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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... |
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,... |
Anderson .Paak
Malibu [ CD - released 16/Apr/2016 ] After making waves in in the industry following his 6 track appearance on Dr. Dre's latest album "Compton" Los Angeles's Anderson .Paak returns with his brand new LP, Malibu. After a whirlwind of press, accolades, performances and studio sessions... |
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... |
Angelo De Augustine
Swim Inside The Moon (LP) [ Asthmatic Kitty LP / LP - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Swim Inside the Moon is a record by 24-year-old Angelo De Augustine. This second full-length of Angelo's career captures a sound he's been looking for since he started playing music a decade ago. Shortly after the 2015 release of Spirals of... |
Antibalas
Where The Gods Are In Peace [ Daptone / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] Imagine a world where every person is temporarily transported to outer space for the sole purpose of looking back on earth to experience its sheer beauty. For a brief moment, we could all escape the greatest atrocities of our time and take in an... |
Asnakech Worku
Asnakech (LP) [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 2 LP - released 16/Nov/2018 ] There is perhaps no woman more cherished in modern Ethiopian history than Asnakech Worku. As a musician, actress, dancer and cultural icon, Asnakech inspired and challenged society for decades, until her death in 2011. From her beginnings as... |
Aziza Brahim
Abbar el Hamada [ Glitter Beat CD / CD - released 24/Oct/2016 ] Western Saharan musician/activist Aziza Brahim's new album Abbar el Hamada (Across the Hamada), is a commanding and compassionate musical statement about, and for, the tumultuous age in which we live. Raised in a Saharawi refugee camp in the... |
Bad Hagrid
Bad Hagrid And The Planet Of The Androgynites (LP) [ Bad Hagrid / LP - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Alternative-Progressive-Regressive-Banana Brained-Ankle Sprained-Hipster Sister-SYNTH-Pop four-piece band Bad Hagrid are here to take you on a sonic journey to the synthetic planes. Bad Hagrid and The Planet Of The Androgynites takes you on a... |
Belle And Sebastian
Days Of The Bagnold Summer [ Matador / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Days of the Bagnold Summer began life as a 2012 award-winning graphic novel by Joff Winterhart. It's since been turned into a feature film, the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner), and comes accompanied by an... |
Belle And Sebastian
Days Of The Bagnold Summer (LP) [ Matador / LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Days of the Bagnold Summer began life as a 2012 award-winning graphic novel by Joff Winterhart. It's since been turned into a feature film, the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner), and comes accompanied by an... |
Bibio
Ribbons [ Warp / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] "This album has been made very much in admiration of nature yet through a tinted window of manmade escapism. Spending more time in the british countryside, walking, photographing, listening and recording has certainly affected how I've been thinking... |
black midi
schlagenheim [ Rough Trade / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Since forming just over a year ago, black midi have quickly cemented their reputation as one of the hottest new underground bands, following a string of sold-out UK live dates and surprise shows punctuated by constantly shifting sets and blistering... |
Bob Brown
Willoughby's Lament [ Tompkins Square / CD - released 1/May/2016 ] Reissue of the classic 1971 album. |
Various Artists
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present Paris In The Spring (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace / 2 LP - released 25/May/2018 ] In May 1968, Paris was burning. Out of the student uprising came a new wave in French music that matched the country's mood - darker, and more introspective than yé-yé, France's cultural revolution allowed the previously separate worlds of chanson,... |
Bonobo
Fragments (Indie Exclusive Red LP) [ Ninja Tune / 2 LP - released 28/Jan/2022 ] Bonobo's rise has been stealthy but unstoppable, and Simon Green, the man behind it all, is now one of the biggest names in dance music, and his 2017 album Migration was his biggest yet - reaching number-one on the Billboard Top Electronic Albums... |
Budos Band
V [ Daptone / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] New York afro-soul/psychedelic favorites The Budos Band return with their fifth studio album, Budos Band V. |
Charles Bradley
Changes [ Daptone / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Rolling Stone named Changes one of the "Most Anticipated Albums of 2016," stating "The ageless, limitless 'Screaming Eagle of Soul' swoops back with 'Changes,' an album named after Charles Bradley's affected rework of Black Sabbath's 1972 piano... |
Chris Cohen
Chris Cohen [ Captured Tracks / CD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] Ritual Howls create a cinematic blend of twangy industrial-rock that could fuel a post-apocalyptic dancefloor. A collaboration between Paul Bancell (vocals, guitar), Chris Samuels (synth, samples, drum machine), and Ben Saginaw (bass), the Detroit... |
clipping.
There Existed An Addiction To Blood (LP) [ Sub Pop / 2 LP - released 18/Oct/2019 ] Their third album for Sub Pop, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, finds clipping. interpreting another rap splinter sect through their singular lens. This is clipping's transmutation of horrorcore, a purposefully absurdist and creatively... |
