Sigh — Graveward
Ten albums deep into their illustrious career, Japanese avant-black-metal crew Sigh continue to surprise and confound. While their earliest efforts were in…
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Golden Retriever — 2
Portland, OR’s GOLDEN RETRIEVER have just released a stunner via DEBACLE RECORDS. Actually a vinyl re-release of a very limited CD-R from 2010,…
Loke Rahbek & Puce Mary — The Female Form
Loke Rahbek (known for his work with Lust for Youth, Vår, Croatian Amor, and Damien Dubrovnik, among others) and Frederikke Hoffmeier, aka…
Circuit des Yeux — “Fantasize the Scene”
Circuit Des Yeux is Haley Fohr. Her rich, powerful baritone is unlike any you are likely to hear from another woman working…
Mohammad — “Sagaraki”
The situation in Greece right now is a pretty ominous one. So it makes sense, in a way, to hear sounds like…
Alto Jeffro — Horseneck Beach
Horseneck Beach is so strangely, yet perfectly titled. In terms of pure topical values—lyrical content, titles—each song makes no explicit mention of…
Jenny Hval — Apocalypse, Girl
On Apocalypse, Girl, the fifth album by Jenny Hval, the Norwegian art-rock chanteuse picks up right where she left off with previous…
Tashi Dorji @ Machines With Magnets
This set was absolutely defined by blistering fretworks from one who must certainly be among the most imaginative guitarists working today. Tashi…
Bathaus — SoundCloud recordings
Bathaus is laying down new tracks as we speak, literally. The latest, “Darkheart,” through Unspeakable Records‘ compilation disc, was uploaded just a…
Parquet Courts/Joey Pizza Slice — Pretty Girls/Picture of Health split
Joey Pizza Slice, sometimes known as Son of Salami, embodies everything it means to be an underground weirdo musician. No, really– if…
Dark Tones — Cliff Dogs
There are not a lot of albums I’d play to put a baby to sleep. But Cliff Dogs, a set of sweet,…
Africa Express — Terry Riley’s In C Mali
Terry Riley’s “In C” is something of a standard in minimal and modern classical circles. The looping, ever-expanding nature of the piece…
