Aug 29, 2016

Ian William Craig


















Ian William Craig from the album 'Centres' available on 130701 / Fat Cat Records.




‘Centres’ is the stunning new album from Vancouver-based vocalist / composer Ian William Craig, and his first release for FatCat’s pioneering 130701 imprint (Max Richter, Hauschka, Dustin O’Halloran, Jóhann Jóhannsson, etc). Arriving on CD, digital and gatefold double vinyl editions, ‘Centres’ is actually Ian’s ninth full length album, the majority of which were self-released digitally or in limited cassette editions. His last two full lengths (‘A Turn of Breath’, 2014; and ‘Cradle for the Wanting’, 2015) were issued physically on the excellent Californian label, Recital Program and received glowing press and placements in numerous critics’ end of year lists (including Mojo / NY Times / Rolling Stone). The Guardian marvelled how “to be both wildly experimental and fantastically listenable is a skill that precious few people possess, but Craig has it … truly brilliant,” whilst Mojo remarked on "a blissfully disquieting choral suite, moving from the corroded cries of counter-tenor ghosts to a kind of abstract Buckleyesque hearbreak, as if some lovelorn romantic troubadour had been summoned forth from the recording of séances on old shellac 78s."

Ben Lukas Boysen


















Ben Lukas Boysen - Spells (Erased Tapes,2016)


Fiona Brice


















Fiona Brice - Postcards From (Bella Union,2016)


Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch (2016)


















Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones,2016)



The Raveonettes


The Mystery Lights


















From the debut self-titled album by The Mystery Lights, out on June 24th via Daptone Records.




Alex Cameron


















“Take Care of Business” from ‘Jumping the Shark’ by Alex Cameron, out August 19th on Secretly Canadian

Aug 21, 2016

Nedelja popodne...


















David West - Peace Or Love (Though Love,2016)



On 5th August, Tough Love will release Peace or Love, the second album to be issued under his own name. That can be either your starting point, or your continuation down a road.
The facts: Peace or Love is the follow-up to USA/Australia-based musical artist David West’s 2015 cassette release, Drop Out Of Collage. Peace or Love is a collection of songs stemming from wild and free bedroom four-track cassette recordings and personal hard drive sample raiding, with contributions from various musical friends in Perth, Western Australia and SF/LA, California. West draws inspiration from free-thinking artists of the past and present on this polyphonic platter, from soft indie strumming and free soundscapes, to disco and soul-pop. West currently plays in the guitar pop band Rat Columns, synth-pop project Liberation and post-punk trio Rank/Xerox, and has been in varied acts such as Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation, Total Control and Whalehammer.

Aug 20, 2016

Albums Of The Month: August 2016 | Rough Trade


Ryley Walker


'Golden Sings That Have Been Sung' by Ryley Walker, out August 19th, 2016 on Dead Oceans

Exploded View


'Exploded View' out August 19 (Sacred Bones)
New band from Berlin & Mexico City fronted by Anika.

Michael Kiwanuka


Aug 11, 2016

Preoccupations



Preoccupations  [Jagjaguwar, 2016]