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New Releases
Morrissey - I Am Not A Dog On A Chain CD/LP (BMG)
Morrissey kicks off the new decade with the release of his thirteenth solo studio album, I Am Not A Dog On A Chain. Lead single "Bobby, Don't You Think They Know?" features Motown legend Thelma Houston who is perhaps best known for her interpretation of "Don't Leave Me This Way" which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977. Houston commented, "One of the biggest joys for me in this business is getting the opportunity to collaborate with other top artists. I love the challenge to see if what I do can work with what they're doing. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. I think the blend of what Morrissey is singing and what I'm singing really works on 'Bobby." I Am Not A Dog On A Chain was produced by Grammy Award-winner Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, The Strokes, The Killers). "I have now produced four studio albums for Morrissey," said Chiccarelli. "This is his boldest and most adventurous album yet. He has pushed the boundaries yet again - both musically and lyrically. And once again proving that as a songwriter and singer, he is in his own category."
Kelsea Ballerini - Kelsea CD/LP (Black River)
Included in Rolling Stone's Most Anticipated Albums of 2020 list, this dynamic collection of Kelsea Ballerini's latest 13 songs is aptly self-titled - Kelsea - not surprising since this is her most authentically, self-aware reflection to date. Using songwriting as therapy, she explores everything from social anxiety to the importance of real friendships to new perspective on old heartbreaks to the realization that even the most independent, stubborn people need someone sometimes. [Vinyl is due 4/03]
Tré Burt - Caught It From The Rye CD/LP (Oh Boy)
Tré Burt is a singer-songwriter based in Sacramento, California and the newest signing to John Prine's Oh Boy Records. Caught It From The Rye showcases Burt's literary songwriting and lo-fi, rootsy aesthetic, which he honed busking on the streets of San Francisco and traveling the world in search of inspiration. Like his label mate and songwriting hero John Prine, Burt has a poet's eye for detail, a surgeon's sense of narrative precision and a folk singer's natural knack for a timeless melody.
Mapache - From Liberty Street CD/LP (Yep Roc)
Produced by longtime collaborator Dan Horne (Circles Around The Sun, Allah-Las), Mapache's new album, From Liberty Street, captures the Los Angeles duo at their finest, with Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch weaving airtight harmonies around stripped-down, organic arrangements that blur the lines between traditional folk and modern cosmic country. The songs here reckon with longing, desire, and change, and the arrangements draw on everything from Hawaiian-steeped surf and Mexican boleros (Blasucci spent two years living South of the border) to Bakersfield twang and lonesome cowboy campfire tunes, all delivered with the kind of easygoing charm and natural intuition usually reserved for blood brothers or married couples. It's an instantly engaging chemistry the two share, a captivating musical bond that mirrors the comfort, closeness, and camaraderie of the album's homespun roots. [The First Edition CD and vinyl LP of From Liberty Street includes a free Mapache air freshener in the packaging. Limited yellow vinyl pressing.]
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice CD/LP (World Circuit)
Rejoice is a very special collaboration between Tony Allen, the co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master of South African jazz. Having first met in the '70s thanks to their respective close associations with Fela Kuti, the two world-renowned musicians talked for decades about making an Afrobeat album together. According to Allen, Rejoice deals in a kind of South African-Nigerian swing-jazz stew, with its roots firmly in Afrobeat.
Roger Eno and Brian Eno - Mixing Colours CD/2xLP (Deutsche Grammophon)
Roger and Brian Eno explore the nature of sound in their first ever duo album, Mixing Colours. It is a major milestone in their ongoing creative collaboration featuring eighteen soundscapes that invite listeners to immerse themselves in the infinite space that lies below their surface. Mixing Colours grew over several years, with both artists drawing on their long experience as composers, performers and producers. The album creates bridges between the music's past and future. Roger's compositions evoke the yearning melodic style of late Schubert, while Brian's sound design draws from his ground-breaking conceptual work with electronic music and lifelong fascination with the creative potential of new media.
Moaning - Uneasy Laughter CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
What happens when an abrasive rock trio trades guitar for synths, cranks up the beats and leans into the everyday anxieties of simply being a functioning human in the 21st century? The answer is Uneasy Laughter, the new album from Los Angeles-based Moaning. The trio points to first single "Ego" as an embodiment of this evolution. Singer-guitarist Sean Solomon admits Uneasy Laughter could have gone in quite another direction had he not gotten sober and educated himself on such core subjects as gender and mental health. "I did a lot of reading in the tour van - authors like Bell Hooks, Mark Fisher, and Alain de Botton, all really inspired me. I don't want to be the person who influences young people to go get high and become cliché tragic artists," he says. "What I'd rather convey to people is that they're not alone in what they think and how they feel. 'Ego' specifically and the album overall is about those themes - letting go of your bullshit so you can help other people and be present."
Wax Machine - Earthsong Of Silence CD/LP (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
Brighton's Wax Machine are a band so steeped in the kernel of psychedelic seep that there's every indication they may have slipped through a side door in spacetime and sprouted anew a few years back on the UK coast. On Earthsong Of Silence, their eclecticism incorporates spiritual jazz, krautrock, tropicália and library music, borrowing from dreams and trances to give life to a psychedelic experience that feels hauntingly familiar, yet strikingly new.
Sea Wolf - Through A Dark Wood CD/LP (Dangerbird)
Everything is alright now. Alex Brown Church - the man behind the dark folk, indie rock band Sea Wolf - wants you to know that from the start. Sea Wolf's fifth LP, Through A Dark Wood, proves it in 11 textured, sometimes-acoustic, sometimes-electronic, unabashedly honest tracks. But beforehand, everything was decidedly not okay. Church wrote and recorded an entire album after 2014's streaming-only, stripped down album Song Spells No. 1: Cedarsmoke, but decided to scrap it. He realized those songs lacked a through-line and felt conceptually disjointed, something he attributes to a sense of denial of what had been going behind the scenes - dealing with the disintegration of a long-term relationship, reconciling with the death of an estranged parent, and trying to cope with the magnitude of current events, all while maintaining a passionately beloved, yet slow-burning creative career. So Church mustered his courage to go back to the drawing board. Starting from scratch, he spent months in his northeast Los Angeles studio writing, singing, tracking, and producing the new set of Sea Wolf songs that comprise Through A Dark Wood. The result is a catharsis record, not merely a breakup record - one that highlights power in vulnerability and bravery in the face of fear. [Limited indie store exclusive vinyl pressing.]
Tower Of Power - Step Up CD/2xLP (Artistry Music)
New album from the horn-based hybrid band of East Bay soul/funk/R&B/rock.
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter CD/LP (Xodus Productions)
Dark Matter is an album by a young auteur, threading several thrilling musical traditions into a bold new tapestry: the raw energy of grime and Afrobeat and the rolling club rhythms of the London underground, combined with the freewheeling creativity and collaborative spirit of his jazz training. The project is deviating even more away from jazz, leaning towards electronica and relying on hip-hop production.
Lola Marsh - Someday Tomorrow Maybe CD/LP (Verve)
Lola Marsh are vocalist Yael Shoshana Cohen and multi-instrumentalist and producer Gil Landau. The duo creates music that combines clever lyrics with deep warm harmonies. Together with their five-piece live band, they first made waves at Primavera Sound in 2014, following which the duo immediate gained industry attraction. Their sophomore album, Someday Tomorrow Maybe, is a collection of twelve gorgeous songs with compelling hooks. [Limited red colored vinyl pressing.]
Myrkur - Folkesange CD/LP (Relapse)
Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her eponymous debut EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015's M and 2017's Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie's Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive. With the release of her new album, Folkesange, Bruun has set out to journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her childhood. It relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect. [Limited indie store exclusive vinyl pressing.]
Lucifer - Lucifer III CD/LP (Century Media)
New album from the multinational heavy metal band.
Reissues & From The Archives
Game Theory - Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript CD/LP (Ominivore)
Throughout the 1980s, the California based Game Theory was one of the most original (and critically acclaimed) indie-rock bands. Their blend of '60s and '70s pop influences such as Todd Rundgren and Big Star coupled with a post-punk energy led to a string of diverse albums - nearly all produced by Mitch Easter of Let's Active. Circa 1989-90, the band was rejuvenated with leader Scott Miller being joined by the legendary Michael Quercio from The Three O'Clock (who had recently broken up). Other interesting line-up changes included longtime Game Theory drummer Gil Ray moving over to guitar and keyboards, while Miller's former Alternate Learning bandmate (the original template of Game Theory) Jozef Becker, formerly of True West and Thin White Rope, joined as the drummer. Jozef is the brother of Game Theory's original keyboardist, Nan Becker. Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript compiles the final recordings from this line-up and features commercially unissued tracks (one previously included on a fan club-only release).
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film [Reissue/1999] CD/2xLP (Fat Possum)
Reissue of the first solo album by Rowland S. Howard. Former The Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey contributes drums, organ and guitar, while Brian Hooper of The Beasts of Bourbon features on bass guitar.
Freddie King -Blue Journey 3xCD (Sunset Blvd)
30 tracks. Over 3 hours of prime Freddie King in concert from the '70s.
Def Leppard - On Through The Night [Reissue/1980] CD/LP (Mercury)
Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry [Reissue/1981] CD/LP (Mercury)
Def Leppard - Early Years 5xCD (Mercury)
Digitally remastered CD and vinyl editions of Def Leppard's first two albums. [The Early Years five-CD box set consists of the original albums plus B-sides, rarities and remix versions, Radio One sessions, Live From Reading and the first ever appearance of an unreleased and newly mixed show from Oxford in 1980.]
Dio - Angry Machines [Reissue/1996] CD/LP+7" (BMG)
Dio - Magica [Reissue/1996] CD/LP+7" (BMG)
Dio - Killing The Dragon [Reissue/2002] CD/LP+7" (BMG)
Dio - Master Of The Moon [Reissue/2004] CD/LP+7" (BMG)
Remastered CD and 180gm vinyl LP reissues of Dio's last four albums: Angry Machines (1996), Magica (2000), Killing The Dragon (2002), and Master Of The Moon (2004). [Limited vinyl pressings includes a bonus 7" single and lenticular LP sixed print.]
Enslaved - Blodhemn [Reissue/1998] CD (Osmose)
Enslaved - Mardraum -Beyond The Within- [Reissue/2000] CD (Osmose)
Enslaved - Monumension [Reissue/2001] CD (Osmose)
CD reissues of the fourth, fifth and sixth albums from the Norwegian heavy metal band.
New on Vinyl
Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade - Live Frog Setes 1 & 2 3xLP (Prawn Song)
From the warped mind of Primus' frontman comes the official release of Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade's Live At The Great American Music Hall. This two-set, 12 track collection was recorded live over two nights in San Francisco and is available for the first time ever on a trio of vinyl LPs. [Limited translucent green splatter colored vinyl pressing also available.]
Animal Collective - Ballet Slippers 3xLP+MP3 (Domino)
Animal Collective releases the live album Ballet Slippers in honor of the 10-year anniversary of their modern classic, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Recorded in the midst of the band's extensive and acclaimed nine-month tour in '09, the album features Merriweather's greatest hits alongside favorites from Strawberry Jam, Sung Tongs, Feels, and Danse Manatee. The release is culled from several shows from that album's North American tour and sequenced to reflect a full concert experience, complete with song transitions and interludes, creating a captivating document of the genre-defying group.
The Revivalists - Made In Muscle Shoals 12" (Loma Vista)
Made In Muscle Shoals finds The Revivalists down at the hallowed Fame Studios offering up re-imagined takes of some of the soulful anthems from their 2018 studio album, Take Good Care including the mega hit "Wish I Knew You", plus the Bee Gees cover "To Love Somebody" and new song "Bitter End".
Rustin Man - Clockdust LP+MP3 (Domino)
Having waited 17 years for 2019's Drift Code, some may be surprised at Clockdust's swift arrival, but the album's roots can be found in the same extended sessions. Realizing that Paul Webb had two albums worth of material he took great pains to ensure that each album would stand alone. Idiosyncratic and quietly haunting, Clockdust is seeped in sepia-tinted nostalgia, "a powerful force of nature," Webb states, "up there with love and desire." The album blurs the boundaries between past and present. Webb insists that he prefers to live in the here and now, but in looking back he's found a magical, mesmerizing manner in which to forge a path forward: for him, for his music, and for his audience. [CD edition due March 27.]
Lapsley - Through Water LP (XL Recordings)
Through Water is the follow-up to Låpsley's acclaimed 2016 debut Long Way Home. The album marks the artist's coming-of-age, melding richer textures with confident songwriting. [Deluxe vinyl edition adds a poster.]
Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty - Visions LP (Mr. Bongo)
A new collaborative album from BadBadNotGood co-founders, Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty. Almost all the tracks on Visions are the first take. Tavares is on piano and guitar, Whitty on saxophone and flute. The rhythm section of Julian Anderson-Bowes on bass and Matthew Chalmers on drums completes the players.
Pantha Du Prince - Conference Of Trees CD/2xLP (Modern Recordings)
Conference Of Trees was conceived, says German artist Pantha Du Prince, aka Hendrik Weber, to translate the sound of the forest into music. "With this project we want to give a new meaning to the forest and the trees in our immediate surroundings and emphasize its value and intelligence", said Weber. "Without forests we would not exist as humans on this planet".
Fool's Ghost - Dark Woven Light LP (Prosthetic)
Comprised of Nick Thieneman (Young Widows, Breather Resist) and Amber Thieneman (Liberation Prophecy, Sandpaper Dolls), Fool's Ghost is a band small in number but vast in scope. Dark Woven Light is their new year missive, evoking stark landscapes and barren vistas. The 10-track album was recorded in 2018, in their hometown of Louisville, KY with producer Kevin Ratterman (Emma Ruth Rundle, Jaye Jayle, Jim James) at the helm. Cinematic and atmospheric by nature, Dark Woven Light is heavy music distilled through a crystalline lens. [Limited colored vinyl pressing.]
Jolie Holland - Escondida [Reissue/2004] 2xLP (Cinqefoil)
Originally released in 2004 to wide critical acclaim, singer/songwriter Jolie Holland's album Esconidida is now available as a limited-edition vinyl-only release. This special 15th anniversary edition has been remastered for vinyl.
Wiki - Oofie LP (Wikset Ltd.)
Wiki, the New York-based rapper, is best known for once being a member of New York
City-based hip hop group Ratking with rapper-producer Sporting Life and rapper Hak. He was also a member of Secret Circle with rappers Antwon and rapperproducer Lil Ugly Mane. Oofie is his sophomore album.
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain 2LP (Thrill Jockey)
Lightning Bolt's 4th album has been unavailable for nearly a decade since its 2005 release. Back as a double LP including a full drawing by Brian Chippendale as the D side Etching! The package includes a large scale 4-page book (previous pressings included a cd size book). Recorded at Machines with Magnets and Lightning Bolt's home by Dave Auchenbach. Lightning Bolt play with abandon that is unmatched and remarkably undiluted and this album is just one more example of that raw power and sound. Limited edition Hypermagic Red pressing.
Cocteau Twins - Garlands [Reissue/1982] LP+MP3 (4AD)
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand [Reissue/1986] LP+MP3 (4AD)
Vinyl reissues of Cocteau Twins first and fourth albums.
The Pop Group - Alien Blood LP (Mute)
The Pop Group - y Live LP (Mute)
Standalone vinyl releases of influential British post-punk band The Pop Group's Alien Blood and y Live, which were previously only available as part of the box set y.
Embrace - Drawn From Memory [Reissue/2000] LP (Craft Recordings)
Embrace - If You've Never Been [Reissue/2001] LP (Craft Recordings)
Following in the footsteps of Oasis and the Verve, Embrace became a late '90s pop sensation in post Brit-pop Britain. Their second and third albums are back in-print on vinyl.
Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow - Life Goes On LP (ECM)
Recently released on CD - now available on vinyl. A striking album of new music from pianist/composer Carla Bley, whose trio with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow is now in its 25th year. Life Goes One was realized in the Auditorio Stelio Molo Studio in Lugano in May 2019 with Manfred Eicher producing, and is comprised of three suites. This trio has a unique collective sound, reflecting - as The Telegraph recently noted - "musical mastery of a rare order."
Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk [Reissue/1962] LP (Alternative Fox)
Detroit-born trumpeter Donald Byrd was one of the most expressive players on his instrument. Recording for leading jazz labels such as Savoy and Blue Note from the late '50s, he collaborated with Cannonball Adderley, Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, and Herbie Hancock. The 1962 Blue Note release The Cat Walk was a critical success; most songs were written by pianist Duke Pearson, who also makes a crucial musical contribution, along with understated drummer Philly Joe Jones, relaxed strolling bass from Laymon Jackson, and rousing sax from longstanding collaborator, Pepper Adams.
Thelonious Monk Quartet - Live in Amsterdam LP (Naked Lunch)
The legendary Thelonious Monk Quartet's appearance at the world-famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in May 1961. The high priest of bop, one of the most important, if enigmatic figures in modern jazz together with three of his main disciples, tenor sax specialist Charlie Rouse and the ultra-dynamic rhythm section of double bassist John Ore and drummer Frankie Dunlop, in a wonderful performance based on super tight renditions of classic tunes such as "Jackie-ing", "Straight No Chaser", "Crepuscule With Nellie", and "Rhythm-a-Ning".
Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox [Reissue/1978] LP (Ndeya)
An exciting combination of sunshine pop, bubblegum Hailed as one of the 50 best ambient albums of all time by Pitchfork, Vernal Equinox was the debut of a pioneering new form of music that would become known as 'fourth world': a subtle blend of field recordings, electric jazz, ambience and global music influences. Hassell's trademark FX-soaked trumpet is carefully embellished by a studio ensemble including the master Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos and David Rosenboom on synth. The result is a quiet, meditative and highly original work of outstanding beauty. [CD edition due March 27.]
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume III [Reissue/1997] LP (Friday Music)
180gm translucent red audiophile vinyl.
Elvis Presley - From Elvis Presley Boulevard Memphis, Tennessee Recorded Live [Reissue/1976] LP (Friday Music)
180gm audiophile burgundy red colored vinyl pressing.
Santana - Borboletta [Reissue/1974] LP (Friday Music)
180gm audiophile vinyl reissue. After some hot live performances and subversive jaunts made in the aftershock of Woodstock, Santana and his band entered the calm atmosphere of the recording studio in 1974 to make their sixth album Borboletta. [Translucent blue colored vinyl pressing.]
Bread, Love and Dreams - Amaryllis LP (Magic Box)
A reissue of the 1971 album. The last album by this Scottish act (consisting of David McNiven and Angela Rew) is one of the most collectable acid folk albums ever made. As well as the epic title track, it also features four superb shorter songs, with expert backing from musicians including Danny Thompson and Terry Cox of Pentangle. Includes two postcards.
Barnabus - Beginning To Unwind 2xLP (Rise Above Limited)
Barnabus was a band from the West Midlands/Warwickshire region of the UK, who were active between the years 1970-73. During that they built up a local reputation and recorded an album of heavy-duty material in late 1971, which has never seen the light of day until now. [Limited colored vinyl pressing.]
Various Artists - Wild Chile! A Collection of Rare and Wild 60's Chilean Rock 'n' Roll LP (Pinche Discos)
A new installment of the Wild series, focused on wild, untamed Latin American rock n' roll from the '60s. In Wild Chile! you'll find, of course, wild rock n' roll but also crazed out twist, soul stompers, and a few fiery Instrumentals to boot. If you know the previous two volumes of this series you know what to expect: a record perfectly designed to make your next party explode, pure dynamite! Features Willy Monti & Los Tiburones, Los Atomos, Pepe Pato & Los Stereos, Los Primos, The Blue Splendor, Alan Y Sus Bates, Los Harmonic's, Los Caporales, Los Stereos, Flash Galindez, Los Beat 4, The Ramblers, Los Minimas, and Los Diablos Azules.
Various Artists [Elaquent] - Forever is A Pretty Long Time LP (Mello Music Group)
As with all brilliant producer compilation albums, the Guelph, Ontario-based Elaquent vividly constructs his own world. It's the hip-hop equivalent of that old question: who would you want to invite to your dream dinner party if you had the chance? But instead, it's the lab, and the visitors include a murderer's row of underground MCs including Oddisee, Blu, Chester Watson, Cavalier, and Guilty Simpson. The curation is impeccable, but more than that, it creates its own orphic sense of magic.
Various Artists - Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2 2xLP (Kompakt)
With Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2, curator Jörg Burger has intensified his vision for this new series of compilations on Kompakt. The music he's collected here has a unique vibration, perhaps an audio equivalent to the legendary acid Western films of the 1960s and 1970s, when the wild frontier logic of the western met the consciousness-altering psychedelia of the counterculture. Velvet Desert Music is Burger exploring possibilities: what happens when you extract the essence from genres as diverse as spaghetti Western soundtracks, moody lamp-lit pop, downtempo, krautrock, minimalism, classic '60s psychedelia, and more, and let their scents intermingle, Des Esseintes-style?
Inoyama Land - Danzindan-Pojidon [Reissue/1983] LP (We Release Whatever The F*ck We Want)
Vinyl reissue of Japanese duo Inoyamaland's quintessential ambient/environmental/electronic album Danzindan-Pojidon.
Container - Scramblers LP (Alter)
LP version. Transparent blue vinyl. Whilst the music of Container sits perfectly fine within dance music, years on the US noise circuit have given Schofield's brand of techno a rawness and direct intensity that stands out in the club and crosses over into other sub-sections of the underground. His modest set up of Roland MC-909, a four-track porta studio and an array of pedals allowed him to hone his scuzzy and bewildering beat music over the years. The eight tracks here have their origins in live performance and a more high-octane delivery is noticeable when compared with previous Container albums. Fierce electro cuts like "Trench" and "Nozzle" work alongside the nauseous slink of "Duster", which in typical Container fashion morphs into a frenzy in no time.
Various Artists - Still in My Arms: Compiled by Bayu and Moopie LP (A Colourful Storm)
Label head Moopie and digger extraordinaire Bayu shine light on a set of gems excavated from a curious period of IDM-electronica. The sentimental sequel to their stunning I Won't Have To Think About You compilation, the ten tracks float in melancholic space yet sound beautifully human. Neo Ouija alumni Bauri and Plod meet deFocus' own Lackluster, while Abfahrt Hinwil, the legendary duo of Toytronic boss Chris Cunningham and Martin Haidinger exchange a letter of melody with Multiplex. Includes a previously minidisc-only(!) track by Proem and a superb cut by Merck Records' own MD, aka Jaakko Manninen.
Various Artists - Taiwan Disco LP (Aberrant Records)
Disco divas, funky queens, and glam ladies in '70s and early '80s Taiwan! Due to its extremely complex history, Taiwan in the '70s saw the creation of some incredibly special music in which the sounds being created at the moment from the west collided with the special sensitivity of Taiwanese musicians, creating a delicious mixture you'll need to hear to believe. Taiwan Disco shines a light on the music created by Taiwanese women during those years ('70s and early '80s) to present a mind-blowing collection of songs with sounds ranging from wild funk to apace glam, exotic disco or fuzzed-out soul. Here's the ticket to some crazy Taiwan nights, get those dancing shoes ready, it's time to shake it!
Electric Sewer Age - Contemplating Nothingness LP (Hallow Ground)
The Electric Sewer Age project was originally started anonymously by the late Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson together with Coil affiliate and seasoned remixer Danny Hyde, who continued the project together with John Deek. In Hyde's solo work as Electric Sewer Age, he explores the vast open space between dark psychedelic aesthetics, with a postmodernist approach that is deeply rooted in studio practice and sampling. Disembodied voices mingle with subdued rhythms, muffled harmonies, or menacing string themes as Hyde conjures up traditional and contemporary production techniques and genres like plunderphonics or early vaporwave. Throbbing industrial gives way to jazz-inflected quasi-rap, autotune balladry and ethno ambient, before closing on eerily alienated synth pop sounds and a stunning exercise in psychedelic minimalism.
Vladislav Delay - Multila (2020 Remaster) 2LP (Keplar)
Multila was the third album by Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti under the moniker Vladislav Delay, compiling the Huone and Ranta 12" EPs released on Chain Reaction in 1999 and 2000. The album features six hauntingly murky dub ambient tracks and the impressive 22-minute techno odyssey "Huone".'-Multila is constructed from fragments of experience, moments without definition or localization are captured within tiny fragments of time and then within one's mind space. As we receive that data, again and again, we are connected and reconnected to certain indefinable moments.' -Vladislav Delay