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Merzbow + HEXA
Achromatic
It’s ya boy Masami baby! Here he is working with HEXA, who are an interesting pairing in themselves: Xiu Xiu man Jamie Stewart and Room40 boss Lawrence English. The structure is one side of Merzbow produced and mixed by HEXA...view item »
Kanye West
ye
The shy and retiring Kanye West drops the eighth LP of what, to this point, has been a relatively uneventful career. By Yeezy’s standards, ye is short and sweet. Seven tunes, about twenty-five minutes in length, and only a couple of guests. Barely more than an EP really. But the thing about this Kanye fella is whe...view item »
Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles
Deproduction EP 2
Terre Thaemlitz’s LP Deproduction was a bold, challenging and typically fearless piece of sound art. The arresting original of ‘Admit It’s Killing You (And Leave)’ brought together post-minimalist piano composition with discomforting samples. Here, all is stripped away bar the keys to leave an un...view item »
Secret Circuit
Out Of Body Interiors
After dropping a lovely LP under his given name E Ruscha V, Eddie dons his Secret Circuit cap for a four-track EP on Invisible, Inc.. The cerebral Tropicalia of the aforementioned album comes replete with acid basslines and Balearic grooves on Out Of Body. All in all it’s another ...view item »
Laurel Halo
Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Following several EPs on Hippos In Tanks and Honest Jon’s and three albums and two EPs on Hyperdub, Laurel Halo releases her new LP, Raw Silk Uncut Wood on Latency. The Berlin-based American electronic musician was inspired by a score for a Metahaven film and U.S. novelist, Ursula Le Guin’s translation of the 6th-cen...view item »
Lee Fraser
Cor Unvers
The brilliantly curated Ge-stell label (home to Dalglish/Scald Rougish, NYZ, Tom Knapp, CoH, Sote, Christophe Charles + Kozo Inada and Brandon Nickell) goes from strength to strength...
This Lee Fraser CD has proper caved my head in. He’s clearly taken his time with this album - his previous/debut disc was released on Entr'acte som...view item »
Don't DJ
All Love Affairs Fail But They Never End EP
Wise words from Don’t DJ there. All Love Affairs Fail But They Never End is a somnambulant, wistful collection of techno-noir. Don’t DJ’s originals range from purring electronica in the vein of Jan Jelinek (‘Veles’) to lengthy and pensive synth ambiences (‘Tw...view item »
Deepchord
Immersions
Rod Modell is back in his long-running Deepchord guise with a long-awaited solo LP on Astral Industries. 'Immersions' comprises two beautiful, expansive long-form pieces, each adorning a side of the record. It's that wonderfully emotional, elegiac sound we're accustomed to: sparkling and elegant...view item »
DJ Residue
211 Circles Of Rushing Water
DJ Residue is the latest alias of the shape-shifting Gunnar Wendel (Kassem Mosse, The Siege Of Troy). 211 Circles of Rushing Water continues in the vein of recent releases on The Trilogy Tapes from Parris and Metasplice...view item »
Korea Town Acid
Mahogani Forest
The tracks on Mohagani Forest are the highlights of an eight day long jam binge undertaken by Jessica Cho aka Korea Town Acid. To make it Cho brought together her classical music training, and her love of dance music to create a jazz inflected acid that shows an understanding from passion, and an intui...view item »
Dez Williams
Against Your Will
Elektronik Religion founder Dez Williams drops a new four-track EP via Bedouin Records (Pan Daijing, Eomac). Against Your Will allows Williams to show off his love of Drexciya - the third track is called ‘Hexciya’ - through ...view item »
Jesse Sharps Quintet & P.A.P.A.
Sharps and Flats
A crucial piece of spiritual soul jazz finally gets a vinyl issue for the first time courtesy of Outernational Sounds. Jesse Sharps recorded Sharps And Flats in 1985, a time when he was leading Horace Tapscott’s Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Indeed Tapscott h...view item »
Jessica’s Brother
Jessica’s Brother
The debut LP from London trio Jessica’s Brother arrives courtesy of Fika (Tigercats, Allo Darlin’...view item »
Pram
Across The Meridian
Long-time coming, this one. After over a decade away, the ninth LP from Brummie oddballs Pram arrives via Domino. The groundwork for Across The Meridian was laid at sessions in Wales, and there is a thick seam of Welsh psychedelia that runs through the music here. Other obvious touchstones come from the...view item »
Earth Girl Helen Brown
Four Satelittes Vol. 1
Four Satellites comprises of selected tracks from Earth Girl Helen Brown’s four EPs released through Empty Cellar Records through 2017 and 2018, each one named and themed by the planets Mars, Saturn, Venus...view item »
Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film The Great Gatsby
I found this soundtrack to be very interesting as most of the songs take direct cues of jazz songs that make up the Art Deco era, and incorporate them very seamlessly into the songs, which gives it a nice, refreshing and new take on music. {You can especially hear this on Will.i.am's Bang Bang, or A Little Party Never Killed Anybody. Don't let t...view item »
Denaji
UNTHANK006
UNTHANK006 by Denaji gets a repress following an initial run of just 13 copies with packaging production values that would make Factory Records lavish efforts look restrained. The three-track EP contains a remix of lead track, Wuhti by DJ Sotofett's Bhakti Crew featuring Paleo Logos. This time it’s clear v...view item »
Linkwood
Volume One
Edinburgh-based producer Linkwood sets up Night Theatre label as a base for his own productions. If Volume One is anything to go by, it’s a label to keep an eye on. The two tunes here are both hypnotic club rollers that show great range. ‘Minemeld’ is a beautifully restrained bit ...view item »
Victor Valiant
V Is For Victor
Recorded in two intense three-day sessions at Suada Bergemann’s techno hut somewhere near Newcastle, V Is For Victor is the first collaborative release as Victor Valiant by old mates Bergemann and Keith Tenniswood (Radioactive Man). The six tunes here are fun, fri...view item »
Kelley Stoltz
Natural Causes
Natural Causes is the new album by Detroit native, ‘60s obsessive, former record store employee and prolific songwriter, Kelley Stoltz. The press release is trying to tell us that this sounds like a cross between The Teardrop Explodes and The Kinks. It’s perfectly plausible given Sto...view item »
Tropic of Coldness
Framed Waves
Italian-American duo Tropic Of Coldness release their latest drone opus via Glacial Movements (bvdub & Loscil, Scanner). It’s a fittingly-named label for an album such as Framed Waves. This is a work of slow beauty built on sonic micro-shifts rather than ...view item »
Prophecy + Progress: UK Electronics 1978 - 1990
Spanish label Peripheral Minimal (Spatial Relation, Doric) release a selection of Thatcher-era electronics. While you could charitably term most of Prophecy + Progress synth-pop, the thirteen tracks here are a far cry from your Dead Or Alives and your Depeche Mo...view item »
The Skiffle Players
Piffle Sayers EP
Skiffle, piffle.. if Snoop Dogg was country? The Skiffle Players are a supergroup featuring Cass McCombs on guitar and vocals, Neal Casal and Dan Horne of Circles Around the Sun, and Aaron Sperske of Beachwood Sparks. I am of course forge...view item »
Give Me My Flowers
Give Me My Flowers is a celebration of Nashboro Records, a label founded by Ernie Young in 1951, to release the most exciting and effusive gospel music coming out of Nashville at the time. Who better then Third Man to compile these tracks then, a label whose output has been heavil...view item »
E-Saggila
Dedicated to Sublimity
E-Saggila returns to NYC fire-starters BANK (Via App, Bookworms) for another EP of brutalised club fare. Dedicated To Sublimity picks up where her previous BANK release ‘Striving For Action’/‘Lounge Experience’ left off, juxtaposing almost-pretty...view item »
Ty Segall & White Fence
Joy
The Second Coming Of Marc Bolan aka Ty Segall releases his umpteenth album, and this one’s a collaboration with fellow retromaniacs White Fence. Joy - the pair’s first LP together since 2012’s Hair - sees the duo sticking to their guns and cranking out fifteen...view item »
Thousand Foot Whale Claw
Black Hole Party
While it may be based in the heart of Texas, there’s neither much yee- nor -haw! to the releases of Holodeck Records. Indeed, the Austin label tends towards 80s-flavoured techno and synthwave tracks from the likes of Marie Davidson and S U R V I V E. They stick to their g...view item »
The Essex Green
Cannibal Sea
The Essex Green were a part of that much-loved Elephant 6 collective, though this grouping was all gone by the time they released their third album Cannibal Sea in 2006. Positively lovely psychedelic pop to make you happy and the sun come out. Here reissued on vinyl by Merge, with a download code that a...view item »
Buried Country
Musical archaeologists extraordinaire Mississippi Records team up with Australia’s Flipping Yeah for this release, and an important one it is too. The eleven tracks here draw from the Australian Aboriginal country tradition, a music silenced as often as the people who have made it. The ‘country&rsquo...view item »
Liars
1/1 (Original Soundtrack)
After Mess, you might have thought you’d never hear from the Angus Andrew / Aaron Hemphill line-up of Liars ever again, but get this: they also created some soundtrack work for Jeremy Phillips’ film 1/1 before they parted ways, and now we can hear i...view item »
Rayland Baxter
Wide Awake
Rayland Baxter, a man with a first name I can scarcely believe in, seems to be pulling a Bon Iver on this album, which grew out of a period of seclusion spent in an old rubber band factory. Fifty songs written, of which ten made it onto this here finished album, produced by Butch Walker. Soulful...view item »
Blacklab
Under The Strawberry Moon
Winners of my favourite album art for the year, please say hello to Blacklab, an Osaka local band who make barely decipherable evil. With a few of the layers in their musical trifle consisting of fuzzy texture, they top everything off with a big helping of doom. The lo-fi production and noisy carelessness that sums up ...view item »
Lolina
The Smoke
While Dean Blunt has been more than prolific since the split of Hype Williams in 2012, Inga Copeland has taken things a little slower. The Smoke is her second LP as Lolina, and it finds Copeland at both her most playful and her most obtuse. She amps up the lackadaisical...view item »
Jura Soundsystem presents Transmission One
'Transmission One' is the first instalment in a serious of compilations by Jura Soundsystem, featuring Kash, Ken Dang and Tabou Combo, among others. A trip through dub, ambient, boogie and proto house, this record showcases never-been-released-on-vinyl music along with out-of-print titles and rare editions....view item »
Unit Moebius
Bunker 005
Everyone has a mental image of what a central European squat party is like. Speed, crusties and really hard acid techno, right? Yeah, the music that’s playing in your head now was probably made by Unit Moebius. The producer crew's legendary B...view item »
Marlowe
Marlowe
If you like your rap rappity and your hip hoppity, then Mello Music Group is probably the label for you. The Arizona imprint, now more than a decade old, cranks out wise-old-head boom-bap like clockwork and has laid to wax LPs by artists including Guilty Simpson and Quelle Chris. This seventeen-...view item »
Michael Beharie & Teddy Rankin-Parker
A Heart From Your Shadow
Michael Beharie of Zs and Teddy Rankin-Parker (a cellist who has worked with Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and the like) have known each other for years, but this is their first collaboration, and what a well-considered treat it is. Energetic and intricate music...view item »
Icio Omegha
Psycho Cruise: Private Home Recordings 1984 - 1991
Icio Omegha (also known as Maurizio Aghemo) has had his feet in experimental music for decades, and continues to experiment to this day. Primarily a guitar, sitar and keyboard player he was a member of UCO (Universal Condition Orchestra) here Futurible have sourced this collecti...view item »
Dauwd
Theory of Colours - Versions
Dauwd revisits his Theory of Colours album with an EP that investigates and reconsiders three of its tracks in four different ways. Rouge Mecanique remixes...view item »
River Yarra
#Lucky #Boy
Parisian label Antinote tend to flit between Balearic beats, New Agey experimentalia and leftfield dance fodder, but rarely do the styles match up as well as they have done on this EP from newcomer River Yarra. As you might be able to tell from the title, #Lucky #Boy is a record very much of the social ...view item »
Ultradyne
Ocular Animus
Ultradyne’s own Pi Gao Movement, which has also hosted stuff by Majestic 12 and Tangible, serves as home for the veteran duo’s latest drop. This is unusually sparse fare for a Detroit act, with only ‘Suicide Relay’ featuring the propulsive techno beats an...view item »
Orange Goblin
Coup De Grace
Orange Goblin are yr authentic british stoner metal band, as heavy and, well, as stoned as the day is long. Coup de Grace is their 2002 fourth album, and it is such a consummate riff-chugging stoner metal release that John Garcia himself, of the legends Kyuss, even lends a hand on two t...view item »
Orange Goblin
Thieving From The House Of God
Orange Goblin are yr authentic british stoner metal band, as heavy and, well, as stoned as the day is long. Thieving From The House Of God arrived in 2004 as the band’s fifth album, and it found them adjusting to a smaller four-piece line-up. Of course, this merely focused the group’s riff-chugging power fur...view item »
Orange Goblin
The Big Black
Orange Goblin are yr authentic british stoner metal band, as heavy and, well, as stoned as the day is long. The Big Black was their third album, first released in the year 2000 following production sessions with Billy Anderson. Cosmic weight is all over this release, from the space artwork to track titl...view item »
Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas
Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas
Prins Thomas has been keeping busy hasn’t he. After a solo full-length, a collaborative LP with Bjorn Torske, some remixes and a bunch of EPs back in 2017, he’s now readying a new album alongside Norwegian jazz pianist Bugge Wesseltoft. The five lengthy tracks here meet somewhere in-...view item »
Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet
Afro-Latin Soul
Mulatu Astatke has long and lovingly been called 'Godfather Of Ethio Jazz' and who are we, your humble servants at Norman to disagree? Strut push on with their careful programme of essential jazz reissues to bring us the first official pressings of Astatke's early classics: Afro-Latin Soul (Vols 1 & 2)...view item »
Public Image Limited
The Public Image Is Rotten (Songs From The Heart)
It's pleasing that perhaps John Lydon will be remembered just as much for his PIL project as with punk legends the Sex Pistols. Over recent years people seem to have realised that, yes, PIL were pretty innovative. To coincide with a film about the band, here is a career spanning box set with a singles collection, B-sides, rarities, radio session...view item »
The Pharcyde
Labcabincalifornia
Snarky and extremely wise-cracking Pharcyde, aka the band responsible for all the your mum jokes in the world, made a record after Bizarre Ride II, you just don't know about it (to be honest, maybe you do). It's wisely titled Labcabincalifornia and a certain J Dilla ...view item »
Natureboy Flako
Theme For A Dream
Natureboy Flako has a very old-fashioned looking piece of sleeve art for his new LP, but the sounds within are bang up to date, with an array of analogue synthesiser equipment as well as guitars and vocals in use. Theme For A Dream wants to go deep inside the listener’s mindspace, as it came from deep within ...view item »
Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet
Afro Latin Soul Vol. 2
Everyone needs a little Mulatu Astatke to lively up their life: get right to it with this reissue of his 1966 album Afro-Latin Soul Vol. 2, recorded with His Ethiopian Quintet. Astatke’s sound is still young and burgeoning here, but his mixture of Ethiopian-style jazz with Latin rhythms a...view item »
R+R=NOW
Collagically Speaking
A proper all-star cast on this new Blue Note joint. Robert Glasper, Taylor McFerrin and Derrick Hodge...view item »
Michael Giacchino
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
You may not know him by name, but chances are you've heard the music of Michael Giacchino. He's one of the current big-hitters in the world of film-scoring, and in the past couple of years he’s composed for ...view item »
NYZ
CSR SHAPERZ
More unique man/machine mayhem from NYZ aka David Burraston, whose release schedule is admirably relentless at the moment. At the current rate he’ll be catching up with old Merzbow before we know it -- ‘CSR SHAPERZ’ is his eleventh release under this particular alias alone, and there’s also a NYZ tape imminent on Conditio...view item »
Optiganally Yours
O.Y. In Hi-Fi
I remember these from the '90s. They were based around the Optigan chord organ a curiosity made by Mattel which played back lo-fi sound loops on flexible LP-sized discs. Astonishing. The magnificently named Pea Hix had one of these things and had the idea of starting a band and Rob Crow (Pinback etc) got involve...view item »
Hontatedori
Konata Kanata
Hontatedori is comprised of Tokyo-based musical trio Taku Unami, Moé Kamura and Tetuzi Akiyama. Although certainly recognised as individual performers of some stature, ‘Konata Kanata’ is nevertheless their sophomore album following 2013's self-ti...view item »
Spare Snare
Sounds
Unbelievably perhaps, Scottish lo-fi obscurity Spare Snare asked Steve Albini if he'd mind recording new versions of their best bits and the man with the boiler suit said yes. So off they went, funded by Creative Scotland and damn well made the thing picking out ten of their favourite tracks from their past. I say obscurities bu...view item »
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part 1
Endless psych legends Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO here, in lengthy jam mode: Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part 1 comprises two side-filling tracks, both of which will take you to deep space and back again in twenty or so minutes. Credits include bouzouki, tapes, speed guru, guitar-synthesiser and &ldqu...view item »
Lorenzo Senni
The Shape Of RemixXxes To Come
Two really quite different versions of Lorenzo Senni’s track ‘XAllegroX: The Shape Of RemixXxes To Come (Senni ...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 »
Apollo Brown & Locksmith
No Question
Having helmed records for lyricists including Guilty Simpson and Ghostface Killah in recent years, Apollo Brown teams up with West Coast MC Locksmith for his latest collaborative LP. The pair bounce off each other well across the eight tracks of No Question. While ...view item »
Baptists
Beacon Of Faith
First of all, beautiful album art. Beacons of Faith is the third record from Baptists. Following pretty much the same sound as the bands' previous records, this is one that you don't want to miss. Atmospheric and apocalyptic, this record is available on vinyl LP and CD, and is released on Southern Lord.&n...view item »
LWW
3PE
LWW is none other than Portland, Oregon's Luke Wyland with a three-lettered moniker describing his explorations in joyous repetition and softly-stated minimalism. Harsh vowels need not apply, but some rounded ones may accidentally appear. The project has already acquired the Nils Frahm / ...view item »
Cowboy Junkies
All That Reckoning
It now seems a lifetime ago that the Cowboy Junkies released the Trinity Sessions. Their slow moving music was surely an influence on Low et al but the band have been happy to continue just under the radar, in their own musical bubble. 'All That Reckoning' is their 17th album continuing their gentle take on alt ...view item »
Smokescreens
Used To Yesterday
Slumberland (Joanna Gruesome, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart) with a very Slumberland-y LP here. LA transplants Smokescreens app...view item »
Cruel Diagonals
Disambiguation
Drawing Room Records present the debut LP from Bay Area vocalist/field recordist Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals project. Disambiguation...view item »
Dan Curtin
The Silicon Dawn
Dan Curtin’s The Silicon Dawn gets re-issued by Peacefrog. This LP is classic Detroitiness of the highest calibre, combining as it does richly expressive pads with twittering synths and propulsive drum takes. This one originally dropped in 1994, the same year Peacefrog also released some top-level...view item »
Phase Fatale
Reverse Fall
In a way it’s surprising that Ostgut Ton have never released anything explicitly inspired by J. G. Ballard’s Crash...view item »
Eiko Ishibashi and Darin Gray
Ichida
Eiko Ishibashi and Darin Gray are two perhaps slightly under-the-radar artists, though they move in the orbits of the likes of Jim O’Rourke, Chris Corsano and Loren Connors. Their collaboration here is a live flute, electronics, piano, and double bass impr...view item »
DVA
Cherries On Air (Chuchel Soundtrack)
Cherries On Air is the soundtrack to the comedy adventure game Chuchel. The soundtrack is written and performed by alternative Czech band DVA, a two-piece who’s music takes in pop, tango, cabaret, circus, freak-folk and acoustic electro sounds. Fairly bonkers and well suited to the the game. Limited edition LP on Minority ...view item »
Hanno Leichtmann & Valerio Tricoli
La Casa delle Chimere
Second collaborative album from creepy electronic experimentalists Valerio Tricoli and Hanno Leichtmann. On La Casa delle Chimere they manage to make music out of sounds you'd most likely hear on the folly track of a horror film. It's power is in how unsettling it is, and the...view item »
Mike Patton
1922 (Original Music From The Netflix Film)
Faith No More/Tomahawk/Fantomas/Peeping Tom frontman Mike Patton has composed the score to the Netflix film 1922. The film is based on a Stephen King novella. The score is mainly orchestral with foreboding strings, however, you can expect the odd cacophonous bur...view item »
The Shacks
The Shacks
While you may know The Shacks best down to The Shacks opener ‘This Strange Effect’ being used in an iPhone commercial, this young NYC duo have enough about them to suggest they’re more likely to hang around than previous Apple picks like Steriogram. Their self-titled debut record featu...view item »
The Essex Green
The Long Goodbye
Fifteen years after initial release, here comes The Long Goodbye again, reissued in all its glory. This is the second album from The Essex Green, and their sound on it comes pouring through the speakers in waves of lovely joy. Psychedelic pop music just like they used to make it. Reissued by Merge on vinyl with a downlo...view item »
Holiday Inn
Torbido
Holiday Inn are one of Rome’s finest synth-punk outfits, and they create music as ferociously DIY and direct as that Xerox-ed cover art. Torbido is real powerhouse stuff, tapping straight into the veins and jolting with wave after wave of pulsing, shouting, pumping energy. Not at all like the chain of budget hotel...view item »
Negative Scanner
Nose Picker
Chicago based four-piece Negative Scanner bring their sophomore album Nose Picker to us through Trouble in Mind. Rowdy, lo-fi, and filled with a snarling joy Nose Picker hits the ground running with opening track T.V. and doesn’t let up. DIY or die attitude (all their stuff is recorded in their p...view item »
Kira Kira
Alchemy & Friends
Icelandic ‘audio/visual prankster’ Kira Kira presents a lavish release on Time Released Sound (Porya Hatami, Ghostwriter). It’s the usual Reykjavik sort of thing from Kira Kira here, though Alchemy & Friends does stand out from the Ola...view item »
Them Are Us Too
Amends
Them Are Us Too is the collaborative project of Kennedy Ashlyn and Cash Askew, a duo who had been sketching demos in homage to their shared younger passions of generations-old shoegaze and dream pop.Tragically, Askew died in the Ghost Ship fire of 2016 -- Kennedy returned to the studio to finish the startling, una...view item »
Stray Theories
All That Was Lost
If you like ambient music then you'll probably like this third record from Stray Theories called All That Was Lost. When Templeton-Wolfe isn't busy writing and composing material for other musical ventures, he gets time to release gold like this which will appeal to fabs of Hammock and Eluvium. Available ...view item »
Eric B. & Rakim
Paid In Full
Eric B. and Rakim's Paid In Full is one of their two rap classics that, although it's a little dated sounding, most rap fans will love. Every song here is good or great, and Rakim is definitely just a great MC. He's not one of my favourites, but I'm pretty sure everyone will like him. He flows very well and his delivery is interesting and well d...view item »
Eric B. & Rakim
Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em
Originally dropped in 1990, the third LP from Eric B. & Rakim gets the reissue treatment. Though Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em might not have the commercial clout of something like Paid In Full, this album is the connoisseur's EB & R record. Tunes like ‘No Omega’ sees Rakim spitting some of h...view item »
Belle and Sebastian
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
'Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant' is the fourth record by twee/indie pop band Belle & Sebastian. It's notable for featuring lead vocals from artists other than Stuart Murdoch, something that was only occasionally incorporated on predecessor 'The Boy WIth The Arab Strap'. It brings in more orchestral elements, too, relying on a...view item »
The Pandoras
Hey! It's The Pandoras
Well, what a pleasant surprise. Hollywood four-piece The Pandoras were a successful garage rock group in the 80s, but their career was cut short by the death of their frontwoman and songwriter Paula Pierce in 1991. Almost three decades on, the group have got ...view item »
John Maus
We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
John Maus is a curious character who looks to be next in line for youth adulation hot on the heels of the likes of Ariel Pink (who Maus has collaborated with as part of Haunted Graffiti and Gary War) and Panda Bear. Upset The Rhythm head honcho Chris Tipton...view item »
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow
Annihilation (Music From The Motion Picture)
Following their scores for Ex Machina, Black Mirror and Free Fire, Geoff “Portishead ‘n’ Beak>” Barrow and Ben Salisbury take on extraterrestrial unease with last year’s Annihilation. With the disturbing premise of an inscrutable alien landing ...view item »
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay
Plight & Premonition Flux & Mutability
The man once dubbed the Most Beautiful Man In The World...and ...er.. David Sylvian collaborated way back in the mid '80s on these two LPs in Can's home place of Koln in bleak midwinter. At the time record companies weren't bothered about such esoteric collaborations so now is a good time to revisit what the pai...view item »
Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad presents
The Midnight Hour
Adrian Younge (Venice Dawn) has worked with Souls Of Mischief and Ghostface Killah teamed up with Ali Shaheed Muhammad to score the Luke Cage series whilst also working on their Luther Vandross inspired project. The Midnight Hour...view item »
Tim Burgess
Inspired Again
Nearly a decade ago The Charlatans frontman, Tim Burgess got together with Ladyhawke, Deb Googe of My Bloody Valentine, Martin Duffy of Primal Scream, Josh Heyward of The Horrors and Stefan Halperin of The Klaxons to fight the p...view item »
Cold War Kids
Audience
Well hang me up to dry, Cold War Kids are still alive and kicking. Though they may have slipped down the pecking order somewhat after the success of 2006’s Robbers & Cowards, the Long Beach band have plugged away admirably and released five more LPs in the intervening years. Audience - a live album re...view item »
Laurence Cane-Honeysett
The Story of Trojan Records
With Trojan Records turning 50 this year, it seems a good time to cast an eye back over the label’s history. An employee of the company since the early 90s and author of previous Trojan tome Young, Gifted and Black, Laurence Cane-Honeysett has put together this lavish coffee-table book. Through ar...view item »
Okzharp & Manthe Ribane
Closer Apart
After leaving LV, Okzharp has thrived alongside fellow South African artist Manthe Ribane. Following some hype-generating EPs in the mid-2010s, they’ve come through with a baker’s dozen of tracks for their debut LP. Closer Apart sees Ribane guide Okzharp to some spare and gr...view item »
Deafheaven
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Yes, the black metal darlings of Pitchfork are back with their answer to Stereophonics' Language. Sex. Violence. Other?, and thank goodness. They follow up New Bermuda with their first LP for ANTI-, offering a more romantic, smitten sound than ever that we hope will chug at least somewhat. ...view item »
The Soft Moon
Criminal
Luis Vasquez is angry. His latest album as The Soft Moon is Criminal, named for those that have hurt him, including himself. The songs are an aptly furious mixture of krautrock grooves, indie rock melodies, all lathered in so much distortion that this record could only come from Sacred Bones. Av...view item »