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Eternal Tapestry – Lolo Pass Drifters [Wild Strawberries Bonus Disc] (2015)
51 minute bonus CD of previously unreleased material! ‘Lolo Pass Drifters’ features five tracks and is a proper glass mastered CD. Portland, Oregon’s sonic explorers Eternal Tapestry have always had a...
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Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (2015)
Lightning Bolt have been around for close to two decades. In that time, they haven’t really changed their basic formula: Brian Chippendale still bashes his drums with chaotic precision and bassist...
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Liturgy – The Ark Work (2015)
Imagine black metal heaven, as oxymoronic as that might be. This isn’t Alighieri’s vision of hell or the old Scandinavian paradise of Valhalla. No, here’s a place where shimmering golden gates tower...
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Music Blues – Things Haven’t Gone Well (2014)
The cover art of Things Haven’t Gone Well gives a pretty clear picture of what this record is about. The title solidifies your notions. The music then proceeds to hammer it over your head. The first...
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People of the North – Era of Manifestations (2015)
People of the North may have begun life as a satellite of Brooklyn avant-everything institution Oneida, but it’s increasingly difficult to view the project as anything less than a primary concern. From...
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Colleen – Captain of None (2015)
Colleen is French multi-instrumentalist Cecile Schott, who uses her voice and the treble viola da gamba (a baroque instrument with gut strings), to weave intricate stories about the human mind and...
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White Hills – Walks for Motorists (2015)
When New York-based psychedelic camp White Hills emerged in the mid-2000s, they latched onto the same wandering, spaced-out spirit of dark, cosmically drifting guitar-heavy rock famously explored by...
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Heat Leisure – III & IV (2014)
Heat Leisure are something of an enigma; a wonderful porthole to the sea of a neo-psychedelic era that is yet to be charted. The simplest and most fitting way to deconstruct the group is to breakdown...
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Circuit des Yeux – In Plain Speech (2015)
If we’re always listening, we’re always changing. Last year was a time of transformation for Circuit des Yeux‘s Haley Fohr, as she toured to support the self-released Overdue. After a solo set at the...
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Dommengang – Everybody’s Boogie (2015)
Dommengang are a Brooklyn trio whose members play in Emil Amos’ Holy Sons. Fronted by guitarist/ vocalist (and former Castanet) Sig Wilson with Ancient Sky’s Adam Bulgasem on drums and Brian Markham on...
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Evan Caminiti – Meridian (2015)
Evan Caminiti’s slow but steady progression towards electronic music from sand-swept guitar drone mirrors the pace of the music he makes. It has been measured, each move well-considered and clearly...
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Eleventh Dream Day – Works for Tomorrow (2015)
Eleventh Dream Day is probably as much a force as a band at this point. There’s something about it that draws Rick Rizzo, Janet Bean, and Doug McCombs (and Mark Greenberg, for the last few albums) back...
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Holy Sons – Fall of Man (2015)
Emil Amos, the mastermind behind Holy Sons, returns with his second Thrill Jockey release, Fall of Man. The multi-instrumentalist (who counts himself as a member of Om, Grails, and Lilacs &...
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Dave Heumann – Here in the Deep (2015)
Dave Heumann, leader of the beloved Arbouretum, branches out with his debut solo record Here in the Deep. While Arbouretum were on a year-long hiatus Heumann continued writing, finding himself with a...
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Dan Friel – Life (2015)
Dan Friel‘s 2015 solo album Life (his second for Thrill Jockey) begins with a quiet, whistling lullaby, which is a bit of a headscratcher to anyone familiar with his brand of jagged, noisy electronic...
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Wrekmeister Harmonies – Night of Your Ascension (2015)
Wrekmeister Harmonies is the project of composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist J.R. Robinson. His collective shifts personnel with each release and concert. Robinson’s musical specialty is the...
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Pullman – Viewfinder (2001, Reissue 2015)
2015 re-issue for Record Store Day contains four bonus tracks that has never been available on the CD or digital versions. Making their debut with 1998’s Turnstyles & Junkpiles, a collection of...
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Tortoise – The Catastrophist (2016)
After the rather expeditious pace with which the band released music in their mid-’90s heydey up into the early 2000s, it has taken Tortoise an unprecedented seven years to release The Catastrophist, a...
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Matmos – Ultimate Care II (2016)
For everyone who’s grown up doing their own laundry, especially those of us with a musical ear, the rhythmic hum of a washing machine has always been an entrancing experience. So if ever there was a...
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The Body – No One Deserves Happiness (2016)
Portland, Oregon-based duo the Body (Chip King and Lee Buford) have been continually pushing the boundaries of metal since their inception in the late ’90s. On albums such as 2013’s Christs, Redeemers,...
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