Debut studio album from Italy s Jolly Mare. The former champion turntablist (still looking for the evidence of this) is now getting tagged as the new face of Italian disco. Jolly Mare (aka Fabrizio Martina) has worked with Soul Clap and Thundercat, and his music is as varied as those collaborations might hint at. Martina…
Reissued ambient greatness from Advisory Circle s Jon Brooks. Originally released in 2014, the initial pressing was very limited to 500 copies worldwide and almost immediately sold out. The exciting news of the reissue came as a surprise but more a relief for those fans that weren t able to get their hands on an…
Third studio album from England s Jon Hopkins. Insides was originally released in 2009 and is made up of tracks from a variety of projects. Much of the album is based on music Hopkins composed for choreographer Wayne McGregor production, Entity. Also included is Light Through The Veins, a track that was written when Hopkins…
Chloe Kaul and Simon Lam are cousins, and the Melbourne natives began working together after a chance collabo at a family function. After a slew of well-received EPs, like 2016 s Well Worn, KLLO unveils its debut full-length, and it s a poised and polished effort that marries Kaul s silky, r&b-influenced vocals with Lam…
Little Dragon has been churning out sophisticated synth pop numbers for over a decade. The group s latest full-length, Season High, is once again filled with eclectic but accessible music, and this time around, the Swedish four-piece band surveys 80s dance-pop and 90s R&B for inspiration. Siminian Mobile Disco s James Ford alongside the quintet…
Indie electronica and synth pop from Jared and Michael Bell. New Varieties contains songs that were recorded at the same time as the duo s 2015 full length, Split Stones. Their instrumental tracks are filled with bright synth leads and downtempo beats. Includes a remix from Austin s Botany. Four tracks in all. Released by…
At first there was this vivid memory of Dungeons and Dragons, this childhood sensation of living in an imaginary world set in a faraway past or a lost future. I wanted to create some music that could be part of this adventure and journey with all of its solitary knights, dreamy landscapes, strange animals, forgotten…
Mica Levi returns with more out of this world soundscapes. The singer of Micachu and the Shapes has quite the catalog of randomness from chopped and screwed freak outs to the excellent Under The Skin soundtrack. Feeling Romantic finds the multi-faceted artist returning back to the droney conceptual pieces we found on Under The Skin for…
Michna returns to Ghostly with his second full length. Thousand Thursday captures the eclectic mix of sounds that the Brooklyn based producer took in during the years since 2008 s Magic Monday. He taps into his love of classic house, disco, and hip hop, as well as a penchant for infectious songwriting. It s evident…
Nick Murphy is the legal name of Chet Faker, chosen as an homage to 50’s Jazz singer and trumpeter Chet Baker. Faker s first hit was a viral cover of BLACKsteet’s No Diggity in May 2011, leading to a record deal, well-received EP (2012 s Thinking in Textures) and collaborations with MS MR, Flume, and Say Lou…
 Bastard Jazz does it again. The Brooklyn-based label keeps the good vibes rolling with the latest entry in their Tempo Dreams series, this time tapping Canadian producer extraordinaire Pomo! For those unfamiliar, Pomo came from relative obscurity to producing hits for Anderson Paak and remixing the likes of Janet Jackson and Mark Ronson. Now for the lead…
Andre de Ridder-headed chamber orchestra S t a r g a z e (worked on the soundtrack to The Revenant, There Will Be Blood, and more) links with Deerhoof s Greg Saunier. For this 12-tracker, they re-interpret Fugazi s 3rd album In On The Kill Taker with a modern classical sensibility, and what comes forth…
Detroit s hazy beat king returns. A release from Ghostly s Shigeto is always embraced by open arms here at Turntable Lab. We ve been down since day one with his textural beat making and it is always great to hear something new from the Michigan producer. Recorded somewhere between his last full length in…
Nostalgic vibes from an aesthetic outlier. S U R F I N G’s Deep Fantasy was originally released on 75 cassettes in 2012. A modest success at the time, this album has proved a massive influence on the Vaporwave community. Downtempo bleeps and bloops drift between a chill haze and laser focus, drums curdled with digital…
3 years after a self-titled debut, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn AKA Sylvan Esso are back with their 2nd full-length, What Now. The North Carolina duo s brand of indie pop has depth, and SE s ability to effortlessly express complex, often contrasting moods is a signature characteristic for the group. Carefully crafted layers of electronica—toggling between bright, bouncy…
Previously cassette-only beats and unreleased material from Teebs. After fully impressing us with 3Â solid full lengths on Brainfeeder, the L.A. artist-slash-beatsmith returns with a limited 12 featuring a set of virtually unheard tracks. Like his work on Estara, the beats here (which were created around the same time) sit in the clouds, somewhere between ambient,…