Meatbodies Alice In The Red Records The heavy reliance on distortion and use of special effects makes Alice a fun rock album. It’s gritty, dirty, and rough around the right edges. The mix of psychedelic and garage rock is an interesting [...]
Chuck Prophet Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins Yep Roc It looks like Chuck Prophet has done it again with another spectacular album to add to his collection. With his most recent album, Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins, Prophet proves that 25 [...]
Thievery Corporation Temple Of I & I ESL Records Rob Garza and Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation have never been signed to a major label. They’ve never had a major radio hit or topped the charts, yet they’ve managed to make music for 20 [...]
Saw Black Azalea Days Crystal Pistol Records Azalea Days was recorded in a basement studio on a temperamental 8-track tape machine. The title of Saw Black’s debut album denotes visions of azaleas, the flowering shrubs whose blooms erupt in [...]
Wild Pink Wild Pink Tiny Engines “It’s just a phase”. This is commonly said to teenagers as a way to excuse their erratic behaviour, and it is an apt phrase for Wild Pink’s new self-titled album. Perhaps the three members had this quote repeated [...]
Martha And The Muffins The World Is A Ball – 30th Anniversary Edition Independent Originally released in 1986, The World Is A Ball would prove to be the last Martha and the Muffins album for six years, until their return in 1992 with [...]
George Morris George Morris Independent Wow, what a year so far for music. This is George Morris’ third solo release since leaving Satin Peaches, and it is clear that he keeps learning from each album. As a result, we have an album close to [...]
Lowly Heba Bella Union Heba is the debut album for Danish quintet, Lowly. Their previously released singles and EP teased us to their complex and blissfully ethereal nature. Composed of lead vocalists Nanna Schannong and Soffie Viemose, [...]
Teen Daze Themes For Dying Earth Flora Jamison Isaak, better known as electronic indie-pop artist Teen Daze, is back with a new album, Themes For Dying Earth. It is a highly collaborative record, featuring artists like Jon Anderson, Dustin Wong, [...]
Crushed Stars Displaced Sleepers Simulacra Records Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Crushed Stars have really delivered with their fourth and latest album Displaced Sleepers. Led by writer/guitarist/producer/front man Todd Gutreau, the band has long [...]
Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now Sub Pop Records Displaced American (now in England) singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop releases this nine-track album, Memories Are Now, to critical fanfare. Having honed her craft over the last 10 years, Jesca shows us [...]
Communions Blue Fat Possum Records Hailing from Copenhagen, Communions have finally released their debut album. This is one highly anticipated release. The band features brothers Martin (vocal and guitar) and Mads Rehof (on bass), as well as [...]
Elbow Little Fictions Polydor Records/Concord Music Group I am going to be honest; I was a bit nervous when I heard that Elbow was recording a new album. Their last album, 2014’s The Take Off and Landing of Everything, was so strong and nearly [...]
Surfer Blood Snowdonia Joyful Noise Recordings Surfer Blood’s fourth studio album Snowdonia is out via Joyful Noise Records. Ironically, this is a band whose name just makes all too much sense. They are quintessentially Surf Rock and their [...]
Nash The Slash And You Thought You Were Normal Artoffact Records Originally released in 1982 as the follow-up to 1981’s Decomposing, Nash went a bit more commercial with this release. However, that aspect is not reflected with this reissue, and [...]
Nash The Slash Decomposing Artoffact Records Originally released in 1981 (at the height of New Wave and the Eurobeat), Nash The Slash went back to his roots and recorded instrumental music, and created a most unusual EP/Album. Let me explain: it [...]
Aquaserge Laisse Ça Être Crammed Discs Aquaserge is a fun and experimental pop super group. Its members have graced the stages with dreamy indie connoisseurs like Tame Impala, Stereolab, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Acid Mothers Temple, and Aksak [...]
Tobin Sprout The Universe And Me Burger Records This is Tobin Sprout’s sixth solo album and first album in seven years. The Guided By Voices guitarist found his voice by going solo. Although he does reunite with GBV periodically, he seems to be [...]
Louise Burns Young Mopes Light Organ Records Louise Burns is a 30 year-old singer/songwriter, and she has been a professional musician for 20 years. At age the incredibly young age of 11, she made her debut with the band Lillix. Over the last 20 [...]
Frederick The Younger Human Child Independent It is not very often that an album can lead you on a psychedelic trip into worlds beyond your imagination, but Frederick The Younger has accomplished such a feat with their new album, Human Child. [...]
The Dig Bloodshot Tokyo Roll Call Records American rock band The Dig has released their latest album, Bloodshot Tokyo, and it may be their best one yet. Bloodshot Tokyo is for those people who never knew that they loved the music of the 1960’s [...]
Duke Garwood Garden Of Ashes Heavenly Recordings The blues tends to be rather conservative, with change occurring only slowly. The south London area has long been a major centre for Britain’s blues scene, and it was the location for one of the [...]
Corroncho Corroncho 2 Expression Records Corroncho is made up of artists Lucho Brieva and Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music fame. But Manzanera is much more than just Roxy Music. Over the past four decades, he has produced a huge catalog of solo [...]
Fred Thomas Changer Polyvinyl Records Fred Thomas is a songwriter/producer who has been creating a steady stream of material for fifteen years. After releasing a series of singles, Thomas was encouraged to focus on putting an album together. [...]
