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Knife Knights
1 Time Mirage
Given that the pair of Shabazz Palaces LPs that dropped in 2017 really stank out the place, it’s probably a good thing that Ishmael Butler has found a new project to focus on. Here he teams up with Erik Blood - who, among other things, was engineer for SP’s Lese Majesty - fo...view item »
The Breath
Let The Cards Fall
The second LP from The Breath shows face on Real World (Peter Gabriel, Loney Dear). As with...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 »
Emma Ruth Rundle
On Dark Horses
Oh I do love an Emma Ruth Rundle mystery. This week's instalment sees our intrepid sleuth come out of a personal nadir by moving home, getting a new friend and making a new album with other friends. This is heart on sleeve stuff, uncomfortable realties put to music in dark duets that recall Johnny and June. ...view item »
Sneers
Heaven Will Rescue Us, We’re the Scum, We’re in the Sun
Sinister goth-psych duo Sneers are at it again with their voluptuous, pensive titles, energetic vocal catharsis and religious imagery. On their third outing here, they’re joined by Kristof Hahn of Swans ...view item »
Consumer Electronics
The Weight / Hostility Blues
I’ve probably never heard anything quite so terrifying on vinyl. Consumer Electronics has found the shortcut to my nightmares, easily surpassing my old USSR pressing of Alfred Schnittke’s third symphony. If you ever want to run a 'scared straight'...view item »
Blitzen Trapper
Furr (Deluxe Edition)
Blitzen Trapper’s Furr gets a tenth-anniversary reissue. Over the years, this LP has come to be considered one of the signature Sub Pop releases - quite a feat when you consider the competition. Dropping at a time when The Shins were still accepted as a good band and freak-folk wa...view item »
Adrian Younge
Black Dynamite (Instrumentals / Original Motion Picture Score)
Director Scott Sanders made 'Black Dynamite' as a parody of the Blaxploitation genre, about a spy on a mission to take revenge on his brother's murderer. The score was composed by Adrian Younge, and was his first ever release. Like Sanders' film, it's inspired by and sends up the music of Blaxploit...view item »
Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters
Come & Chutney
From their name, their album title and the fact that Come & Chutney is released on ‘slurry brown’ vinyl, it’s safe to say that the three blokes behind Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters like to laugh. But did you also know that they like to fuzz? They fuzz hard on this LP, recalling Weedeat...view item »
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The horror film Mandy, directed by Panos Cosmatos and starring Nicholas “Not the bees” Cage, was the late Jóhann Jóhannsson’s final film score commission. Easily as equipped to convey the intense unease required of a horror film soundtrack as the pathos of its more melancholy stages, JJ a...view item »
Popera Cosmic
Les Esclaves
Well looky what Finders Keepers have unearthed now: it's only a super-rare classic French psych album! The original 1969 pressing of Popera Cosmic's only LP 'Les Esclaves' (The Slaves) was deleted long ago and fetches silly money regularly enough on-line. Talking of which, it's probably the first record...view item »
Yves Tumor
Serpent Music
Yves Tumor presents a grand, strange, epic pop-soul album with thick streaks of experimentalism running through it: a record that sounds like little else. Serpent Music can move like the sleekest plastic soul in town, but it also feels comfortable confronting the listener with noise, ambience, broken electronics and sur...view item »
Thomas Ankersmit
Homage To Dick Raaijmakers
Hey, fancy listening to your own ears? If so check out Thomas Ankersmit’s homage to the late Dutch electronic/tape music pioneer Dick Raaijmakers. But be prepared as this could potentially really send you spinning. I for sure wouldn’t pipe this into your brain through headphones unless you’re into bleeding from your ear cavitie...view item »
Isabella
Whistle
He’s a busy bee, that Peder Mannerfelt. As well as touring and releasing his own records at a rate of knots, the Swedish producer also manages to make time for running his own Peder Mannerfelt Produktion label. The latest PMP drop comes courtesy of Boston-based artist Isabella. The five tr...view item »
James Murray
Falling Backwards
James Murray follows last year's celebrated 'Killing Ghosts' with a new full-length album on Home Normal. Falling Backwards promises more of Murray's trademark hushed, creeping and haunting ambience but with an increased sense of intimacy this time. The record relates his personal childhood memories and...view item »
Rapeman
Two Nuns & A Pack Mule
They are still calling themselves that? Ok.
Well this was Steve Albini's second band after Big Black and out of all the words in the English language this is what they chose for a name. This was the only album they made and this re-issue contains 'the 'Budd' EP as a bonus. Contains a song called 'Kim Gordon's ...view item »
Robert Pollard
Waved Out
Not only do we have to wade through a new Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices record each week, we now have re-issues to contend with. 'Waved out' was Pollard's second second solo album and came from an era where I was still fairly excited about his output. It's good, if not quite as good as it's predecessor 'Not In...view item »
Fatherson
Sum of All Your Parts
Fatherson release their third LP via Easy Life (Amber Run, Arcane Roots). The group bridge two great Scottish rock tradition...view item »
Guerilla Toss
Twisted Crystal
Weeee’re not gonna take it!
No, we ain’t gonna take it!
We’re not gonna take it! Any…
... Whoops, might have misread the title of this one. Twisted CRYSTAL is Boston disco-rockers Guerilla Toss’s third LP for DFA...view item »
Tzusing
東方不敗
Translating to Invincible East, 東方不敗 by chinese producer Tzusing is his first full length and after releasing three EPs with the label, it makes sense for it to be released through L.I.E.S.. An intriguing mix of Blackest Ever Black/early Coil territory minimal post industrial with a col...view item »
Cass.
Postclub Prism
Postclub Prism is an appropriate title for this suite of ten tracks by Cass., as the vibes here are very much chillout ambience. After you’ve ascended to those beat-driven highs, ...view item »
Unearth Noise / Dreamspeak
And The Light Beams Will Guide The way
Roger Berkowitz returns to Lullabies For Insomniacs (Sugai Ken, Million Brazilians), and this time he’s got company. He takes half of ...view item »
Doris Norton
Artificial Intelligence
Not in any way shape or form anything to do with veteran blooper show anchor Denis Norden but a re-issue of a 1985 album from this legendary electronic producer. Due to it's beats laden nature, Norton has been compared with Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra but Artificial Intelligence was an astonishing ...view item »
N'Draman-Blintch
Cosmic Sounds
At the time of writing (17:41, Monday, 16th of July, Year of our Lord 2018) there is one copy of N’Draman Blintch’s 1980 LP Cosmic Sounds available on Discogs. It’s yours for about £1,300. Previous copies haven’t sold for anything less than a grand. If you haven’t got that much money ...view item »
Krikor Kouchian
Pacific Alley In Dub
Krikor Kouchian returns to L.I.E.S. with dubbed and clubbed out remixes from his Pacific Alley album. To clarify, yes, this is dub techno, wit hall the reverb and bass that keeps you coming back. The bass lines are particularly endearing, all funky and sun drenched, but ...view item »
Various
Two Niles to Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan
Oh looky look, here's another of those lush and lavishly presented sets from Ostinato Records: this one is called 'Two Niles to Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan'. From an era in Sudan -- before the 1989 coup which brought a hardline religious government to power -- of diverse cultural riches, music and arts all f...view item »
Dur-Dur Band
Dur Dur of Somalia - Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh damn! Look, if you’ve never heard Dur-Dur before, then stop what you’re doing and fix that this instance. The Somali group were one of the most famous bands in their home country during the 80’s and early 90’s before a civil war put paid to their career. A recent resurgent interest in their...view item »
Daniel T.
Heliotrope
In a former life, a decade or so ago, Southern California native Daniel T (Terndrup) was one half of Cosmic Kids who drew upon a very wide range of musical inspirations as well as, of course, the vastness of the cosmos. Daniel has long been a crate digger and a collector armed with an impressive knowledge of all...view item »
Various
Hafla! - A Rough Guide to Jaffa's 70's Sound (Compiled by Fortuna Records)
Well this compilation was commissioned by the Ha’achim restaurant in Tel Aviv: whether or not that means that these bangers are going to be accompanying diners evening meals I don’t know, but it means this LP is fully grounded in the place it documents. Ten tracks from Jaffa in the 1970’s, absolutely bristling with life-force a...view item »
Unknown Artist
Rellik
Mask are a pretty nifty label. So far the imprint, which appears to have surfaced from Germany, has dropped three records by nameless artists. All of them have been made up of one-take techno or house jams, and all of them have been worth listening to. Rellik is just as good as the other two. The four tracks here mash a...view item »
Various
Latin Underground Revolution: Swinging Boogaloo, Guaguanco, Salsa & Latin Funk from New York City 1967-1978
Rocafort Records come through with a 7” triple-threat. Each side of vinyl in the Latin Underground Revolution boxset contains a killer tune cut by artists/groups of Latin American origin living in the Five Boroughs in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Illuminating liner notes from Latin music nerd DJ Timber...view item »
Bit-Tuner
Arabian Nights
Swiss label -OUS (NHK yx Koyxen, Senking) release a live album by Bit-Tuner. The material that comprises Arabian Nights has travelled far to make it to you. Using field recordings and samples of the sounds of Cairo as a starting point, Bit-Tuner combined these with...view item »
Buari
Buari
Interesting bloke, this Sidiku Buari. According to his Wikipedia page, the Ghanaian has been president of the Musicians Union Of Ghana, the vice-president of the International Federation Of Musicians, studied for degrees in both music and interior design and won medals as a sprinter at two All-Africa Games championships. Impress...view item »
Night Shop
In The Break
You’ll know Justin Sullivan better as a drummer - he’s best known for being a tub-thumper for Kevin Morby’s various endeavours - but sometimes he likes to put himself centre-stage. ...view item »
Kikagaku Moyo
Kikagaku Moyo
Here’s some proper old school psychedelic rock from Japan’s Kikagaku Moyo. I had this and the new Seven That Spells LP to choose from - that one has a nude lady on the front, this one says “FUCK RACISM!” on the back cover. I know which one is less...view item »
Near Mint
Vinyl Record Cleaning Wipes
A wet-wipe but for records. Near Mint in that they'll keep your records in 'near mint' condition. Nothing to do with mints the sweetie sort as I seemed to get in my head. Now, these are disposable (ok, we know) moist wipes that will clean your record and leave no residue or filth. Perfect for dealers or DJs or anyone who needs to clean their rec...view item »
Jungle
For Ever
Jungle is massive. Jungle is unstoppable. Jungle For Ever. The posh soul duo have swapped the townhouses of Shepherd’s Bush for the penthouses of Los Angeles in a bid to be more … something. To be honest, this - their second album - just sounds like the first one. It’s another helping of blue-eyed fun...view item »
The Goon Sax
We're Not Talking
The junior to The Go-Betweens' senior, this very good band features Louis Forster, son of Robert, probably none too happy about this endless comparison, but I just really like the word junior so was compelled to namedrop. They released a real Norman beloved record in Up t...view item »
Penelope Trappes
Carry Me
Run the Trappes! The Penelope Trappes, to be precise. Having released her acclaimed debut LP Penelope One on Optimo last year, Trappes is now hot-footing it over to Houndstooth for the follow-up. To tide people over before Penelope Two (seems she’s got a thing going there...view item »
The Chills
Snow Bound
I've just danced around the room and celebrated as if I'd won the World Cup as there's a new the Chills album due. The legendary New Zealand group returned in 2015 with the excellent Silver Bullets which was as good as anything they recorded in their heyday. Their precise yet emotional economic pop is certainly wel...view item »
Mr. Airplane Man
Compilation
Boston two-piece Mr. Airplane Man, who include no men whatsoever among their ranks, take their inspiration from The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, and garage rock. Their debut self-titled album was self released with the two that followed, Moanin’ and C’mon DJ being released on Sym...view item »
Sleaford Mods
Sleaford Mods EP
First new music from Sleaford Mods since 2017's English Tapas and as is their wont it's a five track EP ahead of a promised new LP next March. A bunch of things to tie you over all about people's anger with the political system and the slow descent into slanging matches. Always on the ball it's nice to have them back. They may l...view item »
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris
Everything's Fine
New album from the recently engaged hip-hop artists Jean Grae and Quelle Chris. A political album about our impulse, when every conceivable thing is going wrong, to say Everything's Fine. They do this with help from comedians Michael Che, Hannibal Buress, Nick Offerman, John Hodgman...view item »
Juan Atkins
Dimensions / Flash Flood
Life's Good is a new label about to bring us reissued classics from the golden age of Detroit / European Techno. Their inaugural release is this lush double-header from Juan Atkins: Dimensions / Flash Flood. Originally recorded in the early 1990s and issued on the famous "Panic In Detroit" compilation f...view item »
Osheyack
Sadomodernism
‘Sadomodernism’ is a term used by writer Moira Weigel to describe the trend of contemporary arthouse films to focus overwhelmingly on inflicting pain on characters and audiences and denying pleasure (Haneke et al). Shanghai-based US producer Osheyack adapts this concept to music, resulting in abrasive, provocatively ...view item »
Ouvala
Multiperspectivity
Ouvala -- Ian Hawgood and Tim 'Maps & Diagrams' Martin -- unveil their second album together, 'Multiperspectivity' on Handstitched* Recordings. It follows a year or so of the two pals quietly beavering away and exchanging ideas and stuff, then they let it all brood and breathe (for...view item »
LOR
Lunar Orbit Rendezvous
With a strictly space-mission themed aesthetic, Lunar Orbit Rendezvous by LOR tracks a space journey with electronic music that combines modern techno and deep house with touches of vintage Kraftwerk (check some of those vocoders!). Who are LOR? It doesn’t matter, because this is ...view item »
Ralph Thomas
Eastern Standard Time
What could be better than a happy mix of flute, baritone, alto and tenor saxophone and percussion? A large coke and a cheeseburger? Maybe. But still, baritone, alto AND tenor saxophones. Eastern Standard Time is the record from Ralph Thomas who is the mastermind behind this coming together of flute, a trio of saxophones...view item »
Various
Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground
Numero Group have gone crazy for the big-haired harmonious sisters of the '60s! Their latest extravaganza -- namely 'Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground' -- compiles 56 tracks (on double-CD, 28 on double vinyl) from various girl groups of the halcyon pop era; families, studio receptionists and all. Soaring vocals and raw pop power ...view item »
Various
13 Reasons Why - Season 2 (A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack)
The press release for this record leads with ‘New music from Gomez’, which isn’t a great start, but things pick up when you realise that they actually mean Selena Gomez. Obviously this is some of the music from the second season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why. There are new songs fr...view item »
Sungod
Wave Refraction
Texan label HoloDeck (Marie Davidson, Dylan Cameron) present an LP of freakiness, deakiness and various other -eekinesses from Sungod. Wave Refraction is at that nexus of psych-rock, prog and electro-rock that The Flaming Lips sometimes get close to. Th...view item »
Siouxsie and The Banshees
The Scream
The Scream was the debut album by Siouxsie and the Banshees. It's slower than punk textures and rhythms could be said to be the birth point of post- punk and their sound can be heard in innumerable bands that followed such as Joy Division and the Cure. Contains a preposterous version of...view item »
Siouxsie and The Banshees
A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
The Siouxsie and the Banshees re-issue festival continues with this, their fifth album. Originally released in 1982 it saw the band take on a more varied sound with the use of recorders, tubular bells and loops. It didn't really boast any hits but is well regarded as one of their most psychedelic offerings particularly closing t...view item »
We Were Promised Jetpacks
The More I Sleep The Less I Dream
Fifteen years after they formed, these Scottish rockers are still grumbling about The Lack Of Jetpackery. The More I Sleep The Less I Dream, their fourth LP but first for Big Scary Monsters (Blakfish, Minus The Bear), finds We Were Promised Jetpacks tur...view item »
Swervedriver
Ejector Seat Reservation
Though Oxford's second best shoegaze band Swervedriver reached big audiences with their first couple of records, their third fell somewhat under the radar in 1995. Never mind though as now it has been re-issued for you to rediscover. It's a mixture of tough shoegaze, dreamy rock music and a hint of blues that serves to prove tha...view item »
Bomb The Bass
Into The Dragon
The current rave revivalism of acts like Etch, Dream Cycle and Special Request jacks just as much steez from records like Bomb The B...view item »
A-Sun Amissa
Ceremony In The Stillness
More of that West Yorkshire ambient-drone-and-more goodness from A-Sun Amissa on Gizeh! Ceremony In The Stillness is the project’s perfectly named fourth full-length, and as well as those deep dark smooth atmospheres, it also features both thick riffs and actual drums in a few places, bringing another angle into t...view item »
Colleen Green
Casey’s Tape / Harmontown Loops
Queen Of The Slackers Colleen Green gets her 2016 EP Casey’s Tape reissued by Infinity Cat Records (JEFF The Brotherhood, Be Your Own Pet). This edition also comes backed with some tunes she cooked up for the excellent Harmontown podcast....view item »
Pete Prescription
On “Tea Rooms Of Occult Nomenclature”
Romeda Records (Dublock, Kanal Drei) drop a new record of mucky electronics from Teatowel member Pete Prescription. On “Tea Rooms Of Occult Nomenclature” we find the Birmingham-based artist drawing largely from the more abrasive end of ...view item »
Poor Boy Rappers
Low Rider Rap
When your original 1982 pressing is going for a grand on Discogs, it may well be time to consider a repress. Thus, for a limited time only, Poor Boy Rapper is no longer only available to Rich Boy Record Collectors. The track itself is a nice, LCR-mixed gem of 1980s narrative rap, with that classic, funky b-boy/girl rhythm....view item »
Gazelle Twin
I Feel Blood/Exorcise (ACE 236 Series)
Elizabeth Walling under her Gazelle Twin alias has been afforded the opportunity to bring us something a bit special. I hope you like Moogs, because as part of the Supersonic Festival the Gazelle was invited to make music on the wall-to-wall Moog machines available at the Moog Sound Lab satellite sessions in Birmingham. Later, b...view item »
Bob Moses
Battle Lines
This is the sort of thing that happens when you let Johnny Jewel release too many records. Bob Moses - confusingly not one person but two men called Tom and Jimmy - drop their second LP via Domino. Battle Lines is full of perfectly competent synth-pop songs that remind one of ...view item »
Noseholes
Danger Dance
On Harbinger Sound (Sleaford Mods etc), Noseholes (yup we all have two of them) make a kind of rackety no-wave and post-punk that it sure to blow any cobwebs away. Comparisons have been made to bands like Bush Tetras and Shopping and so this distinctly lop sided tangle of g...view item »
Chris Christodoulou
Deadbolt: Official Soundtrack
Deadbolt, from the developer who brought you the wildly successful roguelike Risk of Rain, is a challenging sidescrolling adventure about being the Grim Reaper and having to deal with scores of the risen dead. Athens-based Chris Christodoulou’s musical contributions to this spooky project are collected he...view item »
David Housden
Thomas Was Alone: Official Soundtrack
Here we have a game soundtrack... We all love our game soundtracks, don't we?
The train of thought for David Housden when composing 'Thomas Was Alone', went something along the lines of: quiet, tense atmospheres (sparse piano fragments), dramatic builds (dense string sections) and spooky-otherworldy oddnes...view item »
Dilly Dally
Heaven
After a couple of years of thrills and spills touring in support of their 2015 debut LP Sore, Dilly Dally return to Partisan for another crack. By all accounts the band almost called it quits after their first album dropped, but fortunately for them and their fans they got it together enough to turn in ...view item »
12 Ensemble
Resurrection
The 12 Ensemble continue their rapid ascent in the international classical music world, with their debut album Resurrection. The collection comprises four works -- including a new composition from Bryce Dessner (The National), a commissioned work from experimental British composer Kate Whitley and piece...view item »
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band
The Serpent’s Mouth
Ushering in an exciting, vibrant and dynamic new age for steel drum music it's Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band with their new full-length release 'The Serpent's Mouth'. Named after an eight-mile stretch of water running between the island of Trinidad and Venezuela, the record is sprinkled with original songs as well as cl...view item »
Otik
Top Ten EP
After a run of releases on labels including Dext Recordings and Brotherhood Sound System, young talent Otik moves to the next level and drops via Keysound (Wen, Okzharp & Samrai). The tunes that make up Top Ten are a fresh mix of so...view item »
Lurka
Heat Mover / Battery
This particular Norman Records™ descriptions writer gets very excited when he hears that there’s a new Timedance drop on the horizon. Over the past couple of years the Bristol label has established itself as one of the true innovators in the city’s exciting soundsystem techno scene. Lurka, a se...view item »
Throbbing Gristle
Heathen Earth
Here it is! The stupendous monolithic mother of 'em all! TG's 'Heathen Earth' remastered and reissued in all it's menacing glory. Everything about the record just ticks every box for me, from the cover art bearing the number twenty three and the Charles Manson "Can the world be as sad ...view item »
Throbbing Gristle
Mission Of Dead Souls
Why does the name of this band still hurt my teeth?
This is the last live performance from Throbbing Gristle before their initial break up in the early 80's. The formats offered here have been unavailable for decades, so this is BIG. Mission Of Dead Souls is available on a limited edition whi...view item »
Throbbing Gristle
Journey Through A Body
Why does the name of this band hurt my teeth?
Journey Through A Body is a purposely recorded piece of art by Throbbing Gristle for an Italian radio way back in the good ol' days. What were previously unavailable on the formats offered here are now available . . . on the following formats . . . offered...view item »
Yumi And The Weather
Yumi And The Weather
Hello Yumi mate! Long time no see. How’re things? What’s The Weather like down in Brighton these days? Cloudy with a chance of synth-pop you say? Very well then. Best pack a mac.
She’s right you know. ‘Hustle’ could have been on the Drive soundtrack. Some of Yumi An...view item »
Stella Chiweshe
Kasahwa: Early Singles
This is a good one. Stella Chiweshe is well-known in her native Zimbabwe as a master of the mbira (thumb-piano). As the nation spent the 1970’s gearing up for revolution, Chiweshe released a run of mbira recordings that became soundtracks to the Chimurenga. Now Glitterbeat have collected ...view item »
Orbital
Monsters Exist
Monsters Exist. And so, apparently, do Orbital. Still (or maybe that should be 'again'). The legendary techno duo’s first LP in six years - and first since their 2017 reunion - sees the pair turning in their singular brand of emotive, electronic techno. Monsters Exist will put that new Jon Hopkins...view item »
Dawn Landes
Meet Me At The River
For her fifth album, Dawn Landes has decided to fully focus on the most countryish parts of her sound, by making a full-blown Nashville album. Therefore Meet Me At The River was recorded with Fred Foster as producer, has song titles like ‘Why They Name Whiskey After Men’, and a classic count...view item »
First Aid Kit
Tender Offerings
Tender Offerings by First Aid Kit is an EP featuring four tracks recorded during the Swedish sister duo’s fourth album, Ruins which was released in January 2018. These outtakes weren’t deemed album worthy, but they sure do make a nice little EP on their own. 10” vinyl EP on Colum...view item »
Rage Against The Machine
The Battle Of Los Angeles
Not too much more to say about this one. The Battle Of Los Angeles, the third studio LP by revolutionary thought’s very own Rage Against The Machine, is one of those rare records that can claim to have been both lavished with critical praise and purchased by millions upon millions of people. Both Time and...view item »
Ipek Gorgun
Ecce Homo
Turkish sound artist Ipek Gorgun signs with Touch for her second LP. Ecce Homo is a record of lush, large, sometimes abrasive electro-acoustic music. It swings from moments of grandiose granular synthesis to experiments with distortion to majestic drones - and that’s all within the space of opener...view item »
The Blaze
Dancehall
The Blaze will be absolutely massive. They kind of already are - a video upped to YouTube in 2016 for their song ‘Virile’ (yikes) has four million views and counting - but we reckon their debut LP Dancehall is going to make them REALLY massive. The combination of Disclosure-esque pop-ho...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 »
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
This is a really good week for new records. The one I have here is by the forgettably-named Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Thankfully the music isn't nearly as forgettable. I was hoping I'd like it as soon as I set eyes on the sleeve - a photo of what looks like some old tumbledown ultra-modern Cold War architecture ...view item »
Delta Sleep
Ghost City
If a math-rock band comes from the UK they should be maths-rock, right? Brighton’s Delta Sleep cram their indie, punk and electronic leanings into the math-rock sub-genre. They have been wowing fans with their intense and proficient live shows over the last ten years. Ghost City is their first long-player for three years. ...view item »
Bridget Hayden
Pure Touch Only From Now On, They Said So.
Released on 9th September 2018 to coincide with a new moon. This one’s a real gem - a plaintive, lachrymose, arcane classic in the making…
I’m not sure my B grade GCSE English skills are quite up to articulating just how profoundly moving and devastatingly gorgeous this record is. ‘Pure Touch Only From Now O...view item »
Michael Price
Tender Symmetry
Amazingly ambitious release from Sherlock composer Michael Price. Tender Symmetry not only takes the history of England as its inspiration, but is in many way a document of them. Price actually took him ensembles to each location, sparring with their acoustic properties, to captur...view item »
Paul McCartney
Egypt Station
Say what you like but Paul McCartney ain't doing bad for nearly 80. The former Beatle has had one of the most incredible careers in music history ranging from brilliance to some of the worst music made by a human and he's still at it. Though lead single 'Come On To Me' sounds bizarrely like Flight of the Conchords...view item »
Chilly Gonzales
Solo Piano III
“We want Chilly Willy!” “We want Chilly Willy!” While Barney Gumble may have been clamouring for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, unfortunately all we’ve got in at the moment is Chilly Gonzalez. He’ll have to make do. Solo Piano III is - who’d have guessed - the ...view item »
Kings Of Leon
Aha Shake Heartbreak
I once compared Kings of Leon to Blueshammer from the film Ghost World yet they have since become one of the world's biggest bands so who is laughing now eh? This is their second album from 2004 and preceded their incredible, unprecedented fame. The album scored a healthy 7.4 on Metacritic which surely is enough to get you ...view item »
Swamp Dogg
Love, Loss and Auto-Tune
Despite his recording career running to over half a century at this point (!), Jerry Williams, Jr. shows no signs of taking it easy in his old age. If anything, his latest LP might be his boldest move since abandoning the pop ditties of his Little Jerry years for the gnarled psych-soul sound of ...view item »
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Cock-A-Hoop
The Men They Couldn't Hang were actually named by Shane MacGowan and although their career was somewhat more under the radar than the Pogues there is a similarity in style as the band blitz through ballads, sea shanties, rock, roll and everything in between. This is their 10th album in an off and on 35 year career and shows the ...view item »
Phill Niblock
Niblock For Celli / Celli Plays Niblock
Reissue of an early work from the catalogue of Phill Niblock, originally released in 1984 and up till now not issued again since. Niblock For Celli / Cellie Plays Niblock features the classic Niblock drone method applied to Josephy Celli’s oboe and english horn, though the technol...view item »
Thomas Fehlmann
Los Lagos
Thomas Fehlmann has been keeping busy. Just three months after the release of The Orb’s No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds LP, Fehlmann is set to drop his first solo full-length since 2010’s Gute Luft. Los Lagos contains eight polished pieces of techno and features a collaboration...view item »
The Molochs
Flowers In The Spring
Now, now, look at you now, Flowers In The Spring-do. The Molochs aren’t Travis - who is? - but the Californian group certainly share an ear for melody with the Glaswegian group (‘Sing’ is an anthem and if you think otherwise then you’re wrong). This is an LP of laid back, '60s-in...view item »