This is an intriguingly hard-to-pin-down debut from London’s Curbside Lambsear, AKA Magdalena McLean and Annabelle Mödlinger. Having met while playing in the (still active) art punk band The Umlauts, the duo assembled this lengthy EP in a patchwork fashion. You wouldn’t know it. There’s a coherent sense of purpose to these five tracks, as well as a free-roaming attitude when it comes to genre.
The post punk-tinged opener, ‘No Ordinary Word’, slouches in on heavy-limbed drums and thick, dubby bass, Mödlinger’s insouciant vocals painting a picture of nebulous malaise. “Can’t fight, I’m reeling / it creeps back up, everyday,” she intones, before pleasingly grotty guitar riffs tear through the track and McLean – her voice often…
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Whatever’s in the water in Ireland right now needs to be studied. 
As a duo, 
…This deluxe reissue returns Paulusma’s celebrated debut to the spotlight, pairing the original 11-track album with five bonus recordings from the same prolific writing period. Three of these – ‘Orion’s Belt’, ‘Two Stars’, and ‘Leave Your Keys’ – originally appeared as sought-after B-sides during the album’s 2004 single campaign, while ‘My Errant Knight’ and ‘Pentecostosis’, written and recorded alongside the album itself, are released here for the very first time.
On 
About a decade passed between the release of Australian artist 
Amid the praise lavished on their roistering live shows, 
It’s not a coincidence that 
For the most recent offering on Easy Eye Sound, the Swiss-Ecuadorian siblings Hermanos Gutiérrez wanted to craft an instrumental love letter to South America. The resulting ten-track breezy affair, Los Ojos Del Cóndor, is an elegant journey through these soundscapes.
…includes two unreleased tracks, era singles, and full-album demos.
…includes 3 intimate acoustic tracks (“Fall in Fall Out”, “I’m Breaking Out”, and “A Black Moon”)
Even at her most austere and experimental, 
In 
A molten extension of Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth, the Stooges’ drill-press rhythms, and early Dinosaur Jr., 
In the seven-year gap between her second LP, Midnight, and her next album, Stef Chura broke off an engagement, left her home state and roots in the Detroit indie scene for places south, gave birth to her first child, and then eventually returned to Detroit. In the meantime, she headed back to the studio with songs in hand that bear the bruises of someone who has a few hard-won life lessons under their belt but is still trying to make sense of it all. The album was recorded at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, Georgia with none other than the Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider, celebrated for his production work with Neutral Milk Hotel, among others. He both produced and played on the album. (Schneider had long been teaching theoretical math…
…remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road. A 2CD deluxe edition offers an interesting selection of bonus tracks (20 in total) including previously unreleased David Kosten mixes of some album tracks, unheard demos and BBC live sessions and recordings.
Jimmy LaValle’s The Album Leaf delivers