Best of 2024
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Audiopile Review: We Are Busy Bodies answer our pleas to have MIDI Janitor’s Holy To Dogs cassette pressed to vinyl, arriving a mere six months after it’s initial appearance. A Christmas miracle, some may say. But Holy To Dogs was far too good to be left out of print and...
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"Frankly unmissable if even just for the album’s opening killer ’040468’ - named for the day MLK departed - which sounds better than ever on its sumptuous vinyl cut, ‘Tranquilizer EP3’ is the one the stans have been eagerly awaiting. It brings to a close a necessary reissue series for...
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Audiopile Review: There’s an argument to be made that 1994 was the best year in hip-hop. Alongside Illmatic, Ready To Die, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Hard To Earn, Blowout Comb, 6 Feet Deep, Between A Rock and a Hard Place, and Tical, Organized Konfusion’s sophomore LP, Stress: The Extinction Agenda, is in the...
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Audiopile Review: The wildly rare 1978 Moondog LP, “H’Art Songs” (a combination of Art Songs and his last name, Hardin), is mercifully reissued for the first time since it’s quiet appearance almost 50 years ago. Outside of the cheeky “Enough About Human Rights!”, which was included on Honest Jon’s fantastic...
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Audiopile Review: With a helping hand from Diego Herrera (aka Suzanne Kraft), Aiden Ayers, fellow Pender Street Stepper Liam Butler and official Mood Hut saxophonist Linda Fox, Jack J doubles down on the sun-kissed sophisticated pop of his debut with a followup that just might best it. Across Blue Desert...
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Audiopile Review: You ever listen to Aphex Twin’s ‘Richard D. James Album’ and wish it sounded just a little less like he was taking the piss? Like, yeah, those melodies are very pretty, and those beats are ingenious, but it all sounds like it’s happening through a thin veil of...
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I am facing a dilemma: how does the founder of an independent music label justify creating a project highlighting, even praising piracy, the very plague that has brought many labels to the brink of bankruptcy? I first became aware of “pirata” LPs in 2020 while hunting for records in Mexico...
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Audiopile Review: Absolute jaw dropper from Texan producer Gi Gi, who strikes quickly after Sunchoke, his 2023 trance induction on the Good Morning Tapes imprint, which instantly put him on the must-watch list here at the shop. And Gi Gi does not disappoint. Returning to the NYC Quiet Time Tapes...
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Audiopile Review: Phil Elverum faced a daunting task following The Microphones in 2020, his masterful 40+ minute autobiographical return to a long-abandoned name. Now, pivoting back to his Mount Eerie alias, Elverum draws us closer to the varied untethered experimental spirit of his early work as The Microphones, contrasting with...
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A limited edition compilation celebrating Hans-Joachim Roedelius' 90th birthday includes four LPs of previously unpublished material. The majority of the music on 90 originates from Revox 2-track recordings from 1968 to 1980. The Revox tapes, created with his Echolette tape delay and Farfisa organ—the same equipment used by Roedelius to...
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Audiopile Review: Music From Memory follow-up their triumphant Virtual Dreams comp with a second volume that zeroes in on the concurrent and wildly fecund Japanese IDM, ambient-techno and chill out scene of the’ 90s. While the first volume contained names familiar to even those who may only dabble...
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Audiopile Review: Only a week since we listed the Hiding Places reissue, the 2019 billy woods LP alongside producer Kenny Segal, we’re treated to the newest full length from ELUCID. While Backwoodz has been centered around reissuing the sought after back catalog of the extended Armand Hammer universe, Fat Possum...
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Audiopile Review: Only a week since we listed the Hiding Places reissue, the 2019 billy woods LP alongside producer Kenny Segal, we’re treated to the newest full length from ELUCID. While Backwoodz has been centered around reissuing the sought after back catalog of the extended Armand Hammer universe, Fat Possum...
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Audiopile Review: Already cemented as a visionary from very early on after pushing techno into new explosive territories with his early 12”s and kick-starting IDM with the first volume of Selected Ambient Works, Richard D. James also created what many now consider the greatest ambient album of all time....
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Twenty years ago, mclusky released their third album, The Difference Between Me and You Is That I"m Not On Fire via Too Pure. In the years since, their legend has only grown, proved by their recent sold-out tour dates. Alternative Press described them as "a smash up between the scabrous...
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Recorded at San Francisco’s Columbia Studios and released in 1972, trumpeter Luis Gasca’s For Those Who Chant enlisted a “who’s who” of the city’s A-tier musical community from that period. The cast is plentiful, featuring Carlos Santana and a pre-Journey Neal Schon on guitar, a rhythm section of Lenny White...
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Got A Story to Tell refines the sweet soul sounds Thee Sacred Souls have become famous for, delivering a genre pushing collection of songs that exhibit a magnetic coolness and swagger. The relaxed quality of the musicianship coupled with Josh Lane's heart-wrenching voice, gives the album a maturity that carries...
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Misha Panfilov, the Estonian contemporary jazz mover whose many Janus faces amount to more than just two, resulting in many album avatars - here shares a live recorded rendition of a recent pair of shows, played back to back in Stockholm, then Tallinn. The first recorded at Fasching, Stockholm, on...
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Audiopile Review: After a pair of self-released cassettes, Detroit duo Clinic Stars make the big leap over to Kranky for their debut proper, marking only the third new act to appear on the label over the past four years. A new act on Kranky is sure to draw the ear...
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Audiopile Review: Following last month’s reissue of Meat Beat Manifesto’s Subliminal Sandwich, we finally have Satyricon, which is now considered the peak of the group prior to Jack Dangers taking sole custody. Breaking away from the hard-hitting and post-industrial pop of 1990’s 99%, Satyricon slipped into a somewhat pop-forward mode,...
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Ever-evolving the mythologies and magic of Dialect’s sonic sphere, Andrew PM Hunt returns with Atlas of Green, elegantly molding unexacting details of memory and mistranslation into the framework of the British musician and composer’s creative pursuit. The album imagines a young musician named Green working in a future...
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Nine years on from the release of his seminal GRAMMY, BRIT, Ivor Novello and Mercury Music Prize-nominated debut album In Colour, London musician, DJ and producer Jamie xx announces his long-awaited second album In Waves. Across 12 tracks including "Baddy On The Floor" and "Treat Each Other Right", his joyous...
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Audiopile Review: Sublime Records, the boundary pushing Japanese electronic imprint, celebrates 30 years by reissuing a pair of their classics, released at the start of their three decade run. First up is Ken Ishii’s Reference To Difference, which makes its vinyl debut here. Reference lands in the middle of a...
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Nilüfer Yanya formally announces her new album My Method Actor, out September 13th on Ninja Tune. The news arrives alongside the release of her new single, the near-title track “Method Actor,” and follows her recent single “Like I Say (I runaway),” which the New York Times described as, “reveling in...
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Drummer Kinichi Motegi, currently with the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, curated a selection of tracks for this album based on the concept of "Kuchu (Aerial)" and "Uchu (Universe)," featuring music from two labels in 2005. The album has been highly requested by Fishmans fans for an analog version and is...
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Audiopile Review: With each solo release, Jonnine drifts further from the eclectic rock of HTRK, diving deeper into an abstract realm where structure and melody often give way to mesmerizing environmental storytelling. Early on, we're enveloped by the discordant sounds of ticking clocks, their bells chiming at irregular intervals, pulling...
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Zelienople don't release much, but when they do you, can guarantee it'll be special. It's been four years since their last album, 2020's Miasmah-released 'Hold You Up, and since then the band have switched up their working method. Previously stationed in drummer Mike Weis's basement-cum-studio, Zelienople's regular sessions were interrupted...
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Audiopile Review: Musical worlds collide in strange and unexpected ways. In the 70s and 80s, there was a weird confluence of psychedelic folk, new age music, and the avant-garde. This was epitomized by new age icon Constance Demby. But you’ll find even more strange collisions if you trace the career...
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The Undreamt-of Centre is the fourth solo album by prolific Australian drummer/composer/producer Laurence Pike, an evocative, contemporary reimagining of the requiem mass. The album draws on the sounds of modern classical music, Japanese environmental ambient music, fourth world electronics, free jazz and the choral traditions of Estonia, with particular influence...
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Audiopile Review: Right from the opening track of slow strings and crackling ambience on “Everything Forgotten Flows”, long-time listeners of Priori will surely recognize the Montreal-based producer and head of NAFF is moving into new territory. While his 2020 debut, On A Nimbus, as well as the follow-up, Your Own...
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By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins’ RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant, it is a culmination of themes explored throughout his 22-year career, and acts as the kinetic counterpart to 2021’s Music For...
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Audiopile Review: Regular readers of our weekly email who dig down deep into the nooks and crannies of the electronic section will likely have come across albums from 36 (pronounced three-six) over the years. With releases on imprints like Past Inside The Present and A Strangely Isolated Place, not to...
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Audiopile Review: Fishmans seemingly exist outside of time; while they garnered a cult following during their initial run of releases from 1991 until frontman Shinji Sato’s tragic and sudden passing in 1999, it wasn’t until decades later that the band fully began to receive the widespread appreciation they deserved. Thanks...
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Audiopile Review: Another must-grip release from the Sloth Mate imprint! Cuneiform Tabs features the label’s head and Violent Change mainstay Matt Bleyle, alongside Sterling MacKinnon, who also played in VC, though is now located in the UK. Trading recordings back and forth, the duo have painstakingly pieced together a collage...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot this week of two EPs of Terre Thaemlitz’s legendary work culled from her 1994 CD-only album Tranquilizer, both 12”s fitted with freshly unearthed mixes that were initially issued on the expanded 2xCD 30th anniversary reissue from earlier this year. Thaemlitz might be better known as a...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot this week of two EPs of Terre Thaemlitz’s legendary work culled from her 1994 CD-only album Tranquilizer, both 12”s fitted with freshly unearthed mixes that were initially issued on the expanded 2xCD 30th anniversary reissue from earlier this year. Thaemlitz might be...
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Love Spirals Downwards' groundbreaking fourth studio album, 'Flux,' has been reimagined and expanded in a deluxe edition, meticulously compiled by bandleader Ryan Lum. Originally released in 1998, 'Flux' surprised fans and critics alike with its unexpected exploration of drum 'n' bass and downtempo electronica genres. Over the past 25 years,...
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An overview of Laraaji’s earliest works, Glimpses of Infinity gathers selections from his 1978 debut Celestial Vibration and six additional studio sessions from the era. Full of discovery and wonderment, Glimpses of Infinity is a miraculous chronicle of new age’s most fabled artist. A condensed version of the 2023's sold...
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Audiopile Review: The newest Danish import to blow our minds is Fine Glindvad, known simply as Fine (pronounced feen-uh), dropping her debut album on Escho Records, the same label that also brought us Astrid Sonne’s Great Doubt earlier this year. Leading up to the album, Fine has been busy. She...
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Mates now for many moons - Mr.G and Duncan Forbes met at the time of Duncan’s Animated project; forging a friendship through weekly record shopping trips; a love of Soho; and regular banter over Duck and Rice. But it was their chance meeting at Glastonbury a few years back which...
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Audiopile Review: Coming in hot off his very recent double pack of kinetic dance floor shakers, ISS010, and three years on from Pool, his manic post-IDM masterpiece, Skee Mask takes the time to stretch out and luxuriate with his newest full length, Resort. Befitting of its title, Resort is also...
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Audiopile Review: An integral part of the Unheard Of Hope imprint, Guatemalan composer Mabe Fratti releases her third solo album for the UK-based label, which quickly follows from the chamber-pop debut of her Titanic project and contributions to this year’s shop highlight from Phét Phét Phét. While Fratti began in...
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Audiopile Review: Khotin’s debut full length, the appropriately titled Hello World, celebrates ten spins around the sun with a new cassette reissue. Released during Khotin’s brief but fruitful tenure here in Vancouver, arriving at a time when the twin electronic institutions of Mood Hut and Pacific Rhythm were finding the...
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Audiopile Review: Softening the edges of the doom-drone-folk of his duo Tongue Depressor, New England multi-instrumentalist Henry Birdsey has managed to break through to a wider audience with his Old Saw project, which began with 2021’s sublime Country Tropics. Much like Tongue Depressor, the sound of Old Saw is steeped...
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Audiopile Review: Exciting album from the International Anthem camp, a freshly minted group revolving around heavily utilized players from within the always exciting LA jazz and improv scene. SML is made up of two members who played with Jeff Parker’s quartet on his bar-raising live LP, Mondays At The Enfield...
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Audiopile Review: Look, we know better than to ignore anything that DJ Python's Worldwide Unlimited imprint gets its hands on. In this case, it's Jawnino's debut mixtape, 40, the latest project to spring from the post-Hype Williams UK scene. Combining the ambient-leaning, heady production we've heard from acts like Space...
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The music released as Amulet (or The Amulet Edition) is Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson's semi-secret testament. Originally available in exceedingly limited quantities at live shows and via direct mail-order in 2008 as a hand-assembled 4 miniCDR set housed in a circular Thai Amulet case and never properly distributed, the material finally...
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Vegyn is back with his second full length album following 2019’s Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds. Joe Thornalley’s story is well known by now, having cut his teeth with the likes of James Blake, Frank Ocean, and JPEGMAFIA, but the years since his debut have pushed that highly regarded and unique...
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