Trio-Da Kali and Kronos Quartet
Ladilikan (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 15/Sep/2017 ] You take a trio of the finest traditional griot musicians from Mali and put them in the studio with a renowned and revolutionary Western string quartet - and the resulting album is one of the most richly rewarding musical collaborations you are... |
Alice Coltrane
The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (LP) [ Luaka Bop / 2 LP - released 5/May/2017 ] Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda's devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death.... |
Kondi Band
Salone [ Strut CD / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Debut album from Kondi Band, the inspired Afro-electronic collaboration between Sierra Leonean kondi (thumb piano) player Sorie Kondi and US producer / DJ Chief Boima, who himself has Sierra Leonean roots. Salone follows the release of 2016's... |
Various Artists / Compiled by BadBadNotGood
Late Night Tales [ LateNightTales / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] The original trio of Matthew Tavares, Alex Sowinski and Chester Hansen formed while studying music at Toronto's Humber College (they've recently added Leland Whitty to the line-up). A shared appreciation of hip hop and instrumental covers of Gucci... |
Fazerdaze
Morningside [ Flying Nun / CD - released 5/May/2017 ] The brainchild of Amelia Murray, Fazerdaze began as a string of bedroom recordings created late in the night, emerging fully-formed in 2014 as her debut eponymous EP. A succinct collection of intimate, beautifully produced dream-pop written, produced... |
Angelo De Augustine
Swim Inside The Moon (LP) [ Asthmatic Kitty LP / LP - 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... |
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... |
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... |
Deep Purple
Infinite [ Ear Music / CD - released 7/Apr/2017 ] |
El Michels Affair
Return To The 37th Chamber (LP) [ Big Crown / LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] The highly anticipated follow up to the 2009's cult classic 'Enter the 37th Chamber'. Featuring: Lee Shields, The Shacks, & Lady Wray. |
Kamasi Washington
Harmony Of Difference [ Young Turks / CD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] Harmony of Difference originally premiered as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art 2017 Biennial alongside a film by A.G. Rojas and also featuring artwork by Kamasi Washington's sister, Amani Washington. The new music is an original six-part... |
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
So It Is [ Sony / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Preservation Hall Jazz Band their new album, So It Is, the septet's second release featuring all-new original music. So It Is finds the classic PHJB sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing... |
Sampha
Process (LP) [ Young Turks / LP - released 3/Feb/2017 ] Since the release of his debut 'Sundanza' EP in 2010 and 2013's 'Dual' EP, Sampha has quietly but assuredly become one of the UK's most enigmatic and respected artists. Still just twenty seven years old, he has lent his vocal, production and... |
Alison Krauss
Windy City (Deluxe Edition w/extra tracks) [ Capitol / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Windy City is a beautifully curated collection of classic songs produced by Nashville Veteran Buddy Cannon. While they span different eras and musical genres, there is a unifying sensibility. Some of the songs are familiar like Gentle On My Mind, a... |
Chad Vangaalen
Light Information [ Sub Pop / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] "VanGaalen is very good at making eccentric, homespun indie-rock records, and with Light Information he has made yet another." - Paste Magazine "What makes these songs truly surreal (and ergo, sublime) are his wacky scenes, both monstrous and... |
Chuck Prophet
Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins [ Yep Roc / CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] Chuck Prophet describes his new album "Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins" as California Noir. "The state has always represented the Golden Dream, and it"s the tension between romance and reality that lurks underneath the surface in all noir films and... |
Chuck Prophet
Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (LP) [ Yep Roc LP / LP - released 10/Feb/2017 ] Chuck Prophet describes his new album "Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins" as California Noir. "The state has always represented the Golden Dream, and it"s the tension between romance and reality that lurks underneath the surface in all noir films and... |
Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex [ Partisan Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Debut, self-titled album from Brooklyn, NY-based ambient pop group Cigarettes After Sex. Led by vocalist / songwriter Greg Gonzalez, the band was inspired by the likes of The Cowboy Junkies, Cocteau Twins, Red House Painters, Mazzy Star & the... |
Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex (LP) [ Partisan Records / LP - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Debut, self-titled album from Brooklyn, NY-based ambient pop group Cigarettes After Sex. Led by vocalist / songwriter Greg Gonzalez, the band was inspired by the likes of The Cowboy Junkies, Cocteau Twins, Red House Painters, Mazzy Star & the... |
Denis Mpunga & Paul K.
Criola Remixed (EP) [ Music From Memory / 12in - released 5/Jul/2017 ] As well as the tracks featured on the Criola compilation of works by Denis Mpunga and Paul K., Music From Memory received from them some great short sketches. Lasting mostly less than a minute and some even just a few seconds there were some great... |