Mac DeMarco
Salad Days [ Captured Tracks / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] Salad Days is the second full-length studio album by Canadian musician Mac DeMarco. He recorded the album in his apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York, after he returned from touring. "I didn't want to freak anybody out... |
Angus & Julia Stone
Angus & Julia Stone [ EMI Australia / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] Australian duo Angus & Julia Stone release their self-titled studio album. Produced by legendary producer Rick Rubin, it's a record steeped in feeling and filled with a newfound freedom and confidence that's palpable throughout. "This album is... |
Belle & Sebastian
Storytelling (LP) [ Jeepster / LP - released 18/Mar/2009 ] An extended meditation on one of the year's most talked about films; 34 minutes of instrumental film score and six new vocal tracks from the soundtrack to Todd Solondz's Storytelling as performed by Belle & Sebastian. |
Connan Mockasin
Caramel [ Mexican Summer / CD - released 29/Nov/2013 ] New Zealand via Paris/London pop sprite Connan Mockasin follows up the widely acclaimed oddball-psych of 2010's Forever Dolphin Love. Caramel boasts a unique brand of mutated, lustrous soul that was almost wholly self-recorded over a month in a Tokyo... |
Jungle
Jungle [ XL Recordings / CD - released 11/Jul/2014 ] Jungle are based around a core musical duo of lifelong friends known simply as 'J' and 'T', who expand to a thrilling seven piece live, and make mesmeric, kaleidoscopic modern soul that's unmistakably born in the UK but has true global appeal. The... |
Jungle
Jungle (LP) [ XL Recordings LP / LP - released 11/Jul/2014 ] Jungle are based around a core musical duo of lifelong friends known simply as 'J' and 'T', who expand to a thrilling seven piece live, and make mesmeric, kaleidoscopic modern soul that's unmistakably born in the UK but has true global appeal. The... |
Royal Blood
Royal Blood [ Warner Brothers UK / CD - released 22/Aug/2014 ] Featuring the singles, Little Monster, Out Of The Black and Figure It Out the album is a mixture of anguished vocals, ferocious drumming and bass that provides intricate detail as well as a rumble of rhythm. Royal Blood are the result of a lineage... |
St. Vincent
Actor (LP) [ 4AD / LP - released 11/May/2009 ] The follow-up to St. Vincent's (Annie Clark's) first album "Marry Me" (2007) features eleven new songs, all written and arranged by Clark. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and... |
Angel Olsen
Burn Your Fire For No Witness [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 14/Mar/2014 ] Many of the superlatives describing Angel Olsen refer to how seemingly little it takes for her to leave an audience speechless, even spellbound. But Olsen has never been as timid as those descriptors imply, and the noisy, fiery hints in her earlier... |
Belle and Sebastian
Write About Love [ Rough Trade / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] A varied, captivating and occasionally disturbing trawl through the mind of Stuart Murdoch and his colleagues. The album features duets with Norah Jones and actress Carey Mulligan (An Education). |