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µ-Ziq – Chewed Corners [Japanese Edition] (2013)
If Daft Punk and Boards of Canada can make a comeback this year then why not Mike Paradinas? True, he never really went into hiding – he owns/ runs the label Planet Mu, responsible for the steady drip...
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Low Sea – Remote Viewing (2013)
Low Sea’s latest album Remove Viewing is something of an experience, to say the least. The group comprises of vocalist Billie, from Bosnia, and Bobby D, from Liverpool. The band members, it seems, are...
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Devo – Something Else for Everybody: Unreleased Demos and Focus Group Rejects...
More than 20 years ago, Devo collected a vast slew of mid-1970s demos and released them as the two-volume Hardcore series. Now the Are We Not Men? New Wavers are reissuing those early ’90s compilations...
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Stara Rzeka – Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem (2013)
…Stara Rzeka is a product of that stepping stone in absentia, of a musical landscape that went from mass deprivation to instantaneous bombardment in half a decade, and despite the project’s channeled...
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Superhumanoids – Exhibitionists (2013)
The L.A. trio Superhumanoids has a serious love of the synthesizer-heavy pop of the ’80s, a serious fondness for modern electronic R&B, and the skill to blend the two together into something that...
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Roland P. Young – Mystiphonic (2013)
Mystiphonic is the third release from Roland P. Young on EM Records, following Isophonic Boogie Woogie which was originally released in 1980 and re-issued by EM in 2005, and the 2009 Istet Serenade....
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Laki Mera – Turn All Memory to White Noise (2013)
Laki Mera’s second album (third if you count 2008’s Clutter, which the band apparently doesn’t for whatever reason) emerges in the wake of two significant changes: drummer Tim Harbinson’s decision to...
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Samaris – Samaris (2013)
The clarinet’s never been a particularly hipster instrument. In fact, the search for even the most fleeting of clarinet-based contributions to popular music leads to an almost immediate dead end....
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VA – Institute for Psychoacoustics & Electronic Music: 50 Years of Electronic...
Belgium’s Metaphon label – responsible for that amazing Ranta / Lewis / Plank album few years back – present a fascinating and in-depth book commemorating 50 years of the Institute for Psychoacoustics...
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Rocketnumbernine – MeYouWeYou (2013)
Rocketnumbernine have connections to musical luminaries as bright and varied as Four Tet, Radiohead, and Steve Reid, but their own approach comes to the fore on MeYouWeYou. During the years since...
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Washed Out – Paracosm (2013)
A paracosm is a psychological term for a spectacularly detailed imaginary world – think Tolkien’s Middle Earth or Westeros in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. This, the second record...
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Fortune Howl – Earthbound (2013)
The musical alias of Orlando-based Bryce Linde, Fortune Howl zips through layers of tic-wrought electronics, EDM, hip-hop, and electro-collage, each and every flourish playing nicely together. It’s as...
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Eric Copeland – Joke in the Hole (2013)
Eric Copeland has always created “difficult music for the masses.” With the long-running Black Dice and four solo albums, Copeland regularly manages to smooth over sharp, discordant rhythms with waxy,...
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Moderat – II (2013)
Moderat is the combination of Modeselektor and Apparat, two German electronic music acts who released the first LP under their combined moniker in 2009. The self-titled effort was surprisingly cohesive...
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Kevin Lazar – Mutant Generation (2013)
The precious dark gems of Chicago’s minimal synth maestro and electro-acid-techno pioneer Kevin Lazar are compiled here by the amazing Vinyl-on-Demand. Kevin only released two records in his time and...
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Raffertie – Sleep of Reason (2013)
Most people dream of living by the sea, but for those who grew up in remote coastal towns, it’s far from idyllic. These people know the stifling boredom of ghost-town winters, the crush of tourism in...
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Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Nanda Collection (2013)
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is the most popular J-pop performer in the Western Hemisphere, which makes sense because she’s the most Western J-pop performer in Japan. It’s a quality that’s embedded right in her...
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Shigeto – No Better Time Than Now (2013)
Zach Shigeto Saginaw, who records simply as Shigeto, hails from Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he has become a key member and rising star of avant garde electronic label Ghostly International....
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Barbarossa – Bloodlines (2013)
The fact that James Mathé – the man who to all extents and purposes is Barbarossa – used to release records through the Fence Collective and was a part of Jose Gonzales’ band, might lead you to thing...
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CFCF – Outside (2013)
CFCF (a.k.a. Michael Silver) issued his Music for Objects EP just last month, but the Montreal electronic artist is primed to hit big this fall with his first proper album in four years: Outside. Paper...
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