Stereolab, These New Puritans, Pan Amsterdam, Karman Line Collective, Quinie, Daniel O’Sullivan, Ganavya, Earth and Sault.
Note it down, folks. Late May twenty five, a week of quite magnificent new music for your bandwidths.
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Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film
It all started with ‘Unsolicited Stereolab Material’ on 7” in the mail and we have been grooving hard since. May’s Record of the Month is - obviously! - Stereolab.
Gruff Rhys, Throbbing Gristle, Stanley Turrentine, Hank Mobley and Regina Spektor.
A little volley of reissues, from Bop to the esteemed journeys of John Evans.
M(h)aol, Surprise Chef, Billy Nomates, Miso Extra, Ezra Furman, Friendship, Tune Yards, Grails and AAA Gripper.
A rash of hard and prickling guitars, with cinematic soul and immersive headspaces too.
The Linco Label, Countdown Records, Chapterhouse and Xmal Deutschland.
Goth wave, shoegaze swirlers, and the funk and soul sounds of Linco…
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Sometimes derided as merely their most commercial moments, Pavement’s second studio album - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - was the perfect record released at the perfect time.
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke, Das Koolies, Mclusky, Deradoorian, The Freedom Affair, Le Volume Courbe, Nils Frahm and Preoccupations.
Rich and vivid production all round this week; from the piano meditations to the acid house bangers.
Roots Rocking Zimbabwe, Jane Weaver, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Owl John.
We start this slightly shorter new week with the birth of the modern music industry in Zimbabwe and the explosion of creativity through the 70s and 80s… and how!
Real Estate - Days
Released in October 2011, Real Estate’s Days was such an instant classic that we delayed the printing of our Records of the Year magazine just to include it...
Mei Semones, Car Seat Headrest, Jenny Hval, Blondshell, Paco Cathcart, Cash Langdon and Dylan Aycock.
A really stacked week with big returns and absolute gems of underground treasure!
Julie Doiron, Mk.gee, Rilo Kiley, The All Seeing I, “Gather In The Mushrooms” and Isaac Hayes.
Grunge-adjacent slow burners, Panther-walking groovers, folky idealism, Hot Buttered Soul and more.
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
An album we have listened to hundreds of times over the last twenty years, but each play still offers something both new and inexplicably familiar, with a shadow of the...
