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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... |
Perfume Genius
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately [ Matador / CD - 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 [ Rough Trade / CD - 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. Those familiar with Pinegrove will... |
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. |
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
So It Is [ Sony / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Preservation Hall Jazz Band their new album, So It Is, the septet's second release featuring all-new original music. So It Is finds the classic PHJB sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing... |
Punch Brothers
All Ashore [ Nonesuch / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] Of all the varieties of country, folk, blues and genre-twisting hybrids gathered under the catch-all of Americana, Punch Brothers are surely among the strangest. The five-piece owe their existence to the decision of mandolin player Chris Thile to... |
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. |
The Renderers
In The Sodium Light [ Ba Da Bing / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] The seismic rumbling of The Renderers goes beyond the fiendish pastoralia of their music. Long-time Christchurch residents, Brian and Maryrose Crook witnessed the earthquakes crumble the city. That, and Maryrose's developing career as a painter (she... |
Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
Mirror [ Occultation / CD - 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... |
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 [ 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... |
Scott Mannion
Loving Echoes [ Lil' Chief / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] 'Loving Echoes' is the first solo album by Scott Mannion, co-founder of Lil' Chief Records (Jonathan Bree, Princess Chelsea, the Ruby Suns). A cult figure in the New Zealand alternative music canon, Loving Echoes is his first release in 15... |
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... |
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... |
Stef Animal
Top Gear [ Fishrider Records / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Stef Animal (The Golden Awesome) presents her debut solo release "Top Gear" - a concept album of fifteen writing exercises, each conceived and recorded in one session. Each track was made using a different piece of obsolete or unfashionable music... |
Tinariwen
Elwan [ Epitaph / CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] Tinariwen recorded Elwan in the desert of California's Joshua Tree National Park, as well as in M'Hamid El Ghizlane-an oasis in southern Morocco. Elwan features guest appearances by Kurt Vile, Matt Sweeney, Mark Lanegan, and others. |
Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
Toumani & Sidiki [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 16/May/2014 ] Described as "the finest Toumani collaboration since his classic work with Ali Farka Touré" (The Guardian), 'Toumani & Sidiki' is a dialogue conducted through the kora, the 21-string West African harp which the Diabaté dynasty has elevated into the... |
Tyler, The Creator
Flower Boy [ Columbia Records / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Tyler, The Creator has his fourth full-length album, Flower Boy. It includes recently released tracks 'Who Dat Boy' featuring A$AP Rocky and '911/Mr. Lonely' featuring Frank Ocean. |
