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Redeye – The Memory Layers (2015)

Of Redeye’s early years in Texas, remains an authentic accent, and a certain form of sun kissed melancholy. Scenic roads, infinite landscapes and a radient blues warming the soul. The 3rd album release from Redeye (April 2015), French export now Austin native, delves deeper into his alternative folk sound drenching it in a bit of psychedelia a la Cacophony Recorders (studio of producer/engineer Erik Wofford and projects like Bill Callahan, Black Angels, White Denim). The album, entitled ‘The Memory Layers’ sways from alternative folk to slowcore and bedroom pop journeying the listener across various emotional peaks and valleys.

Gurun Gurun – Kon B – (2015)

Novella – Land (2015)

William Fitzsimmons – Pittsburgh (2015)

Grasscut – Everyone Was a Bird (2015)

Composer/producer/ vocalist Andrew Phillips and manager/musician Marcus O’Dair (who wrote last year’s superb biography of Robert Wyatt) fuse themes, including identity, home, familiarity and ancestry, with an impressive if not immersive array of song, ambient textures and layered electronica.

Coming across like a mix of early Pink Floyd, classic Pet Shop Boys, Lemon Jelly, Nick Drake and extracts from the Bodleian Library catalogue, this is beautifully simple music – as much experimental as pop-oriented – with guest vocalists including Irish musicians Adrian Crowley and Seamus Fogarty.

Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs (2015)

O’Rourke is always clever and funny, but the driving force in his music is the art of the arrangement. Many of the greatest pleasures on Simple Songs come from how certain instruments are layered together, how the chords are voiced and the harmonic progressions unfold. The songs, played by O’Rourke and a cast of Tokyo-based musicians, are generally driven by guitar and piano, but strings, pedal steel, mandolin, horns, and woodwinds are all featured prominently. All of which is to say that Simple Songs is a subtle record that avoids extremes, which also makes it a record out of time.

Winter Villains – Once There Were Sparks, Now There Are Ashes (2015)

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"Apocalypse, girl" (Sacred Bones,2015)

The Orange Peels – Begin the Begone (2015)

The Orange Peels‘ long career dedicated to crafting beautiful adult pop music almost came to a grisly halt when the band’s Allen Clapp and Jill Pries were rear-ended by a drunk driver while they were on the way to a play a show. Luckily, they escaped with bumps and bruises and made it to the gig on time. The brush with death led them to return to the studio a bit sooner than planned and crank out their next album.

Heroin in Tahiti – Sun and Violence – (2015)

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Heroin In Tahiti return with “Sun And Violence”: a new, mammoth double LP which ideally stands for the technicolor version of their “Canicola” cassette, released in 2014 by No=FI Recordings.
As with the aforementioned tape, source and inspiration of “Sun And Violence” is Italian folklore and the work of ethnomusicologist Diego Carpitella in Southern Italy during the 50s.
This time, Heroin In Tahiti abandon the freaked out approach of the previous release, for an almost prog-infused sequence of psychedelic folk dances, spacey tarantellas,
twangy guitars, black market hymns and Joe Meek-style homages to the sinking of Costa Concordia.
An epic journey into the abyss of Mediterranean psyche, “Sun And Violence” is easily the most ambitious statement from the authors of “Death Surf”.

Sharon Van Etten – I Don’t Want to Let You Down [EP] (2015)

Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Broeder Dieleman – Split 7″ – (2015)

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Warpaint - No Way Out - I Start Believing (single,2015)

Daughn Gibson – Carnation (2015)

Lynchian retro-futuristic trucker-crooner Daughn Gibson will return this June with Carnation, his latest LP for Sub Pop and the follow-up to 2013’s great Me Moan. Gibson produced the album with Earth/Tim Hecker/Sunn O))) producer Randall Dunn, and a press release touts Raymond Carver, Tim Burton, and John Waters as inspirations. The album features guest appearances from composer/ violinist to Eyvind Kang (string arrangements), drummer Matt Chamberlain, as well as Gibson’s long-standing musical conspirator, Jim Elkington.

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar,2015)

On Multi-Love, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson reflects on relationships: airy, humid longing, loss, the geometry of desire that occurs when three people align. Where Nielson addressed the pain of being alone on II, Multi-Love takes on the complications of being together.UMO’s new album is out May 26th on Jagjaguwar.

Giant Sand - Heartbreak Pass

Alt-country luminaries Giant Sand are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1985 debut, Valley of Rain, with a brand-new album, Heartbreak Pass.

Sean Rowe – Her Songs (2015)

On April 28th, acclaimed singer-songwriter Sean Rowe will release an EP entitled Her Songs. The release presents songs written by six of Rowe’s favorite female artists – Sade, Cat Power, Neko Case, Regina Spektor, Lucinda Williams and Feist – and showcases the interpretive side of Rowe’s vocal and guitar work.

Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man (2015)

Ceremony’s fifth studio album, The L-Shaped Man, uses singer Ross Farrar’s recent breakup as a platform to explore loneliness and emotional weariness, but it is by no means a purely sad album. Rather than look inward, Farrar uses his experience to write about what it means to go through something heavy and come out the other side a different person. In order to tell Farrar’s story, Ceremony have almost completely stripped back the propulsive hardcore of their previous records, turning every angry outburst into simmering despair.