Mysterious Simi Valley, CA-based improvisational industrialists, The Croatoan, return with their fourth release on the Love Earth Music imprint.
Similar to a group like Television, Winchester Revival take droning melodies and guitar proficiency and apply it to a punk or post-punk frame.
Thirty-five years after their last studio album, 1980’s For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (Y/Rough Trade), Bristol’s The Pop Group return with a new album that is as challenging as their most revered work.
London/Bristol-based fuzz-pop quartet, The Fireworks, finally release their explosive debut full-length, proving the anticipation was well worth it.
While cleaners worked over several months, harpist Áine O’Dwyer was granted access to the pipe organ in St Mark’s Church, Islington .
Ambitious Denton, TX indie rockers, Fishboy, return with yet another narrative concept album.
Their hard rock signature remains, but interestingly enough they have started to sound like a tougher, meaner version of No Doubt.
St. Petersburg, Russia-based shoegazers, Pinkshinyultrablast, explode with a debut that is anything but derivative.
Back with their first full-length of new compositions since 2010’s New Slaves (The Social Registry), Brooklyn, New York’s Zs, currently a trio consisting of saxophonist Sam Hillmer (Diamond Terrifier), guitarist Patrick Higgins and drummer Greg Fox (Guardian Alien, Liturgy), continue pushing the avant-garde well beyond its fluid boundaries.
Portland, OR’s P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. finally return with a blazing two song slab of vinyl that shows them growing as songwriters without slowing down.
Comprised of former and current members of The New Sound of Numbers, Of Montreal, Dark Meat and Olivia Tremor Control, Athens, GA’s Mind Brains tap into an extra-terrestrial future with their brain-warping debut.
Beijing, China’s Noise Arcade returns with another fascinating play on electronic music.
Thirty-year veteran of the Italian underground music scene, Francesco Paolo Paladino (A.T.R.O.X., The Doubling Riders, Nosesoul, Alio Die), offers his latest multimedia solo extravaganza to an unsuspecting public.
The overall sound of the album is remarkable for the work of one individual; it’s scope alone could be chalked up to entire studio of session musicians. Involuntary Memories is certainly one memorizing and engaging listen from a voice deserving to be heard.
Back with a jaw-dropping sophomore full-length, Northern England’s Hookworms set the controls for the heart of the black hole and frolic in the confusion.
New Mexico-raised, L.A.-based Boyce’s ambitious, cinematic second LP further builds on the promise of her 2010 self-titled debut album and 2013 Tough Love EP, and establishes her as one of the most gratifying, gifted, and genuine songwriters going.
Red Lion, PA’s premiere anarcho-black doom folk noise duo return with a vengeance on their sophomore effort.
Back with their third full-length in almost a decade, NJ’s Stuyvesant continue their crusade of infectiously catchy rock’n‘roll.
Where most hardcore bands go soft shortly after their debut, ten years of rage have only made Blackout Shoppers meaner and better on their long overdue sophomore full-length.
After the departure of six-year guitarist/vocalist, Steven Schayer (The Chills), The Black Watch’s mainstay, John Andrew Fredrick went into a studio with drummer Luke Adams to make an album almost entirely by himself.
Having existed for twenty-two years with numerous CDs, cassettes and downloads to their name, Instagon return with what is very likely their very first vinyl release.
Music like this sounds like it easily could have been born out of the Laurel Canyon in the late 60’s/early 70’s. Ghosts of The Grateful Dead, Gram Parsons, and early Neil Young haunt these songs, and the band was smart to listen to them.
While the past music from Boston electronic duo Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic concentrated on quieter styles like ambient, dreampop, and even classical and jazz, Swim finds warm, crackling hip-hop beats dominating on every track.
+DOG+ in the studio and +DOG+ live are two different animals cut from the same breed, as documented in this second volume of performances from Southern California’s premiere noise group.
From Beijing, China’s dark underbelly, Thruoutin and Torturing Nurse emerge with a furious blast of harsh noise.
Recorded between 1975 and 1977 before either of the artists had fully established themselves, the mind-blowing collaboration between Hi-NRG producer, Patrick Cowley, and Jorge Socarras, vocalist for SF/NY new wave band, Indoor Life, finally receives its first official vinyl release.
“This is not down in the doldrums fare, rather it is like your perfect beach read, containing all the components for a good time.”
Following 2013’s self-released A Mixtape for the Honeybees, Oakland, CA-based chamber folk experimentalist, Stella Peach, offers her label debut showcasing her vast knowledge of traditional styles within her own unique persona.
Forty-four years after the release of her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day (Philips 1970), but a scant nine years after her sophomore Lookaftering (Fat Cat 2005), legendary Northern English folk-singer, Vashti Bunyan delivers her third and final album, a staggering statement of raw emotion that ends the songwriter’s career with dignity.
Perhaps inspired by the “more democratic” writing approach employed for the album, this Swedish quintet sounds more sharpened and the arrangements more intricate than on 2012’s quiet and contemplative The Names.
After four years of silence, Boyracer reemerge for their final release – four snappy songs defiantly lacking the drama that would ordinarily accompany such an announcement.
With twenty years of collaborating under their belts, Boyracer’s Stewart Anderson and Eric Stoess of Louisville, KY legends, Hula Hoop, get together again for another small slab of vinyl.
Adding to his super-extensive discography, Boyracer’s Stewart Anderson joins Sarandon’s Crayola and David Nichols from Cannanes and Huon for an indie pop extravaganza spanning three continents (North American, Europe and Australia, respectively) and heavily rooted in the psychedelic garage rock of the second Nuggets box set.
Dust on the Radio* are a quintet from Los Angeles, interweaving New Wave and Post-Punk influences from the 70s and 80s for a dark and sleek effect.
Eugene is a fantastically original release from just as unique of a performer.
A year after releasing their debut EP, No Rest for the Unseen, Paris’ Noise Generator prove how far their industrial sound has expanded on their first full-length.
Topeka, KS experimental cellist/multi-instrumentalist Aaron Martin’s latest collaboration is with Oakland, CA drone/psychedelic/metal practitioner and synth/sitar player Joseph Angelo, who also records under the name Luperci.
The sound collages that Topeka, KS-based experimentalist/cellist Martin creates on Comet’s Coma are every bit as alluring and anxiety-alleviating as those on his last solo LP, 2010’s Worried About the Fire.
After seven years with Sony followed by a robust fan-funding campaign, Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke independently releases her fourth album, highlighting her vocal talents as well as her pop sensibilities.
It’s so rare these days to get warm and beautiful close harmonies in a classical country style, not unlike The Everly Brothers and CommonUnion59 do not disappoint on their new album.
Louisiana-born and raised, now Portland, OR-based Beach manages to make all of Ascension’s 17 songs unique, each one strewn with his wry, witty wordplay, and delivered in his amiable drawl.
“St. Marie’s annual Static Waves compilation hit just around Thanksgiving this year, and it’s a massive three disk compilation, one comprised entirely of Slowdive covers! What a treat for the scene that celebrates itself.”
As 2012’s Scale Model EP showed, this Nashville trio has completely overhauled their sound, from their 2005 seven-song Twilight Dim’s moody and meandering, two-guitar atmospheric rock into more dynamic and direct, synth-fueled dance-pop.
A Pennsylvanian musician set to release his new album, I’ll Be Fine, Jano could have easily been found amongst the folk revival of the 50s and 60s alongside artists like Pete Seeger and early Bob Dylan at his folkiest.
Unbelievably, Dave Plaehn is not a pseudonym for Todd Rundgren, although their breathy, sweet vocals are almost identical.
“Opening track “Chromatique” moves like an ominous mist over and through you before Durant and Edwin charge in with bold musical strokes that surge into a mind storm.”
Madrid’s The Kiss That Took A Trip is the solo project of M.D. Trello. Inspired by the likes of Brian Eno and Steve Albini, Trello has released a new experimental album, Electroforest.
Though it shares many of the same characteristics as their radiant 2013 LP Drawn to You, Close manages to outshine it, thanks to more buoyant production and diverse arrangements.
Twerps have a great record somewhere in them, sadly it’s not Range Anxiety .
Anne-Simone always sounds like she has one foot planted firmly in the future and the other in the past’s idea of the future, making for a fascinating melding of sounds.
