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Barbarossa – Lier (2018)
The third recording from Britain’s James Mathé aka. Barbarossa, 2018’s Lier, is a deepy ruminative, and subdued album, rife with sustained, atmospheric pathos. Easily the singer/songwriter’s most...
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Datarock – Face the Brutality (2018)
While they’ve managed a scattering of singles and remixes in the 2010s, the crowning achievement for track-suited Norwegian act Datarock was certainly their ambitious 2015 musical which was pulled off...
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Tor Lundvall – A Dark Place (2018)
There is an immediate sort of intimacy to Tor Lundvall‘s music. A painter as well as a musician, Lundvall wastes no time bringing you into his world, and he does so largely with a minimum of...
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Echo Collective – Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac (2018)
The indie classical scene emerged from dissatisfaction with the prevalent structures and limitations of classical music. Disillusioned with the pretensions and baggage of the high art traditions,...
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C. Diab – Exit Rumination (2018)
Based out of Vancouver, Canadian bowed guitar player and trumpeter C. Diab creates music that conjures the beauty of the landscapes and awe-inspiring wilderness of his childhood home in the Vancouver...
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Chris Carter – Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 (2018)
Chris Carter is one of the most important figures in the pantheon of experimental electronic music. He came into prominence as a member of the avant-garde, visual arts, industrial group Throbbing...
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Sevdaliza – The Calling EP (2018)
ISON, the debut album by the Dutch-Iranian vocalist Sevdaliza, was one of last year’s quiet standouts, in part because almost no one’s doing anything like it. For almost a decade now, artists have...
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Philipp Rumsch – Reflections (2018)
Far from the pensive or maudlin connotations usually associated with reflecting in a musical context, Philipp Rumsch likely titled his debut LP after the idea of collisions – not of light, but sound....
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Félicia Atkinson – Coyotes (2018)
Félicia Atkinson is a composer, sculptor, painter, poet, and publisher from Rennes, France. Atkinson has led a fruitfully fantastic run of eerily blissful, serenely euphoric sounds. Whether under her...
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Christina Vantzou – No. 4 (2018)
Robert Burns had something to say about the best-laid plans of mice and men, and their tendency to go awry. Well, sometimes, going awry is part of the plan, as was the case for Christina Vantzou as she...
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Zola Jesus – Okovi: Additions (2018)
Zola Jesus’ Okovi: Additions LP offers a new angle on her 2017 album, Okovi. The collection pairs four previously unreleased songs from the Okovi sessions with four remixes by a diverse cast of...
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Daniel Avery – Song for Alpha (2018)
Daniel Avery’s astounding 2013 full-length Drone Logic tested the boundaries of what could be considered club music, adding shoegaze-like distortion and IDM experimentation to a heady mix of propulsive...
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Mind Over Mirrors – Bellowing Sun (2018)
Bellowing Sun is Mind Over Mirrors‘ second album as a full band, with Freakwater’s Janet Beveridge Bean, Califone‘s Jim Becker, and percussionist Jon Mueller (Collections of Colonies of Bees, Volcano...
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Nonpareils – Scented Pictures (2018)
Named after the decorative candy sprinkles, Nonpareils is the solo project of founding Liars member Aaron Hemphill. After leaving the band in 2016, Hemphill changed his musical direction and focused...
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Sly & Robbie, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset & Vladislav Delay – Nordub...
On Nordub, Grammy-winning Reggae legends Sly & Robbie team up with Norwegian Jazz innovator Nils Petter Molvaer to create a unique sound panorama, spanning the colorful atmospheres of Norwegian...
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Makeness – Loud Patterns (2018)
Kyle Molleson, a member of London-based art-pop quartet Glad Hand and a close associate of the similarly abstract Adult Jazz, explores a gloriously broken style of dance music with his solo work under...
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Moon Gangs – Earth Loop (2018)
Inspired by classical music and the film scores of sci-fi and horror classics such as Terminator, Videodrome and Phantasm, and those of electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, comes Earth...
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Shakarchi & Stranéus – Steal Chickens from Men and the Future from God (2018)
From Gothenburg, Sweden comes the colourful sounds of Shakarchi & Stranéus, comprising Faik Shakarchi and Daniel Stranéus, a pairing forged in friendship and artistic partnership a decade ago while...
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Clarice Jensen – For This from That Will Be Filled (2018)
Cellist Clarice Jensen says the music on her debut solo album solicits “meditation and disorientation” — two words that, while not mutually exclusive, seem to suggest both a remedy for, and the reality...
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Kemialliset Ystävät – Siipi Empii (2018)
It’s a real treat to hear new music from Finnish multimedia wizard Jan Anderzén, whose sonic space program goes by many names. When he’s defying gravity in a group setting, Anderzén prefers to don the...
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