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Audiopile Review: Not surprising to find Nate Mercereau & Carlos Niño meetup with International Anthem mainstay Josh Johnson, though it is a bit of shock to see Blue Note stick their nose in such affairs. Yet, that’s been the net positive effect of Andre 3000’s New Blue Sun, which continues...
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Audiopile Review: After a few years laying low, long-running French drone-rockers France return to the physical format with a two-sided behemoth that captures their legendary live energy like never before. For the uninitiated, over the past two decades France has been piling up a totemic discography via dozens of labels...
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Audiopile Review: What if we were to tell you there’s an artist called Ganavya, who has performed live with Sault, is produced by Nils Frahm, and sounds a lot like Arooj Aftab? If you have any sense, you’ll want to hear her new album, ‘Nilam’, like, right away. And when...
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Grinderman formed in 2005 when Nick Cave was writing material for the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus'. Featuring Martyn Casey on bass, Warren Ellis on violin and guitar, and Jim Sclavunos on drums, the band crafted songs together. In 2006, they entered a...
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When Grinderman released their debut in 2007, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos, and Martyn Casey created a reckless, drunken animal of an alter ego to the Bad Seeds. The album bridged territory mined by everyone from the Stooges to Suicide to Bo Diddley. Again recorded in the company of...
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Steeped in equal parts golden age hip-hop sensibilities and lost 60s and 70s film scores, the debut LP from Leroi Conroy weighs in heavy and has been years in the making. The first two tracks from the album were released in 2017 as a 45, which were sampled in the...
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Fela Kuti (1938-1997) was a Nigerian musician, producer, arranger, political radical, outlaw and the originator of Afrobeat. A titanic musical and sociopolitical voice, Fela’s legacy spans decades and genres, touching on jazz, pop, funk, hip-hop, rock and beyond. 1973’s Gentleman is the 7th in the series of celebratory Fela...
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After almost a decade of exploratory ambient activity under other aliases, Australia-based musician Alex Marsh presents their first eponymous work: Trellis. The title refers to the music’s “triple-woven” palette of autoharp, upright piano and an old Yamaha keyboard, arranged in diffuse configurations of fragrant smoke and sunlit dust. Accented with...
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Kenji Kihara is a Japanese composer and sound artist based in Hayama, a serene coastal town located between the mountains and the sea. Deeply connected to his environment, Kihara creates ambient works that blend field recordings with gentle tonal layers, crafting immersive soundscapes shaped by the natural world. His creative...
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Rival Consoles has been concurrently in the foreground and background of electronic music since the late 00s; conjuring tense melancholia for Black Mirror soundtracks, playing in front of 10,000 dance fans at Drumsheds, selling out London’s Barbican Hall, and logging an expansive, wandering collection of synth-sculpted albums that explore a...
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"Broadly speaking, shredders are the pro wrestlers of music, trafficking in overwrought drama but devoid of soul, the realm of finger-tappers, fretboard lubricators, and those prone to viewing music as a competitive brawl. As such, the axe-slinger of conscience steers clear of shredding behavior, albeit every-so-often dexterously running the neck...
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Come 1999 and the turn of the millennium, Underworld were untouchable. Following two sterling albums and the blockbuster international success of “Born Slippy,” Karl Hyde and Rick Smith joined DJ Darren Emerson one final time, for the release of the last of their three studio sets together as the all-conquering...
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Second Toughest in the Infants came three years after Underworld's potent debut Dubnobasswithmyheadman. Opening with an opulent triptych called 'Juanita', 'Kiteless' and 'To Dream Of Love' - three tracks which segue seamlessly into each other and form a quite splendid 16-minute Underworld-a-thon—the trio certainly weren't afraid to indulge when making...
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Audiopile Review: When the rave revolution really started to kick off, loads of people who’d just been hanging around the UK music scene got sucked into its orbit. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that people who’d been lost in the musical wilderness finally found their home. Released in...
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Originally released in 1996 on Quarterstick Records, Music for Egon Schiele is the soundtrack to a piece of dance and theater that was debuted by the Itinerant Theater Guild, May 18, 1995, in Chicago. Based on the life of the romantic and controversial Viennese painter, Egon Schiele was written and...
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Audiopile Review: There’s an expectation that electronic music should be futuristic. This seems unfair given that, by our estimate, it’s existed as a form for three quarters of a century. But we feel it too. When a legit futuristic electronic music album comes across our desk, we’re all like: “Hell...
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Audiopile Review: Seven years have passed since Djrum shook the electronic underground with On Portrait With Firewood, an album so deftly constructed, intricate and referential that it made its eventual IDM tag fall short as a descriptor. Djrum signalled his anticipated return with last year’s Meaning Edge EP, a razor-sharp...
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"This is the first Six Organs of Admittance record to be recorded in a studio. No computers were harmed (or used) during the making of this record. Free-jazz sensation Chris Corsano contributes drums with the greatest sympathy. It's a fantastic new album, as just a fraction of a listen will...
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New Zealand-born (of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Pākehā descent) and Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, vocalist and visual artist, Sarah Mary Chadwick has announced her ninth studio album Take Me To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? Each of Chadwick's records marks a moment in time. This new collection signals the beginnings...
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Audiopile Review: After successfully co-running Peak Oil, as well as the recently debuted False Aralia label, the razor-sharp curatorial ear of Brian Foote unveils his first imprint as sole proprietor, simply titled FO, rescuing a 2023 CDr release by London trio Rest Symbol from hopeless obscurity as his first order...
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Going belly up, guess it's always a possibility. Following the release of their latest acclaimed record You Never End (Pitchfork, The Quietus, RA) Moin follow up with their latest EP, Belly Up....
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Four Seasons in Kyoto marks the final chapter of The Kyoto Connection’s Ambient Japanese trilogy, following Postcards (2018) and The Flower, The Bird and The Mountain (2022). Like its predecessors, this album pays homage to the pioneering ambient and environmental music movements of 1980s and 1990s Japan. The album unfolds...
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Public Possession welcoming „ddwy“ to the label, after a first appearance on this years Chill Pill compilation with the balearic dance beauty „Orchard“ the duo now delivers their first Mini LP titled „Sprig Songs“. ddwy that is DJs „Inner Totality“ and „Nangi“ introduce their special style of tripped out dubby...
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Audiopile Review: Some names come up again and again in our reviews. We’ve probably mentioned the godlike Peter Hammill a couple of times. Huerco S. (aka Brian Leeds) is another artist we call back to again and again. There’s a reason for this. Huerco is absolutely one of the best...
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Audiopile Review: Florian TM Zeisig dons yet another guise, returning to Somewhere Press as Spool, chasing his crackled dream-pop collaboration with vocalist Alliyah Enyo that dropped during his busy 2024, coming alongside his murky ambient NUG project on West Mineral and a full length of inverted trip-hop for Stroom. Needless...
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When Slowdive disbanded in 1995, music fans widely associated it with the demise of the shoegaze genre. Their last sign of life was Pygmalion (before they reunited in 2014) and it was, after "Just For A Day" and "Souvlaki", a totally different and more abstract album, and one of the...
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Souvlaki, the second studio album from English shoegaze pioneers Slowdive is an iconic album that remains a defining work of the genre. Released in 1993, Souvlaki marked a significant evolution for the band. The album merges influences from David Bowie's Berlin trilogy and Joy Division with deeply personal lyrics. The...
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Audiopile Review: Three releases in, and the Pin catalogue has been a love letter to both minimal and dub techno. Segmenting the cavernous and hypnotic qualities associated with the latter while formulating compositions akin to the former, SnPLO craft meticulous, hypnotic sequences but maintain a dubbed-out rigidity. The A-side is...
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Audiopile Review: Great to see Monolake getting the extensive reissue treatment. As one of the creators of Ableton Live, Monolake’s Robert Henke is among electronic music’s most influential people. But, along with a revolving cast of collaborators, he has also amassed one of electronic music’s most consistently impressive discographies. ‘Gravity’,...
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Audiopile Review: The Silent Season catalog is a dense one. Though the label has been dormant for a few years now—label head Jamie McCue currently focusing on his dub-forward 7 inch-only imprint Moon Garden—this week and next will see first-time vinyl pressings of a pair of releases, dusting off some...
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"Penza Penza are in very different territory here – paying tribute to the glory days of the 60s surf instrumental – but with all the unusual twists and turns that make their music so great! Things are still pretty funky – but there's also a lot of echo and fuzz...
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No other solo American guitarist this century has impacted that fecund scene quite like William Tyler. After crucial stints in Silver Jews and Lambchop, this adopted son of Nashville emerged at the dawn of the last decade with a string of inquisitive albums that paired the measure of his country...
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Electric War is an electrifying collaboration between British power trio, Little Barrie (Barrie Cadogan and Lewis Wharton, who wrote and performed the theme to Better Call Saul) and acclaimed producer/drummer, Malcolm Catto, fusing unique talents into a mesmerizing exploration of raw, experimental sound. Electric War delivers a blend of sharp...
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Under his Blendreed nom de plume, French saxophonist Musina Ebobissé follows the success of 2024’s “ARMAUN” EP with a revived and ramped-up reissue of his second album “Tales Of Tides”, originally self-released digitally in late 2022. Imagine yourself floating on a vast expanse of water with no sight of land....
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Audiopile Review: Detouring from his usual dour jangle fair, Bobby Would turn in a metaphysical drone album for his newest on Digital Regress. While a sizeable move away from the “fog pop” that we’ve come to know him by, it also isn’t coming entirely out of leftfield. Originally recorded live...
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Audiopile Review: Something just occurred to us about the marvelous trio albums Oren Ambarchi has been making with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin. They could almost be stripped-back mixes of tracks from the last couple of Talk Talk albums. That connection became clear when we heard ‘Kind Regards’, Ambarchi’s new...
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The third edition of 'Brahja,' featuring avant-garde, spiritual jazz led by saxophonist Devin Brahja Waldman. Rooted in the NYC and Montreal jazz scenes, Brahja evolved over years of touring, incorporating musicians from various jazz-rich cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C. The self-titled 2019 album, recorded after years of live performances,...
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“The beauty of Every Day is an understanding of Ron Carter, RZA, June Tyson, Sun Ra, Recloose, Theo Parrish and all that good stuff.” GILLES PETERSON The Cinematic Orchestra have announced the first ever reissue of their bonafide classic album “Every Day” originally released 20 years ago. Spread across 3...
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NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, like their partners in time BITCHIN BAJAS, live their days in flow motion. Rhythms come and go, instruments sound as a means to a greater end. Their debut convergence, Automaginary, feels as natural as it does inevitable. Both groups were first heard in 2010, both emerging from...
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Audiopile Review: New age legend Ariel Kalma is clearly unable to rest on his laurels and be JUST a new age legend. While his music has always been as spiritually blissed as you could hope for, it has a rigour that Kalma clearly learned when studying electro-acoustic music at France’s...
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Audiopile Review: Loraine James has built an impeccable track record in the UK electronic scene. When working under her own name, she leans into IDM, while her Whatever the Weather moniker gives space for her ambient inclinations. This latest entry refines the sounds of the project's debut with a sharper...
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Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points has announced his new album Crush will be released on 18 October on Ninja Tune. Along with the announcement he has shared new track 'Last Bloom' along with accompanying video by Hamill Industries and announced details of a new live show with dates including London's...
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Vinyl re-issue of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, third album, originally released in 1993. This album brought blues-rock into the alternative era. On its second full-length release, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion lives up to its name. Merging blues with the post-grunge angst of Sonic Youth or Mudhoney and a...
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Released on 180 gram black vinyl. Deluxe gatefold with printed inner sleeves. 2007 release -- originally released in 1995. Redolent with the spirit of such high priests of effects and delay as Loop, Spaceman 3, and My Bloody Valentine, not to mention a fair dollop of the Jesus And Mary...
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Audiopile Review: Aussie producer Cousin finally gets to a long player, or at least the closest he’s come yet, after an incredible string of EPs for shop fave imprints like Mood Hut, NAFF and Nummer. Despite these dalliances abroad, Cousin’s been quietly running his own imprint for years now, Moonshoe,...
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Audiopile Review: Balmat Records, who, at this point, need little introduction to our regular readers, follow up last year’s bounty of six full lengths by kicking off 2025 with the second album from DOVS, the cross-continental collab between Johannes Auvinen (best known as acid techno expert Tin Man), and Mexico...
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Audiopile Review: What’s up with the cover of Bon Iver’s new album? Shit looks like Jan Jelinek’s 2001 glitch-dub classic ‘Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records’ (or possibly something on the Peak Oil label). Not sure how this electronical design scheme benefits the indie-folk icon, but it sure was appropriate for the woozy minimalism of...
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Up until the release of his debut album in 2014, Shinichi Atobe managed to stay off grid since his release on Basic Channel’s Chain Reaction imprint back in 2001. He delivered the second-to-last 12” on the label and then disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a solitary 12” and a...
