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Darkstar
Foam Island [ Warp Records / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] Foam Island, the third studio album from Darkstar, is a beautiful contemporary electronic pop album, dealing with powerful themes of ambition and hope against the odds in the 21st century. Since their early dancefloor 12"s on Hyperdub from 2008... |
Darkstar
News From Nowhere [ Warp / CD - released 8/Mar/2013 ] |
David Crosby
Here If You Listen [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] With Here If You Listen, the 77-year-old singer/songwriter continues the singular creative streak, delivering one of his most joyfully adventurous albums yet in a career that spans six auspicious decades. Crosby again joins forces with the three... |
David Kilgour
Sugar Mouth [ Flying Nun Records / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] Featuring unreleased out-takes and demos, this new edition of 'Sugar Mouth' has been completely re-mastered. This outstanding, unpretentious pop album was originally released in 1994. As far as back story goes, well, you could say David Kilgour is... |
Dean Blunt
Black Metal [ Rough Trade / CD - released 31/Oct/2014 ] "Dean Blunt has lurked in the shadows of experimental and pop music for about half a decade now, first with Inga Copeland in the project known as Hype Williams, but last year felt like a serious breakthrough. He dissolved his partnership with... |
DJ Khalab & Baba Sissoko
Khalab & Baba (LP) [ Wonderwheel Recordings LP / LP - released 22/Apr/2016 ] A masterful collaboration album between Afro-futurist producer, DJ Khalab and Malian musician, Baba Sissoko that explores a fusion of electronic production with traditional African sounds. Over ten tracks, a blend of familiar and new sounds come... |
Donny Benét
Mister Experience [ Dot Dash / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] After humble lo-fi beginnings in the Australian art-pop underground, Donny Benét has expanded his cult-like following across the globe with a resonant array of danceable repertoire dealing with love and affection. |
Dope Lemon
Smooth Big Cat (Limited Edition LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 12/Jul/2019 ] A mystical creature of leisure, the Smooth Big Cat likes to stay up late drinking whiskey with his rascally mates listening to records. He doesn't have stakes in the troubles of the world, and his life is guided by the mood of the breeze & what's... |
Drive By Truckers
American Band [ Liberation / PIAS / CD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] Founded in 1996 by singer/songwriter/guitarists Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood, the band have long held a progressive fire in their belly but with American Band, they have made the most explicitly political album in their extraordinary canon. A... |
The Durutti Column
Another Setting Expanded [ Rough Trade / CD - released 13/Nov/2015 ] First released in 1983, The Durutti Column's Another Setting stands as an avant-garde piece and is now being released as a remastered album with six bonus tracks. When originally released in '83, the vibe in the music scene in the UK was very loud... |
DZ Deathrays
Bloody Lovely [ I Oh You / Liberation CD / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] DZ Deathrays emerged from the sweaty heat of Brisbane back in the heady days of 2008: a pair of loose units intent on tearing house parties apart with their barely-hinged two-piece punk. Nine years, two albums, two ARIA awards, critical and... |
Ekiti Sound
Abeg No Vex [ Crammed Disc / Ekiti Sound / CD - 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 (LP) [ Big Crown / LP - 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... |
El Michels Affair
Return To The 37th Chamber (LP) [ Big Crown / LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] The highly anticipated follow up to the 2009's cult classic 'Enter the 37th Chamber'. Featuring: Lee Shields, The Shacks, & Lady Wray. |
Elliott Smith
Either / Or: Expanded Edition [ Kill Rock Stars / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Either/Or is widely regarded as Elliott's best album, and remains his best-selling. To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of this masterpiece, Kill Rock Stars proudly presents Either/Or: Expanded Edition. This album features the original tracks... |
Esperanza Spalding
Emily's D+Evolution LP [ Concord / LP - released 20/May/2016 ] Emily's D+Evolution is a new artistic vision for the 4-time GRAMMY winner, an electrifying take on the power trio adorned with backup singers, touches of synthesizer and spoken word, "as if to fly the pirate flag of the Black Rock Coalition" says the... |
Everything But The Girl
Fuse (LP) [ Virgin Music / LP - released 21/Apr/2023 ] Fuse is the first new studio album from Everything But The Girl in 24 years. Written and produced by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn over the spring-summer of 2021, Fuse is a modern take on the lustrous electronic soul the band first pioneered in the... |
Exploded View
Exploded View (LP) [ Sacred Bones LP / LP - released 11/Nov/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... |
Fantastic Negrito
The Last Days Of Oakland [ Blackball Universe / CD - released 20/Jan/2017 ] Blues in the 21st century usually falls into two camps: hip revivalists raised on rock who are ready to shred and traditionalists content to confine the music on a narrow path. Fantastic Negrito -- the new persona of Xavier Dphrepaulezz, who... |
Fiona Apple
Fetch The Bolt Cutters [ Epic / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Fetch The Bolt Cutters is the fifth studio album and her first release since 'The Idler Wheel' in 2012. The album was recorded from 2015 to 2020, largely at Apple's home in Venice Beach. It was produced and performed by Apple alongside Amy Aileen... |
