Solo artist and founder of River Girls tapes, Coleman Guyon a.k.a. Harry Talin, releases The Exciter — a lonesome journey of self-discovery built on disparate compositions of horns and synths.
Read moreW-X - Another Side of Tim Presley
White Fence releases a side project under the name of W-X, exposing his love for a good rap beat as well as his truly experimental side.
Read moreJames Ferraro - Skid Row
James Ferraro's Skid Row drops on November 13th and is inspired by the brutal reality of LA's ruthless culture. Skid Row provides a foray into black metal ballads built on the foundations of rap music.
Read moreNeon Indian - VEGA Intl. Night School
Neon Indian's LP3 is a risky ride through the nightlife that will keep you dancing without any hesitation. VEGA Intl. Night School is a place where late-night parties, socializing and finding yourself in decadent places (“Smut”) can teach you how to survive not just the nightlife but life in general.
Read moreHomeshake - Midnight Snack
Willis Earl Beal - Noctunes
The latest album from man of mystery, Willis Earl Beal, can only be listened to at night. Beal calls the album, "a perfect, and intentionally minimal, collection of lullabies that (he) often self-medicates with."
Read moreShannon and the Clams - Gone By The Dawn
Shannon and the Clams are vintage-rock greats and Gone By The Dawn is their best produced album to date, managing to sound like an underwater symphony inspired by heartache.
Read moreDām-Funk - Invite the Light
Dam-Funk is funk's modern-day ambassador, reminding people that the genre's progenitors were visionaries who wanted to make the world a better place, and Invite The Light is his magnum opus.
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Z's - Xe
There's so much joy in listening to music that at once sounds familiar and like nothing you've heard before. Zs challenge every perception of music as they put jazz through a blender to create Xe. It sounds harsh, but the organized confusion of it all turns to bliss with careful listening.
Read moreKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Quarters!
One of this year's best albums finds a freewheeling Australian psych band tightening up their sound to make us fall in love with jazz again.
Read moreGardens & Villa - Music For Dogs
Gardens & Villa's third album, Music For Dogs, finds the band more comfortable with creating experimental songs as they embrace the art-pop influence of Brian Eno.
Read moreDRINKS - Hermits on Holiday
The psych-maverick known as White Fence has teamed up with Cate Le Bon to form DRINKS, and their debut album, Hermits on Holiday, is the most unique thing we've heard all year.
Read moreMac DeMarco - Another One
Another One is timeless, and its songs will slowly, but surely, become classics from our generation.
Read moreTame Impala - Currents
“Let It Happen” could be Parker’s words to himself as he sorts through a break up, but to us they’re Parker’s way of advising that we open our minds to enjoy something new.
Read moreBobo - Smoke In The Elevator
Kari Jørgensen’s debut as Bobo, paints her as a pop-mistress with an appeal and mystique that’s immediately present.
Read moreGuantanamo Baywatch - Darling...It's Too Late
A third of the way through “Too Late”, just before the guitar solo, there’s a Phil Spector “Wall of Sound” moment that combines layers of reverberated vocals and guitar to the effect of hysteria – the kind of hysteria that has fans balling their eyes out, reaching desperately for the stage.
Read moreNosaj Thing - Fated
On Fated, Nosaj Thing keeps his production light and hazy finding a gray area between chill-wave and trap beats.
Read moreTuxedo - Number One
Tuxedo's marriage of funk and disco comes from their deep love for each genre's impact on modern day music.
Read moreAriel Pink ~ pom pom
Does a pop-genius in the 21st Century sound like this?
Read moreFoxygen - ...And Star Power
When I began listening to Foxygen’s debut album, I got a feeling of what it might’ve been like to hear a band as free and powerful as The Kinks for the first time, which felt incredible.
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