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Audiopile Review: Well known in Japan, Ichiko Aoba’s music took over a decade to break beyond her home country. Ba Da Bing! was the first to release one of her albums domestically, 2021’s Windswept Adan, an album that became a mainstay here in the shop, driven entirely by word of...
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Audiopile Review: The current wave of Canadian sophisti-pop continues to thrive, and Cici Arthur’s debut, Way Through, is perhaps its grandest statement yet. Built around the in-demand vocalist Chris Cummings, his welcoming, emotive voice is accompanied by music from shop fave Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill, best...
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"Groggy, engrossing new work from Ulla under their newly minted U.e. tag, riffing to the sublime on a set of (mostly) acoustic reveries that tap into the kind of smokey vapours favoured by the likes of Vincent Gallo, Voice Actor, Jonnine. Oh aye, it’s a special one. A new year,...
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Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas to mold into what became the revered Psychic(2013) and Spiral (2021). But...
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Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas to mold into what became the revered Psychic(2013) and Spiral (2021). But...
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"Flam" is the 5th album from the ever-triumphant duo of Steve Gunn (guitar) and John Truscinski (drums, synths). They have spent the better part of the last 15 years assembling a singular and expressive discography representing their unique and sympathetic interplay. "Flam" sees the duo branch out and get a...
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Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, today announces news of their third studio album. Temporary will be released on 28th February 2025 via XL Recordings and features an incredible roll call of collaborators including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn,...
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Only five days after releasing "Outer Peace," Chaz posted a photo of a cassette titled “SOUL TRASH V1” on his Instagram with Dropbox link to what appeared to be a mixtape. Later, the post and link were taken down and Soul Trash was released digitally on October 29th, 2019....
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On Sinister Grift, Panda Bear’s first solo album in five years, he has returned with another statement that feels equally cumulative and unprecedented in his catalog. While his solo records have ranged from starkly intimate expressions of grief to colorful, electronic opuses, his music has never before sounded so warm...
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Fire, the debut album by Detroit's Electric Six exploded onto the scene in 2003 and broke dancefloors everywhere. Containing the hit singles "Danger! High Voltage!" with rumored backing vocals by Jack White, and the iconic "Gay Bar", the album celebrates its 21st anniversary this year. As part of the...
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Singing black-lit liturgies of bog bodies caked in mud, entranced by nocturnal landscapes flickering in the moon-glow and powered by queer enchantment, Tristwch y Fenywod are a Welsh-language gothic avant-rock power-coven. Exhumed from the depths of Leeds’ experimental underground, the trio consist of Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop),...
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Marie Davidson details her sixth studio album City of Clowns, made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau (Essaie pas, L’Œil Nu, Feu St-Antoine) out 28th February 2025, via Soulwax’s own DEEWEE label. Arriving alongside the announcement, Davidson shares “Sexy Clown", a track exploring Davidson’s conflicted feelings around her treatment...
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Magdalena Bay's first EP for Luminelle, 2020's A Little Rhythm and a Wicked Feeling, is full of electro-pop gems from the Los Angeles duo, who released their fantastic debut, Mercurial World in 2021.
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On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by...
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On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane,...
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On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without...
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Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of the bonus material from the...
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On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of...
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On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and...
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Audiopile Review: A FLAC-only release dropped via an eye-gouging, anachronistic Geocities site becoming one of the most buzzed about albums of 2024? Certainly didn’t see that coming. Perhaps our shortsightedness is due to our humble proximity to the project’s earliest days—two of Patrick Flegel’s earliest releases as Cindy Lee came...
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Audiopile Review: You may remember Naoki Zushi from our recent-ish write-up of his excellent album ‘IV’. He’s perhaps best known as a member of Japanoise legends Hijokaidan, but has surprising links to the lofi indie pop scene, specifically Nagisa Ni Te. As a solo artist, he produces truly epic psyche...
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Audiopile Review: Chicago-based duo Gastr Del Sol had an extraordinary avant rock pedigree. David Grubbs was a member of Squirrel Bait and Bastro before forming Gastr around 1993 to focus on the avoidance of anything vaguely resembling a rock cliché. He was soon joined by Jim O’Rourke, who was and...
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DAVID PAJO returns with his ongoing "M" recordings (AERIAL M, M, PAPA M, mmmm M). Eleven tracks that fall somewhere in the blue guitar-based, dreamy rock music thing, but also feature things like found sounds, intriguing instrumental passages and even vocals just to add to the ongoing mystery (misery?) of...
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For almost everyone, the entry point for discovering the music of Q Lazzarus came via Goodbye Horses. The song first appeared in 1988, via Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob, but it would not become fully lodged into popular consciousness until it infamously materialized again in Demme’s The Silence of...
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Universe Room is the eighteenth Guided By Voices album in ten years and packs a vast mix of energy levels and sounds into seventeen diverse tracks in less than forty minutes. The new record ventures into truly surprising territory, where barely any song segments and choruses are revisited and fidelity...
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A groundbreaking collaboration between British experimental artist Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) and Swiss electronic duo SINNER DC, MAPS blends music, visuals, and interactive gaming (Mac/PC) into a multidimensional experience. Originally conceived for a one-off live performances in 2013 in Geneva, MAPS draws inspiration from Borges' meditations on...
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my new record is called ten days. it’s ten songs about ten days. theres been a lot of biggg mad crazy moments in the last year but basically all of these are about really very small quiet intimate moments. some of them are like the most intensely joyful things i...
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Berlin-based romantic post-punk and body musik Musician/DJ riding the next wave acid halo into the sun-shattered dusk. Pressed on hot pink vinyl....
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Geologist and D.S. meet in an expanding sonic field built up from a handful of pieces posted online. Lovingly reordering a few short minutes of music featuring the fine folk guitar chops and magic vibe of Sleepy Doug Shaw, Brian Weitz (Animal Collective’s Geologist) works a variety of loops and...
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Quabbin Winter is the latest gently fevered, psych-frayed full length LP from Northeastern America's SPECTRE FOLK—the now two-decade spanning solo-centric organized noise making outfit & nom-de-plume of Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, et al) and friends. Recorded in late '23/early '24 with the help of Mike Donovan...
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Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over is Cap'n Jazz's first and only full-length album, originally released in 1995 on Man With Gun Records. Undoubtedly one of the most...
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“Developer is a perfect synthesis of music, mood, and storytelling. A film noir album.” - Paul Tremblay Comedy Minus One's highly anticipated and expanded vinyl reissue of Silkworm’s out-of-print fifth album “Developer,” licensed from Matador Records, will be available worldwide on February 21st, 2025. This now-double album - originally released...
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Now on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years, Piebald's We Are The Only Friends We Have has earned its place as one of the most notable and iconic emo albums of the era. It has been completely remastered for vinyl by Jack Shirley (Joyce Manor, Quicksand) with...
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Continuing our commitment to shining a celebratory light on classic and influential music from Detroit, Third Man Records is honored to re-introduce the world to the undeniable importance of the Detroit Cobras. Here is one of two reissues of classic Detroit Cobras debut records "Mink, Rat or Rabbit" and Life,...
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“Richard Davies is one of the last great songwriters on planet Earth. Every song on Composition Book is up there with his finest and so it's no small feat that after 35 years of making beautiful records, this one is his best.” – Robert Pollard / Guided By Voices Australian...
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Destroyer’s Dan Bejar initially conceived of Have We Met as a Y2K album. He was already active during the era but not heard overhead in a cafe or salon, which is perhaps what the idea of the Y2K sound evokes nearly two decades later. Bejar assigned frequent producer and bandmate...
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This release cements Vancouver, BC's Dan Bejar as an artist as quirky and enigmatic as David Bowie, as symphonic and grandiose as Scott Walker, and as quixotically literary as Bob Dylan. A collection of songs that is fresh and confounding, yet befitting The Destroyer canon. "Of all contemporary songwriters, he's...
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Of his 12th studio album and its enigmatic title, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar offers the following: Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for “The Wild Ones” (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was “Ken.” I had an epiphany, I was physically...
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In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters / Thief /Streethawk: A Seduction holds an important place; for not only does it document Dan Bejar's evolution from lo-fi bedroom tyro to bona fide master of the rock album, it also contains a massive percentage of superlative...
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An extended vinyl release of the sixth full-length album from Vancouver songsmith DAN BEJAR (NEW PORNOGRAPHERS) under his DESTROYER moniker. Includes the 20-minute bonus track “Loscil’s Rubies” remixed by SCOTT MORGAN on Side 3....
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The debut monumental album from the Canadian post-rock icons originally released in 1997 features instrumentals built of huge guitar and string compositions - this is an essential album on Constellation. All of the tracks feature a number of field recordings and sampled sounds, once referred to by David Keenan of...
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Audiopile Review: Critic Sasha Frere-Jones once said the only thing that made Of Montreal an indie rock band was the people who listened to them. He was talking, we think, about the fate of groups that confirm a following in the broad church of indie rock before converting to a...
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Following his post-hardcore heroics with Indian Summer and Calm, Marc Bianchi unplugged his distortion pedal and switched on the four-track. From his boyhood San Mateo, California bedroom, Her Space Holiday explores the bewilderment of young adulthood through a dreamy prozac lens. This expanded 25th anniversary edition of Home Is Where...
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Vincent Fenton is a French multi-instrumentalist and producer. Under the name of FKJ, aka French Kiwi Juice, his free and colorful compositions have already conquered a fanbase that extends to the four corners of the world. A platinum-selling artist with over 2 billion streams to date, FKJ embodies a unique...
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Like a passenger riding shotgun on a road trip, The Villagers Companion offers its own unique perspective and story to tell. Featuring tracks recorded alongside last year’s acclaimed villagers, TVC captures the miles between the start and destination—the faded gas station pit stops, the plastic saint statue stuck to the...
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