Clik here to view.
Rejoicer – Heavy Smoke EP (2019)
Directly following his first album for Stones Throw, the wonderfully warped Energy Dreams, Israeli left-fielder Rejoicer (Yuvi Havkin) released a shorter batch of beats titled Heavy Smoke. With only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bibio – Ribbons (2019)
On 2017’s excellent Phantom Brickworks, Bibio’s Stephen Wilkinson took a deep dive into his music’s ambient side that was unexpected, yet made perfect sense within his body of work. This time,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sigur Rós – Variations On Darkness (2019)
Named in part after a sister of one of the bandmembers, Reykjavik, Iceland’s Sigur Rós (Victory Rose) was formed by guitarist and vocalist Jón Þór Birgisson (who later went by the name Jónsi), bassist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Odd Nosdam – Mirrors (2019)
It’s doubtful that musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer fully comprehended the can of worms he was opening when he spliced his first tape, and put everyday sounds on the same level as traditional...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sigur Rós – 22° Lunar Halo (2019)
Soundtrack to brand new dance work by leading Taiwanese choreographer Tsung-lung, being premiered in Taipei to coincide with Record Store Day. Cheng Tsung-Lung chose his favourite music from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tangerine Dream – The Pink Years Albums 1970-1973 (2018)
…newly re-mastered 4 CD boxset which gathers together the first four legendary albums by Tangerine Dream, originally released on the Ohr label in Germany between 1970 and 1973, known by fans as “The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Logos – Imperial Flood (2019)
It stretches the imagination to conceive of an album like Logos’ Imperial Flood as something borne out of dance music. Cold Mission, the London producer’s well-loved 2013 debut, hewed a little closer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society – Mandatory Reality (2019)
A recent New York Times story on productivity proposed shifting emphasis from time-management strategies to something called “attention management”: “the art of focusing on getting things done for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bogdan Raczynski – Rave ‘Till You Cry (2019)
Rave ‘Til You Cry marks the long-awaited return of Bogdan Raczynski, one of the most unique, unpredictable artists affiliated with Aphex Twin’s influential Rephlex label. The Polish-born eccentric...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ian Nyquist – Cuan (2019)
The word “Cuan” is Irish for “bay,” and each of the tracks on this full-length from Ian Nyquist are inspired by a specific site in the Dublin Bay area of his native Ireland. The album’s nine ambient...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ludovico Einaudi – Seven Days Walking (Day One + Two) (2019)
3 years and a half after Elements, Ludovico Einaudi, one of the world’s most famous piano players and composers, returns to the scene with a particular and ambitious project: Seven Days Walking. …Seven...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Son Lux – Reissues & Remnants (2019)
Reissues & Remnants features the first two, long out-of-print Son Lux albums, and the NEW album Remnants, a collection of rare and previously unreleased recordings spanning from 2008 to 2017....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gary Gritness – The Legend of Cherenkov Blue (2019)
French multi-instrumentalist, session player and producer Tim Becherand is all about “getting straight to the funk.” Growing up with his dad’s bebop and hard bop records, his own musical explorations...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ana Roxanne – ~~~ EP (2019)
When Ana Roxanne recorded an EP in 2015, she wasn’t making a debut. ~~~ originated as a private project, the culmination of formal and informal musical training from church and school choirs to college...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marja Ahti – Vegetal Negatives (2019)
Vegetal Negatives takes inspiration from René Daumal’s “On pataphotograms,” an essay which plays with the idea of understanding natural forms as separate. A pataphysicist, Daumal states: “for each...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mark Peters – New Routes Out of Innerland (2019)
Innerland, the debut solo album from Engineers founder and Ulrich Schnauss collaborator Mark Peters, was a pleasant, relaxing set of windswept guitar-based instrumentals that evoked various locations...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Akira Rabelais – CXVI (2019)
CXVI is a quiet episode, a lengthy pause away from the cacophony of noise pollution. Years in the making, the record features collaborations from the likes of Harold Budd, Ben Frost, Biosphere (Geir...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leafcutter John – Yes! Come Parade with Us (2019)
Leafcutter John’s fifth album is a something of a departure for the electroacoustic tinkerer and sometime electronics whizzkid in Polar Bear. Gone is the introspective, hermetically sealed soundworld...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flowers for Bodysnatchers – Alive with Scars (2019)
Duncan Ritchie’s latest Flowers for Bodysnatchers release arrives with a powerful personal disclosure that makes one consider his output in a new light: he’s been living with Multiple Sclerosis for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trio Heinz Herbert – Yes (2018)
On their second album on Intakt, after The Willisau Concert (2017), the young electronics-heavy Swiss threesome Trio Heinz Herbert move even further from their jazz roots. The prevalent effects mean...
View Article