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Bibio
Ribbons [ Warp / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] "This album has been made very much in admiration of nature yet through a tinted window of manmade escapism. Spending more time in the british countryside, walking, photographing, listening and recording has certainly affected how I've been thinking... |
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Bibio
Ribbons (LP) [ Warp / 2 LP - released 12/Apr/2019 ] "This album has been made very much in admiration of nature yet through a tinted window of manmade escapism. Spending more time in the british countryside, walking, photographing, listening and recording has certainly affected how I've been thinking... |
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black midi
schlagenheim [ Rough Trade / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Since forming just over a year ago, black midi have quickly cemented their reputation as one of the hottest new underground bands, following a string of sold-out UK live dates and surprise shows punctuated by constantly shifting sets and blistering... |
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black midi
schlagenheim (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Since forming just over a year ago, black midi have quickly cemented their reputation as one of the hottest new underground bands, following a string of sold-out UK live dates and surprise shows punctuated by constantly shifting sets and blistering... |
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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... |
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Carnivorous Plant Society
The People Below (Graphic Novel) [ Carnivorous Plant Society / Book - released 2/Aug/2019 ] The People Below The People Below is a story of an unlikely and very wrinkly hero named Shid. The novel explores class inequality in a city trapped in a floating bubble, suspended from an alien's mouth. It features a small, wretched man and his... |
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Cate Le Bon
Reward [ Mexican Summer / CD - released 24/May/2019 ] It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon's fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. "There's a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the... |
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clipping.
There Existed An Addiction To Blood [ Sub Pop / CD - 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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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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Danny Brown
uknowhatimsayin¿ [ Warp Records / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] In the nearly ten years since Danny Brown's first album was released, he has permeated both underground and mainstream music culture with an authentic and ever-evolving persona and a sound wholly his own, transcending genres and any parameters the... |
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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... |
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Ekiti Sound
Abeg No Vex [ Crammed Disc / Ekiti Sound / CD - released 5/Apr/2019 ] Recorded in Lagos, Ekit Sound's debut album 'Abeg No Vex' fuses underground electronic music, fat hip hop drums, rolling African percussion, the vocal variety of Nigerian folklore and pop, and mixes it all in a calabash of big room party bounce to... |
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Ekiti Sound
Abeg No Vex (Double LP) [ Crammed Disc / Ekiti Sound LP / 2 LP - released 5/Apr/2019 ] Recorded in Lagos, Ekit Sound's debut album 'Abeg No Vex' fuses underground electronic music, fat hip hop drums, rolling African percussion, the vocal variety of Nigerian folklore and pop, and mixes it all in a calabash of big room party bounce to... |
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Faye Webster
Atlanta Millionaires Club [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 24/May/2019 ] On Atlanta Millionaires Club, the omnipresence of pedal steel eschews bluegrass trappings, flexible under Faye Webster's genre-bending direction. Webster didn't set out to make her new album sound like any artist in particular - in fact, she says the... |
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The Flaming Lips
King's Mouth: Music And Songs [ Rhino / Warner / CD - released 26/Jul/2019 ] King's Mouth sees the iconoclastic outfit once again tread uncharted territory. These 12 new originals are threaded together by cinematic narration courtesy of The Clash's Mick Jones. Additionally, the music parallels front man Wayne Coyne's... |
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Fontaines D.C.
Dogrel [ Partisan Records / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Debut album from Irish post-punk group Fontaines D.C.! Assembling whilst still at college in Dublin a few years ago, from the ruins of early nowhere bands, and having discovered a shared love of poetry and a common zeal for authentic... |
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Frankie Cosmos
Close It Quietly [ Sub Pop / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Close It Quietly is a continual reframing of the known, taking the band's trademark micro-universe and upending it, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that's a marked departure from earlier releases, imagining and reimagining motifs and... |
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Frankie Cosmos
Close It Quietly (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Close It Quietly is a continual reframing of the known, taking the band's trademark micro-universe and upending it, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that's a marked departure from earlier releases, imagining and reimagining motifs and... |
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Freddie Gibbs / Madlib
Bandana (LP) [ Keep Cool / Rca Records / LP - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Freddie Gibbs and Madlib's long-awaited Bandana is now available! The follow-up from classic collaboration Pinata, Bandana spans 15 tracks and includes guest appearances by Anderson .Paak, Yassin Bey, and Black Thought as well as Pusha-T and... |
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Hama
Houmeissa (LP) [ Sahel Sounds / LP - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Nigerian composer Hama presents a groundbreaking album of traditional electronic desert folk songs, hovering somewhere between early 90s techno and synthwave. Nomadic herding ballads, ancient caravan songs, and ceremonial wedding chants are all... |