The Go! Team celebrated 20 years of their debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike with a sold out Roundhouse show in February 2024. Capturing a band still at the height of their powers, this limited edition contains all the kaleidoscopic chaos and energy that make The Go! Team live such a unique experience.
Kicking off the performance with “Panther Dash,” an instrumental track from Thunder, Lightning, Strike, The Go! Team showcased a blend of influences ranging from indie, funk, hip-hop, folk, and mysticism. The track’s glorious trumpets elevated it to a status reminiscent of Beck’s “Sexx Laws.” Following this opener was the iconic “Ladyflash,” the song that introduced the world to The Go! Team. Reflecting on the setlist, one couldn’t…
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Originally released through Relapse Records, the album has been remastered by long time Unsane collaborator and engineer Andrew Schneider. Include the extra track “No Soul” which was originally released on Frank Kozik’s infamous Man’s Ruin label as a limited edition vinyl only release. Additionally the band has made available digitally this release’s original 6 song demo session recorded at AmRep Studios in Minneapolis.
New York City’s Unsane assisted in pioneering a more aggressive, less studied version of noise rock, one that blended the scum/art industrial sturm und drang of Foetus, the Swans, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Sonic Youth with the decidedly more straightforward hardcore idiom favored by acts like Sick of It All.
This release unearths a previously unreleased live recording from Boris’s 2019 US tour, captured shortly after the release of the single tears e.p and the album LΦVE & EVΦL.
Released in 2019, LΦVE & EVΦL is a conceptual work consisting of two contrasting yet intertwined albums. Following the heavy yet catchy Noise (2014) and the organic deepening of Dear (2017), the 2019 single tears e.p arrived as a pendulum swing toward pure popness, featuring collaborations with Narasaki (Coaltar Of The Deepers) and Shinobu Narita. Subsequently, the album LΦVE & EVΦL peered into the abyss of “heavy” even further-manifesting a world of saturated contours and gridless, intoxicating soundscapes that redefined…
With Live Archive Vol. 1: Going to Princeton 10/20/24, The Mountain Goats open the doors to what feels less like a conventional live album and more like a curated moment in their long-running relationship with their audience. Recorded at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, the set captures John Darnielle and company in sharp, confident form—relaxed enough to let songs breathe, but focused enough to give each one its emotional weight. The sound is clear and unforced, preserving the intimacy that has always defined the band’s best live performances.
The 21-song setlist spans multiple eras, moving effortlessly from deep cuts like “Idylls of the King” and “Raja Vocative” to live staples such as “This Year,” “No Children,” and “Heretic Pride.”
Dub techno runs in Brendon Moeller’s veins. For over 20 years, the South African artist has been one of the genre’s true workhorses, building up an intimidating discography under names like Echologist and Beat Pharmacy and applying the style’s pearlescent, pulsating aesthetic to a range of frameworks. (Case in point: One of his most powerful albums actually has no kick drums at all.) In recent years, Moeller’s music has sped up considerably, ratcheting up from 120 BPM house and techno rhythms to the 170 BPM thrust of drum’n’bass. He found a new identity in that tempo, divorced from the occasional baggage and sameyness that discouraged him early in his career. On Shadow Language, Moeller sounds like no one but himself, making some…
This release marks the second installment of the 20th anniversary project celebrating the original studio album Rainbow (2006). It documents a live performance recorded on February 8, 2019, at U.F.O. CLUB in Higashi-Koenji, Tokyo.
Michio Kurihara is a singular guitarist who has played a central role in Japan’s psychedelic rock scene through his work with YBO2, White Heaven, THE STARS, and other key projects. Rainbow, created and released in 2006 under the name Boris with Michio Kurihara, reaches its 20th anniversary this year. Since 2007, Kurihara has also joined Boris as a support guitarist on tours and live performances, while performing on several occasions under the Boris with Michio Kurihara name in parallel.
From October 2019 to July 2020, The Black Dog released a brand new track each month for their Patreon supporters. Freed from the high concept and overthinking of their early ’00s output, the Sheffield trio were able to work fast and loose, flitting freely between ambient, IDM and academic synthesis to paint a portrait of a particular time and space. The end result is oddly cohesive while still remaining full of twists, turns and surprises, becoming a psychospiritual ramble through some abstract, astral version of The Black Dog’s post-industrial hometown.
Consider “Porn Shop,” the first and most substantial track to seize your attention and draw you in. After creeping in with a drawn-out dubby intro, sounding something like walking down a long…
Since debuting in 2022, Dina Ögon have maintained a remarkable consistency, releasing a trio of smart, tightly crafted pop albums infused with Tropicalia, soul, and indie pop with a slightly retro feel. What’s more, they’ve done so on a schedule reminiscent of the ’60s, delivering a new LP annually through 2024.
That Människobarn, their fourth outing, is a double album is likely the only reason for their absence in 2025, and it’s worth the wait. Over 13 tracks, the Swedish quartet hones their signature mix, pairing intricate, sometimes cerebral melodies and grooves with a warm hi-fi sheen that recalls the heyday of ’70s studio craft. Highlight “Där huden är tunnast” is a perfect distillation of this, with its propulsive soft rock feel and…
Railcard is the meeting of some great musical minds who forged a union when they realized they were all born a few days within each other. The perpetrators in question are bassist Peter Momtchiloff, drummer and vocalist Ian Button, and guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist, Rachel Love. Momtchiloff is well known as the guitarist in Talulah Gosh and Heavenly, Button fronts Papernut Cambridge and drums for a large number of bands; it’s nice that these two are working together. What makes the band something of an even is the continuing return of Love, who was one third of ’80s indie pop legends Dolly Mixture. She’d been making records under her own name for a few years — very good ones — before teaming up with these other legendary figures in Railcard.
…JUNGLIST! Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle leans to Soul Jazz’s deep reggae-dub-dancehall roots with a treasurable haul of ’93-’95 joints covering the rapid evolution from hardcore to jungle and the seeds of D&B to come. It spotlights a countrywide phenomena never to be repeated at such scale, pulling up artists who would become household names for a brief window of time.
It’s super strong on the old skool heroes, namely M-Beat’s strongback steppers ’Surrender’ and ‘Rumble’, the sizzling dark/light rushes of Krome & Time’s Ruffneck Scouts’, and Bizzy B with the baddest cuts of Amen breakage in a ‘Big Things’ that now trades from upwards of £250, 2nd hand, and his cantankerous ‘Dub Select’, plus the needlepoint step sequencing of…
Slowly coming into view over the past two years through a succession of intriguingly diverse singles that stylistically ranged from doo-wop to ’70s troubadour balladeering, Tyler Ballgame gradually revealed himself, through both his songs and videos, to be a magnetic presence with an octave-vaulting voice.
His backstory proves to be equally compelling and unusual, involving stasis, depression and subsequent epiphany. During the pandemic, close to hitting 30, Tyler Perry was stuck living in his mother’s basement in New England, his early musical promise having led him to Berklee College of Music and then to flunk his course due to marijuana indulgence and poor attendance. After a period of singing in covers bands…
In a world where the surface has become a trope for glistering repetitions of self, pompous explosions of short-reeled extremes, digital debris and its ephemeral, disconnecting and intoxicating comfort, a form of distanced, attentive and (perhaps hauntological) listening can serve as an antidote to the madness of “being connected”.
Somewhere between Derrida’s, Deleuze’s and Fisher’s (post-)nostalgic ruminations lies the solace of silence and remoteness as a way of connecting and belonging. Rafael Anton Irissari’s Points of Inaccessibility is a line of flight towards this reconfiguration of reality and an exploration of the way the present is haunted by all the futures that never arrived.
The album’s core material was recorded as…
Most of us have had enough of winter now. But wait. Shout “Taxi” – here’s a band offering a balmy chink of summery light.
vegas water taxi, led by Ben Hambro, have spliced an EP from last year and an EP from last month to form one fantastic LP. long time caller, first time listener, their second album, follows 2023 debut things are gonna be alright and offers a joyful alt-country promise of a social life. Hambro has the sardonic cultural wink of Lou Reed and the melodic ear of The Lemonheads.
The album opens with ‘brat summer’, which imagines the police rounding up folk who hadn’t participated in Charli xcx’s world with the echo of the guitar line from Five’s Keep on Movin’. Backed by some great steel guitar,…
Since 2023’s Doom Loop, Dream Nails have changed. After slimming down to a three-piece, they’ve lost a bandmate but gained a new lead vocalist with bassist Mimi Jasson stepping into the role. Consequently, their third album, You Wish, feels different. On ‘The Only Way Is Through’, the opening guitar stabs and intensifying drums give way to a laid-back bassline and soothing vocals, rather than bursting into fury, while ‘This Is Water’ presents an infectious stream of dreamy alternative rock. ‘Organoid’ brings back that familiar anarchic intensity, with lyrics reflecting on the merciless march of technology, and the delivery flipping between detached acceptance and vicious emotional turmoil.
Modified vocals, notably on the thumping…
The fact that the London-based singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe, the great-great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, is, on her debut album Move On with the Year, probing into her unconscious to conjure up memories of her estranged father might seem too on the nose or a send-up.
Don’t worry, it isn’t either. Instead, it’s a gallant portrayal of a child of a parent battling substance abuse — in other words, it’s an indie pop record with a subject matter barely acknowledged, let alone expressed with such finesse and stoicism. Yet, despite the heaviness of its themes, you could be floating.
The post-war English poet Philip Larkin wrote, in his customary sardonic tone, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean…
A year on from Puma Blue’s low-key releases ‘antichamber’ and ‘extchamber’, and almost three from previous full-band record Holy Waters, Croak Dream comes with studio-based lore: that he – aka multihyphenate Jacob Allen – and production collaborator Sam Petts-Davies introduced parts of songs to the full band to work with in the room. Not a unique scenario, of course, but it just might be in this switch-up of Jacob’s working methods that the most interesting parts of his latest full-length lie.
For while his often melancholy, occasionally pretty, singing voice excels in projecting an inward-looking ennui (see ‘Heaven Above, Hell Below’ in particular for the OG jazz vibes, his use of vibrato and tone sitting in a cross-section…
Yamila Rios is a kind of sound vessel — a composer, singer, and cellist who has the ability to conjure ethereal beauty in multiple contexts, carving out a space where gauzy textures, elegant melodic gestures, an almost subversive rhythmic presence, and trippy incantations mingle, collide, and pull apart. While she makes drifty, ambient pop as Yamila, she’s also been actively collaborating with choreographers and dance companies. Despite placid surfaces, her music pulses with movement. Splitting her time between Madrid, in her native Spain, and Brussels, Belgium, Yamila has found strong collaborators in the Echo Collective, whose founding duo — violinist Margaret Hermant and violist Neil Leiter — has established it as one of the go-to string ensembles in…
While working on their second album, two members of Mandy, Indiana — the Mancunian quartet fronted by a French valkyrie named Valentine Caulfield — were faced with their own corporeality. Drummer Alex Macdougall underwent surgery for a hernia and, after doctors found a lump, had half of his thyroid removed. Caulfield lost most of her vision in one eye. The 10-hour days that comprised the recording sessions could have broken them. Instead, the band’s distinctive sound — an alloy of industrial, post-punk, and ’80s neo-noir soundtracks — emerged titanium-plated and electrified. URGH is both headier and more visceral than anything Mandy, Indiana have made before. This isn’t body music or brain music; it’s spine music, homed in on the bony…
