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AlbumsShigeto – No Better Time Than Now
Japanese-American producer Shigeto, aka Zachary Saginaw, has a lot in common with the Brainfeeder stable of beat-makers – his productions are mercurial... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Forest Swords – Engravings
From its opening notes, Forest Swords' debut album – after 2010's well-received mini, Dagger Paths – is an understated and hauntingly beautiful e... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
AlbumsJulianna Barwick – Nepenthe
Nepenthe was an antiquated potion of forgetfulness (literally, “anti-sorrow”), and this second album from ethereal songstress Julianna Barwi... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
AlbumsCharlie Jones – Love Form
There’s no denying Charlie Jones’ compositional abilities, musicianship, or technical nous. In his virtuosic playing, complex structuring, and ob... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Laura Veirs – Warp and Theft
Laura Veirs’ ninth studio album is an atmospheric, country-inflected journey, forged from tales of bad men, jazz musicians, and the sights and sounds o... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
AlbumsNo Age – An Object
Los Angeles based duo No Age’s previous albums explored the boundaries between noise, punk and melodic indie-rock, with frequent beatific results. Thei... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013
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AlbumsZola Jesus & JG Thirlwell – Versions
Zola Jesus, aka experimental musician and songwriter Nika Rosa Danilova, collaborated with veteran producer Foetus, aka JG Thirlwell, on these neo-classical ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
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Pinkunoizu – The Drop
There’s more than a whiff of prog about The Drop, the second LP from this Danish quartet, from the disorienting, pitch-bent synths of opener The Great ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
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Kill the Captains – Sounds Mean
Pleasingly difficult to pin down, Kill the Captains’ second album Sounds Mean skips around pigeonholes dextrously and with a discernible sense of humou... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
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Surf City – We Knew It Was Not Going to be Like This
Following a fairly lengthy hiatus, New Zealand’s Surf City pick up more or less where they left off on 2010’s Kudos. Luckily, said debut inhabite... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
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Ras_G – Back on the Planet
Ras_G's first album for Brainfeeder since 2009's Brotha From Another Planet is a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic j... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
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Sarah Neufeld – Hero Brother
Best known as violinist in Arcade Fire but having also supplied her talents to Bell Orchestre and The Luyas, Sarah Neufeld’s debut solo album is a natu... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
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The Lucid Dream – Songs of Lies and Deceit
The debut from this Carlisle psych-rock quartet makes no attempt to hide its influences, but in its drawing of links across some impressively disparate terri... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
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Crocodiles – Crimes of Passion
Since the lo-fi guitar fuzz of early albums Summer of Hate and Sleep Forever, San Diego's Crocodiles have cleaned up their sound immensely. Their shoegaze le... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
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The Whigs – Enjoy the Company
Garage rock revival vets The Whigs turn down the fuzz that was so prominent on 2010's In The Dark with the opening statement to their fourth album:... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013