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Trio-Da Kali and Kronos Quartet
Ladilikan [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] You take a trio of the finest traditional griot musicians from Mali and put them in the studio with a renowned and revolutionary Western string quartet - and the resulting album is one of the most richly rewarding musical collaborations you are... |
U.S. Girls
Half Free (LP) [ 4AD / LP - released 25/Sep/2015 ] U.S. Girls is Illinois-born, Toronto-based artist Meghan Remy. Half Free is Remy's first album for 4AD and is her most realised yet, focusing on characters in everyday struggles, with narratives inspired by the work of director John Cassavetes and... |
Vera Ellen
Ideal Home Noise [ Flying Nun / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] Ideal Home Noise is a record unearthed from much introspection and an attempt to find some comedy and lightness in an otherwise dark period for Vera Ellen. With two "voices" battling throughout the album, the instrumentation is sometimes light -... |
Wajatta
Don't Let Get You Down [ Brainfeeder / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Wajatta (pronounced wa-HA-ta) - the musical duo of Reggie Watts and John Tejada - return with their second album, Don't Let Get You Down, on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder. Coming from different worlds, but sharing a passion for the rich history of... |
Wax Chattels
Clot [ Flying Nun / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Wax Chattels announce their cathartic sophomore album, Clot. After a knock-out entrée with 2018's self-titled LP, the anticipation that surrounds Clot is immense. Much like Wax Chattels, the writing process for Clot took the best part of a year.... |
WildSonicBlooms
Where We Overlap [ Rattle Records / CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] Where We Overlap is a collaboration between Jeremy Mayall, Kent Macpherson, Haco, Horomona Horo, Reuben Bradley, and Megan Rogerson-Berry. The music was recorded over a two-day period in December 2016, and was the first time the ensemble had... |
Young Fathers
Heavy Heavy [ Ninja Tune / CD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "Life is contrast," said Young Fathers after releasing the first track from their newly-reunited recording sessions in 2022. Coming just under five years after the previous Cocoa Sugar, their fourth album Heavy Heavy exemplifies this wisdom... |
Young Fathers
Heavy Heavy (Deluxe Limited Edition White Vinyl LP) [ Ninja Tune / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "Life is contrast," said Young Fathers after releasing the first track from their newly-reunited recording sessions in 2022. Coming just under five years after the previous Cocoa Sugar, their fourth album Heavy Heavy exemplifies this wisdom... |
YO-YO MA / STUART DUNCAN / EDGAR MEYER / CHRIS THILE
Not Our First Goat Rodeo Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Stuart Duncan (violin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Chris Thile (mandolin) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] The music featured in this stunning album is so complex to pull off that the group likens it to a goat rodeo - an aviation term for a situation in which 100 things need to go right to avoid disaster |
Idles
Ultra Mono (Deluxe Gatefold LP) [ Partisan / LP - 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... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Friend Ship [ The Phoenix Foundation / Universal Music NZ / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It's been five years since GUYD but that down time has been spent writing, recording, touring with the New... |
The Phoenix Foundation
Friend Ship (Pink Coloured Vinyl LP) [ The Phoenix Foundation / Universal Music NZ / LP - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It's been five years since GUYD but that down time has been spent writing, recording, touring with the New... |
African Head Charge
In Pursuit of Shashamane Land (Double LP) [ On-U Sound / 2 LP - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Originally issued in 1993 and the last African Head Charge album on On-U Sound for 12 years, released at the height of the band's popularity as a staple of live music festivals. Continuing the skillful fusion of styles they had explored on Songs of... |
Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla
Terrouzi [ Sahel Sounds / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla plays instrumental electronic keyboard in a style known in Mauritania as WZN, or in Arabic simply "music." Born into a musical family tradition (his father is a renowned tidnit player from Traza), today Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla is one... |
Alex Cameron
Jumping the Shark LP [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Sydney's strange,artistic Alex Cameron's 'Jumping The Shark' on Secretly Canadian weaves intelligent, poignant lyricism with primitive 80s synths and seemingly minimalist arrangements recalling David Bowie and Ariel Pink, all under a Lynch- like... |
American Aquarium
Lamentations (LP) [ New West Records / LP - released 8/May/2020 ] On American Aquarium's new album Lamentations, BJ Barham shines light on dark American corners with heartbreaking conversations, long looks in the mirror, and empathetic questions, all through songwriting that is clear without sacrificing its poetry,... |
Angel Olsen
All Mirrors [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Olsen's bold and unexpected All Mirrors comes over three years after the release of My Woman, a top 10 critically praised album of 2016. On her vulnerable new album, All Mirrors, Olsen takes an introspective deep dive towards internal destinations... |
Angel Olsen
All Mirrors (Double Gatefold LP) [ Jagjaguwar / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Olsen's bold and unexpected All Mirrors comes over three years after the release of My Woman, a top 10 critically praised album of 2016. On her vulnerable new album, All Mirrors, Olsen takes an introspective deep dive towards internal destinations... |
Angel Olsen
Big Time (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / 2 LP - released 3/Jun/2022 ] Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then... |
Angel Olsen
Burn Your Fire For No Witness [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 14/Mar/2014 ] Many of the superlatives describing Angel Olsen refer to how seemingly little it takes for her to leave an audience speechless, even spellbound. But Olsen has never been as timid as those descriptors imply, and the noisy, fiery hints in her earlier... |
