Indie Rock
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In the late 1980's, Kramer brought Daniel Johnston into his Noise New York recording studio and produced the LP that remains - to this day - his masterpiece; "1990". Prior to these recordings (his very first in a "professional" studio), Daniel was an underground/'outsider' artist with an extraordinary catalog of...
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In the swirl of kaleidoscopic recordings that is Spacemen 3's discography, Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To occupies a pivotal position – one at the nexus between their garage beginnings and expansionist future. Spacemen 3 capture the inspired spark of mid-'80s psychedelia, offering a distinct variation on...
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Audiopile Review: The original UK post-rock scene was largely based in London, but it had outposts in Birmingham (Broadcast, Pram, Scorn) and Glasgow (Mogwai, Long Fin Killie). A scene also developed in Bristol, and it was a scene that clearly reflected that city’s fierce independence from the capital. Bristol post-rock...
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Audiopile Review: While its been almost a decade since their last album proper, Shearing Pinx, the Nanaimo-via-Vancouver DIY lifers, awaken from a slumber with one of their most invigorating and potent full lengths since they spawned from the pot-holed alleys East Vancouver almost two decades back. The group, which still...
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The concept for and palette of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s ‘Paradise Gardens’ trilogy first germinated in 2016 as a notion of “paradise music” combining new age, bedroom shoegaze, and bossa nova into “transcendental Tropicalia.” As she filled tapes of recordings exploring the idea, many of the songs gradually gravitated...
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Back in 1997, DAVID PAJO was a little over a half decade removed from the future sensation known as SLINT. Their second album had been released in 1991 when the band themselves were already defunct. During the next five years, David worked with PALACE BROTHERS, KING KONG TORTOISE, THE FOR...
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'Artistic Vice' was the first album on which Daniel Johnston fronted a band. This album is a testament to Johnston';s own innate musicality that the songs lend themselves so perfectly to the casual accompaniment heard here. They can shift easily from quiet country balladry to punkish rave ups. As always,...
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Since forming in 2000, toe have synthesized everything from pop, post- and math-rock, jazz, R&B, and electronic into one of the most distinct sounds in rock music. Their debut LP the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety (2005) left an unmistakable imprint across the splintered worlds of...
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Panda Bear, the solo moniker of Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox, is set to release his latest full-length album, Sinister Grift, on February 28, 2025, via Domino. Recorded at Lennox’s Estudio Campo in Lisbon, the album marks a reunion with longtime collaborator and Animal Collective bandmate Josh Dibb (a.k.a. Deakin), who...
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Beneath the technical flash, the fury, the fearless creative brinkmanship of the first two Mars Volta albums lay a potent seam of the blues, an existential vexation that powered every twist and turn of Omar and Cedric’s imaginations. That mournful vibe would come to the surface of the group’s third...
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The music of THE BEDLAM IN GOLIATH is seething, infernal stuff, their most intense, most heavily-loaded work yet, finally even leading to Band’s first recognition from the Recording Academy by WAX SIMULACRA winning a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. An album at once muscular and inventive, an album given...
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2002's TREMULANT EP had much to accomplish within its three tracks and 19 minutes: to define the group’s ambitions and their possibilities, to sketch out a limitless horizon for their future adventures. The EP’s genre-emulsifying sprawl, segueing from splenetic punk-salsa pell-mell to meditative, dubbed-out drum machine symphonies with unerring confidence,...
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Songs ’94-’98 is a smart selection of material from The Cat’s Miaow, an Australian indie-pop group that gifted their decade with some of its finest songs. Released on World Of Echo, the album draws from the group’s string of excellent seven-inch singles, a small clutch of compilation contributions, and features...
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Audiopile Review: Coming not long after introducing the world to Nourished By Time, as well as hipping us to ML Buch & Astrid Sonne collaborator Vanessa Bedoret, London’s Scenic Route combine a pair of digital-only EPs from Mark William Lewis for this single LP, notably raising the profile of one...
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Audiopile Review: How does our relationship with art change as we age? Does it act as an anchor to our past, or a rope guiding us into the future? Ontario based musician and painter Andre Ethier returns with his fifth long play on Toronto mainstay Telephone Explosion records, with instrumentation...
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The first new music from the post-emo trio in two decades. Out of the brain of Geoff Farina spills 10 new tales from their unlikely reunion, tracked with long-time Karate collaborator Andy Hong. Make It Fit crams 35 minutes of Wes Montgomery homage, Fugazi dub plate party rocking, Lynott lyricism,...
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Sleaford Mods are pleased to announce the release of their cover of the Pet Shop Boys’ iconic single “West End Girls”, with all profits from the track going to the homeless charity Shelter. The Nottingham duo created a version of the 1986 classic between tours for their latest album UK...
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The music of LA-based Sudanese-American artist Dua Saleh (they/them) explores the inner self and the world at large. With their long-awaited full-length debut, a collection of R&B-infused electronic indie-pop songs titled I SHOULD CALL THEM, they portray the spiritual power, resilience, and joy of love. Equal parts imaginative and lived-through,...
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For her third album Quiet Signs, Jessica Pratt offers up nine spare, beautiful & mysterious songs that feel like the culmination of her work to date. "Fare Thee Well" and "Poly Blue" retain glimmers of On Your Own Love Again's hazy day spells, but delicate arrangements for piano, flute, organ...
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An ocean of water has passed under the Zero 7 bridge since we originally issued this collection of music. In 2002, when this was first issued, they’d recently been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for their brilliant debut album, Simple Things, as well as being a nominee for Best...
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The original cream of the singles crop from the Palace of Brothers, Songs and Music—covering the terrain from “Ohio River Boat Song” to “West Palm Beach,” and adding alternate takes of “Riding” and “Trudy Dies,” a live version of Hope’s “Untitled,” and this album’s title track, which doesn’t appear in...
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The Jesus Lizard have returned with Rack, their first record since 1998. The album features 11 tracks of brisk guitar rock you haven’t heard since… the last time the Jesus Lizard took over a stage in your town. the Jesus Lizard — vocalist David Yow, guitarist Duane...
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The follow up to toe's 2012 EP 'The Future Is Now', this album sees the band continue to grow and push their sound in exciting new directions. Die-cut jacket/printed inner sleeve. FFO: Mono, Envy, Russian Circles
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Indie Exclusive * First time on colored vinyl * TRST, the debut self-titled record from Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski, features tales of lust, wax, and erotomania carried along on a dense black vapor of speed, space and tears. TRST's "malevolent, sexy synth-pop" (Pitchfork) erupted out of Toronto's fertile underground...
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The Smile – Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner – return with their third album ‘Cutouts’. The 10-track album was produced and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies [Frank Ocean ‘Blond’, Thom Yorke ‘Suspiria’],...
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The Smile – Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner – return with their third album ‘Cutouts’. The 10-track album was produced and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies [Frank Ocean ‘Blond’, Thom Yorke ‘Suspiria’],...
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THE PLAIN TRUTH== we drifted through it, arguing. every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom. we sat down together and wrote it in one room, and then sat down in a different room, recording. NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context?...
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Audiopile Review: The bittersweet final piece of the Broadcast story has arrived, which follows on from the revealing Spell Blanket, an archival survey of demos and unreleased material covering their 2006-2009 period. Distant Call precedes that, covering demo recordings made during the run from HaHa Sound, Future Crayon and Tender...
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Alan Sparhawk has always been a prolific, protean musician. A restless soul eager to explore unfamiliar sonic and psychic terrain. Though he’s obviously (and justifiably) best-known for his thirty years as frontman of the legendary band Low, a look at Sparhawk’s many side projects across that same span of time...
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Audiopile Review: If you haven’t been following Thurston Moore’s solo career, you might be surprised by how many truly wonderful song-based albums he’s made. It’s hard to name another member of a legendary rock band who has made such an exceptional string of solo LPs. “What about the godlike Peter...
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Emmett Kelly, a songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist best known for his work in The Cairo Gang and The Double, as well as in the company of artists such as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Ty Segall, Rob Mazurek, and many more. Stephen Malkmus, a songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist best known for his...
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There’s a dance, and on occasion a place to go dancing, where we while away the inevitable in the distinct hopes that we can better embrace what’s left of clocks that only run one way. You see, time is the issue and the issue is all about doing a dance...
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Geordie Greep (guitarist and vocalist in black midi) presents his debut solo album, "The New Sound", arriving via Rough Trade. Following three astonishing albums with black midi, most recently 2023's "Hellfire", and almost non-stop worldwide tours for near-on 5 years, this 11-track double LP boasts a brand of high quality,...
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Sung Tongs is Animal Collective’s fifth studio album originally released in 2004 and features Avey Tare and Panda Bear. For its 20th anniversary, the 2xLP has been pressed on color vinyl for the first time, Canary and Ruby, and is housed in a gatefold jacket. In their Sung Tongs...
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Twenty years ago, mclusky released their third album, The Difference Between Me and You Is That I"m Not On Fire via Too Pure. In the years since, their legend has only grown, proved by their recent sold-out tour dates. Alternative Press described them as "a smash up between the scabrous...
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Audiopile Review: Long awaited first-time reissue of this cult classic GBV mega rarity, which was initially issued on Pollard’s own Rockathon imprint in a mail-order only edition of 1000, with used copies averaging $500 when they surface. This incarnation of GBV consisted solely of the duo of Pollard (of course)...
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Audiopile Review: Music From Memory continue their 2024 hot streak with the debut album from Total Blue, a new trio consisting of Alex Talan and Anthony Calonico and Nicky Benedek, the latter of whom is best known simply as Benedek. If you’re already familiar with Benedek’s various output of the...
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Audiopile Review: There’s no doubt that Galaxie 500 has a huge legacy. Obviously, Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski, and Naomi Yang have all gone on to have notable careers. But it’s the group’s immeasurably significant contribution to the dreampop and slowcore genres that we’re talking about here. Like a lot of...
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Audiopile Review: There’s no doubt that Galaxie 500 has a huge legacy. Obviously, Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski, and Naomi Yang have all gone on to have notable careers. But it’s the group’s immeasurably significant contribution to the dreampop and slowcore genres that we’re talking about here. Like a lot of...
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Audiopile Review: The post-rock genre has three distinct phases. First, electronically enhanced 90s UK indie groups like Disco Inferno. Second, more cerebral instrumental groups from the US, like Tortoise. And more recently, epically atmospheric groups in the Godspeed You! Black Emperor mould. If one band effortlessly bridges all three phases,...
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Audiopile Review: The post-rock genre has three distinct phases. First, electronically enhanced 90s UK indie groups like Disco Inferno. Second, more cerebral instrumental groups from the US, like Tortoise. And more recently, epically atmospheric groups in the Godspeed You! Black Emperor mould. If one band effortlessly bridges all three phases,...
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Audiopile Review: Here they come, la-la-la-la-la, the square-peg punks. But who are the square peg punks? Think of Alternative TV, whose early career trajectory mirrored that of The Fall before a lurch into extreme post-industrial weirdness. Or Subway Sect, a mod-revival group simply too quixotic and bloody-minded to ever become...
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“New Internationale” is the Brainfeeder debut by Kit Sebastian – purveyors of stunning, contemporary music that fuses Anatolian Psychedelia, Brazilian Tropicalia, 60’s European pop and American jazz. The London-based duo weave a psychedelic tapestry of global influences, vintage synths and melancholy élan from the beaches of Bahia to the streets...
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Skinshape (aka Will Dorey) today announces details of his forthcoming ninth studio album titled Another Side Of Skinshape, out on the 27th September via Lewis Recordings. As the album title suggests, Dorey’s latest body of work is somewhat unlike anything in his prior discography. However, there is always a consistent...
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Audiopile Review: After a pair of self-released cassettes, Detroit duo Clinic Stars make the big leap over to Kranky for their debut proper, marking only the third new act to appear on the label over the past four years. A new act on Kranky is sure to draw the ear...
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Audiopile Review: In the early 2000s, P:ano was a gentle but irresistible force to be reckoned with. Formed in Coquitlam by Nicholas Krgovich (now a sophisti-pop cult figure in his own right) with his school friend Larissa ‘Kellarissa’ Loyva, the group was quickly embraced by Vancouver’s music scene. It’s no...
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Nine years on from the release of his seminal GRAMMY, BRIT, Ivor Novello and Mercury Music Prize-nominated debut album In Colour, London musician, DJ and producer Jamie xx announces his long-awaited second album In Waves. Across 12 tracks including "Baddy On The Floor" and "Treat Each Other Right", his joyous...
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Orange color vinyl. Three Quarter Skies -- the new band formed by Simon Scott from Slowdive -- present their debut album Fade In. It was recorded by Simon and mixed with the help of elusive Flying Saucer Attack mainman Dave Pearce. The eight-track album includes the singles "Crows" and "Leave...
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