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Kero Kero Bonito – Time ‘n’ Place (2018)
The sophomore full-length from Kero Kero Bonito, Time ‘n’ Place is an album ineffably shaped by the subconscious. Lead singer and chief lyricist Sarah Bonito (who was raised in the suburbs on the...
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Mitch von Arx – Pyramids (2018)
Recorded in London, UK after an epiphany in the Swiss Alps, Pyramids (a reference to the imposing mountains that served as inspiration) is the latest album of chiming, glitched-out techno from Mitch...
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Spiral Deluxe – Voodoo Magic (2018)
The story of Spiral Deluxe is one of paradoxes: they are a jazz supergroup without a traditional jazz musician. Their sound is crafted by electronic instruments, but without a MIDI sequencer. It was...
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William Basinski + Lawrence English – Selva Oscura (2018)
For over half a decade, William Basinski and Lawrence English have been in regular contact with one another. During that time their paths have crossed repeatedly in various cities; Zagreb, Los Angeles,...
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Marie Davidson – Working Class Woman (2018)
Marie Davidson‘s first album for Ninja Tune is far more outgoing than her previous releases, in addition to being more introspective. Earlier albums such as Perte D’Identité were filled with seductive,...
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Johnny Hostile – (dys)function (2018)
Johnny Hostile, known best for his work behind the desk for Savages, has channelled his efforts into debut album dys(function). Unlike his production efforts, though, this album is ambient,...
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Ah! Kosmos – Beautiful Swamp (2018)
This new full-length from Istanbul-born Başak Günak‘s communicates a sense of urgency that’s difficult to ignore. It comes across mainly in her deft balancing of electronic and rock techniques — her...
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Eric Copeland – Trogg Modal, Vol. 1 (2018)
Trogg Modal, Vol. 1 is described as more carefree than Eric Copeland‘s previous album. Given the fact that that one was called Goofballs, this one seems like it could be really tossed off and jokey....
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Geir Sundstøl – Brødløs (2018)
Ambient goes country and David Bowie and Brian Eno share a tune with John Coltrane in slide guitar maestro Geir Sundstol’s astonishing cinematic travelogue. Tumbleweed blows across the widescreen...
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K. Leimer – Threnody (2018)
…By his own description, none of the material on the release was created in linear manner; instead, “fragments were revisited at random intervals, dispersed among other sessions or interspersed between...
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Rabit – Life After Death (2018)
Life After Death is the third record from producer Eric C Burton under the Rabit moniker. Rabit burst into the scene in 2016 with Communion, a work channeling furious experimental industrial motifs and...
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Domenique Dumont – Miniatures De Auto Rhythm (2018)
Be it Sly Stone and Shuggie Otis in the ’70s or Young Marble Giants and early Peaking Lights, there have always been artists who have made a virtue of simple drums over complex beats, able to ride...
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Foodman – Aru Otoko No Densetsu (2018)
When the Yokohama producer Takahide Higuchi, aka Foodman, first began reaching Western listeners, it was thanks to his 2016 release Ez Minzoku and his peculiar mutation of footwork. “I get the same...
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Matthew Dear – Bunny (2018)
Matthew Dear‘s sixth studio album under his own name places a greater focus on his pop and singer/songwriter impulses than any of his previous works. As sprawling and ambitious as his other...
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Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Out of Touch (2018)
Jaakko Eino Kalevi comes to us in a tranquil sprawl on the cover art for Out of Touch. All is at peace, as Kalevi blends effortlessly into the sandy environment, just as much a natural fixture of the...
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Ginla – Codex (2018)
Blindly listening to ginla‘s debut album, one would likely assume they’re a British duo, given their infatuation with the types of syncopated breakbeats common to drum’n’bass and U.K. garage. As it...
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Laraaji • Arji OceAnanda • Dallas Acid – Arrive Without Leaving (2018)
Arrive Without Leaving is the new collaboration from LARAAJI, Dallas Acid, and Arji OceAnanda. The day after all parties shared a bill at National Sawdust at Vibramonk Studios in Williamsburg,...
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The KVB – Only Now Forever (2018)
If the KVB’s Nicholas Wood and Kat Day sound more in control of what they’re doing on Only Now Forever than they have in some time, there’s a reason: after years recording with others — including the...
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Trevor Jackson – System (2018)
The electronic artist Trevor Jackson is almost inhumanly productive. From his days as a designer in the acid house scene, when his geometric scalpel-and-paper record sleeves helped to cement his...
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Alexandra Stréliski – Inscape (2018)
A portmanteau combining ‘interior’ & ‘landscape,’ Inscape would seem to be a most apt term for this lovely collection of piano pieces by neoclassical composer Alexandra Stréliski, the follow-up to...
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