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Audiopile Review: NYC’s Incienso kick off 2025 with an absolute showstopper after a fairly quiet 2024, though their critically acclaimed release from Huerco S’ Loidis guise more than made up for their quiet year. As they’ve consistently done, Incienso elevate a new talent, this time around offering up the debut...
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Audiopile Review: Aussie producer Cousin finally gets to a long player, or at least the closest he’s come yet, after an incredible string of EPs for shop fave imprints like Mood Hut, NAFF and Nummer. Despite these dalliances abroad, Cousin’s been quietly running his own imprint for years now, Moonshoe,...
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Audiopile Review: Balmat Records, who, at this point, need little introduction to our regular readers, follow up last year’s bounty of six full lengths by kicking off 2025 with the second album from DOVS, the cross-continental collab between Johannes Auvinen (best known as acid techno expert Tin Man), and Mexico...
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Audiopile Review: What’s up with the cover of Bon Iver’s new album? Shit looks like Jan Jelinek’s 2001 glitch-dub classic ‘Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records’ (or possibly something on the Peak Oil label). Not sure how this electronical design scheme benefits the indie-folk icon, but it sure was appropriate for the woozy minimalism of...
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Audiopile Review: The 2021 death of Peter ‘Pita’ Rehberg was a tragedy for the world of experimental electronic music (glitch continent). It’s been a huge relief to see (and, of course, hear) his Editions Mego label continuing to release high-quality albums since then. And it’s been a delight to witness...
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Audiopile Review: Ah yes, that ol’ real shit. In the late 90s, Ramon Bauer and Andi Pieper founded Mego with Peter ‘Pita’ Rehberg and recorded two of that label’s most extraordinary albums. After 2000’s legitimately brain-boggling glitch masterpiece ‘Rechenkönig’ they went radio silent. But a couple of years ago, they...
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Audiopile Review: The people who create musical styles and movements rarely get the credit. Lawrence from Felt basically invented The Smiths and the godlike Peter Hammill basically invented David Bowie (Yes, he did! Stop looking at us like that!!) but neither reaped the rewards. Indeed, fewer musical geniuses seem to...
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Audiopile Review: Black Editions has done an incredible job of making classics from Japan’s P.S.F. label available in obscenely luxurious vinyl editions. We’re particularly grateful for those ragged and radiant White Heaven albums. Of all the P.S.F. bands, White Heaven concocted the most palatable brew of heavy rock, lo-fi murk,...
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Audiopile Review: We’ve been both blessed and burdened by the sheer scale of the ongoing shoegaze resurgence. Admittedly, there aren’t many who have managed to break through to us despite the overwhelming amount of bands that seem to pop up on Bandcamp on a daily basis. Though, when a striking...
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Audiopile Review: NYC-based producer X Or Size orbits the shop for a third time with his newest release, clinching his third ROTW ring and reaching rarified air here at the shop (your commemorative plaque awaits you). If you’ve missed our previous gushings, X Or Size is the pseudonym of Josiah...
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Audiopile Review: Do the Germans have an unwieldy compound word to describe a record that’s so understated that you could barely notice it, but so compelling that you can’t stop listening to it? This is pretty much exactly Brian Eno’s original definition of ambient music, and he did get a...
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Audiopile Review: The second of two must-hear albums from Norwegian imprint Smalltown Supersound this week is a new collab between the famed trumpeter and ECM heavyweight Arve Henriksen, who teams up with Estonian guitarist Robert Jürjendal. A constant point of reference here at Audiopile HQ is Jon Hassell, his groundbreaking...
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Audiopile Review: Does Actress still use that logo, based on the badge of the Wolverhampton Wanderers soccer team? Is it true that he was once a junior player for Wolves before an injury led him to concentrate on music? Is Vic Godard from Subway Sect really a postman? Is he...
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Audiopile Review: Well known in Japan, Ichiko Aoba’s music took over a decade to break beyond her home country. Ba Da Bing! was the first to release one of her albums domestically, 2021’s Windswept Adan, an album that became a mainstay here in the shop, driven entirely by word of...
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Audiopile Review: The current wave of Canadian sophisti-pop continues to thrive, and Cici Arthur’s debut, Way Through, is perhaps its grandest statement yet. Built around the in-demand vocalist Chris Cummings, his welcoming, emotive voice is accompanied by music from shop fave Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill, best...
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Audiopile Review: Hotham Sound voyage back to Montreal after their recent cross-continental offering from Frédérique Duval under her Fumerolles guise, this time pulling in her partner, Christian Richer, aka Élément Kuuda, both of whom ought to be familiar if you’ve been following our recent tape recommendations in our weekly emails....
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Audiopile Review: The discography of post-industrial wizards Coil is full of mysterious nooks and crannies. Honestly, we’d never heard of ‘Born Again Pagans’, credited to Coil vs. ELpH, until this 30th anniversary reissue came to our attention (although the cover is familiar, now you come to mention it). Having given...
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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: Truly innovative work by true innovators is too easily forgotten. The godlike Peter Hammill was a central inspiration for acts ranging from David Bowie to The Fall to Soft Cell, but when was the last time you heard his name mentioned? Okay, apart from in this newsletter? Anyway,...
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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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