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Audiopile Review: You ever listen to Aphex Twin’s ‘Richard D. James Album’ and wish it sounded just a little less like he was taking the piss? Like, yeah, those melodies are very pretty, and those beats are ingenious, but it all sounds like it’s happening through a thin veil of...
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Out of print for 15 years, Soul Jazz Records’ “Do It Yourself” features a host of post-punk, punk, punk funk/dance and electronic experimentation from UK bands in the late 70s and 80s that all arrived in the aftermath of punk. As well as loads of great music, the album also...
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Audiopile Review: At the front of the ongoing resurgence of dub and pressurized bass exploration is Jay Glass Dubs, who has been tweaking the sound for most of the last decade. After issuing lusted after releases for Bokeh Versions, Ecstatic, Origin Peoples, and The Tapeworm, the skids have been greased...
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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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An astonishing seven years has now elapsed since the release of James Holden‘s milestone debut album The Idiots Are Winning in 2006, rightfully acclaimed in such quarters as The Guardian as “The most astonishing debut in electronic music since Boards of Canada’s ‘Music Has The Right To Children’”. But June...
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The band's first effort for Capitol Records was an album which was recorded before Come Down called The Black Album, which was rejected by Capitol for, according to frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor, containing "no hit songs". It was later released as a double album in 2004 with Come On Feel the...
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Formed in 1994 in Portland, Oregon, The Dandy Warhols have carved out a niche with their unique blend of garage rock, psychedelia, and indie vibes. Celebrating their iconic sound, [PIAS] has unveiled special 2LP reissues: the self-titled album on striking Red Vinyl and "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down" on vibrant...
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King Crimson's explsovie 1974 album Red primarily revolves around the raw power trio of Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford and John Wetton. David Cross, Mel Collins, Ian McDonald, Robin Miller and Mark Charig make guest appearances on this powerhouse of an album. Taking the music to new levels of clarity and...
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Audiopile Review: There’s a certain, shall we say, distrust of expertise out there these days. Grumpy skeptics might want to lend their ears to ‘Dew Point Harmonics’, the delightful new album from UK-based producer Luke Sanger. There are plenty of IDM-influenced ambient albums floating around, but Sanger’s expertise really elevates...
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UK supergroup Flock return with their anticipated sophomore album ‘Flock II’. Comprising an exceptional line-up featuring Bex Burch (fresh from her debut solo album on International Anthem), Sarathy Korwar, Tamar Osborn (Collocutor, Dele Sosimi, Unknown To Known), Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming / Soccer96) and Al MacSween (Kefaya), the new...
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Audiopile Review: We live in an age of instant access to unlimited musical inspiration. It’s hard to believe that a small hardcore of seminal artists drove the pre-post-punk underground. Some of these artists have gotten lost in the abundance and no longer have the stature they deserve, most obviously...
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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: Music From Memory follow-up their triumphant Virtual Dreams comp with a second volume that zeroes in on the concurrent and wildly fecund Japanese IDM, ambient-techno and chill out scene of the’ 90s. While the first volume contained names familiar to even those who may only dabble...
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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: A key figure in the US experimental underground, Alex Cobb issued dozens of titles during the mid 00’s under his Taiga Remains moniker, though his work running the Students of Decay label for the past two decades is likely how most would have crossed his paths. While the...
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Audiopile Review: Australia’s Lawrence English is a real mover and shaker in the international experimental-electronic music community. Aside from running the Room40 label, he has collaborated with Loscil, William Basinski, Alessandro Cortini, David Toop, Tujiko Noriko, Francisco López, and many others. English came onto the scene around 2005, when Fennesz’s...
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Beacon Sound present a reissue of Terry Riley's Descending Moonshine Dervishes, originally released in 1982. Recorded live in Berlin in 1975, and largely improvised, Riley plays a modified Yamaha organ with variable resistors to facilitate tuning in just intonation. This is a 50+ minute recording divided into two halves for...
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Back in 1997, DAVID PAJO was a little over a half decade removed from the future sensation known as SLINT. Their second album had been released in 1991 when the band themselves were already defunct. During the next five years, David worked with PALACE BROTHERS, KING KONG TORTOISE, THE FOR...
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1966 debut album by Texan pioneers of psychedelia. Presenting the HIT singles ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’ and ‘Reverberation’ This ground-breaking album not only defined psychedelic rock but informed punk a decade later, influencing everyone from Led Zeppelin to The Cramps. Originally issued in November 1966, this album has not only...
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Songs ’94-’98 is a smart selection of material from The Cat’s Miaow, an Australian indie-pop group that gifted their decade with some of its finest songs. Released on World Of Echo, the album draws from the group’s string of excellent seven-inch singles, a small clutch of compilation contributions, and features...
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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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Portland finest practitioners of Great Black Music offering to the planet! All Is Sound could not be a more apt title for this. Through saxophone, cello, piano and flutes The Cosmic Tones Research Trio created a truly beautiful record. All Is Sound breaks new ground. At its heart it's healing...
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"The Elevators' second album, Easter Everywhere showed the band's progression light years away from their first one but a year earlier. Indeed, they had transmuted beyond their Lightnin' Hopkins'n'Hooker heated acid blues; delving further inward to the cosmic eye, mind and beyond. Easter Everywhere is an album that exhibits group...
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Audiopile Review: Already cemented as a visionary from very early on after pushing techno into new explosive territories with his early 12”s and kick-starting IDM with the first volume of Selected Ambient Works, Richard D. James also created what many now consider the greatest ambient album of all time....
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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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Twenty years ago, mclusky released their third album, The Difference Between Me and You Is That I"m Not On Fire via Too Pure. In the years since, their legend has only grown, proved by their recent sold-out tour dates. Alternative Press described them as "a smash up between the scabrous...
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Recorded at San Francisco’s Columbia Studios and released in 1972, trumpeter Luis Gasca’s For Those Who Chant enlisted a “who’s who” of the city’s A-tier musical community from that period. The cast is plentiful, featuring Carlos Santana and a pre-Journey Neal Schon on guitar, a rhythm section of Lenny White...
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Drawn from two sessions recorded in December 1969 and December 1970, and not first released until 1995, Kofi found Donald Byrd in the early stages of his transformation from top-notch hard bop trumpeter to fusion pioneer. Byrd had already begun to move away from a pure hard bop sound with...
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Mighty Vertebrate' is the International Anthem leader debut from Adelaide, Australia-born bassist and composer Anna Butterss. Butterss has steadily become a first-call for tour and studio work since moving to Los Angeles (after a stint in Bloomington, Indiana) in 2014. They’ve racked up credits with notables across the indie, jazz,...
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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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Misha Panfilov, the Estonian contemporary jazz mover whose many Janus faces amount to more than just two, resulting in many album avatars - here shares a live recorded rendition of a recent pair of shows, played back to back in Stockholm, then Tallinn. The first recorded at Fasching, Stockholm, on...
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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: White hot producer Florian T M Zeisig revisits his 2018 cassette release for Cassauna, You Look So Serious, with this expanded 2xLP set, issued here in a scant edition of 230. Zeisig has been on an incredible streak as of late, most notably contributing to Kelela’s explosive Raven...
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Zelienople don't release much, but when they do you, can guarantee it'll be special. It's been four years since their last album, 2020's Miasmah-released 'Hold You Up, and since then the band have switched up their working method. Previously stationed in drummer Mike Weis's basement-cum-studio, Zelienople's regular sessions were interrupted...
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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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In 2022, Enyo worked with the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop on an epic two-hour composition made from tape loops inspired by selkies, mythical creatures in Celtic folklore. Contemplating memory, grief and time itself, Enyo devised a "sonorous myth" installation and performance that drowned her voice in the deep sea, using echo...
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Having plied his trade around the world for more than three decades, German guitarist, bandleader and musical explorer Jan Whitefield has always instilled in his craft a natural aesthetic of authenticity, a key component which has seen him amass a sizeable and varied catalogue of material which has remained timeless...
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Audiopile Review: Probably best known outside of South Korea as one half of the hallucinatory-pop duo Salamanda, Yetsuby has become somewhat of a star in her home country, netting a Best Electronic Album award last year from the Korean Music Awards for here digital-only release My Star, My Planet Earth....
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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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By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins’ RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant, it is a culmination of themes explored throughout his 22-year career, and acts as the kinetic counterpart to 2021’s Music For...
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The debut album from English Shoe-gaze pioneers Slowdive Just for a Day masterfully blends dreamy textures and introspective lyrics, offering a perfect escape into a world of sonic beauty and emotional depth. The term "shoegazer" was used to describe bands that emulated My Bloody Valentine's blend of intense guitars and...
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