Indie Rock
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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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he duality of “man” is a subject that has been explored in art for centuries, from writings of the Bible to Descartes, all the way up to filmmakers like Lynch, Cronenberg, & Carpenter. Who is your “true self” & what do they want? With their sixth studio album “Wish Defense”...
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From the off, "Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory" is sonically different from Van Etten's previous work. Writing and recording in total collaboration with her band for the first time, Van Etten finds the freedom that comes by letting go. The result of that liberation is an exhilarating new...
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Soul Coughing is reuniting for a tour around the 30th anniversary of their critically acclaimed debut album “Ruby Vroom”. The album is now available in a stunning new remastered package with three previously unreleased bonus tracks: “Murder of...
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For years, fans of Connecticut’s post-industrial doomgaze two-piece Have a Nice Life have restlessly awaited the band’s second gloom-fueled, autobiographical meditation. Now, San Francisco label The Flenser is proud to unleash The Unnatural World. With eight songs clocking in at 47 minutes, The Unnatural World is Have a Nice Life’s...
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New waves are breaking, upon which it is our choice, chance and challenge, to ride. The new collaboration Source Ensemble brings fresh percolations, energy and air to Laetitia's humanized community-politic. Geometric composition made with a belief that permeates and intimately binds all things - requesting free love and...
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Constellations For The Lonely, a new, intense, filmic, yet classic Doves album is coming your way. Featuring ten new tracks of enkindled, future-facing, meticulous manipulation of mood from the Manchester trio....
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Audiopile Review: The best ghost stories linger in the haunt—the shadows, the existential weight of what might be lurking beyond veiled thresholds—only revealing their full power in brief but potent flashes, exposing us to the all-too-real horror our world harbours. Waiting Room embodies the well-worn motif, a startlingly potent full-length...
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Audiopile Review: Vashi Bunyan has certainly had one of the weirder trajectories in musical history. Bunyan’s ‘failed’ 60s pop career and subsequent peregrinations are detailed in her excellent memoir ‘Wayward’. And suffice to say, her Joe Boyd-produced 1970 debut ‘Just Another Diamond Day’ is a freak folk classic. In the...
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Squid’s new album Cowards is about evil. Nine stories whose protagonists reckon with cults, charisma and apathy. Real and imagined characters wading into the dark ocean between right and wrong. Cowards is Squid’s most courageous album: simultaneously growing in scope and returning to basics. The band recorded Cowards at Church...
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2LP, 1LP and 10" In 3mm Spine Sleeve With Fold Out Poster, In Printed PVC Wallet With Flap Squid’s new album Cowards is about evil. Nine stories whose protagonists reckon with cults, charisma and apathy. Real and imagined characters wading into the dark ocean between right and wrong. Cowards is...
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The lost gem of grunge returns: Feeling You Up by Truly. The band's sought-after second studio album is finally back in a special vinyl reissue. Truly was formed by bassist Hiro Yamamoto (co-founder of Soundgarden) and drummer Mark Pickerel (founding member of Screaming Trees), along with singer and guitarist Robert...
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At the turn of the 21st Century, sandwiched between two of their most iconic albums – Secret Name and Things We Lost In The Fire – Low released The Exit Papers as part of Temporary Residence Ltd.'s long-running CD subscription series, Travels In Constants. A sparse suite of six mostly...
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Big riff alternative rock with this one from Oakland rockers. Members of Aluminum, Parallel, Wild Moth, Pllush with a mix of shoegaze, grunge, noise pop....
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You know it and I know it: there’s more trouble coming every day. So what are you hoping for in a record? Escape? Encouragement? Endurance? How about a grinning shrug, a wordlessly shared cigarette, a song that says, 'Wow you’ve had a rough year, huh?' This is Poking a Hole...
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Super sweet sleepover core from the turn of the millennium. When not at the mall or elementary school, Jessica, Ayden, Janet, and Mary created a suburban Spice World all their own, singing, dancing, and making videos in anticipation of a global pop takeover. Summer 2000 expands their home-burned Y2K CD-R...
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There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January— the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some of the coldest days in Chicago that year. With the heating off in The Loft to avoid sound interference, the...
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The Pains of Being Pure At Heart exploded out of the late 00s Brooklyn indie scene with a bright, distinctive sound that paid tribute to everything from C86 to early Slumberland, Sarah and Creation label pop, but with a distinct American flavor drawn from groups like Smashing Pumpkins and The...
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Math rock sounds like blueprints look: exact, precise, architectural. This trance-like progressive metal music with indie rock and jazz influences has been captivating and challenging listeners for decades. Bands associated with the genre include King Crimson, Black Flag, Don Caballero, Slint, American Football, Toe, Elephant Gym, Covet, and thousands more....
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Capturing a fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches has enthralled listeners for decades. Since I Left You has a reputation amongst its advocates that exceeds those of nearly all...
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