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Parquet Courts
Wide Awake! [ Rough Trade / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Wide Awake! is New York's Parquet Courts' fifth record since their formation eight years ago. It's also their most groundbreaking. It's an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its... |
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Paul Weller
On Sunset Deluxe [ Universal / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Paul Weller's 15th studio album "On Sunset" features ten classic yet modern Paul Weller songs. It's a soul album and at the same time it's also an electronic album, an orchestral album, an album packed with masterly pop songs and heart-tugging... |
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Paul Weller
On Sunset (LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Paul Weller's 15th studio album "On Sunset" features ten classic yet modern Paul Weller songs. It's a soul album and at the same time it's also an electronic album, an orchestral album, an album packed with masterly pop songs and heart-tugging... |
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Perfume Genius
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately [ Matador / CD - released 29/May/2020 ] Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius. It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and... |
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Perfume Genius
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 29/May/2020 ] Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius. It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and... |
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Prequel Tapes
Inner Systems [ R'Coup'd Records / CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] There's almost no information about the person behind Prequel Tapes, but the little details tell you a lot. The artist grew up by a forest, a frequent escape during a time soundtracked by the neon melodies of The Cure. Eventually that led to an... |
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Punch Brothers
All Ashore [ Nonesuch / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] Of all the varieties of country, folk, blues and genre-twisting hybrids gathered under the catch-all of Americana, Punch Brothers are surely among the strangest. The five-piece owe their existence to the decision of mandolin player Chris Thile to... |
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Real Estate
The Main Thing [ Universal Music / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The new album dives even further into the musical dichotomies they're... |
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The Reduction Agents
The Dance Reduction Agents LP [ Lil Chief Records / LP - released 12/Aug/2016 ] In 2006 Lil Chief Records released The Reduction Agents' first and only album 'The Dance Reduction Agents'. It was special for many reasons, but mostly it was James Milne's (aka Lawrence Arabia's) first venture as a singer songwriter. The band were... |
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The Renderers
In The Sodium Light [ Ba Da Bing / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] The seismic rumbling of The Renderers goes beyond the fiendish pastoralia of their music. Long-time Christchurch residents, Brian and Maryrose Crook witnessed the earthquakes crumble the city. That, and Maryrose's developing career as a painter (she... |
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The Renderers
In The Sodium Light (LP) [ Ba Da Bing / LP - released 26/Feb/2016 ] The seismic rumbling of The Renderers goes beyond the fiendish pastoralia of their music. Long-time Christchurch residents, Brian and Maryrose Crook witnessed the earthquakes crumble the city. That, and Maryrose's developing career as a painter (she... |
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Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
Mirror [ Occultation / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Following on from the success of the Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus' (RAIJ) Beauty Will Save the World - their first new album in nearly 20 years - the band's second album Mirror will appear on vinyl for the first time. Mirror is possibly... |
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Rival Consoles
Persona [ Erased Tapes / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman's face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image... |
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Robert Plant
Carry Fire (Double Gatefold LP) [ Nonesuch / Warner Music / 2 LP - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Carry Fire, Robert Plant's eleventh solo album and first full-length release since 2014's acclaimed Lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar, was produced by Plant in the west of England and Wales, at Top Cat studio in Box, Wiltshire with additional... |
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Hope Downs [ Ivy League / CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] It's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Hope Downs. To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would... |
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Hope Downs (LP) [ Sub Pop / Ivy League / LP - released 22/Jun/2018 ] It's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Hope Downs. To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would... |
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Romare
Projections [ Ninja Tune / CD - released 6/Mar/2015 ] "Great dance music albums - albums that sound as good on headphones and home speakers as they do on club soundsystems - aren't easily made. In a form whose primary aims have been to move dancefloors and to move on, full lengths that thrill the head,... |
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Ron Samsom and the Nutrino Funk Experience
Ace Tone [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 19/Jun/2015 ] A regular sideman on numerous Rattle Jazz releases, Ron Samsom's first album as band leader is an affectionate, no-holds-barred, pumping homage to 70s jazz funk. Ace Tone bristles with energy and attitude, evident not only in the forward-leaning... |
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Ruby Rushton
Trudi's Songbook Vol 1 [ 22A / CD - released 26/May/2017 ] The second studio album from Ruby Rushton, the forward-thinking jazz group led by 22a label owner Tenderlonious. Their 2015 release 'Two For Joy' blew up as one of the year's hottest releases, with 'Trudi's Songbook' set to follow suit. Essential for... |
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Run The Jewels
RTJ4 [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 18/Sep/2020 ] What started off as a one off project that quickly evolved into a Grammy-nominated hip-hop super duo, Run The Jewels features the talents of Brooklyn rapper/producer El-P and Atlanta emcee Killer Mike. Atop hard-hitting beats and ominous production,... |