Broadcast
Tender Buttons [ Warp / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] Broadcast's recent records have often seemed too cluttered with effects and affectation - perhaps unsurprising, given their love of library music and other esoterica. On Tender Buttons, though, the band, now slimmed to a duo of singer Trish Keenan... |
ANTONIN REICHA / BERNHARD ROMBERG
Reicha, Romberg: Concertos for Two Cellos Bruno Delepelaire (cello) Stephan Koncz (cello) / Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken und Kaiserslautern, Reinhard Goebel [ Sony Classical Beethoven's World / CD - released 20/Jul/2020 ] "Bruno Delepelaire and Stephan Koncz stride into action with tones by turn pithy and delicate. The instrumental lines wander in transverse motion, then snap into imitation. Nimble sprints from high to low turn gently caressing over a flute ostinato.... |
Budos Band
V (LP) [ Daptone / LP - released 12/Apr/2019 ] New York afro-soul/psychedelic favorites The Budos Band return with their fifth studio album, Budos Band V. |
The Bug vs Earth
Concrete Desert (Double LP) [ Ninja Tune / LP - released 19/May/2017 ] This collaboration pairs UK producer The Bug with Dylan Carlson of pioneering Drone Metal band Earth. The Bug (Kevin Martin) and Earth have each spent over 20 years exploring sound worlds that - taken at face value - may seem incompatible. Martin... |
The Bug vs Earth
Concrete Desert [ Ninja Tune CD / CD - released 19/May/2017 ] This collaboration pairs UK producer The Bug with Dylan Carlson of pioneering Drone Metal band Earth. The Bug (Kevin Martin) and Earth have each spent over 20 years exploring sound worlds that - taken at face value - may seem incompatible. Martin... |
Burna Boy
African Giant [ Atlantic / Warner / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] African Giant features a series of extraordinary singles, including "On The Low", "Gbona", "Dangote", and "Anybody". Burna Boy is among contemporary African music's brightest new stars and creator of an enigmatic new genre he simply dubs... |
Burna Boy
African Giant (Double LP) [ Atlantic / LP - released 13/Dec/2019 ] African Giant features a series of extraordinary singles, including "On The Low", "Gbona", "Dangote", and "Anybody". Burna Boy is among contemporary African music's brightest new stars and creator of an enigmatic new genre he simply dubs... |
Caribou
Our Love [ City Slang / CD - released 3/Oct/2014 ] You reach a point in life where the question of how to stay at the top of your game looms, with the only real solution being: you change the game. Our Love, the new album from Caribou, is the sound of Dan Snaith doing just that. Our Love is the fifth... |
Carnivorous Plant Society
Phantom Finger EP [ CD - released 11/Feb/2016 ] 'Phantom Finger' is a heady mix of strange creatures and fierce humanity drawn from the mind of band-leader Finn Scholes. Eclectic but focussed, the seven compositions progress with a satisfying vigour while allowing for pit stops at the edge of the... |
Cate Le Bon
Reward [ Mexican Summer / CD - released 24/May/2019 ] It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon's fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. "There's a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the... |
Cavern Of Anti-Matter
Hormone Lemonade [ Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Cavern Of Anti-Matter return for their third studio album on their own Duophonic label. Hormone Lemonade sees the band heavily utilising the sounds of modular synths and home built drum machines, yet still keeping the loose, improvised sound familiar... |
Chad Vangaalen
Light Information [ Sub Pop / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] "VanGaalen is very good at making eccentric, homespun indie-rock records, and with Light Information he has made yet another." - Paste Magazine "What makes these songs truly surreal (and ergo, sublime) are his wacky scenes, both monstrous and... |
Charli XCX
Charli (LP) [ East West / Warner / 2 LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Pop futurist Charli XCX returns with her third studio album. Charli is a collection of 15 songs and features the hit singles "1999" (Ft. Troye Sivan) and "Blame It On Your Love" (Ft. Lizzo). |
Chelsea Wolfe
Abyss [ Sargent House / CD - released 7/Aug/2015 ] On Abyss, Chelsea Wolfe brings the heaviness in her music to the fore in a way that's more natural, and more compelling, than merely "going metal." Given the darkness and drama present even on her unplugged album Unknown Rooms -- as well as tours and... |
Childish Gambino
Awaken My Love [ Liberation / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] Childish Gambino is the alter-ego of Donald Glover, a writer, actor, director, producer and comic. Childish Gambino launched "Awaken, My Love!" in September, with 'Pharos' shows which delivered fans music in a high-sensory audio and visual... |
Christine & The Queens
La Vita Nuova (12") [ Because / LP - released 29/May/2020 ] The electricity that French popstar Héloïse Letissier (aka Christine and the Queens) generates is unmatched. Over delectable pop beats, her dreamy voice dips in and out of French and English and creates a purely magical state of electropop that we... |
Chuck Prophet
Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins [ Yep Roc / CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] Chuck Prophet describes his new album "Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins" as California Noir. "The state has always represented the Golden Dream, and it"s the tension between romance and reality that lurks underneath the surface in all noir films and... |
Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex [ Partisan Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Debut, self-titled album from Brooklyn, NY-based ambient pop group Cigarettes After Sex. Led by vocalist / songwriter Greg Gonzalez, the band was inspired by the likes of The Cowboy Junkies, Cocteau Twins, Red House Painters, Mazzy Star & the... |
Clark
The Last Panthers [ Warp / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] 'The Last Panthers' features music from and inspired by Clark's mesmerising score for the Sky Atlantic crime thriller of the same name. The six part series, co-produced by Warp Films (Southcliffe, '71, Four Lions, This Is England) and Haut et Court... |
Clipping
Splendor And Misery [ Sub Pop / CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] 'Splendor & Misery' is an Afrofuturist, dystopian concept album that follows the sole survivor of a slave uprising on an interstellar cargo ship, and the on-board computer that falls in love with him. Thinking he is alone and lost in space, the... |