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Jayda G
Both of Us / Are You Down (140g 12") [ Ninja Tune / 12in - released 18/Sep/2020 ] Jayda G announces remixes from Honey Dijon, Dâm-Funk and DJ Fett Burger. "Significant Changes (Remixes)" EP is out 19 July on Ninja Tune. Announced today alongside a thumping remix from Honey Dijon, who takes on Jayda's light-hearted ode to the... |
Bill Callahan
Gold Record [ Drag City / Cassette - released 18/Sep/2020 ] For his first record in....uh, well, just over a year (woot!), Bill Callahan gives us a Gold Record. For Bill, preparing to tour for Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest meant considering being away from home for long stretches of time - months, seasons,... |
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Visions Of Bodies Being Burned [ Sub Pop / Cassette - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Last Halloween, Los Angeles experimental rap mainstays clipping. ended their three-year silence with the horrorcore-inspired album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. This October, rapper Daveed Diggs, and producers Jonathan Snipes and William... |
Actress
Karma & Desire [ Ninja Tune / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] British electronic musician Actress aka Darren Jordan Cunningham, known to his friends as DAZ, is back in true form with Karma & Desire - his most accessible yet complex album - featuring an incredible cast of collaborators including Aura T-09,... |
Adrianne Lenker
songs and instrumentals [ 4AD / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] songs and instrumentals are two distinct collections from Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker, both written and recorded in April after Big Thief's March tour was abruptly cut short due to coronavirus. After returning to the states from Europe, Lenker... |
Antibalas
Fu Chronicles [ Daptone Records CD / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] With a globetrotting 20-year career renowned for being a voice for the people across four decades of political and societal upheaval from the late ʻ90s to today, Antibalas celebrates its 20th Anniversary with a stark return to their Williamsburg... |
Avishai Cohen
Big Vicious [ ECM / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] Charismatic trumpeter Avishai Cohen launched his exuberant, home-grown band Big Vicious six years ago, after relocating from the US to his native Israel, rounding up players to shape the music from the ground up. |
The Beths
Jump Rope Gazers [ Carpark / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] The Beths new album Jump Rope Gazers, out via Carpark Records, is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut album Future Me Hates Me - "one of the most impressive indie-rock debuts of the year" (Pitchfork). The Beths won Best Group and Best... |
Bill Callahan
Gold Record [ Drag City / CD - released 18/Sep/2020 ] For his first record in....uh, well, just over a year (woot!), Bill Callahan gives us a Gold Record. For Bill, preparing to tour for Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest meant considering being away from home for long stretches of time - months, seasons,... |
Bill Frisell
Valentine [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] The debut recording of guitarist Bill Frisell's trio with bassist Thomas Morgan & drummer Rudy Royston is a wide-ranging 13 song set that mixes Frisell originals new & old, jazz standards, traditional songs, and covers. |
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Visions Of Bodies Being Burned [ Sub Pop / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Last Halloween, Los Angeles experimental rap mainstays clipping. ended their three-year silence with the horrorcore-inspired album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. This October, rapper Daveed Diggs, and producers Jonathan Snipes and William... |
Eels
Earth To Dora [ E Works / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Recorded at the EELS' Los Feliz, California studio, 'Earth to Dora' was produced by band leader Mark Oliver Everett a.k.a. E, and performed by E, Koool G Murder, The Chet and P-Boo. Speaking about the new record, E says: "These songs came about... |
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes [ Verve / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] Verve Records releases the never-before-heard stellar live recording from the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald. The Lost Berlin Tapes were recorded - incredibly in both mono and stereo - at Berlin's Sportpalast on March 25, 1962 and finds Ella at... |
Flaming Lips
American Head [ Warner / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] American Head is the best and most consistent studio album from The Flaming Lips since the release of their most successful brace of albums The Soft Bulletin & Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. Similar to those albums, the 13 songs on American Head... |
GRG67 & Roger Manins
Happy Place [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] GRG67 follow their Jazz Album of the Year (2019) release, "The Thing", with an album of equally vibrant new compositions. |
Idles
Ultra Mono [ Partisan / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Recorded in Paris and produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire) and Adam 'Atom' Greenspan (Anna Calvi, Cut Copy), with Kenny Beats (FKA Twigs, DaBaby, Vince Staples) providing additional programming, Ultra Mono was sonically... |
Jonathan Bree
After The Curtains Close [ Lil Chief / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] 'After The Curtains Close' sees Jonathan Bree's trademark orchestral pop take a few unexpected turns into the experimental and sometimes kitschy territory populated by some of his French heroes of the 1960s. The end result is an album that retains... |
Katie Melua
Album No.8 (Deluxe) [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] One of the UK's best-selling female recording artists of all time, Katie Melua returns with 'Album No. 8'. A gloriously cinematic exploration of love, with lyrics written by Katie Melua and production by Leo Abrahams, Album No. 8 is a true... |
Kevin Morby
Sundowner [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The collection of new songs that would become Sundowner came together effortlessly as Kevin Morby did his best not to resist or refine the songs, but instead let them take shape all on their own. In his makeshift studio, Morby taught himself basic... |
Khruangbin
Mordechai [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it's finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals... |
