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Fever Ray – Live at Troxy (2019)
Karin Dreijer never passes up an opportunity to reimagine her music in a live setting. Just as Shaken-Up Versions documented how the Knife reinvented their music in concert, Live at Troxy captures how...
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Haiku Salut – The General (2019)
Over three albums, Derbyshire instrumental trio Haiku Salut have constructed their own sonic universe, with 2018’s There Is No Elsewhere dragging their sound further into glitchy electronica and post...
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Orphan Swords – Ascent (2019)
What happens if you mix the French ‘zombie’ show Les Revenants with 127 Hours? Orphan Swords debut album Ascent. Instead of writing a collection of songs to fill the club, the electronic duo instead...
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Tangerine Dream – The Blue Years Studio Albums 1985-1987 (2019)
…newly re-mastered 4 CD boxed set which gathers together the first four legendary albums by Tangerine Dream, originally released on the Jive Electro label between 1985 and 1987, known by fans as “The...
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Sverre Knut Johansen – Precambrian (2019)
With Precambrian, multi-instrumentalist Sverre Knut Johansen takes on nothing less than the prehistoric development of planet Earth and its inhabitants. Crafted meticulously by the...
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E-Saggila – My World My Way (2019)
Toronto’s favourite electro-basher is back, this time slinging gabber-soused techno for Sweden’s Northern Electronics label. With each release, E-Saggila, born Rita Mikhael, goes deeper and pummels...
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The Bird and the Bee – Interpreting The Masters, Volume 2: A Tribute to Van...
There’s a bit of cheek in “Interpreting the Masters,” a phrase the Bird and the Bee coined for their 2009 tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates. The expression suggested songwriters more outwardly...
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Silent Vigils – Lost Rites (2019)
Silent Vigils return with sophomore Lost Rites on July 11. Gentle and quietly stirring, Lost Rites (Home Normal) attempts to bandage and heal (if at all possible) a number of scars and scratches. Its...
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VA – Fingertracks: Vol 1 (2019)
…Andrew Hogge, AKA Lovefingers, a native of Southern California, has spent a lot of time listening to music while navigating LA traffic. Fingertracks: Vol 1, a compilation of tracks posted between 2006...
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Monomotion – Fujisan EP (2019)
Sometimes you have to go back to back, or even just look back before you can look or go forward. In the case of Monomotion (comprising Parisian Erol Engintalay and his frequent collaborator Yoann...
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Sigur Rós – Sigur Rós Presents Liminal Sleep (2019)
The material on Liminal Sleep draws upon some of Sigur Rós‘s most deeply ambient material from the ( ), Takk…, Með suð, and Valtari albums, including reworkings of “Sé lest,” “Glósóli,” “Svo Hljótt,”...
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Electric Youth – Memory Emotion (2019)
Toronto duo, Electric Youth – vocalist, Bronwyn Griffin, and multi-instrumentalist, Austin Garrick – release their first new album in four years. Since breaking through on the soundtrack to the 2011...
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WHY? – AOKOHIO (2019)
Founded in 1998, the Los Angeles based Anticon collective has become one of the most curiously individual of 21st century groupings. Taking the wordiest and nerdiest tendencies of hip hop – notably the...
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Segue – The Island (2019)
It’s rare to find an album that reflects its concept as well as the latest from Vancouver’s Segue (born Jordan Sauer). A tribute to our natural prehistory, The Island explores the idea of what British...
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Afrikan Sciences – Centered (2019)
Afrikan Sciences‘s music sits in its own sphere, although you can draw certain parallels with the likes of Jamal Moss and Brainfeeder’s late Ras G. He also made sense as a core figure within the...
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Modern Studies + Tommy Perman – Emergent Slow Arcs (2019)
Scottish artist and musician Tommy Perman disassembled chamber pop quartet Modern Studies‘ masterful 2018 full-length Welcome Strangers and transformed it into something its creators were most likely...
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Simulation – Death’s Head Speaks (2019)
Laura Callier and Whitney Johnson conduct a journey through psychic disturbance on Death’s Head Speaks their second release as Simulation. Their collaboration emerged from a shared paranormal...
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Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus – 11 Items (2019)
…The music crafted by the mysterious duo of Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus has mostly been relegated to limited cassettes, until last year’s tantalizing yet too brief Chat EP, which showcased their...
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Young Marco – Bahasa (2019)
As both a producer and DJ, Marco Sterk has always had a healthy appetite for the unconventional. This in part stems from his friendship with Red Light Records’ chief digger, Tako Reyenga, with whom he...
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Ivan Teixeira – ALLAYER Project One (2019)
The material Brazilian composer / keyboardist Ivan Teixeira presents on his ALLAYER Project One is unlike the music he performs with Brazilian singers Wanessa Camargo, Bruna Caram, and Luiza Possi,...
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