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CV & JAB
Zin Taylor's Thoughts Of A Dot As It Travels A Surface
Droning for laptop and orchestra, Christina Vantzou (Kranky)has made three serenely haunting records on her own. This is one of two upcoming collaborations, the other a tape with Felicia Atkinson -- on this LP with longtime music co-conspirator John Also Bennett (Forma), the ...view item »
Half Man Half Biscuit
No-one cares about your creative hub so get your fuckin’ hedge cut
It was the laugh out loud moment of 2018 so far when the title of the new Half Man Half Biscuit album was announced. It would actually have been fine to just leave it at that....surely nothing they can do musically can really top it.
We know the score by now. Chug-a-long vintage shambling indie as a vehicle for Nigel Blackwell's al...view item »
Arp
Zebra
Alexis Georgopoulos presents his fourth album as Arp, a name I can only assume must refer to a beloved synthesiser. The feel of Zebra is very much of that 80’s period where old and new influences from around the world were being mixed and melded into shiny new fourth world shapes. It’s also ...view item »
Susso Seki Singh
Orange Sunshine
Exuberant trio Susso Seki Singh are here with their debut album, a ravishing, limited-edition gold-coloured vinyl, that sees the gifted musicians weaving together hypnotic instrumentation and subtle electronica. This record showcases the kora, the Celtic Harp and santoor to devastating effect. Meditative and powerful....view item »
John Coltrane
Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
It's somewhat of a holy grail of jazz, this. Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album is just that, an until-very-recently unknown and unheard studio album by the great John Coltrane. The sessions for the LP were laid down at the legendary Van Gelder Studios, with 'Trane at the peak of his powers and his classi...view item »
Craft Spells
Idle Labor
Now I wasn't mad on this bedroom producer last time I caught him in action. He's expanded his palette a little to fill up his debut album and his more brittle sound now makes more sense. Yes, it's 80's sensitive new-wave pop time but wait!! Please don't run away!! Take, for instance 'Scandinavian Crush' which is an uplifting dream of a song, so ...view item »
Bad Nerves
Can't Be Mine
With the twentieth birthday of Is This It just starting to peak above the horizon, the time is nigh for a resurgent interest in transatlantic art-rock. Step forward Bad Nerves, a group who look and sound as if they were cryogenically frozen around the time of the release of The Walkmen’s ‘Th...view item »
Yello
Frautonium (The Andrew Weatherall Remixes)
Yello were formed in Switzerland in 1979 and continue the gap between Kraftwerk, Laibach, 80s pop and rave. Bonkers as they are, this leads to a multi levelled appreciation. Remix lord Andrew Weatherall takes his favourite song from their 2016 album Toy and reworks it i...view item »
Stuart A. Staples
Arrhythmia
Though Tindersticks' Stuart Staples second full length album under his own name has references to his parent band, this is a bold move away into to new territories. It consists of four long form songs - opener 'A New Real' is fairly straightforward and begins with his distinctive voice over a slow moving drum machine and dub effects before lovel...view item »
Florence + The Machine
High As Hope
Florence Welch and her Machine are back with fourth album High as Hope. Besides the usual lineup, this time the Machine can count Jamie xx, Kamasai Washington, Sampha and Tobias Jesso Jr. among its turning cogs. Despite the collaborations, things tend t...view item »
Guru
Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Legendary for being one of the first albums to combine live jazz influenced playing with hip-hop production and rapping, Jazzmatazz was the debut solo album of Guru until then known as one half of Gang Starr. This 3LP deluxe edition includes the original album, an instrumental mix and a third LP of remixes ...view item »
Anne Dudley
Plays Art Of Noise
Composer Anne Dudley was actually in the Art of Noise the unique 80s group helmed by Trevor Horn and Paul Morley. Now she plays the Art of Noise but the press release doesn't make clear if these are re-interpretations of Art of Noise track or are new things inspired by the band. I guess we'll find out eventually...view item »
Bear McCreary
God Of War
Even if you don’t know anything about gaming, you know about God Of War. It’s been inescapable these past few months. Now, even if you’ve no interest in playing it, you can at least get a grip on what it sounds like. Bear McCreary - composer for, among other things, 10 Cloverfield Lane and ...view item »
Floex & Tom Hodge
A Portrait of John Doe feat. Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yeah man, it’s one of them DJ / classical music collaborations. Techno man Floex has teamed up with composer and instrumentalist Tom Hodge, with the backing of Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra to create A Portrait of John Doe, a melange of beats, strings, synths, woodwinds, and muc...view item »
Sparks
The Best & The Rest Of The Island Years 74-78
Although they've intermittently done brilliant stuff over the years (and continue to do so), the golden era for Sparks was probably the 1974-1978 era when they were signed to Island. This included great albums such as Kimono My House and Propaganda. This collection comprises the 'best' bits and on LP2 you ...view item »
Seraphim Rytm
Prayers By The Lake
It’s techno, Jim but not of the variety you’d expect to hear blasting out of a Funktion One soundsystem on a pumping dance-floor on a Saturday night. No Berghain bangers here then; just gorgeously glacial, deep-frozen, hypnotic rhythms set to ‘Maximum Stun’ mode. Prayers By The Lake is the work of ...view item »
Prefuse 73
Sacrifices
Two tracks into this record, ‘Late To The Party’ he says; well yes we are but only just, give us a break already it's so stiflingly hot... A little bit tardy with our analysis of this new LP from Guillermo Scott Herren we may be, but we truly are happy to see the return of Prefuse 73… OK, so &l...view item »
Kody Nielson
Birthday Suite
Formerly known as Silicon, the Unknown Mortal Orchestra drummer Kody Nielson drops his first LP under his given name. Birthday Suite will appeal to anyone who’s enjoyed the rise of that bloody Vulfpeck lot. Berkley funk abounds on this set of self-satisfied conser...view item »
The Rock*A*Teens
Sixth House
20 years ago The Rock *A* Teens played a small part in the history of the Atlanta, Georgia indie scene with a few EPs and albums. Some were released on the Superchunk-owned Merge label. This led to a reunion appearance at the Merge 25 festival and now a new album, Sixth House. Pre...view item »
Trentemøller
The Last Resort
Dane Anders Trentemøller’s oily debut album is back for a 3LP repress on Poker Flat. Blending techno, IDM and synthpop with a slimy, dubby production style, Trent’s goes all-in on the swank, from rousing driving tune ‘Take Me Into Your Skin’ and compelling live bass crumbler ‘Vamp’ to m...view item »
The Blank Tapes
Candy
Calling all lovers of sun-baked, ‘60s influenced psych-soul-pop! The Blank Tapes is essentially one man, Los Angeles resident, Matt Adams, although he’s drafted in the help of Fruit Bats’ main man Eric D. Johnson as producer of Candy to shape his purple-hazed vision. If you like The Kinks and Big Star or Dr. Do...view item »
Sote
Persian Electronic Music Volume 2 / Sacred Horror In Design
Ata Ebtekar aka Sote really is in a league of his own. In the fifteen years that have passed since his first record ‘Electric Deaf’ on Warp, he hasn’t exactly released an enormous body of work - clearly favouring quality over quantity. In that time, he’s had some great stuff out on ...view item »
Planning For Burial
Quietly
San Fran experts in all things gloomy The Flenser (Deafheaven, Panopticon) reissue this brooding collection from Planning For Burial. The first three tracks of Quietly appeared on a cassette in 2012, with the following four numbers added on a re-release the following ye...view item »
Miss Kittin & The Hacker
Lost Tracks Vol. 2
Dark Entries (Helena Hauff, Bill Converse) drop their second rarities collection from French electro mainstays Miss Kittin & The Hacker. The pair have combed through their archives and unearthed four demos they recorded in the late-90s for Lost Tracks Vol. 2. These ...view item »
Lena Platonos
Lepidoptera
Reissue of the ‘mother of Greek electronica’ by Dark Entries here. Originally released in 1986, the pianist-turned-composer Lena Platonos conceived Lepidoptera as a record of avant-pop. Full of stylistic left-turns - dinky nature documentary soundtrack one minute, Devo-meets...view item »
Jim James
Uniform Distortion
My Morning Jacket’s angel-voiced frontman Jim James is getting angry about the way our news is delivered. His third solo album, Blanket Distortion explores ways in which we can escape the fuzziness that’s dividing the world and get back to appreciating the simpler thin...view item »
Crooked Fingers
Red Devil Dawn
Eric Bachman was the driving force behind ‘90s American indie dudes Archers Of Loaf. After four albums the band called it quits and Bachman formed Crooked Fingers, a more singer/songwriter-y affair that told stories of people down on their luck with a poetic turn of phrase. Their third alb...view item »
Bill Laswell / Nicholas James Bullen
Bass Terror
You know that when Bill Laswell (of Painkiller and a thousand heavy production jobs) and Nicholas James Bullen (of Scorn and bloody Napalm Death) threaten Bass Terror, they are going to deliver on that threat. These two pieces are dense with low-end thr...view item »
Dead Cross
Dead Cross
Dead Cross (2018, Ipecac), not to be confused with Dead Cross (2017, Ipecac), is the latest headbanging release by Southern California weird hardcore/metal supergroup Dead Cross (2015 - present, Ipecac). They’re Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo, Justin Pearson ...view item »
Saint Ballantine
All Saint’s Day
Nice to see the old album title artist name pun gag is still in circulation. Saint Ballantine (Brooklyn buddies Andrew Thomas Reid and Brian Marc, the latter of Denitia & Sene) specialise in downtempo electro-soul with muscular, often fuzzy and occasionally gloopy basslines and multitracked vocals. The track ‘Follow&rs...view item »
Motorpsycho
Roadwork Vol. 3
Roadwork Vol.3 by Norwegian psychedelic prog rockers, Motorpsycho captures the band stretching themselves to magnificent lengths, adding improvisation to create fantastic versions of classics such as Hogwash and STG. The material was recorded at Amsterdam’s Paradiso Club in 2002 and was prev...view item »
The Essex Green
Hardly Electronic
After taking a break of nearly a decade to pursue other interests, Brooklyn-based Elephant 6 Collective associates, The Essex Green are back with Hardly Electronic - their first album since Cannibal Sea in 2006. If lead track Sloane Ranger is anything to go by, expect some delicious, catchy pop synonymous with other Elephant 6 b...view item »
Motorpsycho
Roadwork Vol. 5
Roadwork Vol.5 by Motorpsycho was recorded on the road in 2017 and features new drummer Tomas Järmyr and multi-instrumentalist Kristoffer Lo. Like previous volumes in the Roadwork series, Vol.5 showcases the band’s experimental and improvisational side. Lo’s addition to the line-u...view item »
Gwenifer Raymond
You Never Were Much Of A Dancer
Folkist imprint Tompkins Square (Meredith Monk, Hiss Golden Messenger) front the debut LP from Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond. She proves herself to have fingers of quicksilver on You Never Were Much Of A Dancer. Tracks like ‘Sometimes There’s Blood’...view item »
En Attendant Ana
Lost and Found
Trouble In Mind (Ultimate Painting, Mikal Cronin) present the debut LP from insouciant Gallic group En Attendant Ana. The band hit on a good formula on Lost And Found, bringing together those early rock and punk styles that the French are so fond of with shoegaze, ...view item »
The Jack Cades
Music For Children
The Jack Cades are a supergroup formed from bands in and around the current Kent garage/freakbeat scene such as The Baron Four, The Embrooks, The Gallileo 7 and The Missing Souls. They weren’t going to be a band due to other...view item »
RF Shannon
Trickster Blues
The 2017 debut LP from RF Shannon gets a UK release via Fuzz Club (Sonic Jesus, The Underground Youth). Band leader Shane Renfro has come up with eight evocative psych-pop cuts for Trickster Blues which will appeal to those of a Tame Impala/...view item »
Sherpa The Tiger
Great Vowel Shift
Great Vowel Shift (a pun on ‘graveyard shift’? Hard to tell) drop their debut release via Fuzz Club (Tales Of Murder And Dust, The Cosmic Dead). This Ukrainian group use a bunch of Soviet-era synths to forge these stiffly funky Motorik tracks that also draw influence...view item »
Freschard & Stanley Brinks
Midnight Tequila
Midnight Tequila is the second collaboration between French indie chanteuse Freschard and former Herman Dune frontman Stanley Brinks and follows on from their 2014 effort, Pizza Espresso. Here you’ll find a collection of songs that have an irresistible late ...view item »
Richard Wahnfried
Time Actor
Time Actor is credited to Richard Wahnfried, who you’ve probably never heard of, right? So why bother listening to Time Actor...view item »
J Dilla
Ruff Draft (Dilla's Mix) The Instrumentals
The late J Dilla recently had his cult classic Ruff Draft EP reissued by Pay Jay as a new edition that foregrounded the mixes he preferred, but never released. Now those new versions are available sans vox on this instrumental record. Of course, they are impeccable beats - this is Jay Dee we’re ta...view item »
Perfecto
You Can't Run From The Rhythm
Perfecto’s 2015 LP for Joyful Noise (The Low Anthem, No Joy) is back on vinyl. You Can’t Run From The Rhythm is an enjoyable hip-house record with a winking, parodic element to it. Think PC Music if the sound they were playing with was music...view item »
Daedelus
Of Snowdonia & Something Bells
While Daedelus might now have built a whole scene in his image, back in the early 2000s he was still working towards that whole mad-genius post-bap thing. 2003’s Of Snowdonia LP, and the shorter Something Bells that was released the following year, both represent significant steps in his artistic progress...view item »
Kreng
Lowlife (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Sound artist and composer Kreng gets a physical release for his score for the grizzled crime-comedy flick LOWLIFE. As with a lot of Invada’s other releases, the music here tends towards the more bombastic end of the film-scoring world. What makes Kreng stand out is his ability to mix tense orchest...view item »
Wild Moccasins
Look Together
New West Records (All Them Witches, Ben Folds) drops the third LP from Texan group Wild Moccasins. Look Together will be seen by history as the moment the band went for broke trying to make it as a Big Pop Group. Produced by Ben H. Allen, who has helmed records for ...view item »
Wire
Chairs Missing
Wire's second album has now, belatedly, got the re-issue treatment. 'Chairs Missing' expanded the short, sharp art-rock of their debut 'Pink Flag' into something more rounded and experimental, particularly in terms of their song structure. The CD editions come with bonus discs of so many demos that you won't know what to do with...view item »
Let’s Eat Grandma
I’m All Ears
Teenage duo Let’s Eat Grandma aim to consolidate their position as creative and dynamic artists in a world of musical homogeneity. I’m All Ears is bigger and bolder than debut LP I, Gemini, whilst also knowing when to rein in the ferocity or majesty. They’ve enlisted the help of a range of renowned producers to...view item »
Wire
Pink Flag
Like many great albums of yesteryear, Wire’s debut, Pink Flag did very little commercially at the time of its release in 1977. It has fortunately and rightly since been awarded ‘classic’ status by fans and critics alike. Elastica also owe this album a debt of gratitude, check out Three Girl Rhu...view item »
Wire
154
This is Wire's third album and was an icy example of the sort of dark art rock that was around at the time. There was however something special about Wire. They never were content to sit still and so each album is a development on the last. Certainly this is one of their albums that could be considered a masterpiece. Now comes w...view item »
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Hope Downs
That moment when we say "if you only buy one guitar pop album all year ...." .
Every summer needs a guitar based album we all can enjoy and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have more than delivered here. They are a rough hewn project and much dirtier and grungier than your usual summer fayre of bands like ...view item »
Snail Mail
Lush
Norman Records website editor Clint is absolutely obsessed with the fact that Snail Mail have a bassist called Alex Bass. He’s so obsessed with it that I’ve been left to pick up the pieces and actually tell you what it is that Snail Mail do. Bolstered by the canny and intuitive songwriting prowess of Lindsey Jordan, the band offer th...view item »
John Parish
Bird Dog Dante
Where does John Parish find time to record his own album? Last year saw him tour with longtime collaborator PJ Harvey and produce high quality albums for This Is The Kit, Aldous Harding and Jenny Hval. His own album, Bird Dog Dante includes duets with PJ...view item »
Red Hare
Little Acts Of Destruction
The fine tradition of D.C. hardcore appears to be in safe hands with Red Hare. Their second LP, Little Acts Of Destruction, is a bracing dash through fourteen taut, muscular punk tracks. Tracks like ‘Affirmation’ bristle with energy, packing plenty into their short run times. If you needed a seal of approval...view item »
Barbatuques
Baiana (Brasingles Vol. 2)
The latest team-up between Selva Discos and the ever-fantastic Optimo is a fiery one. Barbatuques are a group of Brazilian body-percussionists, and their 2005 interpretation of a modern Bahian folk song entitled ‘Baiana’ is potent stuff. Their interpretation combines mouth-harp, a dr...view item »
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mad Professor
Black Ark ExPerryments
Lee “Scratch” Perry and Ariwa label head Mad Professor teamed up for Black Ark ExPerryments back in 1995, alongside William The Conqueror, Rico Rodriguez, and Eddie Thornton. With this incredible line-up you don’t really expect anythin...view item »
Mark Archer AKA DJ Nex
The EPs
Some heavyweight 90s dance tackle here. DJ Nex - Mark Archer to his mum - released EPs The Nex and Poundstretcher in 1992 and 1993 respectively. They’re full of fun hardcore/jungle/acid tracks, a little zanier than your average. The people at Music Mondays always figured ...view item »
Tin Man
Acid Acid Acid
You know what you're going to get with Johannes Auvinen, here once again in his Tin Man guise. Acid Acid Acid is an extension of his early LP 'Acid Acid' (see what they did there!) originally released in 2005 and now highly sought after, fetching upwards of £90 online. An extra 12" of unreleased tracks from that s...view item »
Neurosis
Pain Of Mind
The lords of crust Neurosis return with another reissue from the river-mark. Who here remembers Pain of Mind, a classic of the East Bay scene? It strayed deep out of reality and delved into a thrashy cosmological void where all that could be accessed was growls, screams and groaning musical onslaught, the...view item »
Waak Waak Djungi
Waak Waak Ga Min Min
Waak Waak Djungi are a group from the Northern Territories of Australia, made up of three indigenous Yolngu people. They combine traditional vocal techniques and field recordings with 90’s era electronic production, and have been recently rediscovered. Waak Waak Ga Min Min contains a previously unheard recording, ...view item »
Run The Jewels
Stay Gold Smiff & Cash Remix Collection
The relentless cash cow that is Run the Jewels unleashes yet more merch, taking advantage of your kind-hearted but collectable nature with Stay Gold Smiff & Cash Remix Collection. Two tunes ("Kill Your Masters" and "Stay Gold") with instrumental versions and a remix for the latter. ...view item »
Super Elcados
Togetherness Is Always A Good Venture - Tambourine Party Vol. 2
Anyone keeping track of the resurgent interest in ‘70s Afrofunk over the past decade will have seen the name Super Elcados crop up every now and then. Now the group’s LP Togetherness Is Always A Good Venture - Tambourine Party Volume 2 gets a reissue via Mr. Bongo. Despite this being the sec...view item »
The Room In The Wood
The Room In The Wood
The first thing to note about this record is that the vinyl version has 9 tracks, where as the CD has 10. The added track on the CD is called Vermillion Sands, in case you wanted to know. This self-titled record from The Room In The Wood is a cracking combination of pop-punk, rock, blues and folk. Available on vinyl LP and CD, and released ...view item »
Embrace
Love Is A Basic Need (Orchestral)
It’s the semi-final of the 2018 Fifa World Cup™, and it’s Germany vs. England. After a thrilling contest that involved a bust-up between Gundogan and Henderson, a perfectly good goal by Draxler that was disallowed despite the use of VAR and Marcus Rashford nutmegging Mats Hummels, it’s finished a draw and gone to penaltie...view item »
Tropics
Nocturnal Souls
Nocturnal Souls will be the last record released by Chris Ward under the umbrella of Tropics. Very sad.
Each track on the record sounds beautifully poetic and well written. Ward himself has described how this record is intended to draw together his time in LA with his background in the UK, and to re...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 »
Lalo Schifrin
Bullitt (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Lalo Schifrin is the archetypal cool film score composer of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. The Argentine-born jazz musician has a whole bunch of entertaining film scores to his name and Bullitt is one of his most famous and most enduring. It is being reissued on 140g orange vinyl to celebrate its 50th anniversary....view item »
Haleek Maul
In Permanence
We do love coloured vinyl, so thanks goes to Lex records for this limited-edition red release from 21-year old Bajan-Brooklynite Haleek Maul. 'In Permanence' is his debut EP, and you can expect to hear such varying influences as Aphex Twin, Crystal Castles, underground legend Kenneth Anger and Kanye West. ...view item »
Gorillaz
The Now Now
After the messy and uninspired Humanz, The World’s Most Famous Virtual Group™ needed a shake-up. So Gorillaz have locked up their bassist and hellraiser-in-chief Murdoc and drafted in a new member, Ace, in his place. The Now Now features eleven new tunes from Damon Albarn and his Me...view item »
Jon Hassell
Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
First album in nine years from Fourth World aesthetic creator Jon Hassell. On Listening To Pictures he applies the painterly technique of pentimento, where new strokes unearth older ones, to a kind of ambient jazz. Using overdubs Hassell creates dense ever shifting layers that are an absolute joy on the ears. ...view item »
Soulwax
Essential
Soulwax’s 2017 Essential Mix was the first instalment in BBC Radio 1’s long-running series to feature over an hour of original material. If that wasn’t impressive enough, consider the fact that they’d already released a new LP (Deewee) earlier that year. Essential collates those Radio 1 ...view item »
The Cure
Mixed Up (Remastered)
The Cure’s classic 1990 compilation Mixed Up is a round-up of the very finest remixes of their material in existence at that time: well worthy of a reissue now eh? And what a reissue: Mixed Up’s fancier editions include an extra disc of rare, deleted 80’s remixes alongside the original trackli...view item »
Kamasi Washington
Heaven and Earth
With reference to everyone moaning about the football being on over summer ...what about those of us who don't like saxophones? There are at least two and a half hours of music here.. much of which contains saxophone. Add this to all the other sax music out there and it's starting to become a problem even leaving the house.
Sadly our sax...view item »
Stella Donnelly
Thrush Metal
No wonder Matador spent good time re-issuing Liz Phair's 'Exit in Guyville' recently as there seems to be a direct lineage between that album and the current wave of singer songwriters who purvey a similar acoustic melancholy with no holds barred lyrical dexterity.
Perhaps the best of the lot is Ste...view item »
Portal
ION
Fans of twisted up black metal rejoice as Australia's bleakest export return for their fifth full length album. Expect the trademark buzzing shreds, leanings towards Psyopus and Crowpath, but a sound that further pushes the band into the kind of depraved obscurity that earned them their dimly gleaming reputation...view item »
Derek Carr
Distant Systems
Westmeath, Ireland's Derek Carr is an established figure with a fair few classics under his belt. He developed his finely crafted style of techno after digesting comps such as Bio-Rhythms and 'Pioneers of the Hypnotic Groove' from Warp. Deep, soulful techno with nods to Kraftwerk's melodicism and Depeche Mode's throbbing pop. ...view item »
Peggy Gou
Day Without Yesterday / Six O Six
‘Day Without Yesterday’/Six O Six’ originally dropped in early 2016, when Peggy Gou was just a budding DJ who blew a lot of cash at Phonica Records. Fast forward two years and the Korea...view item »
Dance For Your Life – Rare Finnish Funk & Disco 1976-1986
Lordi. HIM. Apocalyptica. When one thinks of Finnish music, the words ‘funk’ and ‘disco’ are not ones that immediately spring to mind. The people at Svart Records - despite being a label that largely releases prog and metal - are out to change those perce...view item »
JAI/MAHL (Jamal Moss / Hieroglyphic Being)
#DontjusttalkaboutitbeAboutIt
Sneaky release from Jamal Moss (better known as Hieroglyphic Being) under his JAI/MAHL alias. One of the most dependably interesting artists in electronic music, pretty much everything he does is worth listening to. #DontjusttalkaboutitbeAboutIt is a bit more conventional than what he's ...view item »
Michal Turtle feat. HOVE
Middle of the Road Less Travelled
80s electro tinkerer Michal Turtle has seen a renewed interest in his music in recent years, with Music From Memory reissuing a number of records from his back catalogue. Now Light Of Other Days sees him team up with guitarist Hove for this EP of gentle deep house and Balearic b...view item »
Rommek
Igneous - Set In Stone Trilogy
As Kelly Jayne Jones’ recent work has show us, rocks and stones are ever-powerful inspirations for creation. This is especially the case when it comes to pounding techno and IDM, as Rommek’s Set In Stone Trilogy begins with Igneous, kicking off with a dense malevolent drone before t...view item »
Ossia
Dub Hell / Devil's Dance
Limited edition of 250 copies ten-inch plate from Young Echo crew member and Bristol/Berlin DJ/producer Ossia. His mutant strain of technoid dub isn’t concerned with the usual fare of chasing vampires, rather Ossia embraces the darkness and plummets us down into the fiery bowels of hell to prance with demons and toke with the evil cloven-h...view item »
John T. Gast
BTEC Version #1
Limited white label action from the enigmatic John T. Gast (Planet Mu, Blackest Ever Black, 5 Gate Temple, Apron Records etc.) with a pair of cuts apparently recorded in 2013. They’ve been maturing nicely on whatever hard drive they’ve been lurking on for the past five years…
Up top, the superb ‘Angela’ is ...view item »
Bastion
Bastion
Reissues may be all the rage these days, but there are still plenty of bygone eras/territories/genres that are yet to have their archives ransacked. The music of the former Yugoslavia would be one of those areas very much due a good going-over. The people behind ACC Records - born from Resonance FM’s A Colder Consc...view item »
Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor
Tout Ce Que Je Sais
What can you say about an album that heavily features spoken word in a language you don’t speak? ‘Tout Ce Que Je Sais’ (All That I Know) is the latest album from Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor and it is mostly conducted in French, a language I haven’t even attempted to learn since I was 13.
Eve...view item »
Onyx Collective
Lower East Suite Part Three
After the first two instalments of their Lower East Suite series garnered considerable interest, NYC neo-jazz ensemble Onyx Collective complete the trio with an LP. The group's music combines serious jazz/free-jazz chops with techniques from music concrete, hip-hop, neo-soul and other genres, and is imbued with the same sparky DIY aesth...view item »
Beach Skulls
Las Dunas
Dream pop. Psych pop. Grunge revivalism. Whatever you want to call it, Mancunian group Beach Skulls most certainly are it. Las Dunas is the band’s sophomore LP, and it sees them sticking to the template that made 2016 debut Slow Grind a minor hit. The song on it entitled ‘That’s Not Me’ ...view item »
Ray Barbee
Tiara For Computer
The Tiara For Computer, the latest LP from Ray Barbee, we find the skater, photographer and most importantly (for our purposes) musician playing around with synths. Along with a band including John Herndon (Tortoise) Barbee has created a weird, fun record that skirts between instrumenta...view item »
Hampshire & Foat
Nightshade
Warren Hampshire and Greg Foat get together for this limited-run LP on Athens Of The North. Nightshade...view item »
Princess Nokia
A Girl Cried Red
Phil likes this. I think his pre-teen stepdaughter must have been playing it. No she likes PIL so he's obviously hitting yet another mid-life crisis. To review it though means I'm breaching my 'no autotune' policy... something that seems to baffle the younger elements in our office. You see, hearing autotune on my records hits a particular...view item »
Arthur Buck
Arthur Buck
I'm not overly happy with Joseph Arthur here. What I don't understand is this. When in R.E.M Peter Buck hated guitar solos and wouldn't have them on the records yet here he is happy for someone (presumably not him) to screech them and then for them to be actually left in the mix. Did they get put on after he left the...view item »