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A near-perfect mini album from Zola Jesus which finds Nika Roza Danilova turning down the noisy experiments found in her earlier records and offering a set of gut-wrenching, pitch-black pop music. There are fragments of prime-period 4AD, elements of cold wave and British '80s pop, but what strikes us most is just how current and fresh Stridulum sounds. If Danilova can keep up this momentum for her next full-length, then we’ll be in for something very special indeed.
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Gonjasufi's unsettling, scuffed-voiced appearance on Flying Lotus' "Testament" was one of the most talked about tracks on FlyLo's Los Angeles album, and now comes his first full-length -- 20 tracks of gritty, psych-hop, exotic globe-trotting and soulful lo-fi rock. Joined by Gaslamp Killer and FlyLo again, you really can't stick a label on this music, as Gonjasufi is constantly traveling through genres and moods, walking a fine line between spiritual and paranoid.
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We were big fans of jj's nº 2 last year, in fact, we couldn't keep the CD in stock at Other Music u. Aptly titled nº 3 , the Swedish group's new album is another great, breezy set of Balearic-kissed indie pop, still full of twee melodies that could have come from a Sarah Records band, but with a slightly more melancholic feel than their debut.
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Originally released in 1972 in an edition of 300, one of the rarest and most rewarding cosmic jazz albums of all time is reissued for its first time! A group of Philadelphia musicians made up of Byard Lancaster, Khan Jamal, Monnette Sudler, Omar Hill, Dwight James, Rashid Salim and Billy Mill, SoL's funky yet spaced-out psychedelic jazz belongs in the same pantheon as Archie Shepp’s Blasé and Sun Ra’s Disco 3000. Recommended!
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Ted Leo and his Pharmacists make their Matador debut with "The Brutalist Bricks," delivering another great, politically charged set that displays a wider range of influences but is still brimming with punk spirit.
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Like an Arcade Fire tuned to AM radio in 1973, Montreal's Besnard Lakes return with their second album, awash in Jace Lasek's glass-cutting falsetto and a wall of mournful reverb, and the doleful memory of forty years or so of pop music, cut and pasted into challenging, instantly memorable slices. Moody, fragile, and dark, not afraid to bare its teeth, this is the sound that chases your winter away.
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Captivating and utterly compelling two-disc set of post-minimal piano works from Elodie Lauten, who was one of the central figures in the downtown music scene of the early eighties -- and still is today, for that matter. "Concerto for Piano & Orchestral Memory" features the wonderful playing of Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo.
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Produced by Guy Fixsen (Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Laika), Nerve Up is the album debut from Lonelady, the nom de plume of Julie Campbell, whose taut and terse songs pull from a wide scope of influences, including the raw emotion of PJ Harvey's early work and the cold bleak world of Joy Division, as well as a variety of other classic alternative and post-punk inspirations. All in all, a great entry in the burgeoning female-led art-rock scene.
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A trio of females who must have discovered Kleenex/LiLiPUT, early Slits, the Raincoats and the Fall during their formative years, Wetdog's second full-length is a concise take on post-punk/no/new wave revivalism. Full of simple melodies, heady, upfront bass lines and the spry, acerbic yips and curiously pleasant harmonies of guitarist and lead singer Rivka Gillieron, Frauhaus! zips through 14 jaunty tracks in 30 minutes, breathing new life into a genre full of re-treads.
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