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Mr. Chop – Illuminate (2013)
Mr. Chop’s debut EP for Now-Again in 2009, Lightworlds, drew together anthemic synth-rock, the jagged sound of Italian prog monsters Goblin, and musique concrète, with surprisingly accessible results....
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Luxury Liners – They’re Flowers (2013)
Carter Tanton is a musician’s musician. Even though he released a record, Freeclouds, under his own name in 2011, the Baltimore-based producer and guitarist is still primarily known as a recording...
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Yip Deceiver – Medallius (2013)
Their daytime gig in the Athens, Georgia indie pop collective Of Montreal gives Davey Pierce and Nicolas Dobbratz plenty of opportunities to glam it up and disco shake, but with this dancefloor-aimed,...
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Rashad Becker – Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I (2013)
Rashad Becker makes a living with his ears. As engineer at Berlin’s Dubplates & Mastering, he’s mastered and cut a massive amount of dance, electronic, and experimental albums (his credits include...
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Bosq of Whiskey Barons – Bosq Y Orquesta De Madera (2013)
California based label, Ubiquity Records has just announced the release of some incredible upcoming records for next month. One such record, is the much anticipated Bosq of Whiskey Barons debut album,...
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Pilote – The Slowdown (2013)
If you combine aqueous electronica with cycling circling acoustic instruments you are apt to create something that swirls around without really making an impression. Apt to but not inevitably, Pilote...
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The Field – Cupid’s Head (2013)
Based in the cultural hub and musical hotspot of Berlin, Swedish DJ/producer Axel Willner – aka The Field – is back for his first studio LP since 2011′s Looping State Of Mind. The new record, entitled...
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Huerco S. – Colonial Patterns (2013)
Colonial Patterns is a fine album title, suggesting so much yet giving little away. Read it one way and it’s an allusion to the arrogance that nations are doomed to repeat. Glance again and it conjures...
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Young Galaxy – Ultramarine [Deluxe Edition] (2013)
Deluxe Edition include the entire original album on the first disc, while the second disc contain 11 bonus tracks, ranging from B-sides to remixes to alternate edits. Contributing remixers include...
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Moby – Innocents (2013)
Taking a break from sipping tea in his L.A. mansion, round-headed electro guru Moby has announced a new album, the first since his 2011 effort Destroyed. The record is called Innocents, and sees our...
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Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven [Japanese Edition] (2013)
Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin follow up 2011′s groundbreaking Replica with his Warp Records debut, R Plus Seven. Due out October 1st, the album is being billed as “a major departure from his...
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Youngblood Hawke – Wake Up (2013)
Youngblood Hawke’s Wake Up takes the four cuts from their debut EP and adds eight more for a mostly satisfying full-length. They create colorful, elastic indie electro-pop and, most of the time, it...
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Solar Year – Waverly (2013)
Last summer, the Montreal duo Solar Year self-released Waverly and not many people heard it. This summer they give the same (albeit revamped) album a proper vinyl release, which, after a stellar...
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Amadou & Mariam – Mali Meets Latin America EP (2013)
Mali Meets Latin America features remixes of tracks from Amadou & Mariam‘s latest album, Folila. The four-track EP of remixes from Buenos Aires and Bogotá was inspired by the couple’s first visit...
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Ejecta – Dominae (2013)
New York City’s Ejecta is a duo, one of those classic stories of two musicians in different bands – Leanne Macomber, of Neon Indian; and Joel Ford, of Tigercity – meeting on tour and becoming “fast...
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Sapphire Slows – Allegoria (2013)
Beyond the neon-lit, movie friendly downtown of Tokyo lie the backstreets and quiet neighborhoods where Sapphire Slows honed her sound. Despite making her music alone at home, Kinuko Hiramatsu’s solo...
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Musiccargo – Harmonie (2013)
Thanks to the name-checking done by indie acts like Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, and Radiohead in the 90s, the German duo NEU! finally had their sonic blueprints resonate beyond the confines of...
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Kiln – meadow:watt (2013)
Meadow:Watt is an apt title for Kiln‘s second LP with Ghostly International. The meticulous commingling of warm, organic textures and modern electro-manipulation have been the band’s hallmark for over...
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Marijuana Deathsquads – Oh My Sexy Lord (2013)
Spearheaded by musicians Ryan Olson (co-founder of Poliça and main brain behind Gayngs), Isaac Gale, and Stefon Alexander (P.O.S), Marijuana Deathsquads is a boundary-blurring, heavily collaborative...
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Eat Lights Become Lights – Modular Living (2013)
Aah, krautrock. So easy to be impressed by its driving motorik rhythms and highways to the cosmic autobahns of free thinking, with no speed limits and an endless nostalgic waving of bratwurst; but so...
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