Archive for the Indie Rock Category
Robyn “Honey” (Cherrytree)
Robyn has stated that the album features “much more production work on my end”. She also said the album represents “this sweet place, like a very soft ecstasy. I danced a lot when I was making it. I found a sensuality and a softness that I don’t think I was […]
LCD Soundsystem “Electric Lady Sessions” (Columbia)
LCD Soundsystem release Electric Lady Sessions, their new 12 Track live album recorded at the titular New York City studio. It features covers of Chic’s I Want Your Love and the Heaven 17 song (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang in addition to the band’s take on Seconds by […]
Better Oblivion Community Center “Better Oblivion Community Center” (Dead Oceans)
Better Oblivion Community Center is a brand new band comprising the formidable talents of Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, two of the most lauded American songwriters of the past several years. Written and recorded in Los Angeles during the summer of 2018, their self-titled debut album will be released on […]
Mooner “O.M.” (Outer Battery)
“Second full-length from Indonesian heavy psych superstars MOONER! The reaction to Tabiat, their debut LP, was incredible, we sold out within days of its release. O.M. continues in the same vein as Tabiat, melding heavy psych with traditional Indonesian melodies. Featuring members of THE SLAVE, THE SIGIT, SIGMUN and SARASVATI, […]
Mooner “Tabiat” (Outer Battery)
BACK IN PRINT ON NEW CLEAR COLOR IN COLOR VINYL!!! Released as a companion album to our Shark Move reissue, MOONER update the heavy psych sounds of early ’70s Indonesia while staying true to the roots of the original scene. Featuring members of THE SLAVE, THE SIGIT, SIGMUN AND SARASVATI, […]
Tyler William “Goes West” (Merge)
Receive a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork. WILLIAM TYLER’s “new record, Goes West, is the best music that he’s ever made. I’m sure of this because I know and love all of his music intimately, and this album moves me the most, and the most consistently. The first time I heard […]
Angel Corpus Christ “The Real Angel Corpus” (Mono-Tone)
Mono-Tone Records presents The Real Angel Corpus Christi, the first compilation of the full career of ANGEL CORPUS CHRIST, from 45s to major labels, from 1984 to now. Avant-garde or traditional pop auteur? There’s no one quite like ACC in the pop firmament and the sooner the world wakes up […]
Jacco Gardner “Hypnophobia” (Polyvinyl)
Hypnophobia, the brand new album from ‘baroque pop’ prince and Dutch producer / multi-instrumentalist JACCO GARDNER, casts a majestic and vibrant psychedelic spell that will hypnotize listeners at the point dreams and reality meet. Capturing a true sense of exploration, Hypnophobia combines Gardner’s newfound love of travel with his continued […]
Xiu Xiu “Girl With Basket Of Fruit” (Polyvinyl)
XIU XIU’s new album Girl with Basket of Fruit could be anything. It could be turning Caravaggio’s Boy with Basket of Fruit to face the wall. It could be doing the wrong thing together forever. It could be that Nature is making it clear to us that we deserve it […]
Maxine Funke “Silk” (Feeding Tube)
2019 repress, gold vinyl! “Silk is the fantastic third LP by Maxine Funke, a New Zealand musician whose first recordings were with the legendary $100 Band (Funke, Alastair Galbraith, and Mike Dooley!), whose music was drifting experimental dust of a very high order. Maxine’s first two solo albums, Lace (2008) […]
Masaki Batoh “Nowhere” (Drag City)
We come from nowhere and fade back there again, leaving the foggy dreams and obscure anxieties of this life behind when we go. Life is enigma, and with great respect for the vagaries of this truth, MASAKI BATHOH’s Nowhere reaches out of the darkness, with strings of steel and voices […]
Robert Pollard “(Dislodge) The Immortal Orangeman” (GBV)
Since 1986 Robert Pollard has been the most prolific songwriter and musician on the planet. This is not news. Since 2003 he has also been producing an incredible amount of visual art which comes as a surprise to many. His unique collage pieces have been featured in multiple galleries around […]
Jessica Pratt “Quiet Signs” (Mexican Summer)
JESSICA PRATT is not a loud performer. She does not have to be. In a club of a few hundred, even the bar staff are known to go quiet while she’s on stage. Her third album, Quiet Signs, feels like a distillation of this power. The album leads off with […]
Mwethyl Ethyl “Triage” (4AD)
Triage marks the Perth, Australia band’s third studio album; it was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb, mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry. It was recorded in Webb’s home studio in West Perth. With his thirtieth birthday, and the ceremonial cap on three records […]
Fidlar “Almost Free” (Mom + Pop)
Almost Free, the new release from FIDLAR touches on many of the tragedies and irritations of modern life: existential dread, gentrification, the inescapable sway of the super-rich and the self-involved, post-breakup telecommunication, performative wokeness, the loneliness of sobriety or the lack thereof. But through sheer force of imagination and an […]
Cold War Kids “This Will All Blow Over In Time” (Downtown)
Cold War Kids’ first ever compilation album covering the band’s first 10 years with Downtown Records. The 23 track 2xLP album includes the band’s radio singles as well as deep cuts and rarities never before released, such as the track ‘Expensive Tastes’. Releasing on translucent yellow vinyl.
Honey Lung “Memory” (Kanine)
London, England upstarts Honey Lung show their love of early 90’s greats Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr, and Sonic Youth clearly on these early recordings. You can imagine the excitement of hearing Smashing Pumpkins ‘Gish’ album for the first time with those swirling guitars and hook heavy choruses. It was a […]
Obscura “Omnivium” (Relapse)
2LP repress of Obscura’s long out-of-print third LP. A progressive Death Metal masterpiece of the highest order! Omnivium finds OBSCURA pushing the progressive edges of the genre’s sounds to new heights while delivering the technical metal that has become their calling card. OBSCURA gracefully blends brutality and beauty with complex, […]
Green River “Dry As A Bone” (Sub Pop)
The story of Seattle’s rise to global rock supremacy in the late ’80s and early ’90s begins with Green River. Made up of Jeff Ament (bass), Mark Arm (guitar/vocals), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), Stone Gossard (guitar), and Alex Shumway (drums), the quintet put out three 12”s and a 7” single during […]
Green River “Rehab Doll” (Sub Pop)
The story of Seattle’s rise to global rock supremacy in the late ’80s and early ’90s begins with Green River. Made up of Jeff Ament (bass), Mark Arm (guitar/vocals), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), Stone Gossard (guitar), and Alex Shumway (drums), the quintet put out three 12”s and a 7” single during […]
Mono “No Where How Here” (Temporary Residence Ltd)
The conflict and correlation between dark and light is a universal theme with a historically rich history. Musically, perhaps no band in the 21st Century has mined that relationship more consistently or effectively than Japan’s MONO. Across 10 albums in 20 years, MONO have convincingly reflected the quietest and most […]
Panda Bear “Buoys” (Domino)
The sixth album from Animal Collective founding member Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear), Buoys, was co-produced and co-mixed by collaborator Rusty Santos in Lennox’s adopted home of Lisbon, Portugal. The album features Lennox’s bright, sincere voice along with his beatific approach to melodic structure and vocal phrasing, with miles of […]
Lee Ranaldo “Electric Trim Live At Rough Trade East” (Mute)
This is a recording of a set from Rough Trade East in October last year, when Ranaldo played his 2017 album, Electric Trim, in full apart from one track. The album was a full band affair whilst this is entirely solo – one man, one voice and acoustic guitars. It […]
PSI Com “PSI Com” (Survival Research)
1985 goth-rock fronted by a pre-Janes Addiction Perry Farrell. Recorded at Radio Tokyo Studios in Venice, California by Ethan James who was a member of Blue Cheer and recorded everyone from The Minutemen to The Bangles, this is more than just the precursor to the alternative and grunge-era legend! This […]