MOURN "Your Brain Is Made Of Candy"

Kasaba (1998), Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Letter (1940), William Wyler

Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again – (2015)

A Place to Bury Strangers – Transfixiation (2015)

Disappears – Irreal (2014)

Complex and conceptual Chicago outfit Disappears didn’t manage to issue any new material in 2014, but it’s been announced that the krautrock-loving crew will materialize again early next year via the release of their fifth full-length, Irreal.
A press release confirms that Kranky will have the album out in stores January 19. As with 2013’s Era, the upcoming eight-song LP was recorded with producer John Congleton at Chicago’s esteemed Electrical Audio facility.
Disappears’ latest LP is described as “a master class in texture, pace and control,” with the album apparently featuring “imperfect melodies” and post-punk arrangements that “collapse onto each other.” Thematically, Irreal weighs in on “eternalism, roboethics [and] identity.”

Björk – Vulnicura (2015)

The Pop Group - Mad Truth

The single 'Mad Truth' is taken from the Paul Epworth produced 11-track album Citizen Zombie, their first album in 35 years, to be released through Freaks R Us on Monday February 23rd 2015.

“Even I am shocked by the album. It really flips the script. Expect the unexpected. Let the freak flag fly.” Mark Stewart, 2014

Silver Servants – Silver Servants (2014)

The collection of artists that have made up the Second Language roster since the label’s inception in 2009 have never shied away from collaboration or exploring shared ideas, whether it be through a myriad of themed compilations or via the direct intermingling of musicians across separate albums.  This new – but long-in-the-works – project takes such creative collectivism another step further, into deeper and broader integration, with a Second Language ‘super-group’ trading under the name of Silver Servants.
Originally hatched out of semi-improvised sessions from 2010 and 2012 in London’s Soup Studios before finally being nipped and tucked into place earlier this year by co-producers Glen Johnson (Piano Magic) and Oliver Cherer (Dollboy), this eponymous Silver Servants set is a kaleidoscopic yet cohesive collection of songs and instrumentals.

Elephant Micah – Where in Our Woods (2015)

Where in Our Woods, the 12th Elephant Micah album and the first for Western Vinyl, is defined by its limited palette.By day, Elephant Micah’s Joseph O’Connell works as a folklorist, documenting the local culture of southern Indiana and other Midwest regions. Not surprisingly, his songs seem to emerge from habits of travel and observation. Their account of the phenomenal world is as vivid as it is mysterious, equal parts ethnographic fact and fable.
For the past 14 years, O’Connell has quietly self- released his music, sometimes collaborating with the psych-folk imprint Time-Lag Records or other very small labels. Despite the project’s almost secretive status, Micah has repeatedly caught the attention of NPR, and has been championed by an impressive cohort of like-minded artists including Jason Molina, Hiss Golden Messenger, and Hurray for the Riff Raff.

Blair Jollands – Half Life (2015)

Viet Cong - "Silhouettes"

Áine O’Dwyer – Music For Church Cleaners (Vol. I and II) – (2015)

Leviafan(Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)

The stunning new film from modern Russian master Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, Elena), LEVIATHAN is a gripping parable of class, faith and corruption, centering on a land dispute between a small-time mechanic and his local authorities that reaps unimaginable consequences.

Izgnanie( Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2007)

On the heels of his award-winning 2003 feature debut The Return, filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev struggles to avoid the sophomore slump with this art-house crime drama concerning two brothers struggling to keep their lives together in the face of certain disaster. Soon after extracting a bullet from his brother's arm, Alex (Konstantin Lavroneko) relocates his family from the city to his father's old house in the countryside. As the family settles into their rustic existence, Alex's wife Vera (Maria Bonnevie) reveals that she is pregnant by another man.

Vozvrashchenie (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)

Labelled as heir to Tarkovskii, Andrei Zviagintsev has recently risen to fame as the winner of two Golden Lion Awards of the 2003 Venice IFF. Zviagintsev never trained as a director, but is an actor by profession; and this is debut film. Nevertheless, the critics’ and audience responses unanimously labelled Zviagintsev the new Tarkovskii, and compared the film The Return with Ivan’s Childhood, which had won the Golden Lion in 1962, largely because of the religious symbolism of the film and the construction of frames that imitate the compositions of renaissance depictions of Christ.

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, 2014)

A critical favorite and word-of-mouth sensation at this year's Cannes Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, this wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish family-handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their two blond, pre-teen children-on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down.

Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014)

Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is an actress at the peak of her international career who is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years earlier. Back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young woman who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena.

Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love (2015)

... Ufff...Album of the month ...

Two separate, intertwining narratives inform Sleater-Kinney’s return: one of lingering inevitability and another of furious necessity. The announcement of their split back in 2006 made it sound like an indefinite hiatus, not a contentious dissolution, so there was always hope they’d return. Then, four years ago, guitarist/vocalist Carrie Brownstein noted in interviews that the band would be back eventually; it was just a matter of when and what catalyst would fuel the reunion. As injustice, inequality, and oppression have continued to rage over the last few years, the trio’s eighth album, No Cities to Love, burns that new fuel in a startling conflagration.

Once upon a time in....Nish, Serbia...2014...

1.Moonface, City wrecker...

 2. Damien Jurado – Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son

3. Esben and the Witch - A New Nature