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Johnny Jewel – Themes for Television (2018)
Spend just a few minutes with any Johnny Jewel project (Chromatics, Desire, Glass Candy, Symmetry) and you’ll find that it’s easy to get lost in the dark edges of his velvet production. As it turns...
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Rachel Grimes – The Doctor from India: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2018)
Kentucky composer, arranger and pianist Rachel Grimes has delivered an original score that’s a joy to listen to, even divorced of the images and story that shaped it. We don’t necessarily need to see...
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From the Mouth of the Sun – Sleep Stations EP (2018)
To follow 2017’s Hymn Binding, From the Mouth of the Sun extend the boundaries of their sonic frontier in an enthralling EP that packs a lot of minimalist ambient orchestral flavour into a short...
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Moomin – Yesterday’s Tomorrows (2018)
There are musical styles that stretch wide and loose, like a sagging tarpaulin, and there are those that fit as tight as a surgeon’s glove. The former aesthetics—minimal techno, say, or dream pop —...
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Örvar Smárason – Light Is Liquid (2018)
Being a key figure in Iceland’s music scene over the past 20 years with his bands múm and FM Belfast among others, the time has come for Örvar Smárason to release his debut solo album. Light Is Liquid...
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Jan Jelinek – Zwischen (2018)
The use of junk or unwanted audio in 20th and 21st century music is ubiquitous. By now the concept has been so widely applied it’s practically invisible and examples are easy to pick out at random:...
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Bernard Estardy – Space Oddities [1970-1982] (2018)
A master of the mixing board from the late ’60s until the ’90s, Bernard Estardy was the wizard of French musical recordings. As head of CBE studios, he shaped everything from Gérard Manset’s concept...
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Surgeon – Luminosity Device (2018)
Beginning in the mid 1990s, Anthony Child — as the DJ and electronic musician Surgeon — pioneered a strand of techno as brutalist as the concrete architecture of his native Birmingham, turning out...
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Prefuse 73 – Sacrifices (2018)
After spending a decade-and-a-half working with guest musicians and flirting with disparate genres, Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) decided to simplify his craft, returning to the sparse...
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VA – Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel (2018)
This is an unusual, beautiful and dark album curated by — and at times performed by — the Danish musician Agnes Obel. It’s part of a series of artist-curated albums called Late Night Tales. Nils Frahm,...
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Machinefabriek – Assemblage: Gathered Eccentrics 2010-2016 (2017)
Assemblage is a collection of short film soundtracks, and pieces that appeared on compilation albums and out-of-print CDRs. Rather than the proper new release from Machinefabriek, this is the second...
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Lost Girls – Feeling EP (2018)
Thrumming synthesizer tones phasing in and out like traffic lines receding in the rearview of a van on a never-ending highway, Jenny Hval peers into the distance. “Dear so-and-so,” she addresses her...
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Klaus Schulze – Silhouettes (2018)
This is Klaus Schulze’s first studio album of new material in five years, after many reissues of his older work. It is both a celebration of him turning seventy and also the artist reflecting on his...
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Ocean Hope – Rolling Days (2018)
Rolling Days serves as the proper follow-up to their breakthrough 2015 debut release ‘Chamber Dreams,’ a 4-track EP that introduced Ocean Hope’s romantic dream-pop sound in mysterious, shadowy,...
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Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra – LAGEOS (2018)
Following the release of the ’Audio Track 5’ EP and live performances at the Strelka Institute (Moscow), Barbican Centre and Tate Tanks (London), electronic producer and musician Darren Cunningham AKA...
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Phosphenes – Find Us Where We’re Hiding (2018)
Phosphenes’ Find Us Where We’re Hiding is an eleven song collection leaning heavily on electronica influences, but there’s a liberal mix of rock and pop blending into the stew. There’s two , maybe...
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DJDS – Big Wave More Fire (2018)
Last year, Los Angeles electronic duo DJDS shared a sprawling playlist titled “BIG WAVE MORE FIRE,” which they described as a “soundtrack to a TV show that doesn’t exist.” The semi-regularly updated,...
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Kyle Bobby Dunn & Wayne Robert Thomas – KBD / WRT (2018)
Through low-key but epic releases like Bring Me the Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn and Infinite Sadness, the Canadian artist Kyle Bobby Dunn has established his own style of ambient guitar music. “The...
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Michael Vallera – All Perfect Days (2018)
The most opportune moment is for naught if you can’t grab it when it comes along. To make All Perfect Days, Michael Vallera struck a balance between preparedness and spontaneity. The Chicago-based...
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Michael Vallera – Vivid Flu (2017)
Michael Vallera does not publicize the details of his workspace, but if you bet that it is highly organized, you would probably not go broke. He approaches each of his diverse musical endeavors so...
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