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"Snapshots of the myriad moods that populate trajectories of one’s most intimate bonds with friends, lovers, the body, the self, and immediate surroundings. Glimpses of providing care for oneself, sparking romance, splintering, daily drama, and embarking through an inner desert. Intersections at a certain place in time, in softness and...
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2 x 12" orange vinyl with black splatter with the main album on A/B and the instrumentals on C/D. This album has been our of print for years after it’s original run but now it’s back with all the bells and whistles. Featuring collaborations with Moor Mother, Earl Sweatshirt, R.A.P....
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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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NUG is the musical collaboration of artists Jordan Juras aka PVAS and Florian T M Zeisig. They previously released their debut album Napping Under God on 3XL (2022). Recorded February 2022 in Hinang, mixed November 2022 in Berlin....
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Emerging from a generative paradox of laser precision and fluid dynamism, Metallur fuses percussive, metallic force with warping tempos and a field of ethereal resonance and debris. The result is an insurgent, elemental, time-smearing of hyperspace, where "tellurian beats merge with alien glossolalia and vocal samples blip tesseracts of human...
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"The buckshot marriage of UK avant shapeshifter Elvin Brandhi (Yeah You) and Cairean Nadah El Shazly - regarded, among many other things, for incendiary solo sides and jams with Sir Richard Bishop - was some four years in the making and forms an uncompromising purview on the dystopian state of...
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Originally released on tape by SicSic in 2014, Aprilnacht commemorates a decade of music from Brannten Schnüre and marked the spring in a tetralogy of albums about the four seasons when it came out. Back then the Würsburg-based project consisted solely of Christian Schoppik, who later welcomed Katie Rich to...
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Audiopile Review: Ulla, who likely needs little introduction from our regular readers at this point, joins up with Japanese ambient artist Ultrafog, their first release together despite running in similar circles for the past half decade. Ultrafog has tallied up a shorter resume than his counterpart, though no less impressive,...
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Audiopile Review: Backwoodz continues their slow drip of reissues of their formidable (and now very expensive) back catalog, this time landing on Billy Woods’ Known Unknowns, his 2017 album almost entirely produced by Blockhead. Issued several years before the recent explosion of interest in the Armand Hammer universe, Known Unknowns...
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Audiopile Review: After a few releases on labels like Blackest Ever Black and AD93, the artist formerly known as тпсб adopts a new moniker, Firnis DC, and slides in nicely to the slowly growing Felt Records crew. Certainly comparable to the recent albums from Civilistjävel! that have popped up on...
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Audiopile Review: The Head Hurts But The Heart Knows The Truth has maintained its grip on us since its digital debut in the first half of 2023, even earning a spot on two staff member’s end-of-year lists despite not having a physical release until now. It was that good. It...
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Audiopile Review: Admittedly, we had braced ourselves for Spell Blanket to be somewhat of a barrel scraping affair, albeit, one we were still feverish to explore. Instead we’re met with a treasure trove of revelatory songs and impressions that Trish Keenan was slowly piecing together during the post-Tender Buttons period....
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Audiopile Review: Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Haruomi Hosono was all over the ‘90s ambient techno boom. Peep his recently re-released ‘N.D.E.’ for evidence of how effortlessly he mastered this then-new sound. Given his prodigious background in hippie folk-rock (Happy End) and crowd-pleasing electronic music (YMO), this should come as no surprise....
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Audiopile Review: It is obvious almost immediately upon hearing Delight, Jain's second release on Leaving Records, that there are two loves whose threads run through the length of the album: modular synthesizers and hindustani ragas. Jain says Delight's nine tracks were inspired by Raga Bageshri—a raga is a melodic framework...
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Bobby Hutcherson’s 1968 album Total Eclipse was the vibraphonist’s 1st recording to feature saxophonist Harold Land who would become a key collaborator for years to come. Rounding out the band were pianist Chick Corea, bassist Reggie Johnson & drummer Joe Chambers on this impassioned post-bop set. This stereo Tone Poet...
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Audiopile Review: There are a lot of good rappers out there, and in the internet age, it can be overwhelming trying to parse through the talent. But when an artist has something important to say, and they manage to stick the landing on all fronts to get their message across,...
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Pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim ( formerly known as “Dollar Brand“) has long ranked among South Africa’s giants alongside Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and the late Kippie Mokoetsi. A master of improvisation with a distinctive African edge, the exiled Cape Town musician has developed a musical style over the past 30 years...
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"While best known for crafting opulent deep house since the early ‘90s, Soichi Terada is here found in far more rambunctious jungle and hardcore form matching the energy of a computer game first released in 1999. The styles are all very much in step with the likes of the Wipeout...
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Audiopile Review: Keplar is doing a phenomenal job of getting early-2000s glitch classics back into print. It was only a matter of time before the label turned its attention to Osaka’s Tujiko Noriko. And here’s a reissue of 2003’s ‘From Tokyo to Naiagara’. During the noughties, Tujiko was extremely productive,...
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Happy End's second album, the timeless masterpiece "Kazemachi Roman" released on colored vinyl (clear) for the first time! Latest 2023 cutting from the original master. Pressed at Sony's Shizuoka factory....
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This reissue features the original album, now on 2xLP for improved sound, along with the band’s pre-Sub Pop, self-titled EPs (released in 2003 and 2004), both of which are making their vinyl debut. The package also includes the previously unreleased track “Snakes on the Ladder” from the Apologies sessions. The...
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Audiopile Review: Astrid Sonne, the Danish-born, London-based experimental composer, has deviated from the path of her prior three albums and landed with this extraordinary and idiosyncratic vision of pop music. While those previous albums (also new in stock this week) explored the textural collision between her eerie viola work, haunted...
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Audiopile Review: Huuuuge new comp from the blessed souls over at Blank Mind, taking us on a deep dive into the cushier end of the breakneck strains of UK techno during its ascendent ’91-94 period. The producers here, most of them well kept secrets or favourites of the connoisseur, sprung...
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Available on vinyl for the first time since its original release 50 years ago, the downtempo-funk extravaganza People & Love is a crate-digger's treasure chest, filled with soul-jazz grooves and mesmerizing vibraphone textures laid down by Johnny Lytle, who was touted as "the greatest vibes player in the world" by...
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‘Anomi’ is Sonja Tofik’s first full-length LP, and a continuation of her debut ‘Neuros’. Anomi is the Swedish word for the sociological term anomie, first coined by french sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1893. Described as ‘the condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals’, he suggested that for...
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Taken from Boomkat: "Bit of a special one this; described as an avant-pop supergroup involving “serious legends”, Princ€ss land a strong debut album of modified shoegaze x ambient chamber musick slotted somewhere between Hysterical Love Project, Kevin Shields, A.R. Kane and Astrid Sonne, and tipped if yr on the spectrum...
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Audiopile Review: We were not completely shocked last year when it was announced that André 3000’s debut album would be a jazz record. Considering his notable appearance on Carlos Niño’s collaborative album last year, (I’m Just) Chillin’, On Fire, alongside random public appearances playing his flute to passersby, this move,...
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Audiopile Review: Mind-blowing live set from Alice Coltrane at the height of her powers, recorded just after the release of her landmark Journey In Satchidananda. Featuring the jaw-dropping lineup of Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Garrison, Cecil McBee, among others, Alice Coltrane leads the group through the first two tracks...
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Audiopile Review: Marcus Brown, the unique voice and producer behind the Nourished by Time moniker, is back with his XL Recordings debut to prove that the explosive success of 2023’s "Erotic Probiotic 2" wasn't a one time deal. Much like its predecessor, "Catching Chickens" forges elements of 90s R&B, pop,...
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Titanic debut album Vidrio is the collaboration between composer I la CatoIica (Hector Tosta) and Guatemalan experimentalist Mabe Fratti. One could call Vidrio a jazz hybrid record, though once upon a time this music would have been called postmodern; an answer to pop's pre-packaged form, adopting maybe more classical structures...
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Tierra Whack is a premiere rapper, musician and visual artist who is returning to the scene after a two-year gap in new releases. With collaborations with artists such as Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Lil Yachty, Tierra has become a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. Her highly...
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Audiopile Review: Moor Mother has really made a name for herself in recent years. She’s worked with everyone from post-rap demi-god Billy Woods to industrial beatmaker The Bug to contemporary jazz band Irreversible Entanglements. Along the way, she’s formed a wild, noisy conception of hip-hop’s future into something that slaps...
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Over atmospheric instrumentation expanded by cinematic structure and pacing, Pearlty presents Knifeplay somewhere between dream-pop influenced shoegaze and lofty slowcore, never fully committing to one or the other in its insistence on creating an immersive, organic world. Originally released in 2019, Knifeplay’s vivid debut Pearlty documents songwriter Tj Strohmer’s expressions...
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The solo debut by Canadian indie icon Dan Boeckner - of Wolf Parade, Operators, Divine Fits, Handsome Furs - is filled with lively, catchy rock that calls to mind The Cars or David Bowie. Boeckner understands the grit and gravel that accumulates in the heart and that it takes an...
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Audiopile Review: Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon has long been one of the coolest people in rock. On her second solo album, ‘The Collective’ she reaches Dean Martin levels of cool melting into sheer ennui. The opening single ‘BYE BYE’ is essentially just her reciting a packing list over some...
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Audiopile Review: Bellofatto & Gentile is a newly minted duo made up of Dan Gentile and Jesse Edwards, the latter of whom had an excellent cassette on Pacific Rhythm last year under his C-Thru guise. That cassette was in heavy rotation here in the Audiopile office, and some further digging...
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Audiopile Review: More ghostly atmospherics from Gothenburg duo Arv & Miljö, who first issued this as a CDr a couple years back, now extended and slightly reworked for this vinyl pressing. The album is centred around samples taken from actions and documentaries of Earth First and Earth Liberation Front, two...
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Audiopile Review: After her appearance on Music From Memory’s now classic Outro Tempo comp, Optimo Music was quick to reissue this 1988 album from Maria Rita album in full, though it instantly went OOP and has remained so ever since. Once again, Mr Bongo comes to the rescue of yet...
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As the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series hits its 19th title, the milestone is suitably matched by a collaboration between two giants of jazz brought together to deliver an exceptional album, working with a band of the very best Japanese jazz musicians. ‘Reminicent Suite’ by American pianist Mal Waldron...
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Cut in an all-analogue chain by Frank Merritt The Carvery Studio. When BGP inherited the honour of looking after the Flying Dutchman legacy we discovered that, as well as being almost unparalleled in his discovery of great talent, Bob Thiele also recorded it immaculately. The label’s master tapes sounded exceptional...
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Includes 3 new studio recordings: "Here It Comes," "So Much Beauty In Dirt" and "Three Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters." Also includes "The Air," which is a remix of previously recorded songs crafted into one.
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Here is the debut, self-titled album from Schatterau, a Hamburg and Berlin-based three-piece consisting of Daniel Jahn, Jonas Meyer and Tobias Rutkowski. Having dug out their old 4-track cassette recorder, the group turned it into their primary instrument, spending many hours exploring textures, creating countless tape loops and weaving them...
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Originally released in 1962, jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef’s “Eastern Sounds” fuses hard bop with middle eastern music as he is joined by Barry Harris on piano alongside Ernie Farrow (double bass, rabaab) and Lex Humphries (drums). This reissue features remastered audio from the original master tapes and is available on...
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Solid State Survivor is the second album by Japanese electronic trio Yellow Magic Orchestra. A synthetic cornucopia featuring compelling sounds across their unique electronic palette. Compositions are key here in direct contrast to the sounds of their German counterparts of the same era. Never released in the US, Solid State...
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Alice Coltrane remains a singular figure on the fringe of American music but her appeal is growing. While Coltrane's music is gaining wider acceptance there is an entire era of her recorded output that remains obscure, almost as if by design. Her four self-published, devotional albums of the eighties and...
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With Gentle Confrontation, Loraine's third album for Hyperdub, she lets us into a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present. She says this is the record a teenage Loraine would like to have made, with musical tendencies that reflect that time,...
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We've all experienced earworms - those phrases or riffs that spiral through your head for an eternity, materializing when you least expect it. On 'Models', Brummie producer Lee Gamble lets these sonic spectres inform a suite of illusory anthems, subliming vulnerable, half-remembered fragments of dream pop, Soundcloud rap and trance...
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