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Burna Boy
African Giant [ Atlantic / Warner / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] African Giant features a series of extraordinary singles, including "On The Low", "Gbona", "Dangote", and "Anybody". Burna Boy is among contemporary African music's brightest new stars and creator of an enigmatic new genre he simply dubs... |
Charli XCX
Charli [ East West / Warner / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Pop futurist Charli XCX returns with her third studio album. Charli is a collection of 15 songs and features the hit singles "1999" (Ft. Troye Sivan) and "Blame It On Your Love" (Ft. Lizzo). |
clipping.
There Existed An Addiction To Blood (LP) [ Sub Pop / 2 LP - released 18/Oct/2019 ] Their third album for Sub Pop, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, finds clipping. interpreting another rap splinter sect through their singular lens. This is clipping's transmutation of horrorcore, a purposefully absurdist and creatively... |
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Visions Of Bodies Being Burned [ Sub Pop / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Last Halloween, Los Angeles experimental rap mainstays clipping. ended their three-year silence with the horrorcore-inspired album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. This October, rapper Daveed Diggs, and producers Jonathan Snipes and William... |
The D4
6Twenty One (LP) [ Warner NZ / LP - released 28/Oct/2022 ] Kiwi rock band the D4 are celebrating the 21st anniversary of their critically acclaimed debut record, 6TWENTY. To mark the occasion there will be a limited run of 180g vinyl, a new-take on the album cover, and extensive liner notes written by Dion... |
Damien Jurado
In The Shape Of A Storm [ Mama Bird / CD - released 19/Apr/2019 ] Damien has always worked fast, but In the Shape of a Storm came together with unprecedented speed. Recorded over the course of two hours one California afternoon, it's Jurado's sparsest album to date. Gone are the thundering drums and psychedelic... |
Daphni
Joli Mai [ Jiaolong / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "At once a relatively pragmatic re-release of already heard material and the satisfying conclusion to its previous flirtations, 'Joli Mai' is a hybrid: part-album, part DJ-toolbox - and totally playable, in any context." - Clash Earlier this... |
David Byrne
American Utopia On Broadway (Original Cast Recording) [ ADA / Warner / 2 CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] David Byrne's sold out international tour in support of his first-ever chart-topping album was the most critically lauded tour of 2018, with fans and critics comparing it to his legendary Stop Making Sense tour with the Talking Heads. In... |
David Crosby
Here If You Listen [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] With Here If You Listen, the 77-year-old singer/songwriter continues the singular creative streak, delivering one of his most joyfully adventurous albums yet in a career that spans six auspicious decades. Crosby again joins forces with the three... |
Angelo De Augustine
Swim Inside The Moon [ Asthmatic Kitty CD / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Swim Inside the Moon is a record by 24-year-old Angelo De Augustine. This second full-length of Angelo's career captures a sound he's been looking for since he started playing music a decade ago. Shortly after the 2015 release of Spirals of... |
Dope Lemon
Smooth Big Cat [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] A mystical creature of leisure, the Smooth Big Cat likes to stay up late drinking whiskey with his rascally mates listening to records. He doesn't have stakes in the troubles of the world, and his life is guided by the mood of the breeze & what's... |
The Drink
Capital [ Melodic Records / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] Playing things safe has never been The Drink's philosophy. Throughout the trio's evolution, their off-kilter guitar pop melodies and lyrical curiosities have grasped attention - and on their brand new album 'Capital', they're pushing the boundaries... |
Dry Cleaning
Stumpwork (Limited Edition Black Eco Vinyl LP) [ 4AD / LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Stumpwork, the follow-up to 2021's New Long Leg. The South London-based group's first studio album, recorded in just two weeks with producer John Parish at the iconic Rockfield Studios, became a huge critical and commercial success reaching #4 in the... |
Dudley Benson
Zealandia [ Golden Retriever Records / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] Composer and performer Dudley Benson's long-awaited third album Zealandia is a love record to a drowned continent. An album that explores our identity through twelve meticulously arranged pop songs, Benson's most accomplished work yet was eight years... |
Dudley Benson
Zealandia (LP) [ Golden Retriever Records / 2 LP - released 10/Aug/2018 ] Composer and performer Dudley Benson's long-awaited third album Zealandia is a love record to a drowned continent. An album that explores our identity through twelve meticulously arranged pop songs, Benson's most accomplished work yet was eight years... |
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood
Jarak Qaribak [ World Circuit / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Celebrated singer, musician and producer Dudu Tassa teams up with award-winning composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead, The Smile) for a new album 'Jarak Qaribak' (Arabic for 'Your Friend Is Your Neighbour'), bringing together vocalists... |
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood
Jarak Qaribak (LP) [ World Circuit / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Celebrated singer, musician and producer Dudu Tassa teams up with award-winning composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead, The Smile) for a new album 'Jarak Qaribak' (Arabic for 'Your Friend Is Your Neighbour'), bringing together vocalists... |
Durand Jones & The Indications
Durand Jones & The Indications [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] Inspired by a handful of dusty and obscure 45s bearing names like The Ethics, Brothers of Soul and The Icemen, The Indications set out to make a record steeped in heavy drums, blown-out vocals, and deep grooves. Gathered around a Tascam 4-track... |
Ebo Taylor
Yen Ara [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] Ebo Taylor's new album, Yen Ara, marks the Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeat legend's 60th anniversary as a professional musician. The 82-year-old composer, arranger, guitarist and vocalist has been a key figure in the evolving afro-funk sound since... |
El Michels Affair
Adult Themes [ Big Crown / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Adult Themes takes the band's "Cinematic Soul" aesthetic literally and sends the listener on a journey through a whirlwind of moods and energies. With their 2005 debut album Sounding Out The City, EMA spearheaded an instrumental funk / soul movement... |
