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MJ Lenderman
Manning Fireworks [ Anti- / CD - released 6/Sep/2024 ] "Lenderman puts a new spin on southern rock with his blissful knack for guitar work that's gnarled yet breezy, and a lyrical style that is as sincere as it is sardonic, as mythic as it is mundane, as he finds the beauty in frailty." - The... |
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... |
Moses Sumney
Aromanticism (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Since emerging onto the scene in 2014, Moses Sumney has ridden a wave of word-of-mouth praise, hushed recordings, and dynamic live performances. It's an organic, patient ascent all too rare in today's musical climate. In a voice both mellifluous and... |
Moses Sumney
græ [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 22/May/2020 ] Moses Sumney evades definition as an act of duty: technicolour videos and monochrome clothes; Art Rock and Black Classical; blowing into Fashion Week from a small town in North Carolina; seemingly infinite collaborators, but only one staggering... |
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,... |
Nap Eyes
I'm Bad Now [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] Nap Eyes makes crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Nova Scotian rain. Their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where... |
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... |
The Olympians
The Olympians [ Daptone Records CD / CD - released 9/Dec/2016 ] After repeatedly being visited by a strange messenger in his dreams while on tour in the islands of Greece, Toby Pazner became consumed with a vision to tell the stories of The Olympians through music. Chosen by the gods as a messenger for not only... |
Oneohtrix Point Never
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (LP) [ Warp / 2 LP - released 30/Oct/2020 ] After scoring one of the most unanimously critically acclaimed film scores of recent history Uncut Gems in 2019, the New York artist and producer Daniel Lopatin - whose name has become synonymous with era-defining art - is back with his new album... |
Owiny Sigoma Band
Nyanza [ Brownswood / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] 'Nyanza' is the third album from the cross-cultural, boundary surpassing Owiny Sigoma Band. For their third offering, the band travelled to the Nyanza Province of Western Kenya - home of their two members Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko - to... |
Parquet Courts
Wide Awake! [ Rough Trade / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Wide Awake! is New York's Parquet Courts' fifth record since their formation eight years ago. It's also their most groundbreaking. It's an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its... |
Peggy Gou
Once (12") [ Ninja Tune / 12in - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Laying solid foundations in the underground through 2016 and 2017, Peggy Gou is poised to blow up in 2018. In April she will make her debut at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, but she is kicking off the year in... |
