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East India Youth – Culture of Volume (2015)
East India Youth – née William Doyle – gained a lot of attention with 2014’s Total Strife Forever, a record brimming with atmospheric pieces melded with racing kick drums and frenetic synthesizers....
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Daniele Ciullini – Domestic Exile: Collected Works 82-86 (2015)
A few years ago The Guardian decided to run a series on Italian popular music, part of which involved an interview with Alessio Natalizia of Walls. Here Natalizia was asked about the differences...
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Inside Life (2015)
Like Bruno Sanfilippo‘s work in general, Inside Life straddles multiple genres. With minimalist piano playing the nucleus, the album’s seven settings are heavily informed by his classical training, but...
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Eleh – Homage (2015)
Eleh‘s cultishly celebrated trio of LPs for Taiga released between 2008 – 2012, here remastered and collected on digital format for the first time. Certain frequency combinations that were impossible...
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Chevron – Lifeshake (2015)
Planet Mu will look into the past by finally releasing an unfinished 2007 album by Chevron. Lifeshake is part of the UK label’s 20th-birthday µ20 celebration, where they intend to release...
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GABI – Sympathy (2015)
Gabrielle’s formal training began at an early age, studying Balinese dance and gamelan in Indonesia while learning both the clarinet and piano. Herbst continued her training at Bard College where she...
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Trickfinger – Trickfinger (2015)
John Frusciante‘s initial solo releases, dating back to the early ’90s, were often eclipsed by a number of factors that had no relation to the musician and his work; the drama of Frusciante’s struggles...
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Doldrums – The Air Conditioned Nightmare (2015)
Doldrums, the band led by Montreal’s Airick Woodhead, are back following their 2013 debut album Lesser Evil. The Air Conditioned Nightmare is out April 6 via their new label home, Sub Pop. The album...
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Pale Blue – The Past We Leave Behind (2015)
Late last year, Mike Simonetti confirmed that he had split from Italians Do It Better, the label he co-founded with Johnny Jewel, to focus on a new label, 2MR (“Two Mikes Records”), a collaboration...
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Fred Thomas – All Are Saved (2015)
Even while serving as the ringleader for Michigan indie-pop mainstay Saturday Looks Good to Me, Fred Thomas has always had a ton of projects going on the side. His new solo album All Are Saved —...
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Stranger Cat – In the Wilderness (2015)
Born in the claustrophobic chaos of Brooklyn, NY, Stranger Cat — an electronic pop project from Cat Martino and co-producer/multi-instrumentalist Sven Britt — came to be through a dark time and a...
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Suuns & Jerusalem in My Heart – Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (2015)
Judging from their respective recorded output to date, Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart don’t seem to share anything beyond Montreal postal codes. The former is an archetypal indie rock band — four...
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Looper – Offgrid:Offline (2015)
Originally formed as a side project for Belle and Sebastian bassist Stuart David, Looper took David’s original group’s twee leanings into new territories, adding a groove and cadence that his B&S...
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Black Rain – Dark Pool (2014)
In thirty-three years of uncompromising music-making, New York musician Stuart Argabright remains unheralded, both in his own city as well as in other underground music circles. With a discography that...
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Rodion G.A. – Behind the Curtain: The Lost Album (2014)
The Lost Tapes was one of last year’s most revelatory reissues, uncovering the work of Romanian psych-electronic trailblazer Rodion Rosca, who founded Rodion G.A. in 1975. Recorded DIY and blending...
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VA – Danse Sacrale: 14 Early Avant-Garde & Electronic Compositions for Ballet...
An unlikely combination of early recordings by international electronic and avant-garde composers as well as infrequent collaborators retrospectively unified by their commitment to the musical...
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VA – Lost River: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2015)
Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River, may be a critical flop, but its corresponding score and soundtrack are sure to have music fans excited. Chromatics producer Johnny Jewel helmed the score...
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Lila Rose – We.Animals. (2015)
We.Animals. is a concept album by Toronto-born, California-based singer-songwriter Lila Rose and produced by Daniel Garcia. A long time environmental and animal rights activist, this album merges the...
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Alessandro Cortini – Forse 3 (2015)
Alessandro Cortini might be best known for his work as part of Nine Inch Nails and How To Destroy Angels, but he’s been a busy solo producer as well, having worked under his own name along with the...
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Squarepusher – Damogen Furies (2015)
Of all the fitful, fractious breakbeat expressionists who got their start in the U.K. in the late ’90s — see also: Aphex Twin, Autechre, μ-ziq — Squarepusher has proven the most wild and untamed....
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