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The Dodos – Individ
The ever-pleasant Dodos return to the fray with their sixth album, and it’s something of a gear shift. Conceived in the immediate aftermath of 2013&rsq... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Makthaverskan – III
Gothenburg post-punks Makthaverskan (which roughly translates as "Girl Power") take their time, that much is clear. Their three albums have been re... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Laurel Halo – Dust
The stark minimalism of 2013’s Chance of Rain was both an artistic leap and an abrupt stylistic transition for the American electronic artist. Ditching... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Deafheaven – New Bermuda
Deafheaven's critical acclaim off the back of Sunbather was one of the unexpected success stories of 2013. They gained fans outside of metal circles par... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Frankie Rose – Cage Tropical
Frankie Rose’s track record goes before her. As an alumnus of Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts, she’s served quite the indie rock a... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Adam Stafford – Taser Revelations
Taser Revelations promises shock and awe in its title, and delivers on the latter. After 2013’s subtly transformational Imaginary Walls Collapse, Adam ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Gallops – Bronze Mystic
It always did feel a little premature when Gallops called it a day in 2013, just a year after the release of their debut full-length, Dr. Hardcore. Happily,... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Foals – What Went Down
What Went Down's title track makes no bones about Foal’s intentions for album number four – seething with a thundering, caustic might that makes ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Albums of 2014 (#5): Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
The clues were there all along, perhaps: her 2013 debut Half Way Home gave notice of a unique voice in every sense of the word. Laid bare on follow-up B... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Thea Gilmore – Counterweight
Since her first few feral records, Thea Gilmore has settled into a pattern of releasing new music, covers albums and compilations. You can't blame her, if an... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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sleepmakeswaves – Love of Cartography
The lambent, dreamlike qualities of sleepmakeswaves’ post-rock re-imaginings have always been underscored by a winning paradox: music without words it ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Turnover – Good Nature
One of this decade's most notable trends, however short-lived, has been the so-called "emo revival". There has been a slew of great emo-tinged pop-punk getti... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Beach Fossils – Somersault
In 2013’s Clash the Truth the Brooklyn band played with punk and New Wave influences. The result was more impressive than their self-titled debut, whic... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Robert Pollard – Blazing Gentlemen
Even by his own effusive standards, 2013 has been a busy year for Robert Pollard. Incredibly, Blazing Gentlemen is the Ohioan’s sixth full-length ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Thermals – We Disappear
Following the action-packed amorality of 2013’s Desperate Ground, The Thermals’ latest effort finds Hutch Harris aiming the camera squarely at th... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Phoenix – Ti Amo
Phoenix have developed something of a habit of not dwelling on any particular musical genre for too long. The French four-piece have had layovers in indie po... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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The Albums of 2012 (#9): The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know (FatCat)
“It's been a strange year,” confesses The Twilight Sad’s de facto spokesman James Graham, ‘still jetlagged oot his nut’ from a ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Bill Callahan – Dream River
Much like Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's recorded output, a new Bill Callahan record will always be met with absolute reverence, even if its content isn't particula... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Etienne Jaumet – La Visite
As half of French duo Zombie Zombie, Etienne Jaumet has found himself increasingly drawn into the world of film scores – whether covering the greats, a... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Redder – Walk Long Play
Sombre Finnish duo Redder pull back the curtain on debut LP Walk Long Play, the followup to 2013’s sparse EP Border/Lines, and the stage is pretty bare... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Sealings – I'm A Bastard
Moody, minimalist, mal-illuminated… well yes, we may have been travelled this way before. Yet however derivative such disenfranchised narratives can a... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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of Montreal – Aureate Gloom
In the past, of Montreal have seen myriad reincarnations but Aureate Gloom isn’t worlds apart from the shambolic, hedonistic disco of 2013’s Lous... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Big Deal – Say Yes
Big Deal's third album is a high-stakes affair. After a disasterous home robbery in 2014, the band lost a laptop containing the record's demos and were ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Primal Scream – More Light
Primal Scream are no strangers to robust political debate. This is a band that once planned to release a song entitled Bomb the Pentagon, and felt comfo... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Jackson Scott – Sunshine Redux
Jackson Scott’s debut album Melbourne had been knocking around online for months before Fat Possum gave it a full release in 2013. With reviews ranging... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Animal Collective – Painting With
On the face of it, at least, it seems faintly ridiculous to ever use the word ‘stale’ in relation to Animal Collective, given how pointedly they&... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Cage the Elephant – Unpeeled
Unpeeled was recorded on Cage the Elephant’s “stripped down” Live and Unpeeled tour, accompanied by a string section. It’s on th... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Shigeto – The New Monday
It’s fitting that Zachary Saginaw, better known as producer Shigeto, opens his new album with Detroit Part II. In its free-flowing saxophone wrapped ar... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
Born near Dublin, Niall Mannion aka Mano Le Tough moved to Berlin some time before 2009, and quietly began to revolutionise the template of house music with ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago