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Audiopile Review: Peak Oil follow up their stunner from Wrecked Lightship earlier this year, dropping another doozy with this late ’24 contender from Lifted, the out-rock Baltimore collective that has now been whittled down to Andrew Field-Pickering (aka Max D, Dolo Percussion) and Matt Papich (Co La). Much like their...
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Audiopile Review: The Milan W. story certainly doesn’t begin here—a long trail of LPs and small format releases under many guises and projects have led to this breakthrough amalgamation of the synth-pop wanderings, bedroom-wave idiosyncrasies and indie-folk dalliances studiously explored beforehand. And Leave Another Day divides itself between these worlds...
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Audiopile Review: Montreal’s Adam Feingold dons his new Pondlicker guise for this debut mini album on NAFF, the imprint he’s co-run alongside Francis Latreille (aka Priori) since 2018. The two have worked on numerous projects together over the years; collaborating with several others on the New World Science project, dropping...
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Audiopile Review: Italy-born, London-based percussionist Valentina Magaletti is a big fish in the small pond of Audiopile’s weekly newsletter. A serial collaborator with seemingly limitless energy, she has worked with everyone from Jandek to that bloke out of Super Furry Animals. Along the way, she’s become one of leftfield music’s...
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Audiopile Review: Coming more than four years after her debut full length, Acts Of Rebellion, as well as a pair of recent EPs that saw her working with DJ Python and the legendary Ricardo Villalobos, Ela Minus levels up with DIA, a concise and razor sharp work of icy electronic...
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Audiopile Review: At a glance, 2024 might seem like a quiet year for the typically prolific Pink Siifu—that is, if you weren't tapped into the 4 volumes of his Bandcamp exclusive series, Got Food at the Crib, that dropped throughout the year. Across volumes 1 and 2, Siifu offers exercises...
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Audiopile Review: At a glance, 2024 might seem like a quiet year for the typically prolific Pink Siifu—that is, if you weren't tapped into the 4 volumes of his Bandcamp exclusive series, Got Food at the Crib, that dropped throughout the year. Across volumes 1 and 2, Siifu offers exercises...
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Audiopile Review: The posthumous album by Paten Locke, 2022’s Americancer, was a thoroughly rinsed shop fave that revealed a visionary voice in underground hip-hop, one that was taken from us far too soon. Recorded at the same time as Americancer (released in ’22 but recorded back in 2017), Locke gifts...
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Audiopile Review: You may know Masahiro Sugaya from his contribution to the much-loved compilation ‘Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990’. Just over a minute of tinkling, plinking ambiance, ‘Umi No Sunatsubu’ somehow manages to be one of the highlights of a very stacked comp. The truth...
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Audiopile Review: Here’s something that’s almost always worth discovering: a musical act that was genuinely popular and influential in its heyday, but which never quite entered the canon. Sometimes, the lack of regard is understandable: the godlike Peter Hammill may have effectively invented post-punk, but he’s always been too idiosyncratic...
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Audiopile Review: Ultraääni Records issues two new records in the final stretch of 2024, marking a fairly prolific finale to one of the busier years for the Helsinki-based out-jazz imprint. First up is the misleadingly named Pascal & Baya Race, which is actually a quartet made up of life-long pals...
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Audiopile Review: Ultraääni ends the year the way they started it, offering up the second LP of 2024 from the one-man spiritual jazz machine, Organic Pulse Ensemble. The project of Gustav Horneij has become a bit of cult act in Nordic jazz, each LP gaining more traction than the last,...
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Audiopile Review: There was a very special moment in the development of electronic music when newly available digital technologies intersected with increasingly advanced analogue techniques. Laurie Spiegel’s ‘The Expanding Universe’ is the most widely recognized classic of this era. But David Behrman, Maggi Payne, Horacio Vaggione, and others were making...
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Audiopile Review: There was a very special moment in the development of electronic music when newly available digital technologies intersected with increasingly advanced analogue techniques. Laurie Spiegel’s ‘The Expanding Universe’ is the most widely recognized classic of this era. But David Behrman, Maggi Payne, Horacio Vaggione, and others were making...
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Audiopile Review: Following up their cassette reissue of Smetana, the 1990 debut of the Czech outfit Richter Band, Infinite Expanse press this fairly obscure gem to vinyl for the first time. Made up of several key players in the ‘80s Prague experimental underground, Richter Band’s debut is a hypnotizing work...
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Audiopile Review: One of the most rewarding aspects of Winnipeg-born electro-acoustic composer Claire Rousay’s music is her apparent inability to take things 100% seriously. So, while her music can dig into intense emotion and even trauma, she advertises this by printing t-shirts with the slogan “emo ambient”. In a world...
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Audiopile Review: As they exit their fourth and busiest year yet, Balmat Records—co-run by music journalist Philip Sherburne (we highly recommend subscribing to his Futurism Restated Substack!)— returns Sherburne’s roots in Portland, Oregon for the newest LP from Luke Wyland. A long-time member of the electronic and experimental scene of...
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Audiopile Review: Shop fave Matt Karmil returns after a four-year hiatus, arriving on the Studio Barnhaus imprint after his impressive stint of records on Smalltown Supersound and PNN. His previous album, 2020’s STS371, broke open his usual brand of submerged ambient-house with a turn towards Actress-esque hazy techno and blurred...
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Audiopile Review: In the 80s, home taping was reinventing music. The humble cassette allowed post-punk weirdos to reach an appreciative audience, empowered thrash metal demos to go analogue-viral, and lit the fuse on the exploding cottage industry of new age music. Some of the finest music of that decade was...
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Audiopile Review: The duo of PLO Man and SnP 500 return with a quick turnaround after their debut 12” release, Seven Hundred And Fifty Loops, issued just a few months back. Now swinging for the fences with a triple pack that goes even further into the expansive minimal techno explored...
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Audiopile Review: After the surprising success of ML Buch’s Suntub—it was one of this shop’s best selling releases for 2024 and one of our most played albums in the shop—we’re now primed for a proper dissemination of her 2020 debut, Skinned, initially issued as digital-only release. Coming three years after...
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Audiopile Review: After selling out our initial batch on pre-order weeks before our copies even landed in the shop, Dregs’ self-titled LP, initially a CD-only release in 2023, gets a quick repress via Purely Physical. Following a similar route as fellow Melbourne/Naarm artists like Carla dal Forno and CS +...
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Audiopile Review: Alongside this week’s highlighted album by Dregs, Milan W.’s hyped new album was also sold out before landing in the shop, anxious customers banging down the door with an inescapable case of FOMO. As it’s been going these days, that resulted in the first pressing ballooning in price...
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Audiopile Review: Legendary trumpeter and cornetist Don Cherry had many important collaborations in his life. From a personal perspective, his artistic partnership with wife Moki was probably the most important. But most jazz heads would likely rate his membership of the Ornette Coleman Quartet as the most significant. For us,...
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Audiopile Review: Just the other week, we were decrying the fact that legendary underground hip-hop producer Madlib isn’t as ridiculously prolific as he used to be. There are some artists (such as the godlike Peter Hammill, just to pick an example completely at random) who demand full engagement. You must...
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Audiopile Review: Returning to Vegyn's Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds five years later, it’s easy to see why he’s become such a staple here in the shop. Between his standout 2024 effort The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions and his much adored work under the Headache moniker, Only...
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Audiopile Review: A welcome repress of a Brannten Schnüre rarity, a six-track seven-inch initially released back in 2020 via I Dischi Del Barone, the seven-inch exclusive sub-label of Discreet. Both the direct and spiritual connection to the Discreet/Gothenburg outlet is one that’s well established, the German duo stirring up an...
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Audiopile Review: You might have heard about this one. Tristwch y Fenywod caused a bit of a critical stir upon emerging onto the scene and has recently been popping up on some prestigious year-end lists. Indeed, The Quietus placed this UK three-piece’s debut album at number two in its albums...
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Audiopile Review: You might have heard about this one. Tristwch y Fenywod caused a bit of a critical stir upon emerging onto the scene and has recently been popping up on some prestigious year-end lists. Indeed, The Quietus placed this UK three-piece’s debut album at number two in its albums...
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Audiopile Review: Arriving only a few months after his release of sunset improvisations with Craig Weinrib (drums) and Dylan Day (guitar), Sam Wilkes returns with those two alongside Chris Fishman (Moog) and Thom Gill (guitar/keys) for a live album that expands on the ambient-jazz and drifting Americana deployed earlier this...
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Audiopile Review: You’ve gotta love any musician whose career is a baffling succession of curve-balls. Think of the godlike Peter Hammill following the angst-ridden prog of his early albums with the glam howl of ‘Nadir’s Big Chance’ before developing a startlingly individual proto-post-punk sound. And think of Bill Orcutt, whose...
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Audiopile Review: Following on quickly from his co-release with Alliyah Enyo, Selkie Reflections, Florian T M Zeisig issues a debut proper for his Angel R guise, landing back on the Enmossed imprint for this highly limited run. Wildly busy with various projects, including operating as one half of ambient oddballs...
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Audiopile Review: Been a dang minute since we’ve gotten any new material from Will Long’s ongoing Long Trax series, so we’re happy to have a new two-tracker, which is actually a primer for the upcoming Long Trax 4, due early next year. For anyone out there who...
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Audiopile Review: Regular readers of this here humble email might recall the name Paul Cousins and his highlighted Vanishing Artefacts LP, released last year via Castles In Space, the imprint also behind this newest effort. His obsession with the ephemeral nature of tape continues onward with the appropriately titled Oxide...
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Audiopile Review: Oh yeah, that bit of the 90s where people were into 50s exotica records, Beach Boys-related west coast 60s pop, and 70s soft rock. What was all that about, and how would it stand up today? Well, in the case of Sean O’Hagan’s High Llamas, extraordinarily well. O’Hagan...
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Audiopile Review: Oh yeah, that bit of the 90s where people were into 50s exotica records, Beach Boys-related west coast 60s pop, and 70s soft rock. What was all that about, and how would it stand up today? Well, in the case of Sean O’Hagan’s High Llamas, extraordinarily well. O’Hagan...
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Audiopile Review: Wolfgang Voigt is obviously best known for the arboreal dub-techno of Gas. This is understandable, as Gas is one of those rare musical projects that manage to be hugely influential while remaining utterly unique. Voigt’s work outside the Gas giant is less well-known. This is a shame, because...
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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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Audiopile Review: New imprint Feedback Waves materializes with a first time vinyl reissue of Palomatic’s 1995 release, Trill, which lands a month after Music From Memory’s jaw-dropping survey of ambient-techno and IDM culled from the fertile Japanese scene of the early ‘90s. The inclusion of Palomatic’s “Flutter”, which kicks off...
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Audiopile Review: When it comes to navigating a sustainable career in music, Darren ‘Actress’ Cunningham seems incapable of steering a straight path. Cunningham gained massive critical acclaim for his unique mixture of techno, dubstep, and glitch on albums like ‘Splashz’ (2010) and R.I.P. (2012). Becoming a prominent voice in the...
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Audiopile Review: He’ll turn 90 next year, but first-generation minimalist composer Terry Riley has never been more relevant. His mixture of hypnotic repetition, spiritually minded improvisation, space-faring electronics, and proto-new age mysticism ties in with any number of contemporary trends. He remains most famous for ‘In C’ and ‘A Rainbow...
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Audiopile Review: Stumbled across this one in the depths of an Instagram scroll recently, a post of someone gripping what appeared to be a bootlegged cassette edition of Andre 3000’s ambient-jazz surprise hit, New Blue Sun. Further inspection led us to a Bandcamp that told the story of deep, medicated...
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Audiopile Review: Showstopping physical debut from Australian producer 990x, whose previous digital-only releases were heady sojourns into a syrupy interworld suspended between thunderous trap beats and glossy vaporwave textures. 990x slides neatly into the Sferic family, his billowing ambient hip-hop make a ton of sense next to albums by label...
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Audiopile Review: Huge shout out to Warp Records for helping get so much of the On-U Sound catalogue back into print. It’s noticeable that this ongoing reissue series has gone beyond heavy hitters like African Head Charge and Dub Syndicate to explore lesser-known corners of On-U’s vault. This is very...
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Audiopile Review: 12th Isle round out their quiet 2024 with a new LP from the long-running Fan Club Orchestra, a Belgian unit active for the past quarter century, issuing albums for the Mouse On Mars associated Sonig, among others. While earlier outings could be chaotic affairs of DIY-informed IDM or...
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Audiopile Review: Somewhere Press chase a pair of dreamtime passages from Slowfoam and Alliyah Enyo & Angel R (aka Florian T M Zeisig) with a new LP from Estonian producer/vocalist Man Rei (Kristin Reiman). In a major year of dreampop exploration, Man Rei falls even deeper into an ether that’s...
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Audiopile Review: The turn of the century was a rebirth period for underground hip-hop. The flurry of major label distributed independent labels and various subsidiaries that popped up through the ‘90s had mostly died off as hip-hop moved into the mainstream, the majors focusing more and more on sure shots...
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Audiopile Review: We tend to think of guitarist Jeff Parker as the guy who replaced David Pajo in Tortoise. But we’re idiots, and here’s why. First, Parker and Pajo were in Tortoise at the same time, duh (they played together on ‘TNT’). But much more than that, Parker’s career has...
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