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Obnox – Bang Messiah (2018)
“You don’t like me? I don’t give a fuck” is how Lamont “Bim” Thomas opens Bang Messiah, in the brief, inflamed “Steve Albini Thinks We Suck” (Albini produced the album and likely thinks no such thing)....
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VA – Welcome to Paradise Vol. III: Italian Dream House 90-94 (2018)
Italy’s house music scene circa the late ’80s and early ’90s was as varied as that of any other mainland European country. But for many, that era and that country’s house sound was defined by the kind...
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Jonny Nash & Lindsay Todd – Fauna Mapping (2018)
…The idea is simple. Take an artist, invite them to Bali, let them soak up (and, crucially, record) the sounds, and see what happens when they process the results in a studio setting. As a business...
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Francis Harris – Trivial Occupations (2018)
With a back catalogue three digits long, and more than a few stage names, it feels a bit like New Yorker Francis Harris is starting over. This third release under his own name fuses club beats with...
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VA – Brainfeeder X (2018)
In the decade that Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label has been operational, it’s become a hub for the wild and obscure, the experimental and the weird, for any type of beat music that defies...
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Machinefabriek with Anne Bakker – Short Scenes (2018)
Machinefabriek, or Rutger Zuydervelt, is one of the most prolific artists in the field of contemporary experimental music. However, unlike many musicians with extensive discographies, the quantity...
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VA – Happy New Year! We Wish You Happiness! (2018)
Techno may come couched in an air of deep seriousness, but it is, in the end, largely party music. For all the admirable futurism that animated the genre’s Detroit pioneers, techno’s essence comes down...
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VA – Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music (2018)
With explosions of popularity in both broadcast television and genre filmmaking at the end of the 1960s, the demand grew for inexpensive soundtracks, incidental music, themes, and other such easily...
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Chris Liebing – Burn Slow (2018)
Since the mid-’90s, German DJ/producer Chris Liebing has been pumping out dozens of rock-hard techno records, precisely engineered to wreak havoc upon dancefloors. His debut full-length, 2003’s...
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Resina // Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch // Shida Shahabi – The Sea at the End of...
The Sea at the End of Her String is a seven-track EP that highlights three adventurous, hugely talented female artists from the current roster of FatCat’s pioneering 130701 imprint. …Fittingly the...
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Banabila & Machinefabriek – Entropia (2019)
Michel Banabila and Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek) have been collaborating since 2012. Although they both reside in Rotterdam, they (besides coming together for coffee) prefer to use the old...
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Deadbeat – Waking Life (2018)
Scott Monteith’s last album, Wax Poetic for This Our Great Resolve, was both a lament and a message of hope for a world in turmoil. On that record, the Canadian artist embedded speech in an often...
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Little People – Landloper (2019)
A move to Portland in 2014, and the inspiration of the surrounding Pacific Northwest, was a bit of a catalyst for Laurent Clerc (aka Little People), opening up a six-week touring stint with Odesza and...
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Ultramarine – Signals Into Space (2019)
Nearly 30 years after Folk, their debut long-player, Essex duo Ultramarine return to Les Disques du Crépuscule for Signals Into Space, their seventh album. Though hardly prolific, this outfit has been...
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Sam Kidel – Silicon Ear EP (2018)
In a 2017 interview with The Quietus, Sam Kidel posed this question: “Is there a place for ambient music that disrupts our usual flow of thoughts and encourages critical reflection on the omnipresence...
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Etienne Jaumet – 8 Regards Obliques (2018)
Etienne Jaumet fans may not know about his lifelong love of jazz — at least, not until they hear 8 Regards Obliques. Jaumet’s reinterpretations of classics by Miles Davis, the Art Ensemble of Chicago,...
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Alapastel – Hidden for the Eyes (2018)
Word has it James Murray was so taken by Lukáš Bulko’s debut Alapastel set Hidden for the Eyes, the recording singlehandledly convinced the Slowcraft showrunner to expand the label roster to new...
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Eisuke Yanagisawa – Path of the Wind (2018)
Eisuke Yanagisawa shows love for their surroundings with the surreal drones of “Path of the Wind”. Infinitely delicate the way that the pieces evolve seems to go for a meditative, fully immersive sort...
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Paul Schütze – The Sky Torn Apart (2018)
Having veteran composer and producer Paul Schütze agree to write a one-off composition is something of a coup for Italian, experimental label Glacial Movements. A master of the avant-garde, Australian...
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Murcof – Lost in Time (2018)
Patrick Bernatchez‘s film Lost in Time was originally produced a good seven or eight years ago and the soundtrack that Murcof produced for this double narrative take of life and death was originally...
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