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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... |
Perfume Genius
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 29/May/2020 ] Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius. It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and... |
Pinegrove
Marigold (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 17/Jan/2020 ] Pinegrove's new album begins with a breath and ends with a shimmering exhalation. Marigold marks their Rough Trade Records debut, offering what songwriter Evan Stephens Hall calls a "heart-first" perspective. |
Princess Chelsea
Everything Is Going To be Alright (LP) [ Lil' Chief / LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Princess Chelsea crafted her "nervous breakdown album" Everything is Going to be Alright, at home in pastoral Aotearoa. The album is a comforting offering. These aren't wallowing sad songs, instead, they chronicle Chelsea Nikkel's recovery, and... |
Purple Pilgrims
Perfumed Earth [ Flying Nun / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] New Zealand dreamscape artists Purple Pilgrims are set to release their long-awaited, sophomore record Perfumed Earth on August 9 via Flying Nun Records. This release marks their recorded debut with the iconic independent label. To create the... |
The Reduction Agents
The Dance Reduction Agents [ Lil Chief Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2006 ] Originally released In 2006 on Lil Chief Records, this is The Reduction Agents' first and only album . It is special for many reasons, but mostly because it is James Milne's (aka Lawrence Arabia's) first venture as a singer songwriter. |
Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
Mirror (LP) [ Occultation / LP - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Following on from the success of the Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus' (RAIJ) Beauty Will Save the World - their first new album in nearly 20 years - the band's second album Mirror will appear on vinyl for the first time. Mirror is possibly... |
Richard Swift
The Hex (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 7/Dec/2018 ] Richard Swift believed in and sought real beauty. And so, even at its most caustic and sardonic, his masterpiece swan song The Hex is beautiful. Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing, The Hex... |
Richard Swift
The Hex [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 7/Dec/2018 ] Richard Swift believed in and sought real beauty. And so, even at its most caustic and sardonic, his masterpiece swan song The Hex is beautiful. Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing, The Hex... |
Sampha
Process (LP) [ Young Turks / LP - released 3/Feb/2017 ] Since the release of his debut 'Sundanza' EP in 2010 and 2013's 'Dual' EP, Sampha has quietly but assuredly become one of the UK's most enigmatic and respected artists. Still just twenty seven years old, he has lent his vocal, production and... |
Shannon Lay
August [ Sub Pop / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] There is an entire sub-genre of poetry devoted to rivers and their persistent, meditative flow. Emily Dickinson's "My River Runs to Thee" compares them to the cycle of life, while Alfred Tennyson's "The Brook" deems them eternal and Kathleen Raine's... |
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Naturally [ Daptone Records CD / CD - released 18/May/2009 ] The second offering from Sharon and the boys, Naturally is a sharp contrast to the gritty debut "Dap-Dippin". With it's soulful vibe and sophisticated arrangement SJDK took their special brand of funk to the next level with this one. Dig on tracks... |
Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Sharon Van Etten's Remind Me Tomorrow comes four years after Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present. Throughout Remind Me Tomorrow, Sharon Van... |
Shilpa Ray
Is Last Year's Savage [ Northern Spy Records / CD - released 15/May/2015 ] With Last Year's Savage (maybe a nod to Leonard Cohen maybe a nod to Barrence Whitfield) Shilpa Ray has taken the pain and dark funk of earlier sounds and made explicit the sublimity that was always there just below the surface. The conversation has... |
Sir Was
Digging A Tunnel [ City Slang / CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] "Blending Tame Impala-reminiscent vocals like a beam of light with playful yet melancholy electronic production" - Stereogum Sir Was' debut full length, Digging A Tunnel, is an album that constantly bucks trends and confounds expectations.... |
Sourakata Koite
En Hollande [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Sourakata Koité was born in 1955 in Malème, Senegal, a Malinke-speaking area. As Sourakata says, "All the Koité are musicians!" He is indeed a member of a family of djéli (or griot in french), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians... |
Steve Earle And The Dukes
Terraplane (DELUXE) [ New West Records / CD - released 17/Feb/2015 ] Released on New West Records, Steve Earle's 11-track set is the follow up to the 2013 album THE LOW HIGHWAY and features Earle's longtime band The Dukes, comprised of Kelly Looney, Will Rigby, Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore. The album was... |
