Henry Bateman Hide & Seek Independent Henry Bateman is a 22 year old talent, based in Leeds, England. Hide & Seek is his third album, and he continues to progress while paying attention to traditions in the folk genre. Although he is relatively new to the world of folk music, he sounds as if he has been [...]
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The Claypool Lennon Delirium South Of Reality ATO Records British/American psychedelic rock band The Claypool Lennon Delirium is back in 2019 with their second studio album South of Reality. The band is made up of virtuoso bassist Les Claypool made famous by weirdo funk band Primus, and Sean Lennon, son of Yoko [...]
Buck Gooter Finer Thorns Ramp Local Buck Gooter is Billy Brett (vocals, synthesizer, percussion) and Terry Turtle (guitars). Finer Thorns is the duo’s eighteenth album in 14 years. It is amazing not only that the band has made so many albums, but also that the quality has increased consistently with each release. [...]
Datarock A Fool At Forty Is A Fool Indeed YAP Records Active since 2000, the Norway-based Datarock has had a high rotation in its lineup, but the founder and mainstay, Fredrik Saroea, has held the project together, releasing some pretty impressive albums. Ketil Mosnes (bass, keyboards, programming, backing vocals) [...]
OHMelectronic OHMelectronic Artoffact Records OHMelectronic is a Vancouver-based collaboration between producer Chris Peterson and musician Craig Joseph Huxtable. Dubbed the “perfect soundtrack for dark times” by the duo’s publicity team, the self-titled album is indeed a foray into gloomy industrial-electronic [...]
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Sole Destituent Black Box Tapes/Fake Four, Inc. Wasting no time on a dying planet, Sole opens his latest album, Destituent, with the line, “I can think of nothing more extreme than accepting domination”. With an ‘80s new wave aura, Destituent feels like a collection of anarchist anthems from the future, dropped [...]
Hot 8 Brass Band Take Cover Tru Thoughts Put on your dancing shoes, it’s about to get funky around the world! The beloved Hot 8 Brass Band, who is currently touring in Europe, has released its sixth album, Take Cover. Unifying people and transcending the long-standing traditions of brass, Take Cover is a colorful [...]
Yola Walk Through Fire Easy Eye Records Country soul artist Yola’s personal story is inspirational. With more than her fair share of personal traumas and adversity, including growing up with a parent who banned her from making music, stress-induced voice loss, and having been physically engulged in flames in a [...]
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Feels Post Earth Wichita Recordings The LA-based band FEELS loudly avows their voice and presence within the punk electronic scene through the announcement of their second album Post Earth, which will be released on February 22 via Wichita Recordings. Although Post Earth lacks any straightforward cohesion between [...]
Murray A. Lightburn Hear Me Out Dangerbird Records The Dears’ frontman Murray A. Lightburn is back with a clear and contained solo outing in Hear Me Out. Whereas Lightburn’s last effort was driven primarily by propulsive rhythms and cascading synths, this new full length is a more languid affair. Taking hints from [...]
The Chocolate Watchband This Is My Voice Dirty Water Records Revered proto-punk rock outfit, The Chocolate Watchband, have returned with their first album since 2000’s Get Away. This Is My Voice is a track album which takes the listener back to the band’s roots in the mid ‘60s as a psychedelic garage band who laid [...]
Tom Holkenborg Alita: Battle Angel – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Milan Records Legendary electronic producer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) creates another exhilarating score, this time for the upcoming action flick Alita: Battle Angel”. Fresh from his fantastic breakthrough scores for Deadpool, Mad [...]
Bedstudy Dot Wave EP Grand Jury Music Dot Wave EP is the first project from Brooklyn trio, Bedstudy, who are looking to make modern electro-R&B with an indie-pop flare. The group has previously made some waves with the music video for ‘Ø (Arms Away)’, which tackles violence against trans people. [...]
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Noctorum The Afterlife Schoolkids Records Noctorum has been missed since 2011’s Honey Mink Forever, and The Afterlife is a welcome return for the psychedelic pop/rock band; amidst all the strange developments in current events, the world needs albums like these. Marty Willson-Piper (lead vocals, guitar, bass, and [...]
Jon Fratelli Bright Night Flowers Cooking Vinyl Jon Fratelli takes things down a notch in the best way possible on his new solo album, Bright Night Flowers. With moody, mellowed-out guitar, pixie-like strings, and Fratelli’s quiet, underrated vocals, this album adds a new dimension to his work with The Fratellis [...]
NIIGHTS Hellebores Sun Pedal Recordings Straight out of Cleveland comes NIIGHTS with their second album (Whisper being their 2015 debut). And since Whisper, NIIGHTS have come a long way. The core of the four piece are Jenna Fournier (vocals) and Frankie Maraldo (guitars). Joining them on this album are Jeremy [...]
Holiday Gunfire Holiday Gunfire Cornelius Chapel Records Though Birmingham, Alabama isn’t the most likely birthplace for a perfect amalgam of 1990s sounds, that is exactly what these veterans of Verbena, Twinside, Great Lakes, and Nowhere deliver. From the opener “Nuevan” on, Holiday Gunfire is a collection of [...]
ShapeShiftingAliens ShapeShiftingAliens The Sublunar Society ShapeShiftingAliens is a Swedish duo, consisting of J.P Cléve on vocals and Niklas Rundquist providing the music. Although this is their debut album, they have worked together in the past, and were once known as Brainshadow. ShapeShiftingAliens is their [...]
Chain Wallet No Ritual Jansen Records With the release of its second album, Bergen-based dream pop trio Chain Wallet delivers a post-apocalyptic dive into the millennial mind. While the group’s self-titled debut from 2016 used the attempt to become untethered from the past as its thematic basis, No Ritual deals [...]
TRDMRK TRDMRK EP Hot Plate Records With so many rappers featuring on each other’s recordings, hip-hop supergroups have become rare, which makes TRDMRK—whose impressive lineup includes Jurassic 5’s DJ Nu-Mark, SlimKid3 from Pharcyde, and newcomer MC Austin Antoine—a must-listen. Though built around the lead single [...]
Xiu Xiu Girl With Basket Of Fruit Polyvinyl Records San Jose-based experimental band Xiu Xiu’s fourteenth studio album, Girl with Basket of Fruit, was conceived as a trip through the Black Lodge from the critically acclaimed television series, Twin Peaks. This is unsurprising, considering that the band [...]
LCD Soundsystem Electric Lady Sessions Sony Music In 2017, LCD Soundsystem released its brilliant American Dream, and not only was it the band’s first album to chart in the top ten, it actually debuted at number one and won a Grammy for Best Dance Record. This is no small feat for a band who, until that point, was [...]
HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR Loma Vista Recordings Dante Alighieri imagined an entrance to hell reading “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here”. On VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR, HEALTH unremittingly grapples with lost hope and death. Lyrically, the band explores existential themes unapologetically, in the style of [...]
Various Artists Music Inspired By The Film Roma Columbia Records Alfonso Cuarón’s legacy as a genius of cinematic storytelling will live on for ages, and his latest film, Roma, is now accompanied by Music Inspired by the Film Roma, a compilation of songs which includes compositions by a variety of artists [...]
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