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Kraftwerk is the self-titled debut album by the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk. It was produced by Conny Plank and released in 1970. LP on 180-gram vinyl with gatefold sleeve....
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Relive the absolute classic debut album from A Tribe Called Quest! Originally released on April 10, 1990, People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm delivered a fresh message and production techniques that were in contrast to much of the contemporary hip hop at the time....
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Audiopile Review: The newest venture for Mood Hut is a bit of a cross country affair, teaming local legend Michael Red with the Mexican-born, Montreal-based producer Ultima Esuna. While Red’s wide-ranging palette, hitting almost everything between ambient and dubstep, is a familiar presence in the shop and throughout the Vancouver...
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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: Hauntology was a distinctly early-2000s phenomenon, emerging from the blogosphere surrounding Mark ‘K-Punk’ Fisher. Labels like Ghost Box and Mordant Music tapped into Boards of Canada-style electronics to explore the death of post-war utopianism in 1970s Britain. For many folks, this aesthetic was so resonant that it basically...
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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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Amen Dunes returns with their sixth album, Death Jokes - their first on Sub Pop and one that was three years in the making. The spiritual reflections and meditations of Amen Dunes are turned away from himself, and out sharply towards the world. The album is also a drastic turn...
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The collaboration between renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson is a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. Jim White is known for his groundbreaking trio, Dirty Three, as well as duo, Xylouris White. His list of collaborations is...
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Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements are two of contemporary music's most renowned innovators. Each has managed to expand the perception of their instrumentals capabilities. Lattimore inventive harp processing and looping has brought the instrument to a new audience. Her prolific run of celestial solo albums and evocative film scores have...
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20th anniversary edition on limited edition violet double vinyl. The Knife reached yet another pinnacle with Silent Shout. After the effervescent, Eurodisco-tinged pop of their 2003 album, Deep Cuts, the Dreijers developed a dark parallel world on their 2006 follow-up. With menacing electronics rooted in early techno and identity...
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The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under the name of Harmonia....
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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: With 2022’s ‘Ghosted’, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin struck upon a magnificent formula. Ambarchi took his cues from The Necks (fellow Australians, after all), to oversee the creation of a potent brew mixing repetition with improvisation. The result was an eternal-sounding music that felt like it...
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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: More digging in the depths of the extensive Cat’s Miaow back catalog from World of Echo, one of two new releases from the imprint that we have in this week. While their previous comp, Songs ’94-’98, took on the latter half of the Melbourne outfit’s catalog that preceded...
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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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If I Could Only Remember My Name was the debut solo record from David Crosby. Recorded in 1970 after the passing of his girlfriend Christine and released in February of 1971, the album explores themes including loss and disorientation. The album features a who's who of contributors from the San...
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Coral Morphologic and Nick León’s Projections of a Coral City marks a series of collisions between distant worlds: the organic and the artificial, the Eocene and the Anthropocene, sea and cement—and even, perhaps, ambient music and activism. Coral Morphologic are the Miami duo of marine biologist Colin Foord and musician...
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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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“On Suicide’s First Rehearsal Tapes, recorded in 1975, Alan Vega and Martin Rev create minimalist aural structures, traces of which would surface on their eponymous debut album, released on the Red Star label in late 1977. “These songs are not a sketchpad of semi-formed ideas. The First Rehearsal Tapes comprise...
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Little is known about William Onyeabor, and that’s the way he likes it. Sure, you might hear something about him if you go to Enugu, a rural and isolated town in Eastern Nigeria, where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods. As a crowned High Chief of his...
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‘If I don't make it, I love u’ is Still House Plants’ third LP and the fullest embodiment of their sound to date. Where ‘Fast Edit’ formed with quick attachment and jump cuts, ‘If I don't make it’ is shaped by persistence - a commitment to the songs that makes...
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Returning from festival headlining spots last summer and off the back of new ones with friends just shared coming up in New York, Kieran Hebden drops the news we've all been waiting for, perhaps the most anticipated of his career: the new Four Tet album, Three set for release 15...
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Limited 25th Anniversary Edition of the pioneering Bristol trio’s album, Roseland NYC Live; recorded and filmed at New York’s Roseland Ballroom with a 28-piece orchestra in 1997, and released in 1998. The 2LP edition comes pressed on solid red vinyl with gatefold sleeve, with a double-sided fold-out poster and a...
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The double AA-side session chases 2023’s ‘Release Spirit’ and a prolific decade’s work as Khotin, Area 3, Happy Trendy, Port Sarim and others with the airy, ponderous waltz of ‘Alterac Acid’, like some imaginary Susumu Yokota x BoC jam, beside a decelerated alan on Vancouver house depths in the buoyant...
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Johannes Björk is a musician and literary critic based in Gothenburg. His music combines drones, pop melodies and field recordings to produce refined sketches rather than fully formed songs – resembling slowly refurnished interiors, rather than scenes with a clearly discernible subject. Originally released in a mini-edition of...
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Tracked in the decade after Duster went on hiatus, Canaan Amber's debut solo EP CA demonstrates the California-born guitarist's affection for San Francisco jangle and Santa Cruz surf. Crawling at a banana slug's pace, Canaan wraps the loneliest one-string guitar solos around a cluster of hollow rhythms and ghostly mumbles....
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Joseph Shabason, Matthew Sage, and Nicholas Krgovich form a pretty perfect triangle, musically and geographically. Based out of Toronto, Colorado, and Vancouver respectively, the three convened at Sage’s converted barn studio at the foot of the Rockies to diagram their kindred ability to extract grandeur from the most passable of...
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Electronic music's brightest rising star, Germany’s 28-year old Berlin based producer and live act Ben Böhmer has had another monumental year. His debut album ‘Breathing’, released on Anjunadeep at the end of 2019, has since attained over 50 million streams. A string of other singles and remixes for Anjunadeep, Future...
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Acoustic slide guitar improvisations accompanied by external arbitrary sounds, natural and otherwise; recorded in and outside, with and without electricity, in Stockport and Stockholm, 2016–17. 'What sounds tend to get silenced in the production of a record? Sounds are a perpetual and dynamic property of all landscapes but the walls...
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Brendan Eder is a Los Angeles composer and drummer best-known for his eponymous genre-bending ensemble of woodwinds, drumset, and bass; as well as his film scoring work, most notably on four short films for director Ari Aster. On March 3, 2023 Eder releases his third album, Therapy: a collection of...
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Michael Atherton is a writer, composer and educator from Sydney, Australia. Originally born in Liverpool, England, to Welsh-Irish and German parents, his family later migrated to Australia in 1965. Moving to the suburbs in La Perouse, he grew up in a mixed, multicultural community, where he fostered friendships with existing...
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Recorded on Hayman Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the paths of stranded strangers Ryko Kalinko (guitar & sampler) and Aemon Webb (vocals, guzheng & percussion) meet, creating an astonishing 3-part journey of deeply spiritual improvisations reflecting the beauty, isolation and nature of their vivid environment. There Are Many...
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'Altera Vita' is the first studio album by World renowned multi-award winning artists Tony Kofi (tenor saxophone) and Alina Bzhezhinska (harp) as a duo. The album is saxophone and harp in perfect harmony with Tony and Alina also providing the bulk of the percussion to accompany their recordings. Tony Kofi...
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New Ancient Strings' is an album by world-renowned Malian kora players Toumani Diabaté and Ballaké Sissoko. Originally released by record producer Joe Boyd's (Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Pink Floyd) Hannibal Records in 1999, the album was met with critical acclaim, and has since become a symbol of Mali's musical heritage...
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Maggot Brain, released in 1971, is Funkadelic's all-out masterpiece. Absolutely no one working in soul and funk at the time had the scope, vision and, let's be honest, sheer lunacy to pull off the kind of record that George Clintonand his collaborators have made here. Eccentric funk jams are bookended...
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"Volume, repetition, volume, repetition, volume and repetition, this is the sonic mantra of Austin, Texas's Water Damage. On their new record In E, Water Damage continues to scorch the earth with walls of punishing sound. It's no secret that something truly special can happen to the psyche when you are...
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Audiopile Review - After a string of digital-only singles (compiled recently by Tough Love), impossible to find cassettes and a highly limited lathe cut 7”, San Francisco group April Magazine issue what amounts to their debut album proper. Despite being a part of the seemingly never-ending supply of great bands...
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Audiopile Review - Another ‘90s braindance classic gets its due—Bochum Welt’s Module 2, initially issued back in ’96 on Richard D. James’ beloved Rephlex Records. Arriving in the wake of artists like µ-Ziq, Squarepusher and, of course, Aphex Twin, Module 2 was a standout in a growing crowd that was...
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Audiopile Review - In many cases, we’ll take ideas over execution, no question. Give us a spirited amateur over a jaded pro. But sometimes, the execution is so damn good it makes you realize the ideas are way better than you originally thought. A lazy critic might dismiss Montreal trio...
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Audiopile Review - Nearly lost to time, the short-live San Jose outfit Ozean only issued a three track cassette in 1993 and played two live shows. The cassette may have been a nearly forgotten footnote in shoegaze if it wasn’t for Moon Sounds Records, who reissued the cassette as a...
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Audiopile Review - Debut vinyl release for Daniel Aged, the in-demand studio musician who has amassed some crazy credits over the past few years, contributing to albums for the likes of Kelela, Frank Ocean, Yves Tumor, and FKA Twigs. He also came up alongside Sam Gendel in the LA improv/jazz/electronic...
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Audiopile Review - You’d be forgiven for missing the string of digital-only singles from Helen Island last year, one of the many projects of the somewhat mysterious Parisian producer Léopold Collin. The bottomless depths of Bandcamp and streaming outlets can make it difficult to find those artists who refuse to...
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