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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... |
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Visions Of Bodies Being Burned [ Sub Pop / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Last Halloween, Los Angeles experimental rap mainstays clipping. ended their three-year silence with the horrorcore-inspired album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. This October, rapper Daveed Diggs, and producers Jonathan Snipes and William... |
The Comet Is Coming
Channel The Spirits [ Leaf / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] Channel The Spirits is a cosmic odyssey. With psychedelic intensity, the band evokes the ghosts of bold experimentalists like Sun Ra, Funkadelic and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Here is the universe in a microcosm; the life-force distilled down to... |
Damien Jurado
In The Shape Of A Storm [ Mama Bird / CD - released 19/Apr/2019 ] Damien has always worked fast, but In the Shape of a Storm came together with unprecedented speed. Recorded over the course of two hours one California afternoon, it's Jurado's sparsest album to date. Gone are the thundering drums and psychedelic... |
Daniel Brandt
Channels [ Erased Tapes / CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] Daniel Brandt, co-founder of acclaimed German ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, is set to release his second solo album for London imprint Erased Tapes on October 12th. Titled Channels, the new record follows the release of the London and Berlin based... |
Danny Brown
uknowhatimsayin¿ (LP) [ Warp / LP - released 22/Nov/2019 ] In the nearly ten years since Danny Brown's first album was released, he has permeated both underground and mainstream music culture with an authentic and ever-evolving persona and a sound wholly his own, transcending genres and any parameters the... |
Daphni
Joli Mai [ Jiaolong / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "At once a relatively pragmatic re-release of already heard material and the satisfying conclusion to its previous flirtations, 'Joli Mai' is a hybrid: part-album, part DJ-toolbox - and totally playable, in any context." - Clash Earlier this... |
Angelo De Augustine
Swim Inside The Moon [ Asthmatic Kitty CD / CD - 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... |
The Drink
Capital [ Melodic Records / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] Playing things safe has never been The Drink's philosophy. Throughout the trio's evolution, their off-kilter guitar pop melodies and lyrical curiosities have grasped attention - and on their brand new album 'Capital', they're pushing the boundaries... |
Ekiti Sound
Abeg No Vex (Double LP) [ Crammed Disc / Ekiti Sound LP / 2 LP - released 5/Apr/2019 ] Recorded in Lagos, Ekit Sound's debut album 'Abeg No Vex' fuses underground electronic music, fat hip hop drums, rolling African percussion, the vocal variety of Nigerian folklore and pop, and mixes it all in a calabash of big room party bounce to... |
El Michels Affair
Adult Themes [ Big Crown / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Adult Themes takes the band's "Cinematic Soul" aesthetic literally and sends the listener on a journey through a whirlwind of moods and energies. With their 2005 debut album Sounding Out The City, EMA spearheaded an instrumental funk / soul movement... |
Exploded View
Exploded View [ Sacred Bones CD / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] Exploded View is a new collaborative project helmed by the UK-born, Berlin-based political-journalist-turned-musician Anika. After playing a string of 2014 solo shows in Mexico with a backing lineup composed of local producers Martin Thulin, Hugo... |
Fazerdaze
Morningside [ Flying Nun / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] The brainchild of Amelia Murray, Fazerdaze began as a string of bedroom recordings created late in the night, emerging fully-formed in 2014 as her debut eponymous EP. A succinct collection of intimate, beautifully produced dream-pop written, produced... |
Fenne Lily
Big Picture (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 14/Apr/2023 ] A gorgeous and gripping portrait of Fenne's last two years, Big Picture was pieced together in an effort to self-soothe. Tracked live in co-producer Brad Cook's North Carolina studio, the album delineates the phases of love and becomes a map of... |
Foxygen
We Are 21st Century Ambassador of Peace and Magic [ Jagjaguwar CD / CD - released 4/Mar/2013 ] The L.A. duo's second album seems to be reporting from three simultaneous decades of rock history. But having a great record collection and having some idea what to do with it are two different things, and on W**e Are The Ambassadors Foxygen have... |
Gaudi
100 Years Of Theremin (The Dub Chapter) [ Dubmission / CD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] To celebrate 100 years of the Theremin, super producer Gaudi and friends have created an album of Theremin infused dub. Gaudi was supported in this tribute by five of the world's top dub producers - Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, The Scientist,... |
Gruff Rhys
Pang! [ Rough Trade / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Pang! is a futuristic psychedelic world pop album, a cross-cultural collaboration between Welsh musician and Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys and South African electronic producer Muzi. Having met while recording the track "Vessels" for... |
Hama
Houmeissa [ Sahel Sounds / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Nigerian composer Hama presents a groundbreaking album of traditional electronic desert folk songs, hovering somewhere between early 90s techno and synthwave. Nomadic herding ballads, ancient caravan songs, and ceremonial wedding chants are all... |
Hama
Houmeissa (LP) [ Sahel Sounds / LP - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Nigerian composer Hama presents a groundbreaking album of traditional electronic desert folk songs, hovering somewhere between early 90s techno and synthwave. Nomadic herding ballads, ancient caravan songs, and ceremonial wedding chants are all... |
Haz Beats & Miloux
Blonde (LP) [ Low Key Source / LP - released 14/Feb/2020 ] The perfect pairing of two boldly creative artists, BLONDE is the six track collaboration between veteran producer Haz Beats and soul-heavy vocalist/producer Miloux (Rebecca Melrose). What can be described as a jazz, soul and hip-hop fusion... |
