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Thomas Giles – Velcro Kid [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
After taking Between the Buried and Me to new conceptual heights last year with Coma Ecliptic, frontman Tommy Rogers released his third solo effort. Clocking in at nine tracks, Velcro Kid was...
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Brandt Brauer Frick – Joy (2016)
Joy is Brandt Brauer Frick‘s fourth album and the first one to be truly vocalist-focused and song- centric. With the help of Canadian poet-singer Beaver Sheppard who played a prominent role the...
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Rod Modell – Mediterranea (2016)
Ambient sound designer Rod Modell, AKA DeepChord, has released his first album under his given name in ten years. Mediterranea contains one track that goes for 72 minutes. Though he’s been active as...
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Echospace Plays Michael Mantra – Sea Shell City (2016)
…This marks the first Echospace (Rod Modell & Stephen Hitchell) project since 2012’s, Silent World album release. On this new project, a collaboration with one of their closest friends and mentor,...
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Kettel – Wingtip (2016)
Despite a bulging back catalogue stuffed full of melodious electronic treats, IDM veteran Reimer “Kettel” Eising has struggled for wider recognition. While this may be a reflection of the obscurity of...
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Covenant – The Blinding Dark [Limited Deluxe Edition] (2016)
The Blinding Dark, Covenants 9th studio album is exciting not only because of its compelling title, but also since it shows a remarkable development in style, something that Covenant decidedly wanted...
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STRFKR – Being No One, Going Nowhere (2016)
After a group effort on the band-penned Miracle Mile, STRFKR took a different approach to their fourth LP. The bulk of the album was written in isolation by bandleader Josh Hodges during a desert...
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The Future Sound of London – Accelerator [25th Anniversary Edition] (2016)
Compared to where most of the band’s career would later go, Accelerator is a fairly conventional debut from the duo — certainly it’s the most explicitly commercial-minded the duo ever was, slotting in...
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Loscil – Monument Builders (2016)
Scott Morgan (aka Loscil) has built a career crafting instrumental thinkpieces centred on strong themes. The Vancouver producer has explored ocean life (2002’s Submers), ’60s literature (2012’s City...
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Hidden Orchestra – Wingbeats (2016)
Wingbeats is the eagerly awaited new release from Hidden Orchestra on Tru Thoughts. On the 7-track EP, which illuminates the fascinating intricacy of Joe Acheson’s work, the immersive lead track is...
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Simian Mobile Disco – Welcome to Sideways (2016)
Released on Simian Mobile Disco’s Delicacies label, which boasts work by the likes of Alex Niggeman, Roman Flugel, Bicep, and Agoria, this new album is the first piece of work released by the duo of...
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Horizontal Excursions – Higher States (2016)
A journey into nature is a healing experience, and one that can be married to your own personal health and mentality. At its most symbolic, Roger Martinez’s new album as Horizontal Excursions, not...
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Lee “Scratch” Perry – Must Be Free (2016)
Must Be Free arrives six months after the 80th anniversary of dub master Lee “Scratch” Perry’s arrival on planet Earth and less than a year after his Swiss studio burned down after he forgot to put out...
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Sabled Sun – 2148 (2016)
Owner of the essential Cryo Chamber label and leader of Sabled Sun/Atrium Carceri, Simon Heather is one busy man but always a highly creative sound artist when it comes to write some of the most...
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Nils Bech – Echo (2016)
…Now Nils Bech is 35, and there is a maturity and urgency to his lyrics and a minimalism to each instrumental arrangement that has produced a mostly beautiful, occasionally frustrating, always...
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Illum Sphere – Glass (2016)
As on the Spectre Vex and Second Sight EPs, Illum Sphere‘s Ryan Hunn does more with less on his second full-length, Glass. Although Ghosts of Then & Now was impressive partly because it was so...
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Romare – Love Songs: Part Two (2016)
On his second full-length for Ninja Tune, London- based producer Romare continues to refine his brand of warped house music. The album is a full- length sequel to his Love Songs, Pt. 1 EP from 2013,...
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Ulrich Schnauss – No Further Ahead Than Today (2016)
With No Further Ahead Than Today, German electronic musician and producer Ulrich Schnauss designs a lush, sunny world that, in some ways, harkens back to the style introduced on his acclaimed early...
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Justice – Woman (2016)
Stylish nostalgia is the pan et beurre of a lot of French dance music, including — for better and worse — Justice‘s third album. Arriving five years after Audio, Video, Disco, Woman is built on layers...
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Dawn Richard – Redemption (2016)
Dawn Richard‘s “heart” trilogy began with Goldenheart (2013), continued with Blackheart (2015), and ends with Redemption. Between the second and third volumes, Richard issued a batch of non-album...
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