Indie Rock
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Audiopile Review: Charlotte Marionneau aka Le Volume Courbe is a UK indie legend, despite being French and largely unknown. For those who do know, she’s mostly associated with the Creation Records milieu, especially My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream. She has also worked with Piano Magic and that most foundational...
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Audiopile Review: Chicago trio Lifeguard return to indie-rock stable Matador with Ripped & Torn, which, after five years of various singles, EPs and a comp, stands in as essentially their first proper full length. While the band’s initial set of EPs and singles hadn’t totally clicked with us, we did...
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SWANS announce their seventeenth studio album, Birthing, due for release on May 30, 2025. Birthing will be released on triple vinyl in a brown chipboard sleeve, double CD (in a brown chipboard digi-pack), and digitally. Initial pressings of the 3LP and 2CD editions will come with a bonus DVD featuring...
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Building on 2024’s Hopscotch Fever, Cincinnati’s Artificial Go return with ten more tracks of existential post-punk chamber pop. Recorded at Lambda Research and the haunted attic of the band’s house, the core trio of Angie Willcutt, Micah Wu, and Cole Gilfilen have traded the sparse jangle of their debut for...
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"I first encountered the Gotobeds in August 2014, at a benefit for the great rock bard Karl Hendricks in their mutual hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Gotobeds went on fashionably (if not voluntarily) late and proceeded to lay waste to anything else anyone tried to do that evening. I took...
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"Living Dream arrived on the scene just when we needed them, diversifying the contemporary DIY underground with ripping, kaleidoscopic guitar pop. With Absolute Devotion comes a step up in production and an articulated vision for the band on display, leaning into a triumphant darkness teased in their understated 2023 self-titled...
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On April 4th, Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Penelope Trappes will release her fifth full-length album ‘A Requiem’. The LP collects ten haunting, ambient soundscapes - incantations of dreams and nightmares, of death and grief, as well as power and autonomy. Carnal, transcendent cello drones are used to exorcise...
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Turnstile release their eagerly awaited new album Never Enough, marking their first full-length release in four years. Recorded between Los Angeles and their homes in Baltimore, Never Enough is produced by Turnstile's Brendan Yates. The expansive collection is a restless and exhilarating evolution of the band’s genre-defying sound. A transformative...
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Emerging from the Minneapolis underground and heading straight towards the sky, IE arrive on Quindi with a full-length album of sparkling, sophisticated wonder. Touching on kosmische grandeur, Riley-esque cyclical patterns, lounge pop and dubbed out psychedelia, the five-piece allow their songs to unfurl with a natural, hypnotic elegance which can...
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Texas-born and Oklahoma City-based fingerstyle guitarist Hayden Pedigo announces his remarkable and genre-defying new album I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away, out via Mexican Summer. Since the release of his 2023 record, The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored, Pedigo earned widespread critical acclaim, performed a stunning NPR Tiny Desk...
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Featuring William Smith (Cindy), Hannah Forrester (Thunder Boys), and Oli Lipton (Cindy, Violent Change.) Now is a DIY recording & performing pop group from the SF Bay Area with a predilection for 80s UK cassette culture, pulp novels, beat groups, glamour, and b movies. Shattered to perfection. Recorded and produced...
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Returning with 'caroline 2', the eight-piece collective embrace a bolder, more expansive sound. Going beyond their debut's explorations of repetition, slowness and space, the new album pushes further into dynamic contrasts — organic and electronic, raw and refined. Launched with the striking single ‘Tell me I never knew that’, featuring...
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Over and through the hot cement of North East L.A., an almost-dry riverbed winds like a snake through the city. Coyotes lap at its trickling stream by moonlight, as pedestrians rush past it by day without a second glance, their thoughts tangled up in the distractions of life in a...
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Originally released in the summer of 1994 at the height of interest in the US underground rock scene, Without A Sound was Dinosaur Jr’s sixth album, and their third major label offering. Recorded by the then two-piece band (Mike Johnson on bass and vocals, J Mascis performing everything else himself,...
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Originally released in 1996 on Quarterstick Records, Music for Egon Schiele is the soundtrack to a piece of dance and theater that was debuted by the Itinerant Theater Guild, May 18, 1995, in Chicago. Based on the life of the romantic and controversial Viennese painter, Egon Schiele was written and...
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The Oh Sees wasted no time in racing headlong into nightmarish battle with the mighty Orc, clawing even farther up the ghastly peak stormed so satisfyingly by their previous A Weird Exits. The band is in tour-greased, anvil-on-a-balance beam, gut-pleasingly heavy form, nimbly braining—with equal dashes of abandon and menace—on...
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Built To Spill took it back with their second album for Warner Brothers. Perhaps they thought that their time on a major label would be short lived, who knows? Whatever the case was, Doug Martsch and co trimmed down the song lengths and embraced the sounds of a big studio...
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Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore’s 1995 solo album 'Psychic Hearts', is available again in a deluxe double-LP vinyl edition on the band’s own Goofin’ label. Realized right after SY's post-'Dirty' comedown-simmer of 'Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star', Thurston along with Steve Shelley on drums and Tim Foljahn on...
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Audiopile Review: Cuneiform Tabs, the cross-continental duo of Matt Bleyle and Sterling Mackinnon, shake off most of the buzzy coating of their debut from last year in favour of letting melodies bleed through the haze. Still trading their recordings back and forth across the pond, the duo are a little...
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Audiopile Review: Special one here for the Bardo Pond acolytes, their tremendous Volume 4 and 5 coming to vinyl for the first time, both initially released as CDr and pretty much only available direct from the band. For those just tuning in, their ongoing Volume series are comprised of freeform...
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Audiopile Review: Singaporean singer/producer Yeule strikes a major breakthrough on their stridently trip-hop afflicted fourth album, shifting away from the glitched hyper-pop that they’d been solidifying and that landed them a plum spot on the Ninja Tune roster. Siphoning the pop essence of 90s chill out acts like Lamb, Sneaker...
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Repress of the Shivering King And Others double album by Dead Meadow. Shivering King and Others is the third album of Washington, D.C. based band Dead Meadow....
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Recorded at both a haunted rural Indiana farmhouse, and at LA’s Sunset Sound (in the studio where many of the tracks for Led Zeppelin IV were laid down), Jason Simon continued his reign as a modern-day Jimi with 2008’s Old Growth, while the rhythm section recalled the creativity and tension...
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"This is the first Six Organs of Admittance record to be recorded in a studio. No computers were harmed (or used) during the making of this record. Free-jazz sensation Chris Corsano contributes drums with the greatest sympathy. It's a fantastic new album, as just a fraction of a listen will...
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Nina Nastasia’s rare gift of a voice is an intimate, winged presence that is able to either freeze or melt your heart; that can powerfully soar and twist, or brush ultra-gently against you, suddenly summoning goose bumps. Released in 2003 by Touch and Go Records (and out of print for...
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In October of 1999, Nina Nastasia recorded the album that would finally document her well-seeded career as a local singer-songwriter in New York City. It was exemplary of Nastasia’s style, delicate string arrangements, the restrained beauty of her live band, the deceptive simplicity of her voice, and poignant, life-wise lyrics....
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Legendary shoegaze band Chapterhouse will share their first ever recordings on a new EP, White House Demos, released via Sonic Cathedral on May 9.The four tracks were laid down at The White House studio in Weston-super-Mare on January 15, 1989, when the band were only four gigs old. “They were...
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In a daring crossover of genres and eras, British producer and electronic artist Joe Thornalley, known as Vegyn, reimagines Air's iconic 1998 debut album Moon Safari. Vegyn came to prominence thanks to his work with the likes of Frank Ocean and Travis Scott and has made a name for himself...
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Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut, 'Dogsbody,' (Pitchfork Best New Music, Rolling Stone Future 25, NME The Cover), Brooklyn-based quartet Model/Actriz's sophomore album 'Pirouette' lands sexually commanding and righteously diva-esque. 'Pirouette' takes inspiration everywhere from Lady Gaga and Grace Jones to classical ballet and dissonant dance music. Like...
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This is a new limited edition 10" single from Brian Jonestown Massacre, the band's first new recordings for two years .Side A includes "Makes Me Great Again," a whimsical song rooted heavily in psychedelic folk rock -- the way Anton Newcombe does it best. Side B offers the up-tempo "Out...
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New Zealand-born (of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Pākehā descent) and Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, vocalist and visual artist, Sarah Mary Chadwick has announced her ninth studio album Take Me To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? Each of Chadwick's records marks a moment in time. This new collection signals the beginnings...
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Alan Sparhawk of Low follows his acclaimed 2024 album "White Roses, My God" by leaning into the rootsy, folk, and bluegrass-infused stylings of his friends and collaborators, Trampled By Turtles. As friends and mentees of Low's, taken under Sparhawk and Parker's wing from their earliest days as a bar band,...
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Matt Berninger is the vocalist and lyricist for Grammy Award-winning band The National. His songwriting has long garnered praise for its poignant clarity, jagged-edged wit and intimately emotive melodies. His second solo album, Get Sunk, is not an autobiographical album, but the narrator is processing how he became himself. Who...
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Asthmatic Kitty Records celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Carrie & Lowell with an expanded double-LP album that includes seven previously unreleased bonus tracks, a 40-page art book, and a new essay by Sufjan Stevens. The deluxe edition also offers an alternative cover: a full-framed version of the original Polaroid zoomed...
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Mute is excited to announce a new color vinyl repress of M83’s fifth studio album Saturdays = Youth on Yellow double vinyl. Originally released in 2008, Saturdays = Youth features the singles “We Own The Sky,” “Kim & Jessie” and “Graveyard Girl.” It’s a shimmering, nostalgic pop ode to the...
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Instant Holograms On Metal Film is the first Stereolab album in 15 years, featuring 13 new studio recordings. Played by Laetitia Sadier, Tim Gane, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz, with contributions from Cooper Crain and Rob Frye of Bitchin Bajas, Ben LaMar Gay (composer/jazz multi instrumentalist), Holger Zapf...
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Instant Holograms On Metal Film is the first Stereolab album in 15 years, featuring 13 new studio recordings. Played by Laetitia Sadier, Tim Gane, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz, with contributions from Cooper Crain and Rob Frye of Bitchin Bajas, Ben LaMar Gay (composer/jazz multi instrumentalist), Holger Zapf...
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Going belly up, guess it's always a possibility. Following the release of their latest acclaimed record You Never End (Pitchfork, The Quietus, RA) Moin follow up with their latest EP, Belly Up....
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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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The Rising Wave marks the debut collaboration between singer-songwriter Marlene Ribeiro (of psychedelic band GNOD) and electronic producer Shackleton under the name Light-Space Modulator. Ribeiro’s ethereal voice—part singing, part incantation—feels both distant and intimate, humming just behind the horizon. Her experimental soundscapes flow like a streamlined river, intertwining seamlessly with...
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Following the ever-emotive Boo Boo, Toro Y Moi’s new album Outer Peace is a time capsule that captures our relationship to contemporary culture into one comprehensive, sonic package. As both a producer and designer, Bear utilizes abstract sound pairings with recognizable samples for his most pop influenced record to date,...
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A limited-edition Zoetrope vinyl to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Supergrass's #1 debut album, I Should Coco, featuring the original tracklist, including global hit “Alright” and “Caught by the Fuzz.” To mark the anniversary, the band will reunite for an unmissable SOLD-OUT tour in 2025 playing the album in full,...
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The songs of Better Dreaming came to Garbus and Brenner with unusual ease. They asked themselves what would happen if they simply let the songs come out, following any trail they wished - first thought, best thought style. There was a strong desire to move, to make music that would...
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Beggars Arkive will release a limited edition vinyl reissue of Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking on April 18th in the US. Remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road, this special edition comes on Oxblood colored vinyl. Swell, a San Francisco-based indie rock band formed in 1989, quickly...
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Something Soft, the second full-length album by Irish post-punk firebrands M(h)aol, is anything but. From the first note of its propulsive opening track to the distorted cries of its last, Something Soft feels antagonistic to the very concept of softness, sonically and thematically, taking an unapologetic approach to...
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Bleed’s introductory EP Somebody’s Closer was initially self-released by the band through digital platforms in 2021. Despite no physical release at the time, the EP, invoking late ’90s / early ’00s-era alt rock / metal gained the Dallas, Texas-based band a lotta buzz with its gauzy distortion balancing tension and...
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Thalia Zedek’s considerable body of work demonstrates a clarity of vision, a singular performance style, and an expansive range. Her ability to deliver raw emotions through her vivid stories of loss and hope, strife and triumph is unmatched. Zedek has long been a melodic songwriter in a series of heavy...
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