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Audiopile Review: A FLAC-only release dropped via an eye-gouging, anachronistic Geocities site becoming one of the most buzzed about albums of 2024? Certainly didn’t see that coming. Perhaps our shortsightedness is due to our humble proximity to the project’s earliest days—two of Patrick Flegel’s earliest releases as Cindy Lee came...
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Audiopile Review: Newest release from Misha Panfilov’s Miraaž Records, the first non-Panfilov release for the label, which comes courtesy of a fellow Estonian, the keyboardist and pianist Volodja Brodsky. Though the name might not jump out at you instantly, Brodsky’s been a mainstay in the Panfilov extended universe for for...
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Audiopile Review: You may remember Naoki Zushi from our recent-ish write-up of his excellent album ‘IV’. He’s perhaps best known as a member of Japanoise legends Hijokaidan, but has surprising links to the lofi indie pop scene, specifically Nagisa Ni Te. As a solo artist, he produces truly epic psyche...
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Audiopile Review: Spinning Stones, the latest EP from London-based duo ddwy, expands on the sun-kissed rhythms of their 2023 full-length Sprig Songs, offering a hypnotic blend of dubby downtempo and disco-flecked ambient pop. Even though it’s a shorty at only four tracks, Spinning Stones is immersive and engaging throughout, leaving...
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Audiopile Review: Chicago-based duo Gastr Del Sol had an extraordinary avant rock pedigree. David Grubbs was a member of Squirrel Bait and Bastro before forming Gastr around 1993 to focus on the avoidance of anything vaguely resembling a rock cliché. He was soon joined by Jim O’Rourke, who was and...
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Audiopile Review: Hackney-based MC, poet and artist John Glacier has been on a perpetual upswing since her initial appearance on a 2019 dreamcastmoe mixtape, eventually going on to drop show-stopping contributions to releases from Dean Blunt, Jamie XX and her longtime cohort Vegyn. While her guest turns have always been...
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Audiopile Review: Truly mind-bending electronic music is often something of a sonic stew. In the recent post-techno realm, we could point to the extraordinary Topdown Dialectic as a prime example. The beats almost sink into an intoxicating gumbo of mutated, convolved, and resynthesized voices and instruments. In this context, the...
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Audiopile Review: Aussie instrumental soul-funk outfit Pro-Teens, once again led by the busy drummer Hudson Whitlock, who also mans the kit in Karate Boogaloo and Surprise Chef, return after a half decade dormant period, dishing a funky ode to the late MF DOOM on their newest. Reaching all the way...
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Audiopile Review: Musical scenes and genres are at their best when they’re in the process of forming. At this stage, they’re vague, mutable, and open to input from all manner of individuals and outsiders. This is particularly true with 90s electronic music, if only because it was much harder to...
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Audiopile Review: The deeper you dig into Gothenburg’s underground, the more certain names start to resurface—Hugo Randulv is among them. A member of lo-fi dream-pop favourites Amateur Hour, post-punk outfit Makthaverskan, and experimental folk collective Enhet För Fri Musik, among many others, he’s tied to a wide range of pursuits....
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Audiopile Review: Berlin-based, French-born producer Benoit Bovis once gain dons his Terra Utopia guise, chasing a handful of peak-time, Euro-centric 12”ers under his Blu:sh moniker for top tier labels like Kalahari Oyster Club and Roza Terenzi’s Step Ball Chain label. While there is certainly a kinetic thread that can be...
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Audiopile Review: Wide-vista ambient zoners from Aussie duo Tunnel Dancers, made up of Jackson Fester and Hugh Burridge—the latter known under his Hugh B guise and the humble trail of releases on Not Not Fun and Planet Trip, while the former is best known as Cousin, who has had us...
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Audiopile Review: Critic Sasha Frere-Jones once said the only thing that made Of Montreal an indie rock band was the people who listened to them. He was talking, we think, about the fate of groups that confirm a following in the broad church of indie rock before converting to a...
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Audiopile Review: In a loaded week at the shop for freshly landed titles from Jazzagression, the Norwegian imprint’s biggest ace is the newest spiritual/modal jazz offering from the Leeds-based Mu Quintet, their second since first appearing on the label back in 2023 with their debut, Summit. While much of our...
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Audiopile Review: After taking 2024 off, Eremite starts 2025 with a one-two punch, issuing the debuts of two new trios—Isaiah Collier, William Hooker and William Parker’s free/spiritual jazz juggernaut The Ancients, and—our pick of the two releases this week—the all-percussion outfit Onilu, which is made up of three seasoned percussionists;...
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Audiopile Review: Blue Lake follows up his breakthrough LP, 2023’s Sun Arcs, with a mini-LP that’s apparently a warm-up for an as-of-yet officially announced full length due later this year. Weft continues down the same path that Sun Arcs initially set us on—the dusty Americana of his roots in Texas...
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Audiopile Review: The best ghost stories linger in the haunt—the shadows, the existential weight of what might be lurking beyond veiled thresholds—only revealing their full power in brief but potent flashes, exposing us to the all-too-real horror our world harbours. Waiting Room embodies the well-worn motif, a startlingly potent full-length...
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Audiopile Review: There’s a certain type of record. If you were just coming of age when that record came out, it might just mean the world to you. But if you weren’t in the right place at the right time, you might not know it all. So,...
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Audiopile Review: Vashi Bunyan has certainly had one of the weirder trajectories in musical history. Bunyan’s ‘failed’ 60s pop career and subsequent peregrinations are detailed in her excellent memoir ‘Wayward’. And suffice to say, her Joe Boyd-produced 1970 debut ‘Just Another Diamond Day’ is a freak folk classic. In the...
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Audiopile Review: No one causes quite a stir around the shop quite like Shinichi Atobe when a new release is announced. And we’re blessed with two of them this week! Thought we were gonna get blanked on the Ongaku 1 EP that dropped in the first half of 2024, disappearing...
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Audiopile Review: In the UK’s post-Burial landscape, the underground has been slowly reshaping hip-hop and R&B with nocturnal, ambient-leaning textures. With a pair of preceding mixtapes, Iceboy Violet has risen up as a vital new voice alongside the likes of John Glacier, Space Afrika, Rainy Miller, and Jawnino. Enter Nueen....
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Audiopile Review: A mainstay of the Chicago underground scene for the past thirty-five years, beginning as vocalist of the indie rock outfit Trenchmouth before moving his way through the burgeoning post-rock scene of the mid ‘90s, Damon Locks eventually became an integral contributor to the International Anthem label with both...
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Audiopile Review: We cannot say enough good things about ECM’s Luminescence reissue series. It is an extremely on-point selection of classics from the label’s voluminous back catalogue. The crystal-clear pressings and luxurious packaging more than justify the prices. This series has been a particular bonanza for fans of Canadian brass...
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Audiopile Review: Oh-so-many words have been written about Madvillain’s 2004 classic ‘Madvillainy’. How to say something new about what is almost universally regarded as one of hip-hop’s greatest albums? Well, on this occasion, let’s start by saying that, in 2003, The Fall’s new album ‘Country on the Click’ leaked onto...
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Audiopile Review: New LP of dankest digi-dub and frazzled electro from Noda & Wolfers, the cross-continental collab between Taka Noda (best known as the Silent Season-backed ambient-dub warrior Mystica Tribe) and the prolific Dutch synth wizard Danny Wolfers (aka Legowelt). Their first release, 2022’s Tascam Space Season, took us by...
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Audiopile Review: Say what you like about the reissue industrial complex, but it does a great job of shining a light on the lesser-known work of classic artists. Juan Atkins aka Model 500 is legendary as one of techno’s original architects. Perhaps inevitably, the 12” singles Atkins released in the...
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Audiopile Review: On December 20 of 2028, legendary double bassist Barre Phillips died at the age of 90. This was a monumental loss for fans of avant jazz, generally, and the ECM Records stable, specifically. Phillips was something like the conscience of a whole scene. His recently reissued 1969 debut...
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Audiopile Review: Nicolas Jaar is hardly one to sit still. A serial collaborator who releases work under various pseudonyms, he has become synonymous with both quality and variety—simply put, the guy doesn't miss. No work is a greater testament to that than his latest release, Piedras 1 & 2, a...
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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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Audiopile Review: British reggae was always kind of a thing. Arguably, the UK produced golden-age reggae groups every bit as awesome as the finest Jamaica had to offer. Birmingham’s Steel Pulse is an obvious example. And London had Matumbi, featuring guitarist and producer Dennis ‘Blackbeard’ Bovell. Blackbeard was a quintessential...
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Audiopile Review: No Don Cherry fatigue until we get reissues of all three Codona albums!!! Seriously, we know Cherry reissues are coming thick and fast, but he’s one of those artists where you must hear everything to truly understand any of it (like, say, Mark E. Smith or MES’s hero,...
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Audiopile Review: It’s testament to the enormous role women played in experimental electronic music’s development that the title of 1977 compilation ‘New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media’ makes no reference to gender. But all the composers represented therein are women. How and why electronic music became a realm in...
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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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