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Marching Church – Coming Down: Sessions in April (2016)
Marching Church, the brainchild of Iceage vocalist Elias Bender Rønnenfelt turned full band, have followed up their debut album This World Is Not Enough with Coming Down: Sessions in April, an EP of...
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Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session (1988, Remastered 2016)
Remastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound from original analog tapes. Released on SACD by Analogue Productions. Who says you can’t make a great record in one day — or night, as the case may be? The...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – Ensayo De Un Desaparecido + Chocolate Tumor Hormone...
Chocolate Tumor Hormone Parade is the third live album by Omar Rodríguez-López, and his sixteenth release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the fourth of the 2017 series. The album is...
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Anna Calvi – Live for Burberry EP (2017)
Burberry premiered its February 2017 collection for men and women, at its Makers House show venue in London on February 20. Anna Calvi performed the show’s live soundtrack from a balcony overlooking...
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PC Worship – Buried Wish (2017)
PC Worship are a few chromosomes shy of their own DNA strand. But the NYC band’s shakiness has long been key to their shredded charm. Since 2009, frontman Justin Frye has led shifting lineups through...
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Soundgarden – Ultramega OK [Expanded Reissue] (2017)
When Soundgarden released Ultramega OK in 1988, it came out a day before Sub Pop dropped Nirvana’s debut 7” and just a few months after Mudhoney’s first single. The cultural explosion of “grunge” was...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – Azul, Mis Dientes (2017)
Azul, Mis Dientes is the forty-third album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, released on March 10, 2017. It is the eighteenth release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the...
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Spectres – Condition (2017)
On their second album, Condition, the Bristol- based Spectres strip their noise rock sound back to the bare wires and torn-up insulation. Their previous album, Dying, had a layered, pummeling wall of...
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Parlor Walls – Opposites (2017)
Then the Bad Plus made their major label debut with These Are the Vistas in 2003, they generated heaps of praise for their supposed ability to capture a rock band’s energy in a jazz trio format. But...
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Papa M – Highway Songs (2016)
Highway Songs is former Slint guitarist David Pajo‘s return to making music under the Papa M moniker since the mid-2000s. A lot has happened in his life since then. Slint went on multiple reunion...
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Wire – Silver/Lead (2017)
Silver/Lead is the 15th studio album from musical pioneers Wire. It arrives on the 40th anniversary of their debut performance, and follows in the footsteps of 2016’s solid mini-LP Nocturnal Koreans....
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Lift to Experience – The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (2017 remix)
…the band set out to create a brand new mix of “The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads” with engineer Matt Pence 15 years after its original release. The album was originally recorded live to tape, and Matt...
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The Jesus and Mary Chain – Damage and Joy (2017)
On the final song of their last studio album, Munki, Jim and William Reid articulated a number of pressing concerns regarding their immediate situation. “I Hate Rock’n’Roll” captured The Jesus &...
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The Spirit of the Beehive – Pleasure Suck (2017)
The Spirit of the Beehive are great at creating their own weird little world. On their 2014 self-titled debut and 2015’s You Are Arrived (But You’ve Been Cheated) EP, the Philadelphia-based group...
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Gnod – Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial...
…On their newest album, Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Fascist Capitalist Death Machine Gnod join the ever growing list of musicians concerned with personhood, dehumanisation and physical...
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Pile – A Hairshirt of Purpose (2017)
Pile‘s new LP, A Hairshirt of Purpose, has a warmth to it that sets it apart from 2015’s, You’re Better Than This. Songs move slower, develop at their own pace, and leave space for Rick Maguire’s...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – Gorilla Preacher Cartel + Killing Tingled Lifting...
Gorilla Preacher Cartel is the 44th album by Omar Rodríguez-López, released on March 24, 2017. It is the 19th release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the 7th of the 2017 series....
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Guided By Voices – August By Cake (2017)
With their reunion in full swing following the release of last year’s Please Be Honest, Guided By Voices have teed up a new double album August By Cake. A whopping 32 tracks in length, August By Cake...
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Wolf Eyes – Undertow (2017)
After an unexpected dalliance with Jack White’s Third Man Records, Michigan’s Wolf Eyes (the official kings of trip metal) kicked off their Lower Floor Music imprint with their 2017 full-length...
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Male Bonding – Headache (2016)
If time heals all wounds, as anybody who has ever suffered heartbreak has been reassured, that’s scant comfort when time won’t move. On Male Bonding’s 2010 debut Nothing Hurts, a high watermark of the...
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