Debut collaborative EP from Alina Baraz & Galimatias. Urban Flora features the 21 year old Los Angeles based singer songwriter s vocals over the Danish producers low slung beats. Their musical relationship kicked off with the light weight future R&B of Drift. The remainder of the songs featured on the EP continue in the same…
Deluxe boxset edition of Allen Ginsberg’s classic beat poem HOWL. My freshman English teacher assigned every student in the class a different “classic” poem to read and write about, and naturally I got stuck with HOWL. The teacher snickered and said something like, “here, you’ll appreciate this” (still not really sure what to make of…
Bass player Jasper Verhulst formed Altin Gun to channel his deep affection for Turkish folk and psychedelia, and Gece is the follow-up to the Amsterdam-based band s hotly tipped 2018 debut, On. Drawing from Anatolian rock & folk of the late 60s and 70s, the band pumps out explosive, funky and transcendent psych rock for…
American Football return with their long awaited sophomore full length! After disbanding following the release of their sole full-length (1999 s self-titled debut), the Illinois-based band has reunited for a second self-titled effort some 17 years after the fact. The band originally came back together to tour in 2014, which lead to the realization that the time was…
Amyl and the Sniffers share many qualities with their namesake – they kick in fast, give you a buzz, and are mildly disorienting for a brief time. 2017’s Big Attraction was a retro hard rock ripper from the Melbourne punks, Fever To Tell-era Yeah Yeah Yeahs chucked in a blender with Motörhead. Their ferocious live reputation…
Thirteenth studio album from Chicago s Andrew Bird. Are You Serious marks a return to the prolific multi-instrumentalist s pop side after 2015 s experimental Echolocations: Canyon. Bird s trademark dexterous violin theatrics are there, along with his cerebral lyrics and deft whistling. He s got a new found swagger that seems to set this…
Fourth studio album from Chicago s Andrew Bird. Armchair Apocrypha was originally recorded in 2007 and saw Bird further developing his idiosyncratic style. He uses elements from previous albums, like his violin artistry and vocal delivery, and his later use of electronic looping and whistling, but here the songs are allowed to breath. The end…
Sixth studio album from Chicago s Andrew Bird. The Mysterious Production Of Eggs was originally released in 2005 on Michigan label Grimsey and is finally seeing an official repress after 12 years. Includes Sovay , Masterfade , Fake Palindromes and more; 14 tracks altogether. Released by Bird s Wegawam label in original gatefold sleeve. gatefold sleeve…
Symphonic renditions of Rolling Stones tunes, reissued on vinyl for the first time! The Andrew Olham Orchestra was the brainchild of Andrew Loog Oldham, the original manager and record producer of The Rolling Stones. 1965 s The Rolling Stone Songbook would be the group s sole release and features The Last Time, whose epic strings were famously sampled by…
I guess you could say some bold and unexpected things have happened in my life” says Angel Olsen, It feels like part of my writing has come back from the past, and another part of it was waiting to exist.” Angel Olsen gained much attention with the blown-out alt-folk of Burn Your Fire For No…
Limited edition pressing for Record Store Day 2017! Recorded live in the Brazilian rain forest for Viceland s Earth Works, an environmental themed music TV show! Geologist & Avey Tare take a trek back to the band s early improvised work and turn in a hazy collection of music sure to please. Four tracks in…
People have probably been saying “this album sounds like the soundtrack to a coral reef” about Animal Collective records for over a decade, but this one actually sounds like one! The band have been shouting out reefs in interviews for a minute now, and Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist (no Panda Bear this time, hopefully he’s…
Bright and hyperactive EP from experimental pop provocateurs Animal Collective. The Painters was recorded during the sessions for 2016 s Painting With and shares some sonic sensibilities with that album. There are playful vocal exchanges that morph into surreal pop passages as the samples are piled on top of each other. The standout here is…
Fourth studio album from Washington, D.C. s Animals As Leaders. The Madness Of Many finds the band settling comfortably into their unique brand of progressive metal. They re as tight and as focused as ever, imbuing their overwhelming technical virtuosity with touches of emotional resonance. Instrumental progressive metal at its finest. Ten tracks in all….
Hopelessness is the debut solo effort from ANOHNI, formerly known as Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons. She’s also with Hercules and Love Affair, perhaps best known for singing on the New York disco house group’s smash “Blind.” Regarding the release, ANOHNI notes “I have grown tired of grieving for humanity, and I also…
I was in middle school the first time I ever heard Living In Oblivion. The familiar music discovery scenario: older friend s car without adults, windows all the way down. My friend asked me to scrounge for a maxi-single by my feet underneath an empty Filet-O-Fish box. Quick rewind stab, followed by that hiss, and Claude…