolute must-b...view item »
Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins
All Sorts Of Heroes
Pressed for the first time on vinyl this is a lost experiment by legendary Factory producer Martin Hannett and Invisible Girls Steve Hopkins. Initially soundtracking a short film which never saw the light of day this is a bass heavy piece of cartoon funk/disco which draws parallels with Hannett's work with ESG. Also we are...view item »
Gomez
Bring It On (20th Anniversary Edition)
It’s been twenty years since Gomez, the Southport indie five-piece with three lead singers, released this debut and nabbed the coveted Mercury Prize. So if you’re after the vinyl, here’s an anniversary remaster. If you’re after the CD, here’s an anniversary remaster plus three more discs comprising ...view item »
Girl Ray
The Way We Came Back
This new single by Girl Ray contains a song Poppy Hankin wrote when she was 16 years old (she's not much older than that now to be fair). So it's nice to see she's not ashamed of her past. Expect a similar kind of naive and charming indie pop as shown on their recent well regarded album 'Earl Grey'. ...view item »
Bjørn Torske
Kickrock / Blue Call
Minimalist techno from the beautiful town of Tromsø. North enough that you can see the Northern Lights it's no surprise this city has a strong musical lineage, which includes ambient legend Biosophere. Bjørn Torske was influenced by his fellow Tromsønites and is releasing two ...view item »
Yung Wu
Shore Leave
A time long ago I was young and carefree when my only worry in life was completing my collection of the Feelies side projects. The day I found the Yung Wu record was a special one. I had no idea what to expect. I mean...Yung Wu... I thought it would be experimental...or Japanese...or both.
I ...view item »
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
The phenomenal success of Buena Vista Social Club could not have been predicted. A collection of Cuban musicians including Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer and Ruben Gonzalez were put together by three people to play traditional Cuban music. The most famous of those three people w...view item »
Simone Felice
The Projector
You might know him as being one part of competent American folksters The Felice Brothers. Or maybe you recognise his name from the liner notes of some of the 2010s most competent indie-pop (Bat For Lashes, Peace, The Lumineers). Either way, Simone Felice has com...view item »
Shudder To Think
Ten Spot
Let's hope this re-issue of Shudder to Think's debut album has been re-mastered. Their original albums though musically exceptional suffer from the kind of quiet '90s mastering that suggests the record was played out of some speakers and recorded onto a tape recorder. Drums high enough in the mix to make you feel you are listening to the band ou...view item »
Funkadelic
Finest
Probably the greatest compilation of George Clinton’s iconic funk ensemble Funkadelic, Finest covers 1970 to 1976 and mixes classics with obscurities. Tidal Waves Music have repressed this out of print rarity to very limited deluxe double vinyl LP, complete with the original psychedelic ar...view item »
Anne Briggs
An Introduction to Anne Briggs
If you haven’t yet been introduced to Anne Briggs, then you really need to be, and Weatherbox have got your back. An Introduction To Anne Briggs summarises her extrao...view item »
XOR Gate
Conic Sections
XOR Gate is a new alias of Gerald Donald. If I have to tell you who this man is, then quite frankly, your existence thus far has been a monumental failure. If you’re looking for some sort of credible, valuable critique of this record, then you’ve so come to the wrong place. If someone as much as mumbles the words Dopplereffekt or Dre...view item »
Thomas Fehlmann / Terrence Dixon
We Take It From Here
Long-time Tresor favourites Thomas Fehlmann and Terrence Dixon were commissioned by the label to get together and make music for the Detroit Tresor...view item »
Automelodi
Surlendemains Acides
Hardware fans get ready! Automelodi is Montréal's Xavier Paradis, a man who knows his way around knobs and sliders better than most. This is a reissue of his 2013 album Surlendemains Acides, a collection of dense and energetic analogue synth pop. It's the sort of thing that'd bring a b...view item »
Pino Donaggio
A Venezia Un Dicembre Rosso Shocking
First faithful reissue of the soundtrack to Nicolas Roeg's clunkily named A Venezia Un Dicembre Rosso Shocking. Though no way near as well known as big man Ennio Morricone (how could he be?), Pino Donaggio deserves to be spoken of alongside him for being able to capture the specific mood of...view item »
Snails
Safe in Silence
Who remembers the Kinks? Well I'm old enough to be at least aware of them. I'd be fairly sure that Snails know of them too by the whimsical sounds they make on the opener here 'Jennifer Jones'. It's one of those quintessentially English sounding songs people in the '60s used to make. See also: early ...view item »
Ry Cooder
Paris Texas (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Ry Cooder paints a somber mood with his slide guitar, giving the movie another dimension for us to view the tormented soul. The music has a quiet simplicity to it but is laden with ghostly emotions - he plays that one riff that just echoes throughout. The melancholy songs are interrupted by a very different, but beautiful sound of Cancion Mixtec...view item »
Faerground Accidents
Perfume
If it were 1995 then Faerground Accidents would be touted as the next Pulp or Suede but in 2018 they seem strangely out of place. "Perfume", taken from their recent (and not without moments of excellence) album 'Co-Morbid', a Bowie-esque slab of glam melodrama that would ha...view item »
Lo Five
PROPAGATE
Liverpool’s Emotion Wave has only previously released compilations, so Lo Five must be up to something to be responsible for EW’s first single-artist release. Having impressed with cuts on both previous EW releases, Lo Five shows their range on Propagate. There are hyperactive, ...view item »
Buffalo Tom
Roman Cars
Boston flannel lovers Buffalo Tom, release a second 7" from their recent 'Quiet & Peace' LP. This one is a Japanese import on Formosa Punk records and there's only 300 of the buggers. You'll want it because there's an exclusive track on the B side which you won't be able to get anywhere else. ...view item »
Hakobune
Obelisk
Warm ambient music and a nice photograph: what more could you feasibly need to know? Hakobune has been at it for years and has made some of the loveliest, mildly shimmering drone there is, for Constellation Tatsu and elsewhere. he releases Obelisk on Polar Seas Recordings, using gorgeously processed ...view item »
Rival Consoles
Persona
Have you ever been followed down a dark alley by someone wielding an axe? Well If you have and don't want that part of your life soundtracked then best not listen to Rival Consoles new opus.
These are dramatic flourishes of pulsating and cinematic electronica that takes influence from Ingmar Bergman's psychological thriller but has...view item »
Cloud Castle Lake
Malingerer
As fashionable as it is these days to dislike Radiohead, they’re still worn on the sleeves of a few courageous outfits. Dublin-based Cloud Castle Lake is one of them. In their debut LP Malingerer can be heard post-Kid A RH textures, as well as the sprawled stylings of Spirit of Eden-...view item »
Space
Magic Fly (Remixes)
This Space were a late ‘70s French electronic band fronted by Didier Marouani, a pop singer who supported ‘French Elvis’, Johnny Hallyday on tour. For this project however, he used the pseudonym, Ecama. Magic Fly was a huge hit for them, reaching No.2 in the UK...view item »
Jan Jelinek
Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
Released in 2001 Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records by Jan Jelinek has sat on so many people’s wish list since because it has not been repressed once. Well, major props to Faitiche for answering the call, not only as a double vinyl but with two bonus tracks taken from the Tendency EP. Micro sampling ambient techno...view item »
A Winter Light
A Winter Light
For his solo exhibition of the same name in a Sligo gallery, Mark Garry invited some chums to write and record music on location, in direct response to the pieces on display. These include Karl Burke, Nina Hynes and Claudia Schwab as well as actor Cillian Murphy ...view item »
National Jazz Trio Of Scotland
Standards Vol. IV
The National Jazz Trio of Scotland are the collective led by heavily bearded composer Bill Wells. Thing is they are neither a trio nor play jazz. However they are from Scotland so that bit is correct and the album does contain moments of jazz amidst its outsider pop and modern composition. As well as ten Bill We...view item »
Tsvia Abarbanel
Eastern Soul
Israeli crate-diggers Fortuna Records have a bit of a thing for Yemeni singer Tsvia Abarbanel. The label’s first release was a 7” single featuring her tracks ‘Wings Of Love’ and &...view item »
Ssaliva
WYIN
Gorgeous mini album of elegiac, crystalline ambient electronics from Ssaliva aka Belgian producer François Boulanger - previously spotted on Ekster, Leaving Records, Vlek, Purple Tape Pedigree etc. Thematically, the record laments on socio-political concerns and it's a proper weeper. Immaculately produced, it conjures images of a broken f...view item »
Ocean Floor
The World of Rain
Aonghus Reidy AKA Ocean Floor returns after the sublime 4 Shadows record for Aphelion Edition with a much longer single piece, spread over 2 sides of 180gm vinyl. Named The World of Rain, Reidy conjures a similar sound as on his previous effort, utilising analogue synth to create a bubbling, liquid piece full of languorous melancholy. Side 1 is...view item »
Élg
Vu Du Dôme
Heard you’re all in the mood for some sound poetry? Yeah, I heard right. This review is not the sound poem; it is the mere conduit for it, with me as the messenger-boy for a record of troublemaker music concrete. Gorgeous and unnerving, a blessing and an ailment, this is ‘Vu Du Dôme’, the latest record by weirdo producer ...view item »
A Hawk and A Hacksaw
Forest Bathing
Forest Bathing is a form of healing by basically hanging out in a forest. Nice. Can't see a forest out the window but next time I'm in one I'll bath in it and see if it sorts out my problems. A Hawk and a Hacksaw have long found inspiration through travel and this is no different on this their 7th LP. They seem to take bits and bats of inspirati...view item »
Thembi Soddell
Love Songs
Oh my goodness, what have I done? Hitting play on this album has been something akin to opening Pandora's box and unleashing a dark force into my home. I think I had better go hide the children under the bed before some bad dudes from the Black Lodge show up… hang on.. They’re already here…. Arghhh!
I jest of course, ...view item »
The Moondoggies
A Love Sleeps Deep
It's been five long years since Washington natives The Moondoggies released a record, and we're gagging at their return. 'A Love Sleeps Deep' is classic rock of the highest order, with a gentle dusting of woodsy folk for good measure. Expect heart-on-sleeve songwriting and riff-heavy future classics....view item »
Bonny Doon
Longwave
Bonny Doon already have one pretty damn pleasant self titled album under their belts but have since decamped to the evocatively named Mystic Lake in Michigan to record this swift follow up. Inspired by their surroundings the band have created a twilit world of understated strum pop in the vein of those breezy relaxed songs on the Velvet ...view item »
Amen Dunes
Freedom
In making ‘Freedom’, Amen Dunes shifts from whimsical guitars and warbly melancholic vocals to a darker electronic sound. Frontman Damen McMahon calls upon his usual star-studded collaborators; drummer Parker Kindred (Antony & The Johnsons, Jeff Buckley), Chris Coady (Beach House) and let them work...view item »
The Ex
27 Passports
I would be remiss to leave the phrase “anarcho-punk” out of a review of the The Ex. But I don’t know how useful it is. Knowing The Ex are anarchists is interesting, it might even mean you respect them. Punk isn’t be too helpful here either. They are punk, this is punk, but to leave it at that would almost be insultingly r...view item »
RLYR
Actual Existence
Chicago experimental rock trio RLYR follow up their 2016 debut LP Delayer with this four-track album. Featuring members of Russian Circles, Cleared and Pelican, RLYR create a heavy but melodious racket here. The instrumental chops are impressive, with m...view item »
Exitmusic
The Recognitions
Coming out whiffing as much of Beach House as Zola Jesus, the latest album of New York’s Exitmusic (Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church, who is not a church in Devon but a person) also carries the dramatic and uneasy scent of the duo’s recent divorce. Wailed and repitched vocals are st...view item »
Fahrland
Mixtape Vol. 1
If you left the city that never sleeps because it managed to sneak a gram of ket into Berghain and moved to the countryside what sort of music would you make? Fahrland (aka Geiger) recently made that move and is now producing the sort of lush, funky, and assured electro pop that screams going to b...view item »
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