Indie Rock
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Cross Record’s new album, Crush Me, is steeped in the pressures and wonders of existence—a profound statement, especially coming from artist and death doula Emily Cross. A two-and-a-half-year gestation period offered challenges, disappointments, and joys reflected in the cramped space of the album, which explores how we handle the weights...
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Anika channels her frustration, anger, and confusion with the world into her third album, Abyss. Recorded live to tape at Berlin's legendary Hansa Studios, the album captures raw energy with minimal overdubs, resulting in a visceral and urgent 10-track journey fueled by intense emotions. The recording process, done in just...
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The jaded daughter of a dead preacher-man caught in an exodus, Ethel Cain winds her way through a dizzying attempt at escape from her suffocating upbringing only to find herself crushed within its jaws in the end. Hayden Anhedönia, the woman behind the curtain, serves as the architect for the...
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On her first album of alt-pop anthems - 2022’s gorgeous, folk-infused When I’m Alone - girlpuppy (neé Becca Harvey) often felt like she was working in the shadow of her collaborators. Made on the other side of a relationship where she often felt marginalized, Sweetness felt like the right project...
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Charlie Megira’s self-reflexive final album found him far from his Beth She’an Valley home and surrounded by a new cast of Hillbillies. After spending 15 years toying with goth, sound collage, grunge, and dark wave, Boom Chaka Boom Boom is a sprawling mix of plunking country blues, Black Lodge terror,...
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The long-awaited new record was produced by James Ford (Fontaines D.C., Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Blur) and sees Black Country, New Road settled into a new shape in which vocal duties – and most of the song writing – is split between Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery, and May Kershaw. “It...
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Widely regarded as “one of the best songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone), Lucy Dacus returns with Forever Is A Feeling. Following a career defining run with boygenius that earned her three Grammy® Awards, her fourth solo studio album explores falling in and out of love, the tumult of desire,...
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The sounds, songs, and passages within Power Sucker are the very reason that Young Widows are still a band after an 11-year creative pause; they remain masters at making music with equal parts sonic and emotional weight. Young Widows have inspired scores of underground artists across the globe with their...
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First vinyl reissue for this rare and sought after LP originally released by C/Z Records in 1985, featuring Green River, Melvins, Malfunkshun, Skin Yard, Soundgarden and U-Men. Limited edition of 500 copies!...
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"Donald Duck, kill Minnie!" These words, ordered with urgency against a circular series of drum strikes and manipulated guitar/electronic textures, come over three fourths of the way through the album known as SYR 5 (aka "Olive's Horn"). While the words and sounds taken on their own may shock, their appearance...
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On Chrystia Cabral’s fourth album as SPELLLING, the Bay Area artist transforms her acclaimed avant-pop project into a mirror. Cabral’s lyrics for Portrait of My Heart tackle love, intimacy, anxiety, and alienation, trading the allegorical approach of much of her previous work for something pointed into her human heart. The...
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Bowing out at their creative peak, Perfect Teeth is the wonderful final album by American 90s indie rock greats Unrest. Having just clocked 30 years, 4AD and the band are revisiting it to present the limited, celebratory double album of Perfect Teeth + Extra Teeth; the album remastered plus a...
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The second Silver Mt Zion album featured an expanded band, with a similarly expanded band name. The addition of cello, second violin and second guitar allowed SMZ to develop richer, denser arrangements while preserving live ensemble playing. The opening instrumental pieces picked up where the debut left off, with found-sound...
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The Magnetic Fields’ first two albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, make their debut appearance on vinyl, packaged together as a two-LP set. Distant Plastic Trees, the Magnetic Fields’ first album, was originally released in England and Japan in 1991. Merritt’s accordion player, the novelist Daniel Handler, later...
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'Glory' has a pristine surface and a tender, roiling underside. Mike Hadreas’ seventh album is muscular, filled out by his partner in life and songcraft Alan Wyffels and longtime producer Blake Mills alongside the fiercest band Perfume Genius has ever assembled: guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr...
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The band Unknown Mortal Orchestra sometimes enjoys making purely instrumental music. In addition to the vocal-based records they’re more well-known for, they’ve also begun to make an instrumental series called the IC where they spend time in a chosen city and improvise and collaborate on non-vocal music. Recently...
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For the first time on vinyl, Yo La Tengo’s understated, lonesome score to Kelly Reichardt’s classic “Old Joy.” Recorded in a single afternoon at Yo La Tengo’s studio in Hoboken, Old Joy is a drifting, improvisatory journey, born out of years-long friendship between the band and the film’s director. The...
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Yukimi, the celebrated vocalist and co-founder of Grammy-nominated outfit Little Dragon, announces the release of her debut album For You, which is set for release on March 28th on Ninja Tune. Alongside the album announcement, Yukimi shares two new singles, “Sad Makeup” and “Winter Is Not Dead,” both reflecting Yukimi’s...
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In June 1990, Kramer and Dean Wareham made Galaxie 500’s final album, This Is Our Music. “Things were tense in the band,” recalls Dean, “but there were exciting moments too. Kramer would suggest things like playing up high on the neck for ‘Fourth of July.’ I also remember taking a...
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Dan’s Boogie is, in true Destroyer fashion, a contradiction: a breakthrough album for Dan Bejar that began its life as a disappearing act and, as such, does things no Destroyer album to this point has ever done. Its nine songs imagine Bejar as a lounge singer, a hustler, and, at...
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Lonely People With Power is the metal band’s follow-up to 2021’s Infinite Granite, with Justin Meldal-Johnsen returning as producer. It’s Deafheaven’s first album for Roadrunner Records; their previous albums arrived via Deathwish, Anti-, and Sargent House. The band - featuring vocalist George Clarke, guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra, bassist...
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'Dreamstate’ is Kelly Lee Owens fourth studio album, due to be released on the 18th October at new label home dh2. There’s an incredible feeling of freedom and escapism found throughout Kelly’s upcoming album ‘Dreamstate’. It’s the sound of a person letting loose and letting go while encouraging everyone else...
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Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin began their musical journey together over 10 years ago in a Miami after-school music program. Connecting through their shared music tastes, the two formed a band that endured until the two parted ways for college. Not long afterward, Tenenbaum and Lewin reconnected and formed what...
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The Smile have today announced two new remixes of tracks from their critically acclaimed third album CUTOUTS, from James Holden and Robert Stillman. The remixes will also be released as a limited edition AA side 12-inch on 28th March. Stanley Donwood’s sleeve design pays tribute to XL Recordings’ signature housebag...
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Recorded by Adam Kasper (Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam) and released in 2003, You Are Free was Chan Marshall's first record of original material in five years since 1998’s Moon Pix. Fascinated with American music, as heard through her covers of songs by Dylan, Nina Simone,...
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With Kaputt, Dan Bejar unveils the latest chapter in the ever-evolving musical adventure that is Destroyer. The song "Bay of Pigs" inspired Pitchfork to declare Bejar "a songwriter of the highest order." Kaputt also includes ruminations on American communism,...
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Japanese Breakfast's 'Soft Sounds From Another Planet' is less of a concept album about space exploration so much as it is a mood board come to life. Over the course of 12 tracks, Michelle Zauner explores a sonic landscape of her own design, one that's big enough to...
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Six Feet beneath The Moon is the long-anticipated debut album from Southeast London’s King Krule. Archy Marshall, aka King Krule, broke out at the tender age of 16 with his eponymous EP released on True Panther. Six Feet Beneath The Moon takes the potential evident in the EP and blows...
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The last widely available Hood album was 2005’s critically acclaimed Outside Closer on Domino Records but the Leeds post-rockers actually released a later collection of songs entitled The Hood Tapes. This was presented at the time as a tour-only CD available at their final burst of shows and later part...
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Colored vinyl repress of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's self-released 2005 debut! Man, I forgot how much I listened to this album when it first came out. Hard to believe it's been more than a decade since those sun filled days driving around Northern California. Here's what the mgmnt had...
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Audiopile Review: It’s weird when a significant (or just plain famous) artist has their greatest impact with a side project. In the UK, Damon Albarn is a household name for being singer with Britpop titans Blur. But internationally, he’s had more influence and commercial success with whatever Gorillaz is supposed...
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Continuing much of the instrumental, musically dense partnership of Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille in the 80s and 90s, Crucible stands out as a clear highlight in the pair's musical partnership, despite the music not featuring the pair performing together. Full of Connor's beautifully droning walls of sound, and Langille...
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Japanese Breakfast's fourth studio album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), retreats from the poppy optimism of the group's 2021 breakthrough, Jubilee, and moves toward a mood similar to the comforting sadness of 2017's Soft Sounds from Another Planet. The album's production is imbued with a rich sense of depth...
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Lyrical polymath and spoken-word extraordinaire Emmeline blends genres and influences on this DVDinspired mixtape, released by Lewis Recordings. Citing both the ‘dark stream of consciousness’ and ‘early influence of film, music, and literature’ on her creativity, West-Yorkshire born Emmeline takes us through a musical and visual journey, of navigating her...
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Beginning with 2023’s One Day, and then Another Day, Someday is the third in a planned four-part project, as ambitious in scope as the Polaris Prize-winning The Chemistry of Common Life or 2014’s criminally underrated Glass Boys. With a fluidity that can only come from a quarter-century of work, the...
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In the Fall of 2022, Phil Cook suddenly found himself living alone in a small home at the edge of field and forest in North Carolina’s Piedmont. For most of Cook’s four decades, he had resided near the hearts of the midsized Southern cities and Wisconsin towns he had called...
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recorded at relax and enjoy (london) and dfa (nyc) produced and mixed by james murphy for the dfa engineered by al doyle and james crump (london) / korey richey and pablo morales (nyc) mastered and cut by bob weston at chicago mastering service cover photo by stephen nebesney 1987 pressed...
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Three songs by Lungfish, released in 1995. This pressing of the 7"s is on cherry red vinyl. Daniel Higgs: vocals. Asa Osborne: guitar. John Chriest: bass. Mitchell Feldstein: drums....
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For more than 25 years, My Morning Jacket have achieved an incredibly rare feat in the world of rock & roll, upholding a long-established cultural legacy while sustaining all the curiosity and creative hunger of their very earliest days. In a monumental step for the Louisville-bred five-piece—vocalist/guitarist Jim James, bassist...
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'Negative Spaces' continues the sonic adventurism of this spring’s diamond-radiant industrial anthem “New Way Out,” with Poppy and producer Jordan Fish (ex-Bring Me the Horizon). It’s the thrilling sound of an ever-evolving artist redefining their legacy one song at a time, with a welcome understanding that there’s still so much...
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World of Echo are pleased to announce the release of Gone By Fall – The Collected Works of The Shapiros, a 12-song compilation by a here today, gone tomorrow pop group formed by Pam Berry (Black Tambourine, The Pines, Glo-worm, Castaway Stones, Belmondo, etc.) and Bart Cummings (The Cat’s Miaow,...
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Recordings present the reissue of The Radio Dept's iconic debut LP "Lesser Matters". Originally released in 2003, it's Swedish dream pop of the highest order. Across the album's 13 tracks, the band use delicate song writing and distorted white noise in equal measure to dramatic effect, "all I hear is...
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Vinyl re-issue of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, third album, originally released in 1993. This album brought blues-rock into the alternative era. On its second full-length release, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion lives up to its name. Merging blues with the post-grunge angst of Sonic Youth or Mudhoney and a...
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Swim is the record Caribou mastermind Dan Snaith has wanted to bring to fruition for as long as he has been making music. A mathematics scholar and an ingenious multi-instrumentalist/composer, he surprised critics and fans with 2007's Andorra, a brilliant, electro-tinged pop breakthrough with a timeless grace that made most...
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Released on 180 gram black vinyl. Deluxe gatefold with printed inner sleeves. 2007 release -- originally released in 1995. Redolent with the spirit of such high priests of effects and delay as Loop, Spaceman 3, and My Bloody Valentine, not to mention a fair dollop of the Jesus And Mary...
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Originally released in 2001. Bravery, Repetition and Noise is a dark, dreamy album, rich in atmosphere, layered in waves of sound. The album's antecedents are clear, inspired by psychedelia as they were by punk's nihilism, pulling both strands into a doom-laden, experimental sound quite distinct from anything that had come...
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Audiopile Review: Fresh new release from the ever-fruitful Gothenburg scene, JJULIUS returns with Vol. 3, an accessible entry point into his canon and the larger GBG landscape. While still rooted in the minimal post-punk aesthetic we've come to expect from him, Vol. 3 veers into a brighter and, dare we...
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Audiopile Review: With releases from Nourished By Time, Vanessa Bedoret and Mark William Lewis under their belt, UK imprint Scenic Route continue to wow, this time offering up the debut full length from Marina Zispin, the duo of Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid. While Reid might be a new name...
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