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Neon Indian – VEGA INTL. Night School (2015)
Alan Palomo of Neon Indian recorded VEGA INTL. Night School over the span of 4 years at a number of crash pads across America, but most crucial to the album was a self-described “magical winter” the...
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Chris Walla – Tape Loops (2015)
For his first solo recording since departing from Death Cab for Cutie in 2014, producer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Walla created an album of calm, sparse ambient pieces appropriately titled Tape...
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John Carpenter – Lost Themes Remixed (2015)
A glorious paean to the science fiction soundtracks of our youth, legendary sci-fi and horror director John Carpenter’s Lost Themes, released earlier this year, is a portentous journey through ascetic...
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Gideon Wolf – Near Dark (2015)
Gideon Wolf’s new record, Near Dark, is a deep, semi-abstract journey through a liminal landscape, voice and electronics leading the way. The CD is atmospherically packaged within a letterpress...
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Lymbyc Systym – Split Stones (2015)
That Split Stones is one extremely tight instrumental collection shouldn’t come as a huge surprise — it is, after all, the latest production by the brothers Bell, Jared and Mike, who’ve been...
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YACHT – I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler (2015)
Claire L. Evans can’t even dance without one eye on the apocalypse. Every hook she pronounces on YACHT’s new album is ringed with a sparkling fatalism, a sense that no matter how much fun we might be...
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Naytronix – Mister Divine (2015)
As the bassist of tUnE-yArDS, it’s no surprise to find the prominence of experimental multi-rhythms on Nate Brenner’s new album as Naytronix. The multi-instrumentalist/producer’s new album, Mister...
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Luke Vibert – Bizarster (2015)
Sometimes when you do so much looking forward, you have to look back once in a while to get some perspective. Bizarster, Luke Vibert‘s seventh album under his own name — and, astoundingly, his 24th LP...
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Luke Haines – British Nuclear Bunkers (2015)
“This is an emergency broadcast from the BBC. Information of a possible nuclear strike against this country has been received.” Having spent much of his solo career excavating Britain’s recent past –...
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M83 – Saturdays = Youth: Remixes & B-Sides (2015)
It’s been 4 long years since the release of Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, the excellent sixth studio record from Anthony Gonzalez, aka M83. In that time, he’s contributed to the Divergent soundtrack and...
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Christina Vantzou – No.3 (2015)
Brussels-based multimedia artist Christina Vantzou‘s 3rd album expands upon the symphonic sound of her first two, continuing to mix orchestral instruments and choir vocals with electronics in order to...
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Multicast Dynamics – Scandinavia (2015)
Samuel van Dijk is an electronic music producer, sound designer and media artist from the Netherlands, having released electronic music under a variety of projects, namely, Mohlao and VC-118A. With his...
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Dan Friel – Life (2015)
Dan Friel‘s 2015 solo album Life (his second for Thrill Jockey) begins with a quiet, whistling lullaby, which is a bit of a headscratcher to anyone familiar with his brand of jagged, noisy electronic...
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Wolfgang Flür – Eloquence: The Total Works (2015)
With his post-Kraftwerk output, electronic percussionist Wolfgang Flür embraced the music of his former crew with Yamo, a sound-alike project that released the Mouse on Mars-assisted album Time Pie in...
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Mika Vainio & Franck Vigroux – Peau froide, lèger soleil (2015)
Peau froide, lèger soleil by Mika Vaino and Franck Vigroux sees the pair mixing their styles to create a work that spans the full spectrum between minimum and maximum. The latest and arguably most...
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L A N D – ANOXIA (2015)
The second L A N D album ANOXIA sees Daniel Lea return alone with an outing that marks a shift from the industrial inflected jazz noir of the previous album into distinctly new terrain. Mixed by Ben...
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Aïsha Devi – Of Matter and Spirit (2015)
Since the explosion of rave culture in the late ’80s/ early ’90s, there’s been a long alluded association between the dance music and spirituality, the music has often been seen as a possible conduit...
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Karamika – Karamika (2015)
Karamika is a duo of British musician George Thompson (who does numerous remixes as Black Merlin), and Gordon Pohl, who’s one half of Düsseldorf act Musiccargo. At times, their work together evokes the...
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Coil – Backwards (2015)
Backwards was conceived as the follow-up to Coil‘s excellent, dance-leaning 1991 album Love’s Secret Domain, and was partially recorded and mixed at Trent Reznor’s studios in New Orleans with intention...
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Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Angels & Ghosts (2015)
Dave Gahan has sung about a soul that needs saving since his earliest murmurings as the frontman of Depeche Mode. Now, he’s recorded his second collection of collaborative songs with Soulsavers since...
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