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Audiopile Review: Phil Elverum faced a daunting task following The Microphones in 2020, his masterful 40+ minute autobiographical return to a long-abandoned name. Now, pivoting back to his Mount Eerie alias, Elverum draws us closer to the varied untethered experimental spirit of his early work as The Microphones, contrasting with...
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Audiopile Review: Basque experimental-punk and free-jazz artist Iker Munduate makes a drastic shift away from his roots, embarking on this maiden voyage under his own name that tills the fertile territory of Japanese Environmental music. Munduate joins an ever-growing crowd of Environmental Music devotees—Unknown Me, Green-House and Oval Angle are...
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HOME RECORDINGS (2018-2021) “Who is Yara Asmar and how does she make music so strangely beautiful? The 25-year-old instrumentalist-puppeteer lives in Beirut with her cat, Mushroom, and presumably that’s the feline’s shadow next to the artist’s on the album’s back cover. The warm light of that photograph and the quiet...
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Audiopile Review: Only a week since we listed the Hiding Places reissue, the 2019 billy woods LP alongside producer Kenny Segal, we’re treated to the newest full length from ELUCID. While Backwoodz has been centered around reissuing the sought after back catalog of the extended Armand Hammer universe, Fat Possum...
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Audiopile Review: After the runaway success of 2023’s Maps, the second collaboration between billy woods and Kenny Segal, Backwoodz dips into the extensive back catalog of woods and reissues one of his most sought after LPs, 2019’s Hiding Places (originals were going for about $400!). While Maps was a rare...
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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: Another transmission from the fertile Danish underground, though this one doesn’t skew towards the sidewinding pop that we’ve been enamoured with through the year (see: ML Buch, Fine, Astrid Sonne). Coming courtesy of the recently launched 15 Love label, who have had our full attention since releasing the...
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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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Honour’s debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Àlàáfíà is a meditation on themes of...
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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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Only a few of these - one for the hardcore. Lolina Live, and this time in Geneva (Performed at cave12, 26.09.2018). A special document beautifully presented on a single LP in gatefold sleeve by Big Love Records, Harajuku, Tokyo....
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“Unrecognisable” is a story about a city where buildings are used as weapons in a war between the government and the people. The initial chapter, “Eiffel Shard”, was published as an online graphic novel with an interactive soundtrack. It depicts a phone call between Paris Hell and Geneva Heat, two...
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THE LIGHT IS LEAVING US ALL is one of the C93 albums that haunts me the most. I was OverMoon and Blessed to work on it with the Astonishing Aeonic Beautiful Talents of Reinier Van Houdt, Alasdair Roberts, Ossian Brown, Rita Knuistingh Neven, Andrew Liles, Aloma Ruiz Boada, Michael York,...
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Audiopile Review: Peel Dream Magazine step even further away from their fuzz-laden kraut-pop origins on Rose Main Reading Room, their most accomplished and inspired album to date. While their last album, Pad, was a stripped-down effort focused on intimate songwriting in the vein of sun-soaked ‘60s pop psychedelia, they go...
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Audiopile Review: Right from the opening track of slow strings and crackling ambience on “Everything Forgotten Flows”, long-time listeners of Priori will surely recognize the Montreal-based producer and head of NAFF is moving into new territory. While his 2020 debut, On A Nimbus, as well as the follow-up, Your Own...
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Audiopile Review: Folk music and poetry have long been intertwined, sure Leonard Cohen made some excellent sounding music, but it's his words that really pushed his work over the edge into greatness. Similarly, Bill Direen's neo-folk instrumentals on Dustbin of Empathy—crafted alongside Lambchop alumni Matt Swanson and Alex McManus—create are...
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Audiopile Review: Fishmans seemingly exist outside of time; while they garnered a cult following during their initial run of releases from 1991 until frontman Shinji Sato’s tragic and sudden passing in 1999, it wasn’t until decades later that the band fully began to receive the widespread appreciation they deserved. Thanks...
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CLPPNG is the debut album from LA based rap trio, clipping. for Sub Pop Records. Blending precise, quick fire vocals with caustic burst of noise, clipping. are classic west coast rap music from the tradition where sounding different wasn't cause for fear....
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In the Summer of 1964 Wayne Shorter joined the Miles Davis Quintet and recorded his second Blue Note album JuJu which found the saxophonist in the company of three musicians with strong ties to John Coltrane: pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Elvin Jones. The quartet soars across...
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Grapefruit Records is proud to introduce Stenhjärta (translates to Stoneheart), a new duo consisting of Gustaf Dicksson & Magnus Jäverling. Both are active in the Swedish Underground music scene centered in Gothenburg. Gustaf is known for his shape-shifting prolific solo project, Blod, as well as his participation in the legendary...
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Audiopile Review: Newest release on the Discreet sub-label Förlag För Fri Musik, a team-up between Gothenburg lynchpin Blod and prolific Canadian sound artist Shadow Pattern, the latter a notable figure in the Ontario experimental underground and head honcho of the Hamilton Tapes imprint. Shadow Pattern’s uncompromising experimental approach, somewhat akin...
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Audiopile Review: Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones, aka New Orleans ambient-pop duo Belong, have never been shy about showing their influences. Their 2008 EP, ‘Colorloss Record’ features, admittedly obfuscated, covers of psychedelic rock tunes by the likes of Syd Barrett. Their most well-known album, ‘October Language’, is transparently a heroically...
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Love Spirals Downwards' groundbreaking fourth studio album, 'Flux,' has been reimagined and expanded in a deluxe edition, meticulously compiled by bandleader Ryan Lum. Originally released in 1998, 'Flux' surprised fans and critics alike with its unexpected exploration of drum 'n' bass and downtempo electronica genres. Over the past 25 years,...
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Wayne Shorter’s mesmerizing 1970 album Odyssey of Iska was the last release of the saxophonist’s early Blue Note period. The album was a tribute to his daughter Iska which found Shorter continuing his own unique explorations into fusion having just left Miles Davis to form his band Weather Report. This...
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Audiopile Review: The newest Danish import to blow our minds is Fine Glindvad, known simply as Fine (pronounced feen-uh), dropping her debut album on Escho Records, the same label that also brought us Astrid Sonne’s Great Doubt earlier this year. Leading up to the album, Fine has been busy. She...
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Audiopile Review: Japanese trio Unknown Me follow-up their 2021 album Bishintai for the Not Not Fun imprint with Bitokagaku, another slip into ethereal bliss, besting their albums preceding it. While the trio’s lineup includes P-RUFF and Yakenohara, both busy with various other projects, the notable third member, H. Takahashi, has...
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Efficient Space welcomes Th Blisks to the fold with their mutant strain of melodica dub, torched hip hop breaks, post-punk and procession song. Th Blisks' members have many notches on their collective belt. Amelia Besseny and Altered States Tapes’ founder Cooper Bowman are prolific in their ritualistic ambient-pop duo Troth,...
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In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost in the desert. Some think he fell foul of a local family with alleged mafia ties. Some think he was abducted by aliens....
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Townes had just finished the most prolific run of songwriting and recording in his career when he recorded this 1973 double-LP. It’s not just his best live album, but maybe his best album, period: Pancho & Lefty; For the Sake of a Song; Waitin’ ’Round to Die; No Place to...
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Audiopile Review: Coming in hot off his very recent double pack of kinetic dance floor shakers, ISS010, and three years on from Pool, his manic post-IDM masterpiece, Skee Mask takes the time to stretch out and luxuriate with his newest full length, Resort. Befitting of its title, Resort is also...
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Audiopile Review: The link between NYC’s Scissor & Thread and Vancouver’s own Pacific Rhythm grows a little stronger with this sophomore album from the duo ZG. For those just tuning in, ZG is comprised of vocalist & producer Zansika Lachhani and house/techno producer Grant, the latter is also known as...
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Audiopile Review: Panoram’s Great Times is the 10th entry in the always impressive Balmat catalog, a label who have yet to miss on their way to becoming one of the premier electronic outlets of this young decade. Panoram, the project of Italy’s Raffaele Martirani, already has an impressive back catalog,...
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Audiopile Review: An integral part of the Unheard Of Hope imprint, Guatemalan composer Mabe Fratti releases her third solo album for the UK-based label, which quickly follows from the chamber-pop debut of her Titanic project and contributions to this year’s shop highlight from Phét Phét Phét. While Fratti began in...
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Audiopile Review: First new album from Dunedin’s Alastair Galbraith since 2021’s Seconds Mark III, arriving only a few months after the first-time vinyl reissue of Talisman, his beloved 1995 full length of art-damaged lo-fi f art folk. Lagash is issued on the Australian-based Nice Music imprint, a multi-format label largely...
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Audiopile Review: Tonal Union continues their incredible streak with this newest album from Ezra Feinberg, the multi-instrumentalist who had a brief run with post-rock outfit Piano Magic before forming the experimental prog-psych group Citay alongside Tim Green (Nation of Ulysses, The Fucking Champs). He went on to record a handful...
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Audiopile Review: With the surging interest in all things dream-pop and shoegaze, its a great time for one of the great under appreciated bands of that timeless sound to re-emerge. NYC band Mahogany, whose only mainstay is multi-instrumentalist Andrew Prinz, issued a series of motorik dream-pop/shoegaze singles in the late...
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Audiopile Review: Dutch duo Kettel and Secede have their overlooked 2012 CD-only album When Can brought to vinyl for the first time. This surely would have been a mere footnote of of early 21st century electronic music if it wasn’t for the acute ear of the folks over at Lapsus,...
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Audiopile Review: Softening the edges of the doom-drone-folk of his duo Tongue Depressor, New England multi-instrumentalist Henry Birdsey has managed to break through to a wider audience with his Old Saw project, which began with 2021’s sublime Country Tropics. Much like Tongue Depressor, the sound of Old Saw is steeped...
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Audiopile Review: Look, we know better than to ignore anything that DJ Python's Worldwide Unlimited imprint gets its hands on. In this case, it's Jawnino's debut mixtape, 40, the latest project to spring from the post-Hype Williams UK scene. Combining the ambient-leaning, heady production we've heard from acts like Space...
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"Michael J. Blood needs little introduction to followers of these pages; his misfit take on House at its broadest definition is a lowkey phenomenon, with each turn different to the previous, but all sharing a screwed passion for the rudest variegations that dovetail Demdike Stare’s own wayward instincts. Following up...
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"In the core of the album’s creation, lies my fascination with unveiling the piano overtones by harnessing the properties of complex systems, which emerge when competing oscillations of strings interact with room acoustics, microphone placements, the piano's pedals, and its soundboard. Through long forms, incremental gestures, and nuanced timbral artifacts,...
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The 20th anniversary limited edition vinyl of "Grab That Gun" and "Thieves" will include a gatefold jacket, two coloured vinyl discs, remastered tracks and a product sticker, and features the band’s hit singles “Memorize the City,” “Let The Bells Ring” and “Brother”....
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Audiopile Review: The long-running solo project of James Vella’s A Lily project, who has issued a handful of CDs and cassettes on several other labels, finally lands on his own imprint, Phantom Limb, a label which has been on a bit of a hot streak recently with notable albums released...
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Vegyn is back with his second full length album following 2019’s Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds. Joe Thornalley’s story is well known by now, having cut his teeth with the likes of James Blake, Frank Ocean, and JPEGMAFIA, but the years since his debut have pushed that highly regarded and unique...
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‘2 Sim’ is a phrase the references mobile phones with two sim cards to describe people of mixed heritage, dual nationality or multiple residences. After being called a 2 Sim in conversation with a stranger whilst on a walk through Freetown (a recording of this moment features on the record),...
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The third album from Sade originally released in 1988. Includes “Love Is Stronger Than Pride,” “Haunt Me,” “Give It Up,” and the hit single “Paradise.” The album was recorded at Compass Point Studios (Bahamas), Studio Miraval (France), and...
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