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Audiopile Review: After successfully co-running Peak Oil, as well as the recently debuted False Aralia label, the razor-sharp curatorial ear of Brian Foote unveils his first imprint as sole proprietor, simply titled FO, rescuing a 2023 CDr release by London trio Rest Symbol from hopeless obscurity as his first order...
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Audiopile Review: You’d think the current wave of trip hop revivalism we’ve been so enamoured with might eventually lose its lustre — and maybe it still will — but if acts like TEAL continue to reimagine it, we hope it never fades. On Original Watercolour, the Toronto trio’s follow-up to...
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Audiopile Review: Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne is the kind of MF who could make you a killer CDR of B-sides and radio session tracks by the godlike Peter Hammill. He’s had a hand in some of the most creative various artists compilations of recent times, but his masterwork as...
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Audiopile Review: With no time wasted, Parisian pop oddball Helen Island returns exactly one year later since giving us the vapours with Last Liasse, once again aligning with Dutch imprint Knekelhuis. Still helmed by the semi-recluse Léopold Collin, not much has changed for his Helen Island guise this go around,...
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Audiopile Review: ECM fans absolutely flipped when the label announced that its Luminescence reissue series would feature Bennie Maupin’s 1974 solo debut ‘The Jewel in the Lotus’. Since then, the wait has been agonizing, but it’s finally here. We cannot overstate what a grail this album is. It is absolutely...
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Audiopile Review: After a string of deep-ambient focused cassettes strewn about the Oslo underground over the past few years, Erik Mowinckel trims his name down (just listed here as Erik M) and dials up the succulent detailing of his airy ventures into a more tactile listening experience. His previous output...
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Audiopile Review: Some groups start out determined to avoid musical clichés at all costs. Sonic Youth and Scritti Politti are two acts that set out with this modus operandi. As members of those legendary ensembles would doubtless tell you, this is a fundamentally unsustainable artistic strategy. It is, however, a...
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Audiopile Review: Gothenburg-trio Amateur Hour return with their fourth album, coming after a three-year wait since their sprawling double LP, Krökta Tankar Och Brända Vanor, an album that sideswiped us with a raw whirlwind of industrial aesthetics, rip-it-up-again post-punk attitude and coded dream-pop. The trio, made up of Discreet mainstays...
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Audiopile Review: Shop fave Anthony Naples returns with his sixth long player, marking somewhat of a departure from the effervescent breaks and sci-fi-tinted downtempo he’s been refining on future classics like Orbs, Chameleon or Take Me With You. But that run of five LPs is only one side of the...
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Audiopile Review: Some names come up again and again in our reviews. We’ve probably mentioned the godlike Peter Hammill a couple of times. Huerco S. (aka Brian Leeds) is another artist we call back to again and again. There’s a reason for this. Huerco is absolutely one of the best...
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Audiopile Review: Madteo returns after a whopping four years since his last full length, not to mention an equal amount of time gone by with nary a new 12” in sight, a lengthy break for a producer who has had a steady and reliable release schedule since arriving back in...
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Audiopile Review: Between "Jazz Codes", last year’s lauded collaboration with Ulla, and her late-2024 2LP behemoth "Intrinsic Rhythm", Perila has been keeping us incredibly well-fed. Now she returns with The Air Outside Feels Crazy Right Now, a collection that deepens her intimate, all-encompassing sense of atmosphere. Evoking the arid textures...
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Audiopile Review: Rashad Becker is probably best known as a vinyl mastering engineer. In this role, he’s occasionally achieved the technically impossible, cutting 20-plus-minute sides at 45rpm and whatnot. His evident scorn for the bounds of mere space and time is strongly evident on the two volumes of ‘Traditional Music...
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Audiopile Review: Florian TM Zeisig dons yet another guise, returning to Somewhere Press as Spool, chasing his crackled dream-pop collaboration with vocalist Alliyah Enyo that dropped during his busy 2024, coming alongside his murky ambient NUG project on West Mineral and a full length of inverted trip-hop for Stroom. Needless...
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Audiopile Review: Three releases in, and the Pin catalogue has been a love letter to both minimal and dub techno. Segmenting the cavernous and hypnotic qualities associated with the latter while formulating compositions akin to the former, SnPLO craft meticulous, hypnotic sequences but maintain a dubbed-out rigidity. The A-side is...
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Audiopile Review: Norwegian imprint Jazzagression links up with the one-man spiritual jazz project Organic Pulse Ensemble for a limited 10” EP release, a linkup so seamless that we’re a bit shocked that this hasn’t happened yet. If you’ve been reading our weekly emails, there’s a good chance you already know...
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Audiopile Review: Detroit oddball Wetdogg delivers a shocker debut of effortless, skewed bedroom pop made by a true maverick, coming off like a missing piece of Morr Music’s indie-tronica catalog at the turn of the century made by someone raised on a steady diet of trip-hop CDs stolen from mum...
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Audiopile Review: Good to see that Kode9’s Hyperdub label is still out there, giving us access to loving deconstructions of the UK bass music continuum and various regional dance music styles. On the evidence of Nazar’s ‘Demilitarize’, Hyperdub is more out there than ever. This album recalls aspects of Andy...
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Audiopile Review: In the post-everything age, scenes that used to be bound by strict codes of conduct have embraced anything-goes eclecticism with a frankly absurd fervour. Metal new releases have become a perplexing cavalcade of genre mashups. And hip-hop gave up on the tedium of keeping it real long, long...
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Audiopile Review: Greentea Peng finally gets to her second LP after a four-year wait off her splashy debut, Man Made, the outta nowhere underground hit that made us instant fans of her deliriously trippy take on R&B and crossover hip-hop. The London-based artist’s arrival coincided with a wave of other...
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Audiopile Review: Names are important. Sandwell District describes both a musical group and a record label. And it’s never been clear where one ends and the other begins. At heart, Sandwell District has always been an amorphous international collective of minimal techno producers, including Regis, Function, and Silent Servant. The...
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Audiopile Review: Vancouver’s own Scott Morgan, aka Loscil, has amassed a large, varied discography since his 2001 debut for Kranky. That album, ‘Triple Point’, announced a major new talent, and a distinctive new voice, in electronic music. Previously, Morgan had been best known as the drummer in Destroyer. But ‘Triple...
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Audiopile Review: Great to see Monolake getting the extensive reissue treatment. As one of the creators of Ableton Live, Monolake’s Robert Henke is among electronic music’s most influential people. But, along with a revolving cast of collaborators, he has also amassed one of electronic music’s most consistently impressive discographies. ‘Gravity’,...
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Audiopile Review: As Kompakt approaches its 500th (!!) release, the Cologne-based label does a rare dip back into its catalog, reissuing an early and essential piece culled from its formative years. Released only on CD back in 2001, Triola Im Fünftonraum is the lone album from Jörg Burger’s Triola guise,...
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Audiopile Review: Icelandic producer Yagya lands with a new full length that’s a return to his finely tuned ambient dub-techno after the brief detour into gaseous dream-pop that was 2023’s Fading Photographs. While that record was enjoyable enough, we’ve been desperately waiting for a return to the sublime styling that...
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Audiopile Review: To many of our readers, Soichi Terada’s name should be familiar — we’ve long championed his work, and for good reason. He’s had a long and remarkably consistent career, laying the foundation for a dreamy style of house music that’s simply never gone out of fashion. That said,...
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Audiopile Review: Following her shop highlighted mini-LP issued less than a year ago, Korean producer Yetsuby is back with a proper full length debut, marking the maiden voyage for new imprint Pink Oyster, a new subsidiary of Métron dedicated to leftfield electronic music. If you got down with last year’s...
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Audiopile Review: The Silent Season reissues keep coming! A mere week after gushing about Purl’s Stillpoint finally coming to vinyl, ASC follows suit with one of his CD-only releases for the label that’s also been hopelessly OOP for years, now going for eye-popping sums online. Much like Purl, ASC, the...
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Audiopile Review: Yumiko Morioka’s 1987 sole release Resonance, a kankyō ongaku classic, is mercifully repressed by Métron Records, who initially reissued it back in 2020, those copies now hitting triple digits price points online. Considered a notable part of the Japanese Environmental Music movement of the 1980s, Resonance actually has...
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Audiopile Review: It’s interesting and odd when a group or artist makes one of their best albums in a distinctly off-brand style. Funkadelic’s ‘Maggot Brain’ and the godlike Peter Hammill’s ‘Nadir’s Big Chance’ are unusually straightforward rock albums among eclectic discographies. But they are also arguably the best albums of...
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Audiopile Review: NYC-based composer Lori Saxl hits close to home on her new mini-album, acting as a companion piece to her Earth Focus LP issued just last year. The EP, simply titled Texada, was created for an NFB documentary that examines the manmade and natural changes of the evolving limestone...
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Audiopile Review: Keith Hudson’s classic dub albums have a similar vibe to classic Norwegian black metal. Weird comparison, we know. But he was known as The Dark Prince of Reggae, so there’s something to it. The pointedly rudimentary graphic design that his albums were often housed in helps. But, mostly,...
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Audiopile Review: Khotin returns to his own imprint for a mini-album that stands as the perfect summation of his now decade-long project, touching on a bit of everything that have made his albums so crucial for anyone invested in contemporary electronic music. Titled Peace Portal, Khotin gives a not so...
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Audiopile Review: Thankful that the folks over at Stroom have repressed the critical second LP from Dutch outfit Voice Actor, which was an instant sell-out upon release earlier this year, and now we finally have enough copies to list it here. Ostensibly now a solo project helmed by Noa Kurzweil...
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Audiopile Review: The Silent Season catalog is a dense one. Though the label has been dormant for a few years now—label head Jamie McCue currently focusing on his dub-forward 7 inch-only imprint Moon Garden—this week and next will see first-time vinyl pressings of a pair of releases, dusting off some...
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Audiopile Review: You may associate Chicago’s Thrill Jockey label with the coolly cerebral sounds of Tortoise and Oval. But, in recent years, Thrill Jockey has been tilling the extreme left field of heavy music. Acts like Sumac (featuring Vancouver’s Nick Yacyshyn) make post-metal that’s more post than metal. Especially in...
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Audiopile Review: Whenever a fiercely independent shop favourite makes the leap to a well known label, we can’t help but feel a bit of apprehension. Those concerns dissolve almost instantly after hearing the ambient tone poem that opens Maria Somerville’s 4AD debut, Luster. Coming six years after her previous album,...
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Audiopile Review: Whenever a fiercely independent shop favourite makes the leap to a well known label, we can’t help but feel a bit of apprehension. Those concerns dissolve almost instantly after hearing the ambient tone poem that opens Maria Somerville’s 4AD debut, Luster. Coming six years after her previous album,...
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Audiopile Review: Every great artist has a singular moment when they produce something unique and unrepeatable. Arthur Russell clearly knew this, as he never even tried to recapture the magic unleashed by 1987’s ‘World of Echo’. Using voice and processed cello, Russell pulled nine-dimensional song structures from that ethereal zone...
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Audiopile Review: Quite chuffed to finally see an attainable pressing of Pink Siifu’s 2019 collab with Yungmorpheus arrive in the shop, an album that was initially issued as one of those expensive Bandcamp-only-releases-that-sells-out-in-5-minutes releases that have been plaguing underground hip-hop releases the past few years. Sour grapes aside, we’re just...
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Audiopile Review: While the ECM label has come back into fashion recently, there are still common misconceptions about Manfred Eicher’s legendary labour of love. These often centre on an oversimplified view of ECM’s trajectory. That would go something like: avant-garde 70s, new-age 80s, jazz-school everything else. But it’s ridiculous to...
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Audiopile Review: Detouring from his usual dour jangle fair, Bobby Would turn in a metaphysical drone album for his newest on Digital Regress. While a sizeable move away from the “fog pop” that we’ve come to know him by, it also isn’t coming entirely out of leftfield. Originally recorded live...
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Audiopile Review: Philly’s King Blood makes an unexpected but fully welcome return, landing once again on his hometown imprint Petty Bunco (Emily Robb, Astute Palate, David Nance) for his first album since 2019’s Hocus Focus. We probably first stumbled across King Blood back in 2010, the deep digging folks over...
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Audiopile Review: Portland’s Paul Dickow, aka Strategy, is one of the most underappreciated electronic music artists of our age. We once saw him inexplicably clear a room at the New Forms Festival with a set of mind-bending (but, honestly, not that imposing) abstract dub. Truth is, Dickow’s angle on a...
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Audiopile Review: After months of waiting patiently, we’ve finally got copies of CINE, last year’s collab between Cavalier & Child Actor issued on Backwoodz. If you’ve been tracking the Backwoodz family tree, both of these names ought to be familiar to you at this point—Cavalier’s been a frequent scene stealer...
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Audiopile Review: Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus are generally given credit for inventing dub techno under their duo aliases Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. But it was as curators of the Chain Reaction label that they really designed the template for what dub techno would become. Like everything...
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Audiopile Review: Vancouver’s Jamison Isaak takes a break from his regular duties as the in-demand producer and remixer Teen Daze, circling back to his Pacific Coliseum guise after a lengthy hiatus. Pacific Coliseum first caught our attention almost a decade back with Ocean City, his debut cassette released at the...
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