Indie Rock
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Audiopile Review: After gifting the world ML Buch’s 2024 breakthrough, the decade-defining Suntub, Copenhagen’s 15 Love imprint return with the debut LP from Raisa K, who might be best known as a member of odd-pop phenoms Micachu & The Shapes, (currently going by Good Sad Happy Bad). Affectionately...
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Audiopile Review: Somehow missed this Norwegian duo’s debut on XL four years back, but a new album on Escho, who are now required listening ‘round here, is one way to catch our attention. Indeed, the Copenhagen label has had their finger on the pulse of the underground alterna-pop scene of...
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"Interpolating the 'Twin Peaks' theme on the title track, Silva knows exactly what she's doing with her latest solo project. Her understanding of the politics of Americana - and the country industry in general - is baked into her art, and you shouldn't overlook the fact that 'Tinker Bell's Cough'...
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Brazilian-born, L.A.-based Gabriel da Rosa is a bossa nova and samba artist who puts his own twist on traditional Brazilian music. Cacofonia, his second LP, celebrates his Brazilian heritage with an L.A. touch. After the release of his debut record É o que a casa oferece in 2023, Gabriel went...
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Monkey 101 is a lo-fi noise rock band from Philadelphia. They achieved instant cult status with their 1990 7” single “French Feelings” and “Now That You Have Left Me” released on Philly indie label Siltbreeze Records. Monkey 101 released one additional 7” EP culled from a full album’s worth of...
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Following it’s surprise digital release, Sigur Rós’ first new studio album in ten years, ÁTTA, is their most intimate and emotionally direct record to date. Few bands cut through the noise and distractions of the world to bring you a pure elemental truth or feeling like Sigur Rós. As you...
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Available for the first time in over a decade, the 30th Anniversary Edition of Slip was completely remastered for vinyl using the original 1993 master tapes and includes bonus track "How Soon is Now?". The jacket artwork was reconstructed using original art elements and color improvements. Complete with several limited...
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"In 2021 Douglas Dulgarian of the band TAGABOW issued the very first cassette release on his brand new label project Julia’s War Recordings. It was a collaborative EP by friends Jake and Karly called Guttering, issued under their pseudonyms MJ Lenderman & Wednesday. Upon it’s initial release, Stereogum put it...
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Ty hits the big sky trail of our good ol’ frontier empire, discovering non-stop bangers and inspired new sonics around every bend. With lyrics co-written by longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, Ty's glittering rhythm arrangements move with fresh scansion, inviting in sweeps of strings and horns to further the charge...
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Hailed as a “quiet masterpiece” upon release, Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out proposed a radical new future for rock music. Released at a time when the music industry was changing dramatically thanks to the rise of online file sharing, it suggested that the only way for...
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With Universal Mother, Sinead O'Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix. Released in the winter of 1994, Universal Mother was the first recorded work from O'Connor since her duo of protests in 1992 (Saturday Night Live, Madison Square Garden). The...
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Now You're One of Us is the definitive statement about Redd Kross, an in-depth and riveting tale told in the voices of the talented and tempestuous brothers at the core of this iconic outfit. Emerging from humble beginnings in suburban Los Angeles, the McDonalds took their rock n' roll fantasy...
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U.S. Maple's first album, before they fell all apart on "Sang Phat Editor". This is the album that "rocks". Disjointed machinations, Poppy locksteps and jarring sideways excursions all leading down a path to nowhere's-ville. Engineered by Jim O'Rourke with a cold. In high school, the members of U.S. Maple never...
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“This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for almost 24 years. How did that happen? Well: when we started touring again in 2023, we practiced a new song called “Hymn of the North” during soundchecks & eventually played it at...
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One of three new improv albums from John Dwyer and an cast of crack LA-based musicans from the Osees universe. Bent Arcana / Moon Drenched Session was recorded live and mixed by Dwyer at Stu-Stu-Studio, December 2019. Features John Dwyer (guitar, synthesizers, hand percussion, tape loops, cuica, and vocals), Ryan...
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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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