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Kate NV
Room for the Moon (LP) [ Rvng Intl. LP / LP - released 12/Jun/2020 ] On Room for the Moon, Kate NV follows the muse of music from one chamber of illusion to the next, harmonizing lunar lullabies with a starry compositional choreography. Conjured from unlived memories of '70s and '80s Russian and Japanese pop music... |
Khruangbin
The Universe Smiles Upon You [ Late Night Tales / CD - released 11/Dec/2015 ] Khruangbin are a largely instrumental Houston trio that take elements of '60s and '70s Thai funk, soul, psych, R&B, surf, and jazz and pull it all into the same spacious but distinct sonic universe. |
Kondi Band
Salone [ Strut CD / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Debut album from Kondi Band, the inspired Afro-electronic collaboration between Sierra Leonean kondi (thumb piano) player Sorie Kondi and US producer / DJ Chief Boima, who himself has Sierra Leonean roots. Salone follows the release of 2016's... |
Lee Scratch Perry
Rainford [ On U Sound / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] The Mighty Upsetter returns to On-U Sound with nine brand new tracks recorded in Brazil, Jamaica and London with long-time friend and collaborator Adrian Sherwood at the controls. Lee Perry's friendship with Adrian Sherwood stretches back to the... |
Lee Scratch Perry
Rainford (LP) [ On U Sound / LP - released 31/May/2019 ] The Mighty Upsetter returns to On-U Sound with nine brand new tracks recorded in Brazil, Jamaica and London with long-time friend and collaborator Adrian Sherwood at the controls. Lee Perry's friendship with Adrian Sherwood stretches back to the... |
The Liminanas
(I've Got) Trouble In Mind Volume 2 [ Because Music France / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Following the release of their critically acclaimed album Shadow People (produced by Anton Newcombe) (BEC 5543242/BEC 5543243, 2018), French psych rock band The Limiñanas come back with I've Got Trouble In Mind Vol. 2: 7" And Rare Stuff 2015/2018,... |
L'Épée
Diabolique [ A Recordings / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] This is the debut album release from L'ÉPÉE , the band are Emmanuelle Seigner (Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle), Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) & Lionel & Marie Liminana (The Liminanas) . |
Mala
Mirrors [ Brownswood Recordings CD / CD - released 8/Jul/2016 ] Mirrors is the second album by endlessly influential South London producer Mala. It follows his 2012 Brownswood release where Gilles Peterson invited the producer to soak up Cuba's music and culture to turn the results into Mala In Cuba. But Mirrors... |
Mary Lattimore
Hundreds of Days [ Ghostly / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] "It was the most beautiful summer of my life." Memories - places, vacancies, allusions - are fundamental characters in Mary Lattimore's evocative craft. Inside her music, wordless narratives, indefinite travelogues, and braided events skew into... |
Moon Duo
Stars Are The Light [ Sacred Bones / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Stars Are the Light, the luminous seventh album by the American psych explorers Moon Duo, marks a progression into significantly new territory. From a preoccupation with the transcendental and occult that informed Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada's... |
Mort Garson
Mother Earth's Plantasia (LP) [ Sacred Bones / LP - released 21/Jun/2019 ] The Plantae kingdom grew to its height by 1976, from DC Comics' mossy superhero Swamp Thing to Stevie Wonder's own herbal meditation, Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants. Nefarious manifestations of human-plant interaction also abounded, be it... |
Mount Kimbie
Love What Survives (Double Gatefold LP) [ Warp Records LP / 2 LP - released 8/Sep/2017 ] "Love What Survives" is the long awaited third studio album from Mount Kimbie. It's the most confident statement of intent from the boundary-pushing duo yet, and an embodiment of their career-long musical progression. The album is the product of... |
Mrs. Piss
Self-Surgery [ Sargent House / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Mrs. Piss is a new collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie . Drawing on their collective rock, metal, and industrial influences, the project began while the two were touring around together during Wolfe's Hiss Spun album in 2017. The... |
Mrs. Piss
Self-Surgery (LP) [ Sargent House / LP - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Mrs. Piss is a new collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie . Drawing on their collective rock, metal, and industrial influences, the project began while the two were touring around together during Wolfe's Hiss Spun album in 2017. The... |
Nabihah Iqbal
Dreamer (LP) [ Ninja Tune / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Nabihah Iqbal returns with DREAMER, her long-awaited new album out 28th April 2023 on Ninja Tune. Five years on since the London-born artist, curator, broadcaster and lecturer's debut Weighing Of The Heart was released and two years in the making,... |
New Jackson
From Night To Night [ All City / CD - released 19/May/2017 ] Given that he makes evocative, imaginative, hard-to-pigeonhole tracks that draw inspiration from a myriad of sources, we've always thought that New Jackson (the recording alias of Dubliner David Kitt) should be making albums. From Night To Night, his... |
Nicola Cruz
Siku (LP) [ ZZK Records / LP - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The siku is a wind instrument of Andean origin, highly symbolic in ancestral rituals, made up of two separate, complementary parts, the arca and the ira. It is a representation of duality, an essential element of the indigenous world view, associated... |
Nicolas Jaar
Space is Only Noise [ Circus Company / CD - released 11/Jul/2011 ] Even those peripherally interested in dance music have probably noted the meteoric rise of Nicolas Jaar. The Chilean-born New Yorker debuted at just 17 with the expansive, cellar dweller house of his debut, the Student EP, in 2008 on New York's... |
Nils Frahm
All Melody [ Erased Tapes / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] For the past two years, Nils Frahm has been building a new studio in Berlin to make All Melody, his 7th album. Since the day Nils first encountered the impressive studio of a family friend, he had envisioned to create one of his own at such a... |
Okzharp & Manthe Ribane
Closer Apart [ Hyperdub / CD - released 6/Jul/2018 ] Producer Okzharp and vocalist-artist-dancer Manthe Ribane both hail from South Africa, where Manthe still resides, while Okzharp lives in the London where he is a DJ and producer, initially cutting his teeth in LV, who in 2007 were one of the very... |
