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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 »
Christoph de Babalon
Exquisite Angst
A Colourful Storm present some choice cuts from the 1990s archives of snarling darkjungle beat-breaker Christoph De Babalon. Six of the tracks have hopped over from his self-released digital compilations The Haunting Past Of Christoph De Babalon I & II, but there’s a pair of hitherto-unheard beasts in here as ...view item »
Coil
Love's Secret Demise
These recordings originally had the working title 'The Side Effects of Life' and were demos for what would become Coil's classic 1991 album 'Love's Secret Domain' and parts of the 'Wrong Eye/Scope' 7" released on Stefan Jaworzyn's Shock label. The demos were sent to Wax Trax! Records on cassette, prior to the label issuing 'Love...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 »
SOPHIE
OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
‘Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides’ is the most realised release yet from Scottish electronic artist Sophie. Those of us slightly wary of what initially seemed like an irony heavy take on pop have had such concerns demolished. What we have here is maximalist, experimental pop full of garbled hooks and great metal...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 »
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 »
Various
The Corn Mother
Understated, pastorally inclined A Year in the Country release another charming collection in characteristic monochrome. Today’s folkloric ruminations concern the mysterious 1970s screenplay for a made-but-never-released horror film called The Corn Mother...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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Manic Street Preachers
This is My Truth Tell Me Yours - 20 Year Collectors Edition
20 years ago the Manic Street Preachers released This is My Truth Tell Me Yours which you can now buy once again on a 20th anniversary special edition. Get not only the original album but a load of demos, live rehearsals and remixes. Don't miss out on the album NME gave 7/10 back in 1998 and features the hit '...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 »
The Fernweh
The Fernweh
The Fernweh are a three-piece from Liverpool who play psych/folk/pop/rock that harks back to the late ‘60s/early ‘70s. Their music recalls Piper At The Gates Of Dawn-era Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, Heron, The Trees and many Vertigo and Island bands of that era. Self...view item »
Transmaniacon feat. Lydia Lunch and Maya Berlin
The Strange World Of Suzie Pellet
Transmaniacon take their name from a Blue Oyster Cult song and describe themselves as 21st century schizoid people of the blue planet, which references a King Crimson song. It’s clear to see their prog influences, however, the music they make is a heavier br...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 »
Disclosure
Moonlight
Critically acclaimed and commercially successful Surrey-based electronic duo, Disclosure delve into previously uncharted waters with their new mini-LP, Moonlight. The tracks are a mix of African rhythms, vocal jazz, disco and deep house - sample based and picked from genres that the pair have always loved, but never recorded. 18...view item »
Oh! Gunquit
High On Xmas / Don’t Believe In Christmas
Another Christmas 7" this time from the peculiarly named Oh! Gunquit (name inspired by the Maine harbour town of Gunquit) who make two Christmas party anthems for your festive mayhem. Their sound is described as a "vibrant blend of new-wave vicious psych-surf, garage-punk, exotica & rock ‘n roll" which sounds lik...view item »
David Attenborough
My Field Recordings from Across the Planet
The People’s Princess aka David Attenborough releases a collection of field recordings that he made in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Surprisingly this set is more Alan Lomax than Chris Watson - many of the tracks here are tapes of indigenous musics from Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Madagas...view item »
Green Seagull
First Snow of Winter / God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
Christmas. It's only October and we've started arguing about it already here at Normans. Baroque psychedelic band Green Seagull already have things sorted though with a two song Christmas extravaganza. On the A side an original which talks about the comforts of the festive season (high winds, exhausts, snarl ups etc). Over on th...view item »
Rachael Dadd
Spark Illuminate / The Holly And The Ivy
It's Christmas 7" season and here's the latest by folky singer songwriter Rachel Dadd. She takes the image of the holly and the ivy as a base for two festive themed songs. Firstly she covers The Holly and the Ivy the actual 19th century folk song but also supplies an original song Spark Illuminate to warm your heart over the yul...view item »
Qlowski
Pure As Fear
Maple Death Records (The Wound, His Clancyness) with a dose of short, sharp garage rock here. Qlowski impressed with their eponymo...view item »
Barbara Tucker
Beautiful People (Floorplan Remixes)
Positiva is currently celebrating a quarter-century in the game with a run of anniversary releases. Following entries from artists including Eats Everything and Mele, the seventh in the series sees Robert Hood in Floorplan mode and giving Barbara Tucker...view item »
Jed Palmer
Upgrade (Original Motion Picture Score)
Set in a dystopian near-future, Upgrade is a 2018 sci-fi thriller about a technophobe who becomes reliant upon an implant after an accident leaves him paralysed. But the implant has a mind of its own... Sound designer and composer Jed Palmer helms the soundtr...view item »
Tyler Bates
Deadpool 2 (Original Motion Picture Score)
Deadpool - You know, the funny superhero one? Robin Hood: Men In Tights for millennials? No, me neither. Apparently you and this Norman Records™ description writer are i...view item »
Max Richter
Mary Queen of Scots (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Ever look at the current British political miasma and imagine how differently things might have turned out if Mary Stuart had been allowed to take the English throne back in the 16th Century? Well, now you don’t have to! New blockbuster flick Mary Queen Of Scots follows the highs and lows (there were more lows) of Mary’s rel...view item »
slowthai
RUNT
Traditionally, Northampton hasn’t been the first place that springs to mind when one thinks of the epicentres of grime. However, over the past couple of years a few emergent MCs have put the East Midlands town on the map. Along with Statz and Izzie Gibbs, Northants rapper slowthai has prov...view item »
Konami Kukeiha Club
Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night
Michiru Yamane’s music for Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night has long been considered one of the best and most original videogame soundtracks. The score’s hugely varied influences - everything from ...view item »
The Blasting Company
Over The Garden Wall (Original Soundtrack)
Over The Garden Wall was a really underrated cartoon. Only one season of it was commissioned - by Cartoon Network back in 2013 - and it never seemed to gain the traction of Adventure Time...view item »
Bauhaus
Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape
Live actions from Bauhaus circa 1981 -1982, compiled from a variety of shows from Paris to Liverpool. Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape features all the best ...view item »
Willard Grant Conspiracy
Untethered
Robert Fisher of Willard Grant Conspiracy was another musical hero gone too soon. He died in February 2017 leaving a legacy of great alt. country music behind. Untethered is the band’s final album. It was completed before Fisher’s death but has only recently been given to the world, with band member David Michael Cur...view item »
Salm
Salm Volume Two - Gaelic Psalms from the Hebrides of Scotland
Salm Volume Two - Gaelic Psalms from the Hebrides of Scotland, continues on from volume one on Arc Light Editions of gaelic psalms recordings. The traditional psalm signing from a mixture of congregational choir and individual voices was recorded in 2004 in the Back Free Church, Isle of Lewis, Scotland....view item »
Richard Pinhas
Chronolyse
Chronolyse was first released in 1977 (but only in France), as a sideline to Richard Pinhas’ activities in Heldon, the synth-prog experimentalists whose reputation is growing ever stronger. This is an LP of properly exploratory proportions, Moog arpeggios expanding everywhere. White vinyl reissue ...view item »
For Against
Mason’s California Lunchroom
Mason’s California Lunchroom was For Against’s second album for the Rainbow Quartz label, their fourth album in all. It was originally released in 1995. The band, who hail from Lincoln, Nabraska, moulded their darkwave sound through being influenced by a lot of independent British music that was around in the early &...view item »
For Against
Aperture
US post punk band For Against returned to the fold in 1993 after a five year hiatus with their third album, Aperture. Following in the footsteps of bands signed to Factory and 4AD, it could be argued that their take on darkwave foreshadowed bands such as Interpol. Reissue LP and digipak CD on Saint Marie....view item »
Bong
Live At Roadburn 2010, 2012, 2014
Roadburn is Tilburg's premier festival of metal and the noise that exists adjacent to it. I'm pretty sure we had one of these live records from them when Gnod were doing their drone ritual business over there, and now we get one from Bong, the band so stoked on being stoned that their drummer puts...view item »
Big’n
Knife of Sin
‘90s noise-rock luminaries Big’N have got the band back together in recent years. Their latest EP, the six-track Knife Of Sin, shows their powers to be undimmed...view item »
Israel Nash Gripka
Live In Holland - Barn Doors Concrete Floors Tour
Remember neo-Americana soul-pourer Israel Nash Gripka’s 2011 live album 2011 Barn Doors Spring Tour, Live in Holland? Yes, that one. We do too, and now most of the so...view item »
Satan's Satyrs
The Lucky Ones
Satan’s Satyrs singer Clayton Burgess (also of Electric Wizard) says of his band that ‘it doesn’t sound like anything else happening right now’. He’s correct - The Lucky Ones sounds like something that happened many years ago, specifically some time around 1974. The band&rs...view item »
For Against
Shel Life
Pioneering darkwave/post-punk band, For Against, have been plying their trade on-and-off since 1984. Shel Life was their 5th album and was originally released in 1997. They take their influences from early 4AD and Factory bands which was odd for a band from midwest USA at the time. Reissue LP and digipak CD on Saint Marie....view item »
Hilma Nikolaisen
Mjusic
Norwegian guitarist and singer Hilma Nikolaisen follows up her 2016 debut, Puzzler, with Mjusic, spelled like you’ve just mashed the keyboard with your palm and been lucky. The album’s name comes from a punk band she formed as a kid. Her music is not too far removed from that of her br...view item »
Fugu
Pardon My French (Singles 1996-1998)
Elefant Records are currently celebrating a quarter-century in business by releasing a few of the most beloved tomes from their back catalogue. The latest is an expanded edition of the F31 single Mehdi Zannad's&...view item »
Jim Wilson
God's Chorus
In 1992, David Carson and The Little Wolf Band released Medicine Songs, an album of atmospheric New Age folk and spo...view item »
The Bronx
New Joy
The Bronx, in a confusing state of affairs, come from Los Angeles. The hardcore punk outfit have a new album on the way, It’ll be their fifth long player and, in an unconfusing state of affairs, is called V (if you are confused at all, V means 5). Prior to the full length we have New Joy, a ...view item »
The Go Betweens
Right Here
An Australian writer once described the Go Betweens as not only a great band but the sort of band with characters and personalities you could gossip about as if they were the cast of Neighbours. Their history is Fleetwood Mac-ish in it's relationship complexity. But it's also sad, inspiring and sometimes downrig...view item »
Francis M. Gri
Decays
From the music to the packaging, Decays by Francis M. Gri reflects decay in a number of ways. The music goes in cycles, building and falling, growing and decaying - beautiful sounds smothering less beautiful sounds and vice versa. The packaging shows moral decay in one version being way OTT, whils...view item »
tUnE-yArDs / U.S. Girls
Coat To Coast / Velvet 4
Artsy 4AD alt-poppers Tune-Yards and U.S. Girls commemorate their joint 4AD tour with a split seven; each has remixed a song from the other’s most recent 4AD album. Tune-Yards’ ‘Coast to Coast’ receives a tangy krautrock shot from U.S. Girls. In exchange, Tune-Yards leads U.S. Girls&rsquo...view item »
Redd Kross
Researching The Blues
Whilst not the best Redd Kross album, that accolade would go to "Third Eye"' possibly, this is certainly a very good hard-edged power pop offering from the McDonald brothers. The album opens with the scorching title track. "One Of The Good Ones", "Choose To Play" and "Winter Blues" are the other highlights of a c...view item »
Redd Kross
Hot Issue
Redd Kross are a Californian punk/power pop band led by brothers Steve and Jeff McDonald. Hot Issue gathers together rarities and other unreleased nuggets from the band’s archive. The songs date from 1980, when they were known as Red Cross, and go as far as 2007. Reissue vinyl LP and CD on Merge....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 »
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 »
David Allred
The Transition
David Allred’s The Transition arrives on Erased Tapes (A Winged Victory For The Sullen, ...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 »
Godflesh
Streetcleaner: Live At Roadburn 2011
Streetcleaner is the second (some say definitive) album of Justin K. Broadrick’s legendary Godflesh, and Roadburn is the Dutch festival renowned by fans of heavy music the world over. On this record, the two meet one another, with Godflesh playing a beefed-up version of t...view item »