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Yonatan Gat – Universalists (2018)
Usually when critics fawn over anyone “exploring different styles,” or “experimenting with cultural influences” they mean a pop musician who’s found some old Fela records and a dusty samba whistle. But...
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Hüsker Dü – Extra Circus EP (2017)
When Hüsker Dü lit out for the west coast a few days after Xmas 1982, they did so with twelve new songs in the chamber. The road-battered group arrived at Total Access in Redondo Beach the second week...
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Hüsker Dü – Everything Falls Apart (1983, Remastered 2017)
The reissue record label Numero Group has digitally released a newly remastered edition of an album by local punk/alternative rock legends Hüsker Dü. The album in question is “Everything Falls Apart”,...
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Dylan Carlson – Conquistador (2018)
Over the course of his tenure with the influential band Earth, Dylan Carlson has gathered a reputation as an innovator of drone rock. Yet as the evolution present in that band’s post-hiatus output and...
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Controlled Bleeding – Death in the Cameroon / Between Tides / Curd / Core /...
From the group’s inception in the mid-’70s onward, New York-based Controlled Bleeding have remained one of the most prolific and unpredictable American industrial bands, exploring the extremes of both...
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Wrekmeister Harmonies – The Alone Rush (2018)
J.R. Robinson’s Wrekmeister Harmonies project is known for releasing epic, often album-length pieces that build from tense, extraordinarily melancholy drones to skull-crushing doom metal, involving...
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The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer. (2018)
The Body have always resisted being categorized as a metal group, incorporating a vast array of influences ranging from opera and classical to contemporary pop and hip-hop while remaining as...
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Big Ups – Two Parts Together (2018)
Since releasing their 2014 debut album, Eighteen Hours of Static, Big Ups have wrestled with uncertainty. Whether it be the religious deceit that was the target of ‘’Wool’’ to the self-deception on...
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Wax Chattels – Wax Chattels (2018)
Wax Chattels bill themselves as a “guitarless guitar band,” which is a shorter way of saying that they make loud, taut noise rock without one of its customary ingredients: electric guitar. Instead, the...
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TAD – Quick and Dirty (2018)
Record Store Day Exclusive release consisting of live material from 1995 and unreleased studio tracks from 1999. “Live recording of the legendary band TAD captured on 2 inch analog tape in Seattle in...
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The Flaming Lips – Greatest Hits vol. 1 [Deluxe Edition] (2018)
The Flaming Lips revisit their trailblazing career with the band’s first greatest hits collection, a massive three-disc set spanning their entire Warner Bros. catalog. Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 boast all...
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Joan of Arc – 1984 (2018)
In 2017, 20 years and 20-some albums after their full-length debut, Chicago avant rockers Joan of Arc made their first appearance on a few of the Billboard side charts with the improvisation-based He’s...
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The Residents & Renaldo and the Loaf – Title in Limbo + 4 Daze (2017)
This re-release on the Klanggalerie label does not just offer a remastered edition of the 1983 album as it includes “4 Daze” as a bonus disc. “4 Daze” presents the original jam recordings from 1981...
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The Fall – The Fontana Years (2017)
Many Fall fans prize the band’s early material, while others find every last puzzle piece essential. The band’s violin-augmented late ’80s and early ’90s sometimes feels relatively forgotten, but look...
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Young Widows – Decayed: Ten Years of Cities, Wounds, Lightness and Pain (2018)
Over the course of a decade, Louisville, Kentucky’s Young Widows evolved from angular post-hardcore (having sprung from the ashes of the more metallic Breather Resist) to a moodier, more atmospheric...
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Cheer-Accident – Fades (2018)
Chicago has long been the home of pioneering freethinkers across a host of musical genres. The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) remain true originals in the improvised music...
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VA – Tokyo Flashback (1991, Remastered 2017)
Hideo Ikeezumi had worked in Japanese record stores for a decade when he realized “there was almost nothing coming out that I liked.” So in 1980, he started his own shop in Tokyo called Modern Music,...
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The Skull Defekts – The Skull Defekts (2018)
A bleak air of finality hangs heavy on the Skull Defekts‘ self-titled fifth album. Following their 2014 release Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown, things shifted dramatically for the band, with...
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The Fall – Levitate [Expanded Edition] (2018)
Levitate is the Fall‘s 19th album originally released in 1997 on Artful Records. It has been out of print for a number of years now and is much sought after by fans. It’s the last album to feature two...
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Amebix – Slovenia 1986 [No Gods No Masters] (2018)
The Novi Rock festival was held every year throughout the 1980s and 1990s in Križanke, Ljubljana, and was the biggest ‘alternative’ cultural event in Slovenia (Yugoslavia) at the time, attended by...
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