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Beast – Ens (2018)
Koen Holtkamp‘s majestic solo recordings under his own name have blended field recordings with abstract droning, and constructed dense tapestries using guitar static and analog synth textures. He...
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Rhye – Blood Remixed (2018)
Internationally lauded Toronto soul artist Rhye is about voice. A voice usually used to explore the expanse of human romantic emotions, and in this case, handed over to a host of producers to work into...
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Lone – Ambivert Tools Volume Four EP (2018)
Even while feuding with The Black Eyed Peas over alleged copyright infringement, Lone is making some of the best music of his career. It’s not surprising such a mainstream group might have nicked one...
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Ron Morelli – Disappearer (2018)
There’s a reason why Ron Morelli became the patron saint of techno punks. For the better part of the last decade, he’s championed a straight-to-tape sound that rejects many of electronic music’s...
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Yoshinori Hayashi – Ambivalence (2018)
Ever since he released his first EP in 2015, Yoshinori Hayashi has sounded like an artist with a good album in him. The End of the Edge, for Brian Not Brian’s Going Good label, was so richly textured...
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Gary Numan – Dance (1981, Reissue 2018)
Gary Numan is often cited as a pioneer of electronic music, and his influence on the genre – and for those performers that are inspired by his works – is clear to see. Following on from his initial...
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Deena Abdelwahed – Khonnar (2018)
Deena Abdelwahed is a radical musician with a noble cause. She uses her music to rally against social injustices like gender inequality and homophobia, which comes through in both her lyrics and her at...
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Hannu Karjalainen – Drift (2018)
Hailing from Helsinki, Finland, sound artist Hannu Karjalainen creates low-key sonic pictures that, as the title suggests, drift along icy currents of sculpted synth and treated field recordings. Even...
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Joseph Shabason – Anne (2018)
Formed around interviews he conducted with his mother, and based on how she views herself through the lens of her Parkinson’s disease, at its core, the second album from Destroyer/DIANA saxophonist and...
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Félicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Limpid as the Solitudes (2018)
For Félicia Atkinson, sound is pretty much sentient. She calls it a “live presence” that “can get inside people, get in and out as it pleases.” Her music works under a central assumption: We merely...
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SUSS – Ghost Box [Expanded] (2018)
Originally self-released on February 2nd of this year, Northern Spy is now proud to present this fantastic album on CD for the first time, with four never-before-heard bonus tracks. This is Ghost Box...
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Spontaneous Overthrow – All About Money (2018)
All About Money, the (presumably) first and only release by New Jersey duo Spontaneous Overthrow, is catnip for collectors of obscure private-press recordings. Self-issued in 1984, the album contains 7...
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Clouds – Heavy the Eclipse (2018)
Another day, another war-ravaged dystopian future. Scottish duo Clouds have proven to be able chroniclers of this sort of urban fantasy for a while now, and the concept for Heavy the Eclipse is no...
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Jacco Gardner – Somnium (2018)
After a couple albums of relaxed chamber pop built around baroque instrumentation and gently psychedelic songcraft, Jacco Gardner did some drastic renovations on his third album, Somnium. In the three...
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Sofheso – Archive: Collected Recordings 2014-2017 (2018)
It won’t be long before we’re all the subject of a neatly packaged retrospective. Given the amount of digital content we produce over the course of a modern lifetime, there is at least sufficient...
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Emanuele Errante – The Evanescence of a Thousand Colors (2018)
There is a level of sophistication in Emanuele Errante‘s work that rewards attentive listeners with optimism. The Italian composer gives us reason to believe — in new music and much more. Every one of...
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Garrett – Private Life II (2018)
Private Life II is Dâm-Funk’s second album for Music From Memory, an outlet that, like him, specialises in nostalgic ’80s sounds. We get plenty of those across the LP’s seven tracks, which strip away...
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Anne Lovett – The Eleventh Hour (2018)
Anne Lovett brings a distinguished pedigree to this lovely addition to 1631’s catalogue. A child prodigy, she was born in Normandie, France and began formal piano study at the age of 3. As her...
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Frakkur – 2000-2004 (2018)
Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi has released his new solo triple album, Frakkur 2000-2004. As its title indicates, the collection of music was recorded between 2000 and 2004, under the Icelandic musician’s...
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Saloli – The Deep End (2018)
In the mid-2000s, Mary Sutton, AKA Saloli, was studying at New England Conservatory, where she was composing notated music for instrumentalists. At some point, the Oregon resident began to explore...
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