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Jenny Hval
Blood Bitch [ Sacred Bones / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] Norwegian artist and writer Jenny Hval has developed her distinct take on intimate sound since the release of her debut album in 2006. For her last two solo albums, 2013's Innocence Is Kinky and 2015's Apocalypse, girl, Hval's debut for Sacred Bones,... |
Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox [ Ndeya / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Jon Hassell's 1977 solo debut, Vernal Equinox offered the first glimpse into the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a pioneering blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside... |
Jonathan Bree
Sleepwalking (Arctic Blue Vinyl LP) [ Lil Chief / LP - released 8/Jun/2018 ] New Zealand songwriter and producer Jonathan Bree's breakout hit 'You're So Cool' was voted Best Music Video of The Year for 2017 by Time Out New York and is featured on his highly anticipated third album 'Sleepwalking'. |
Julianna Barwick
Will (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 6/May/2016 ] Will is the third, full-length album by Brooklyn-based experimental artist Julianna Barwick. Conceived and self-produced over the past year in a variety of locations, this compelling new work is a departure from 2013's Alex Somers-produced, Nepenthe.... |
Julia Jacklin
Pre Pleasure [ Polyvinyl / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] This breathtaking third album sees Jacklin as her most authentic self, delivering the most intimate, raw and devastating ten songs of her career to date. An uncompromising and masterful lyricist, always willing to mine the depths of her own life... |
Julian Lage
The Layers (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] The Layers is a stunning companion piece to guitarist Julian Lage's acclaimed 2022 album View With A Room. The collection features six original pieces recorded during the same sessions which found Lage discovering new orchestrational possibilities... |
Kamaal Williams / Various
DJ-Kicks [ !K7 Records / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Game-changing multi-instrumentalist Kamaal Williams has put together the latest DJ-Kicks mix. Due for release on November 8th, it features four of his own brand new and exclusive tracks and hints at the wide world of influences that have made him one... |
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... |
Kendrick Lamar
DAMN. [ Top Dawg Entertainment / CD - released 28/Apr/2017 ] "DAMN. is a widescreen masterpiece of rap, full of expensive beats, furious rhymes, and peerless storytelling about Kendrick's destiny in America. Life is one funny motherfucker, it's true. "DUCKWORTH.," the last song on Kendrick Lamar's fourth... |
Kevin Morby
This Is A Photograph [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] This Is A Photograph, Morby's 7th album, finds him making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. The creatively invigorated songwriter has managed to align his finest songs, his best vocal performances, his... |
Khruangbin
The Universe Smiles Upon You (LP) [ Late Night Tales / 2 LP - released 11/Dec/2015 ] While The Universe Smiles Upon You often slides by, frictionless, on grooves and guitars that sound like they've been doused in Vaseline, don't be tricked for a moment into thinking that it qualifies as easy listening. The Texas and London-based... |
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... |
Lana Del Rey
Norman Fucking Rockwell (Double Gatefold LP) [ Polydor / 2 LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] NFR was mainly produced and co-written with Jack Antonoff and includes 'Venice Bitch,' 'Mariners Apartment Complex,' 'hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it,' and the current release, a cover of Sublime's 'Doin' Time'. |
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... |
Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas [ Warner UK / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Lianne's third album and her first in five years is an album of startling beauty and insight. Working on writing and exploring her own identity, La Havas spent a lot of time moving back and forth between the UK and the States. As a result, 'Lianne... |
Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia [ Anti / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Miss Colombia is Lido Pimienta's follow-up to 'La Papessa', which was awarded the Polaris Music Prize in 2017. The Colombian-born, Toronto-based global beats trailblazer recorded the album in her home studio, with some additional recording done in... |
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,... |
Little Simz
NO THANK YOU [ Forever Living Originals / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] If 2021's "Sometimes I Might Be Introvert" catapulted Simz into the big leagues, crashing into the top 5 of the albums charts, collecting Mercury Music Prize, Mobo, Ivor Novello and Brit Award wins and earning her the biggest live audiences yet in... |
Little Simz
NO THANK YOU (Clear Vinyl LP) [ Forever Living Originals / 2 LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] If 2021's "Sometimes I Might Be Introvert" catapulted Simz into the big leagues, crashing into the top 5 of the albums charts, collecting Mercury Music Prize, Mobo, Ivor Novello and Brit Award wins and earning her the biggest live audiences yet in... |
