Archive for the Genres Category
Chvrches “Love Is Dead” (Glassnote)
Chvrches third studio album Love Is Dead follows the success of Every Open Eye and The Bones of What We Believe. Production credits include 2017 & 2018 GRAMMY Producer of the Year Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia) on 9 out of 13 songs and Steve Mac (Ed Sheeran, P!nk) on “Miracle”. […]
Nik Pascal “Zero Gravity” (Wah Wah)
Psycho electronic weirdness from LA-based pioneer Nik Pascal (a.k.a. Head, a.k.a. 107-34-8933, a.k.a. Nik Raicevic), reissued on vinyl in a run of only 500 copies. This seriously tripped-out album was originally released in 1972 by the Narco imprint. Fans of f.i. Silver Apples, the Berlin School, or any kind of […]
Julie Doiron “Desormais / Heart and Crime” (Jagjaguwar)
Julie Doiron’s stunning album Désormais, originally released via Jagjaguwar in 2001, marked a departure from the Canadian artist’s grunge pop releases in the 1990s. Like its title might suggest, the intimate record is sung almost entirely in French. Across Désormais ten tracks, Doiron builds a disarming and warm atmosphere – […]
Lithics “Mating Surfaces” (Kill Rock Stars)
Mating Surfaces is the second full length from Portland, Oregon’s Lithics. Twelve tightly wound fragments of brittle abstract twin guitar, impellent rhythm, and absurd, imagistic lyricism. “A stern danceable sound that summons cut up snapshots of Su Tissue and Mark E Smith, an imagined landscape where Captain Beefheart hits that […]
Joe Bonamassa “British Blues Explosion – Live” (J&R Adventures)
Joe’s salute to the icons of British blues features the unbelievable music of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page! Joe recently paid tribute to his heroes during a short but very sweet tour of Britain – 5 performances only. This show was recorded at Greenwich Music Time at The […]
Pungent Stench “Been Caught Buttering” (Back on Black)
Back on Black Records re-issue the classic works of Austrian death metal band Pungent Stench. “Been Caught Buttering” is Pungent Stench’s second album, originally released in 1991 on Nuclear Blast. The album art, which depicted two severed, partially decomposed heads kissing (in fact, it is one head which had been […]
Pedro The Lion “It’s Hard To Find A Friend” (Epitaph)
It’s Hard to Find a Friend is the debut full-length album by Pedro the Lion; a solid indie rock album with plenty of lyrical talent to spare. After a shifting lineup, Pedro the Lion eventually became a one-man outfit. That man is David Bazan. A Seattle native, Bazan cut his […]
Jenny Hval “The Long Sleep” (Sacred Bones)
The follow-up to Jenny Hval’s acclaimed 2016 album Blood Bitch is The Long Sleep, an adventurous new EP that sees the Norwegian multidisciplinary artist embracing an instinctive, even subconscious, approach to creating meaning. In contrast to Hval’s more explicitly conceptual work, The Long Sleep foregrounds the act of composition itself, […]
Pungent Stench “Club Mondo Bizarre” (Back on Black)
DELUXE VINYL EDITION!!! Back on Black Records re-issue the classic workds of Austrian death metal band Pungent Stench. “Club Mondo Bizarre” is the third album of the Austrian death metal band Pungent Stench originally released in 1994 on Nuclear Blast records. On “Club Mondo Bizarre”, Pungent Stench tones down its […]
Sepultura “Roots” (Rhino)
ROOTS: EXPANDED EDITION features a newly remastered version of the original album, plus 17 bonus tracks. Standouts include demos for “Dusted” and “Roots Bloody Roots,” instrumental versions of “Dictatorshit” and “Cutthroat,” a version of “Attitude” recorded live at Ozzfest, and the unreleased first take of “Kaiowas.”
Wooden Shjips “V” (Thrill Jockey)
Wooden Shjips, long-time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement, expand their sound with V, available on Limited Blue Colored Vinyl with full color artworked inner sleeve and free download card. On their fifth album the quartet of Ripley Johnson (Moon Duo), Omar Ahsanuddin, Dusty Jermier, and Nash Whalen augment their […]
Ornette Coleman “The Atlantic Years” (Rhino)
Ornette Coleman recorded one of the greatest bodies of work in jazz during a 22-month-long burst of creativity. Between 1959 and 1961, the saxophonist and composer released six studio albums on Atlantic Records that helped usher in the avant-garde, free jazz movement. The LPs are presented in replica European-style 1960s […]
DJ Koze “Knock Knock” (Pampa)
DJ Koze returns with second album Knock Knock. Available in 2LP Limited Edition Box Set with bonus 7″, an added LP of instrumentals, a 10″ with three unreleased tracks, poster and jewel case CD. One of the best known DJs in the world, DJ Koze returns with Knock Knock, his […]
Courtney Barnett “Tell Me How You Really Feel” (Mom + Pop)
The new album Tell Me How You Really Feel follows her critically acclaimed 2015 debut album Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit, and a recent top 10 collaborative record, Lotta Sea Lice, with Kurt Vile. One of the most distinctive voices in music, Courtney is known […]
Jennifer Castle “Angels of Death” (Paradise of Bachelors)
A sublime meditation on mortality and memory, ghosts and grief, Angels of Death casts a series of spells against forgetting and finality, in the form of mystic-minimalist country-soul torch songs about writing, time travel, and spectral visitations. Castle wrote and recorded this breathtaking follow-up to the acclaimed Pink City (2014) […]
Irma Thomas “Take a Look” (Imperial)
Irma Thomas’ 1966 LP ‘Take A Look’ gets the exact repro vinyl reissue treatment.
Groundhogs “Split” (Akarma)
Repress! On the fourth album, Tony McPhee confronts another difficult subject: the introspective vision of the mind of a schizophrenic. The album begins decisively and angry, almost with a desire to violate and demoralize clean and lined buildings of the British blues. Another milestone of ’70s British rock. Original pasted […]
No Trend “Too Many Humans” (Unknown)
Noisy, misanthropic, uncomfortable and nihilistic, No Trend’s 1984 debut album remains a dark gem of anti/social American noise punk rock. In the vein of luminaries such as Flipper or ‘My War’ era Black Flag, No Trend crowned their selves kings of anti/hardcore with a confrontational attitude against punk clichés and […]
Condor “Unstoppable Power” (High Roller)
Limited to 100 copies on BONE coloured VINYL. Second pressing. The sophomore full-length by Norwegian thrash/black metal outfit CONDOR. The band gets its inspiration from old school bands such as Sodom, Sepultura, Sarcofago, Kreator and especially Destruction.
Night Demon “Night Demon” (High Roller)
3rd pressing. An expanded 8 track EP on black vinyl, limited to 266 copies. Night Demon is a young trio from California who literally fell out of the sky from now where. They’ve gone from just creating a bandcamp page to being invited to play KIT festival in Europe before […]
El Internacional Ray Camacho “Mucha Salsa” (Everland)
Reissue of 1978 funk/salsa album, originally released by Luna Records.
Octopus “Supernatural Alliance” (Rise Above)
Formed in 2008 by guitarist J Frezzato (ex-Electric Six) and vocalist Masha Marjieh, this ten-legged groove machine began as the channelling of a nocturnal hallucination. Where many other like-minded bands adhere rigidly to an ethos of total-retro-or-die, Octopus sound neither like the past nor the present. Instead, this is a […]
Phil Pratt & Bobby Kalphat “The War is On Dub Style” (Pressure Sounds)
Recorded in Jamaica and mixed at Easy Street Studios in East London ca. 1982. A fascinating excursion through early ’80s dub.
Whores “Ruiner” (Pelagic)
A reissue of the popular noise/sludge band’s 2011 EP.