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Pixies – Doggerel (2022)
The Pixies’ comeback has coincided with a return to Doolittle-lite rancour and the surf-rock licks of Bossanova, atmospheric pull recently disinterred and applied to 2019 offering Beneath the Eyrie....
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Mamaleek – Diner Coffee (2022)
Diner Coffee, the seventh record by Mamaleek, opens with a real laugh riot: a cacophony of recorded voices erupting, stumbling over one another, overripe with pleasure. When a horde of guitars and...
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Gilla Band – Most Normal (2022)
Gilla Band’s first album since their name change feels transformative in more than just this way, owing to the band’s move away from recording live and into the realm of studio editing. It leads to a...
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Palm – Nicks and Grazes (2022)
Palm’s live performances are revered for their uncanny synchronicity; one gets the sense that, on psychic levels unseen, the members share an intuition unexplained by logic. But as the Philly-based...
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Witch Fever – Congregation (2022)
Delivering on hype is hard, and Witch Fever’s debut album Congregation is released to no shortage of hype – but with the exponential power and ethereal boldness this Manchester quartet possess, they...
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OXBOW / Peter Brötzmann – An Eternal Reminder of Not Today: Live at Moers...
On this recording from a live set at the Moers Festival in Germany, Oxbow are joined by saxophonist Peter Brötzmann. A compatibility between heavy rock or avant metal and high octane free jazz is...
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Killing Joke – Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (Deluxe) (2022)
16 years on from its deliverance, Killing Joke release the deluxe version of arguably one of their darkest albums to date, ‘Hosannas from the Basements of Hell’. In addition to the 9 bludgeoning tracks...
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Foo Fighters – The Essential Foo Fighters (2022)
As its title suggests, it traces the multiplatinum history of the band, which was the musical avenue Dave Grohl explored after his time as the drummer of Nirvana came to an abrupt end in 1994. The...
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Meat Wave – Malign Hex (2022)
Chicago’s Meat Wave is punk directness personified — in the slab-heavy weight of their name, the often two-syllable punch of their choruses (“Work force/Join now/Toll-free/Call now!”), and the clear...
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The Fall – The Light User Syndrome [Expanded Version] (2022)
…Iconoclassic label add another feather to its cap with a 2CD deluxe edition of The Fall’s lone album for Jet Records, 1996’s The Light User Syndrome. The Light User Syndrome was the 18th studio album...
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Yonatan Gat – American Quartet (2022)
Yonatan Gat’s American Quartet is a reimagining of Antonin Dvořák’s famed string quartet, one of the most popular works of chamber music in the classical repertoire, written while Dvořák was – like...
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T54 – Drone Attacks [Remastered and Expanded] (2022)
…re-mastered by Mikey Young, Melbourne, AU. “Julie K” is, perhaps, the money track from this retrospective, capturing the droning buzz, the rocketing propulsion, the echoey romantic ache at the heart...
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Filter – The Amalgamut [Expanded Edition] (2022)
When The Amalgamut was released in July 2002, Filter-and specifically its primary member, Richard Patrick-was at a crossroads. Formed in 1993 by Patrick (the first guitarist for Nine Inch Nails),...
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Shake Chain – Snake Chain (2022)
In this access-all era of music and the near-constant reinforcing of the status quo into quite narrow parameters, it’s not always possible to stumble upon something that catches you off guard. Hearing...
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Savage Republic – Africa Corps: Live at the Whisky a Go Go 30th December 1981...
The 40th anniversary of Savage Republic’s seismic debut LP Tragic Figures is certainly cause for celebration and after working closely with Real Gone Music on the recently released expanded reissue of...
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Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One [25th Anniversary Deluxe...
…digital deluxe version offering a smorgasbord of extras: the band’s 1997 Peel Session featuring live takes of “Autumn Sweater,” “Shadows,” and a 9-minute pass through “I Heard You Looking,” as well as...
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Roy Montgomery – Audiotherapy (2022)
Forty-one years ago, Roy Montgomery and his colleagues in the Pin Group helped launch a specular run of independently made, heard-‘round-the-world music issued by New Zealand’s Flying Nun label. A...
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The Young Gods – TV Sky (30 years Anniversary) (2022)
Released in 1992, ‘TV Sky’ was arguably the defining album for The Young Gods. Cited as an influential masterpiece by Tool, Nine Inch Nails and Faith No More among many others, this incredible record...
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The C.I.A. – Surgery Channel (2023)
Surgery Channel is the sophomore album from The C.I.A., the group formed in the late 2010s by modern garage rock hero Ty Segall, his wife Denée Segall and multi-instrumentalist Emmett Kelly of The...
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Gunslingers – Supreme Asphalt Doser (2022)
Calling your band Gunslingers is just asking for a world of trouble. Failure to deliver the badassery it implies practically guarantees ridicule. But if Supreme Asphalt Doser is anything to go by,...
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