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black midi – Cavalcade (2021)
Not content with simply opening the gates, they completely destroyed them. Leaving in the trailing smoke ample room, ready for the likes of Squid, Fontaines DC and Black Country, New Road to blossom...
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Cult of Dom Keller – They Carried the Dead in a U.F.O. (2021)
While so many bands of a psychedelic bent treat the genre as if it has been pickled in aspic since the swinging ’60s of London and San Francisco or maybe the motorik sounds of mid-’70s West Germany,...
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Scientists – Negativity (2021)
In the many years after Scientists split in 1987, the group’s leader Kim Salmon pursued a wide range of musical activities including solo work, psychedelic trip hop, acoustic folk, and noisy pop. When...
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Part Chimp – Drool (2021)
The grungy opening bars of ‘Back from the Dead’ launches the latest collection from Camberwell’s noisiest sons. It’s a felicitous pick given that Part Chimp generate a racket that could conceivably...
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Pere Ubu – 390° Of Simulated Stereo V.21c (RSD 2021)
Last released on vinyl in 1981. Long lost and simply breath taking live Ubu classic culled from 1981 recordings in Cleveland, London and Brussels featuring the band’s original line up. 01....
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The White Stripes – White Blood Cells [Deluxe Edition] (2021)
Following a celebratory vinyl release, a new digital version includes a full live performance of the album… The White Stripes‘ 2001 album White Blood Cells turns 20 this year, and having already...
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Birds of Maya – Valdez (2021)
Philadelphia noise-rock trio Birds of Maya record most of their no-frills, louder-than-a-jet-rocket songs in their small basement rehearsal space, with the amps cranked up to ten and a cheap tape...
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Bad Brains – Bad Brains (1982, Remastered 2021)
In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains’ recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering. More than one...
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T-Tops – Staring at a Static Screen (2021)
Few records this month or maybe even this year will reach the vintage of their street dates as locked and loaded as T-Tops’ Staring at a Static Screen. Coming nearly 6 years after the band’s eponymous...
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The Fall – Are You Are Missing Winner [Deluxe Edition] (2021)
The original album is appended with the six bonus tracks included on Castle’s 2006 reissue, which range from the excellent, venomous rocker “I Wake Up in the City” to a five-minute recording of the...
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The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin Companion (1999, Reissue 2021)
Over the Flaming Lips’ four-decade career, there was no more crucial turning point than the period spanning 1996 to 1999, when the Oklahoma group narrowly escaped their imminent fate as alt-rock...
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Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge [30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]...
…30th anniversary edition, remastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. The album sessions yielded a clutch of material that would subsequently appear on B-sides, compilations, and...
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Alexis Marshall – House of Lull. House of When (2021)
When Daughters returned from an extended hiatus in 2018 they caught many off-guard. Since their beginnings as an enthusiastic if distracted math-rock/grindcore act in the early 2000s, they’d been known...
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Brainiac – Attic Tapes (2021)
Musical polymath Tim Taylor shuffled off this mortal coil way back on 23 May 1997, killed in a car crash in his 30th year of life and his sixth or seventh year serving as the spiritual center and...
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Upper Wilds – Venus (2021)
Is all music a love song? Dan Friel, once of bludgeoning Parts and Labor, rides a surging mass of noise over anthemic melodies in this third album from Upper Wilds. He shouts and chants and intones...
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Body Breaks – Bad Trouble (2021)
Working remotely, Canadian duo Body Breaks forged an idiosyncratic sound with the unlikely combination of microtonal guitar leads and straightforward indie rock song structures. For debut album Bad...
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Media Jeweler – The Sublime Sculpture of Being Alive (2021)
Like an antenna that captures every fleeting thought, distraction, or incoming alert, Media Jeweler is a musical representation of the overstimulated 21st century mind. Their very name invokes the...
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Tropical Fuck Storm – Deep States (2021)
Many artists claim to have written albums reflecting the mood of the COVID-19 lockdowns, but perhaps no one is as well equipped to capture the swirling madness of mundanity than Tropical Fuck Storm....
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Pile – Songs Known Together, Alone (2021)
For the last 15 years, Rick Maguire has been making intensely emotive and sinuously melodic guitar music with his band Pile, building up a devoted fanbase along the way. Back in early 2020, Maguire was...
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Spirits Having Fun – Two (2021)
Spirits Having Fun make spindly, unpredictable music that dwells in the gray area between post-punk, jazz and math rock. With members based in both Chicago and New York City, distance-born...
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