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Cat Power
Wanderer [ Domino CD / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] Wanderer is Cat Power's 10th album and her first since Sun was released in 2012. The record was made in Miami and Los Angeles and sees Chan Marshall position herself alongside folk and blues artists. "The course my life has taken in this journey -... |
Cate Le Bon
Reward (LP) [ Mexican Summer / LP - 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... |
Clementine Valentine
The Coin That Broke The Fountain Floor (Transparent Red Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 25/Aug/2023 ] The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor is a pivotal album in the creative evolution of sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon, formerly known as Purple Pilgrims. It finds them leaning further than ever before into collaboration, folklore, poetry, and... |
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... |
Dudley Benson
Zealandia [ Golden Retriever Records / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] Composer and performer Dudley Benson's long-awaited third album Zealandia is a love record to a drowned continent. An album that explores our identity through twelve meticulously arranged pop songs, Benson's most accomplished work yet was eight years... |
Dudley Benson
Zealandia (LP) [ Golden Retriever Records / 2 LP - released 10/Aug/2018 ] Composer and performer Dudley Benson's long-awaited third album Zealandia is a love record to a drowned continent. An album that explores our identity through twelve meticulously arranged pop songs, Benson's most accomplished work yet was eight years... |
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood
Jarak Qaribak [ World Circuit / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Celebrated singer, musician and producer Dudu Tassa teams up with award-winning composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead, The Smile) for a new album 'Jarak Qaribak' (Arabic for 'Your Friend Is Your Neighbour'), bringing together vocalists... |
Durand Jones & The Indications
Durand Jones & The Indications [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] Inspired by a handful of dusty and obscure 45s bearing names like The Ethics, Brothers of Soul and The Icemen, The Indications set out to make a record steeped in heavy drums, blown-out vocals, and deep grooves. Gathered around a Tascam 4-track... |
El Michels Affair
Return to the 37th Chamber [ Big Crown / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Return To The 37th Chamber is El Michels Affair's highly anticipated follow up to 2009's underground cult classic Enter the 37th Chamber. This time, in addition to re-interpreting the Wu compositions for a live band, EMA pays homage to the... |
Emma-Jean Thackray
Yellow [ Movementt / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] In the ever bright constellation of UK jazz players, Yorkshire-born Emma-Jean Thackray is a supernova. She's not only a trumpeter but a beat maker, composer, multi-instrumentalist, radio host and now a label head, with her own imprint Movementt -... |
Fiona Apple
Fetch The Bolt Cutters (LP) [ Epic / 2 LP - released 17/Jul/2020 ] 180g vinyl. 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... |
The Flaming Lips
King's Mouth: Music And Songs (LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - 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... |
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... |
Gold Panda
Good Luck And Do Your Best [ City Slang / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] Two years ago Gold Panda made a series of trips across Japan with photographer Laura Lewis to gather visuals and field recordings for what was supposed to be "a sight and sound documentary" which is still in progress, but in turn, the trip itself... |
Hans Pucket
No Drama (LP) [ Carpark Records / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Wellington, New Zealand four-piece Hans Pucket writes nervy but effortlessly danceable rock songs about feeling bad. Their second full-length album, No Drama, which is out November 4th via Carpark Records, gleefully captures the all-too-common... |
Jakuzi
Fantezi Muzik [ City Slang / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] "Synthpop from Istanbul!" "Jakuzi truly stand out" - CRACK MAGAZINE "Ever wondered what sound you would get if you formed a super-group of Future Islands, Depeche Mode and OMD" - GOD IS IN THE TV |
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
The Nashville Sound [ Southeastern Records / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "Isbell named the album for a lush, sweetened approach to record-making that was meant to help country music compete in the popular landscape of the early rock 'n' roll era, a production style famously associated with RCA Studio A. His take on the... |
Jonathan Bree
After The Curtains Close [ Lil Chief / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] 'After The Curtains Close' sees Jonathan Bree's trademark orchestral pop take a few unexpected turns into the experimental and sometimes kitschy territory populated by some of his French heroes of the 1960s. The end result is an album that retains... |
Jordan Rakei
Wallflower [ Ninja Tune CD / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] A phenomenal talent, Jordan Rakei is a 25 year old New Zealand born and London based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer whose distinct take on Soul captures a sonic and emotional awareness many artists spend their entire careers... |
Julianna Barwick
Will (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 6/May/2016 ] Will is the third, full-length album by Brooklyn-based experimental artist Julianna Barwick. Conceived and self-produced over the past year in a variety of locations, this compelling new work is a departure from 2013's Alex Somers-produced, Nepenthe.... |
