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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... |
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... |
Faye Webster
Atlanta Millionaires Club [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 24/May/2019 ] On Atlanta Millionaires Club, the omnipresence of pedal steel eschews bluegrass trappings, flexible under Faye Webster's genre-bending direction. Webster didn't set out to make her new album sound like any artist in particular - in fact, she says the... |
Flaming Lips
American Head [ Warner / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] American Head is the best and most consistent studio album from The Flaming Lips since the release of their most successful brace of albums The Soft Bulletin & Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. Similar to those albums, the 13 songs on American Head... |
Flaming Lips
American Head (Double Gatefold LP) [ Warner / 2 LP - released 11/Dec/2020 ] American Head is the best and most consistent studio album from The Flaming Lips since the release of their most successful brace of albums The Soft Bulletin & Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. Similar to those albums, the 13 songs on American Head... |
The Flaming Lips
King's Mouth: Music And Songs [ Rhino / Warner / CD - released 26/Jul/2019 ] King's Mouth sees the iconoclastic outfit once again tread uncharted territory. These 12 new originals are threaded together by cinematic narration courtesy of The Clash's Mick Jones. Additionally, the music parallels front man Wayne Coyne's... |
The Flaming Lips
Oczy Mlody [ Warner Music / CD - released 13/Jan/2017 ] Three-time Grammy-Award winners, THE FLAMING LIPS are one of the most enduring, influential, unpredictable, and universally respected bands of their generation or any other. Led by Coyne, they have been cited as the ultimate live attraction and... |
The Flaming Lips
Oczy Mlody (LP) [ Warner Music / LP - released 13/Jan/2017 ] Three-time Grammy-Award winners, THE FLAMING LIPS are one of the most enduring, influential, unpredictable, and universally respected bands of their generation or any other. Led by Coyne, they have been cited as the ultimate live attraction and... |
Fontaines D.C.
Dogrel [ Partisan Records / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Debut album from Irish post-punk group Fontaines D.C.! Assembling whilst still at college in Dublin a few years ago, from the ruins of early nowhere bands, and having discovered a shared love of poetry and a common zeal for authentic... |
Four Tet
New Energy (LP) [ Text LP / 2 LP - released 6/Oct/2017 ] Veteran DJ/producer Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, releases his ninth full-length. New Energy follows Four Tet's 2015 album Morning/Evening, which consisted of two lengthy tracks that took up entire LP sides. Prior to that, he released... |
Frankie Cosmos
Close It Quietly [ Sub Pop / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Close It Quietly is a continual reframing of the known, taking the band's trademark micro-universe and upending it, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that's a marked departure from earlier releases, imagining and reimagining motifs and... |
Frankie Cosmos
Close It Quietly (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Close It Quietly is a continual reframing of the known, taking the band's trademark micro-universe and upending it, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that's a marked departure from earlier releases, imagining and reimagining motifs and... |
