Thrill Jockey
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Audiopile Review: You may associate Chicago’s Thrill Jockey label with the coolly cerebral sounds of Tortoise and Oval. But, in recent years, Thrill Jockey has been tilling the extreme left field of heavy music. Acts like Sumac (featuring Vancouver’s Nick Yacyshyn) make post-metal that’s more post than metal. Especially in...
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BIG|BRAVE’s preternatural instincts and depth of skill as musicians are on full display on their most naked and austere record to date, OST. The trio entered the studio with broader concepts and themes in mind, but no preconceived music. The overarching concept was to make a film score for a...
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Audiopile Review: Truly weird shit is not prominent enough in electronic music, where recycling genre conventions is all-to-often replacing genuine experimentalism. Thank goodness for square pegs like Claire Rousay. You never know what to expect from her. Straightforwardly beautiful ambient drones? Bedroom indie folk? Bracingly extreme computer music? Rousay’s latest,...
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Manchester’s Gnod and New York’s White Hills stand as titans of Psychedelic & Space Rock. Together they bend the very notions of what rock can do, seemingly suspending our sense of time. Their alchemical chemistry and a fateful session at the Dropout Studio in Camberwell gave rise to the legendary,...
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Red color vinyl. "Jules Reidy's sublime music maps the human experience in glittering constellations of sound. The guitarist is a driver of Berlin's fertile contemporary music scene. A wide-eyed imagination combined with technical mastery guide each work in Reidy's extensive catalog, from solo guitar albums and collaborations with innovative peers,...
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Wrekmeister Harmonies, the duo of JR Robinson and Esther Shaw, are sonic shape shifters with expansive ideas, and a distinctly dark bent. Inspired by artists such as Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and Lou Reed, Wrekmeister approaches each album as a new sonic adventure. Formed as an art collective by Robinson,...
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Audiopile Review: Lovely new collab between Japanese-born composer Midori Hirano and Berlin-based duo Brueder Selke, the pairing merge their compositional skills for an intoxicating synthesis of the acoustic and digital realms. While Brueder Selke are a new name to us, Hirano, through her series of releases on labels like Sonic...
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Rose City Band’s music is sun-kissed timeless country rock whose seemingly effortless momentum carries the joy of its creation without ignoring the darkness pervading our consciousness. Led by guitarist/vocalist Ripley Johnson, the music of Rose City Band is rooted in his love of private press records of the mid to...
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The Body have been a leading force of innovation in heavy music for over two decades. The prolific duo of guitarist/vocalist Chip King and Lee Buford (on percussion/electronics) have consistently expanded the scope of what heavy music can be. The Body has produced a wealth of groundbreaking collaborations...
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Brooklyn based Liturgy is Ravenna Hunt Hendrix, Greg Fox, Tyler Dusenbury, and Bernard Gann. Aesthethica, their second album and third release, shows the band exploring, in greater depth, themes initially touched on by their critically acclaimed debut album, Renihilation. The band used every instrument, literal or figurative, to produce meaning...
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Black Pus is the guttural, raw, freeform project of singular drummer, vocalist, & artist Brian Chippendale. A heavy drum foundation and distorted electronics anchor Black Pus’ sound, and remain directly connected to the intensity of Chippendale’s legendary duo with Brian Gibson, Lightning Bolt. Recorded at Machines with Magnets by engineer...
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Thrasher is the soundtrack to a virtual reality video game about a creature that has a life cycle that traverses different psychedelic realities. Thrasher was composed and performed by Brian Gibson, bassist of Lightning Bolt. It is the follow up to the acclaimed best-selling game and soundtrack Thumper. The central...
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On The Healer, the new full length from Northwest-based trio SUMAC, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner, bassist Brian Cook and drummer Nick Yacyshyn, the group deepens its multi-faceted exploration into the parallel experiences of creation and destruction. Over the course of 4 tracks in 76 minutes, SUMAC presents a sequence...
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The collaboration between renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson is a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. Jim White is known for his groundbreaking trio, Dirty Three, as well as duo, Xylouris White. His list of collaborations is...
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Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements are two of contemporary music's most renowned innovators. Each has managed to expand the perception of their instrumentals capabilities. Lattimore inventive harp processing and looping has brought the instrument to a new audience. Her prolific run of celestial solo albums and evocative film scores have...
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Audiopile Review: By their nature, almost by definition, the most significant experimental electronic artists wilfully avoid doing the easy, obvious thing. Daniel Lopatin could have made a nice career repeating the analogue space-scapes of early Oneohtrix Point Never. Instead, he established himself as an Important Artist doing something much thornier...
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Audiopile Review: In many cases, we’ll take ideas over execution, no question. Give us a spirited amateur over a jaded pro. But sometimes, the execution is so damn good it makes you realize the ideas are way better than you originally thought. A lazy critic might dismiss Montreal trio Big...
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The Sea and Cake are back with Everybody, the band’s first full length in just over four years. The record finds the band continuing to perfect their singular brand of dreamlike, hot-buttered pop music that sounds delicately handcrafted, yet effortless all the same. Sheets of glowing guitar tones skip along...
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The Body & Dis Fig are a natural pair. Each has pioneered instantly recognizable worlds of sound all their own that defy any traditional categorizations or boundaries. The Body, Lee Buford and Chip King, continually challenge any conventional conception of metal, collaborating with myriad artists and from the folk-leanings of...
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Audiopile Review: If you’re among the growing legion of glitch connoisseurs, you’ll probably recall that Microstoria was a duo of Markus Popp of Oval and Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars. Those in the know will tell you Microstoria is objectively better than either Oval or Mouse on Mars....
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Dead Times is Lee Buford (The Body, Sightless Pit, Manslaughter 777) and Steven Vallot (Muslin). The duo originally began working together in 2008 while living together in Providence DIY space The Sickle, and releasing the early records from The Body and Assembly of Light Choir on their short-lived Aum War...
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The first ever solo album by acclaimed bassist Douglas Andrew McCombs under his own name. McCombs is one of the most highly regarded bassists/guitarists working today, known for his pioneering band Tortoise, his bass playing in Chicago’s Eleventh Dream Day, and his innovative instrumental group Brokeback.
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Over the course of 20 years, German artist Black To Comm (Marc Richter) has pushed the limits of / and merged the aesthetics of art, conceptual installations and music, coming in a wave of innovation alongside his peers Pita, Fennesz, and later Sarah Davachi to name a few. Through it...
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Pelican and Thrill Jockey are proud to present a deluxe edition of the band’s acclaimed 2005 album The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw, newly remixed, remastered and featuring special bonus rarities including an early version of “Red Ran Amber,” (previously only available on a split with MONO)...
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If you went looking for a poster-child for Chicago's multidirectional, cross- pollinating, interstylistic music scene, you couldn't find a better one than Jeff Parker. Parker: jazz guitarist with pro credentials, widely travelled and prized by top soul-jazzers and hard-boppers. Parker: inveterate rocker who revitalized Tortoise with his ferocious improvising and...
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Rose City Band’s country psychedelic rock evokes the wide-open spaces of the American west and free spirits who call it home. The project of acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Ripley Johnson, Rose City Band has extended beyond the studio and lives in tandem as a live ensemble featuring some of the...
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City of Echoes, originally released in 2007 by Hydra Head Records, marked a paradigm shift for Pelican. Coming off the heels of the glacial Australasia and their even more expansive and acclaimed follow-up The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw, their third album is a study in precision....
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This limited-edition double lp is available on t Root Beer-colored wax! Artwork designed by Brian Chippendale with fully artworked inner sleeves and 4th side Etching By Brian Chippendale. Originally released in 2009, Earthly Delights is classic and essential Lightning Bolt. A major leap in the duo’s sound, elevating the low-end...
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Thrill Jockey is pleased to announce the return of The Soft Pink Truth, the solo electronic project of Drew Daniel, one half of Baltimore-found sound duo Matmos. Asked to explain his new album’s gauntlet-throwing title, Drew Daniel says: “Years ago a friend was DJing in a club and a woman...
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Standards is Tortoise’s fourth album originally released in 2001. This re-issue is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl with artworked inner sleeve, custom silk-screened PVC outer bag, and download coupon. The tunes on Standards are direct and immediate, yet they maintain the exploratory edge that has always characterized the group’s...
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Limited Edition 2022 reissue of TNT now available in Jalapeno Green, this record continues to sell out in all LP formats. TNT is the third full length studio album released by Tortoise in 1998 1998 : Tortoise's third studio album TNT is released. In and out of print over the...
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Pelican’s debut album Australasia, originally released in late 2003 by Hydra Head Records, is a landmark record in the shifting tides of heavy music that took place at the turn of the millennium. 20 years since its release and with several sold out represses, Australasia is a proven essential for...
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Tortoise's self-titled debut incorporates many musical styles and influences and combines them into one very distince sound. So distinct that sometime after the release of this record they became recognized as the leaders of a new musical movement. Tortoise exploits the recording studio, in that they utilize the recording process...
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Having assembled 99 collaborators for their previous album The Consuming Flame, on their new album Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos focus upon just one person: Polish polymath Bogusław Schaeffer. Celebrated in his native land but not widely known beyond, Schaeffer innovated for decades across the boundaries of classical composition, electronic experimentation,...
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Tortoise have been expanding the definition of rock music for almost 30 years, nodding to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout its revered and influential discography. The resulting sounds have always been distinctly, even stubbornly, their own. Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters has not been available on LP since it...
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Rose City Band is celebrated guitarist Ripley Johnson. A prolific songwriter, Johnson started Rose City Band as an outlet nimble enough to match the pace of his writing as well as to explore songwriting styles apart from Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo. Rose City Band allows him to follow his...
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Tortoise's self-titled debut incorporates many musical styles and influences and combines them into one very distince sound. So distinct that sometime after the release of this record they became recognized as the leaders of a new musical movement. Tortoise exploits the recording studio, in that they utilize the recording process...
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Recorded by John McEntire at Idful Studios in Chicago, Nassau moves the band away from the more immediate pop leanings of their self-titled debut and sees them begin to experiment as a band in production and songwriting. Nassau was featured on many 1995 year end lists, moving the...
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Recorded at the 24 track SOMA Studios, ‘Oui’ is a leaner, more pared down recording than ‘The Fawn’. The band recorded straight to tape using contemporary technology, such as pro tools, for editing rather than manipulation. ‘Oui’ is a pop album. From the opening measures of ‘Afternoon Speaker’ to the...
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ISIS and Old Man Gloom guitarist Aaron Turner returns with SUMAC alongside bassist Brian Cook (Botch, Russian Circles) and drummer Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists) for a brand new set of heaving, free-form post-metal. It's hard to believe it's been a decade since ISIS called it quits, but that hasn't stopped guitarist...
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