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Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in 2006, and while there, she had recorded a short demo, which she passed...
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2008 debut from mega pop star
Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in 2006, and while there, she had recorded a short demo, which she passed...
View full detailsbestselling 2011 album includes 'Rolling In The Deep,' 'Set Fire To The Rain' + more
"The eagerly awaited sophomore album from British singer/songwriter Adele. It's the follow up to Adele's critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning...
View full details2024 album from Big Thief vocalist
"On Bright Future, Adrianne Lenker, a songwriter known for turns of phrase and currents of rhyme, says it plainly, 'you have my heart // i want it ...
View full detailscollection of 2 home-recorded albums by Big Thief vocalist
"It was early March 2020 and the Big Thief tour had just been cut short, so I flew from Europe to NYC. It just so happened that there was a little ...
View full detailsbleak & romantic vocal LP from experimental producer
London-via-New York-via-Connecticut-via-Caracus artist Arca steps out on XL for his 3rd solo full-length. Hitherto known for his work as an experim...
View full detailsmoody, beats-heavy soundtrack vibes from King Krule
"A New Place 2 Drown is a soundtrack by Archy Marshall (aka King Krule). It scores a book of the same name that he made with his brother Jack. The ...
View full detailssprawling 16 tracks of modern jazz + beats + vibes
"At the start of 2024 BADBADNOTGOOD were brimming with new creative energy. The trio called on some of their closest friends and collaborators, BAD...
View full detailsCanadian jazz-funk trio return to instrumental roots w/ Arthur Verocai, Laraaji + more
"On Talk Memory, the latest album from Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD and their first for XL Recordings, the trio of Alexander Sowinski (drums), C...
View full details'narcotically arresting' post-punk + Britpop sounds from the London underground
"bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have announced their new album Tracey Denim, recorded and produce...
View full detailsUK house duo's 1999 debut ft. 'Red Alert' 🚨
"Remedy is Basement Jaxx's joyous debut album from 1999. It was one of the most assured, propulsive full-lengths the dance world had seen since Daf...
View full details2001 floor-filler / dance crossover ft. 'Where's Your Head At,' 'Romeo'
"Named after their infamous Brixton club night, Basement Jaxx's second album Rooty saw the outfit continue to push the boundaries of pop and club m...
View full detailsearly goth material from the British band
Debut studio album from Northampton's Bauhaus. In the Flat Field was originally recorded in 1980 after the band had wrapped up a 30 date tour. The ...
View full details1996 sophomore album
Me and Stony have a mighty addiction to Belle & Sebastian. This is B&S's second album from 1996, generally considered their best album thus...
View full details25th anniversary edition w/ undefeated title track
1998 effort from Glasgow's indie darlings Belle & Sebastian. The Boy With The Arab Strap was their 3rd album, widely considered an indie classi...
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Capacity is the second album by Big Thief, recorded in snowbound upstate New York with now-frequent collaborator Andrew Sarlo. The tracks on Capaci...
View full detailsintimate & raw, political music without political language
This music was recorded 30 Miles west of El Paso, surrounded by 3,000 acres of pecan orchards, but the players were mere inches from each other. Bi...
View full detailseerily atmospheric third album from BK four-piece
Big Thief is vibrant new growth in the well-exploited forest of the Brooklyn indie rock scene. The group is defined by the deeply personal songwrit...
View full details'dynamic, hellacious' sophomore effort from UK math rockers
"black midi’s follow-up to Schlagenheim is a dynamic, hellacious, inventive success. Cavalcade, their second studio album for Rough Trade, scales b...
View full detailsdense, thematic 3rd album w/ expanded sound palette
"black midi’s new album Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of Cavalcade, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their deb...
View full detailsbroken techno mutations from Berlin-based British producer on XL
"Blawan releases BouQ, his third EP on XL Recordings. The title and closing track continues to display the magic of his off-kilter brand of menacin...
View full details2007 fan-fave upbeat effort on 4AD
For 23, the trio known as Blonde Redhead has brightened up their sound a bit from the uber-melancholy vibes found on Misery Is A Butterfly. Not to ...
View full detailsemotive and melancholy indie rock from 2004
2004 full length from NYC's Blonde Redhead. This album marked their debut on the legendary 4AD imprint as well as solidifying their place in the pa...
View full detailsethereal sounds from 2020 on XL Recordings
"New AA-side 12” from renowned artists Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke. Their second collaboration in 10 years, following 2011’s sold out vinyl-onl...
View full detailsBurial in classic breakbeat hardcore rave mode for rare XL release
Burial on XL makes sense. Long before they were the home of mega-acts Adele and Radiohead, XL Recordings had humble beginnings as a rave label, chu...
View full detailsfreaky Texas band's 1988 ascendance into wider recognition, remastered
"The second part of Matador Records’ reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane ...
View full detailsmost wanted 1987 album from Austin's hallucinogenic punks, remastered
"The second part of Matador Records’ reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane ...
View full detailsself-aware indie rock w/ a heavy DIY aesthetic
Car Seat Headrest's first proper studio album for Matador. The album comes after 12 previous releases (all self-released, not on label, or compilat...
View full detailsextra-lofi 2015 album feat. fave 'Maud Gone'
Teens Of Style is Car Seat Headrest's first project for Matador, and it consists of re-recorded songs that Will Toledo worked on, some dating as fa...
View full details2025 rock opera-inspired full-length; 1st album in 5 years and 1st as a full 4-piece band
"The first studio album from Car Seat Headrest in five years, The Scholars. From Shakespeare to Mozart to classical opera, Car Seat Headrest’s Will...
View full details2011 cult classic from Will Toledo
Car Seat Headrest's highly regarded 2011 work was recorded on a cheap laptop when Will Toledo (aka Car Seat Headrest) was only 19, and it was, as...
View full details"it was never finished work."
This is the way he always wanted the album to sound. Will Toledo aka Car Seat Headrest revisits his poignant body of work, Twin Fantasy. The highly...
View full detailsdreampop trio's fan fav 1986 collab w/ ambient/minimal composer; 1st time vinyl reissue
"The Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins’ catalogue - unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely inst...
View full details1993 major label debut, vastly underrated, newly remastered by Robin Guthrie
I sorta slept on this one for a long time for various reasons - not being released by 4AD chief among them, but also the admittedly reprehensible I...
View full detailsgoth-inspired 1982 debut
Unpopular opinion but this is the coolest Cocteau Twins record. It was their first-ever release on 4AD or any other label, with no single or EP pre...
View full details'83 sophomore LP from Scottish dreampop heroes, remastered
The Cocteau Twins’ very first breakthrough in a career littered with breakthroughs: Treasure established them as the flagbearers of postpunk’s swir...
View full details1990 masterwork of ethereal dream pop
Dreampop essential! By the time Cocteau Twins released Heaven Or Las Vegas, they had been perfecting their singular sound for nearly 10 years, reco...
View full detailsfinal album from 1996, newly remastered by Robin Guthrie
Milk & Kisses finds the Cocteaus straddling the apex of their classic ethereal pop sound with the increasingly mainstream sound of alt rock, bu...
View full detailscompilation of early material from the ethereal dream pop band
Expertly assembled compilation of early work from the Cocteau Twins. After gaining considerable success in the UK and Europe, the Cocteau Twins wer...
View full detailsswirling atmospheric rock as only the Scottish band can do it
Two EPs that marked a turning point for the Cocteau Twins. Both Tiny Dynamine and Echoes In A Shallow Bay were recorded by Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth...
View full detailsG.O.A.T. dreampop album?
While Head Over Heels retained traces of the metallic postpunk nihilism that defined their first album and early singles, Treasure finds the Coctea...
View full detailspeak etherealwave from Scottish dreampop heroes
1986's Victorialand finds the Cocteaus at their absolute utmost ethereal. With Simon Raymonde stepping away to work with Ivo on the second This Mor...
View full details2014 opus from experimental iconoclast, sending up dub, pop, post-punk, folk, noise + more
"I’d spend a day before he comes in making the studio ready, so when he entered, he’d have a whole sonic arsenal at his disposal. I’d make sure the...
View full detailstheir best album ft. 'Helicopter,' 'Revival' + more
Deerhunter won over even more fans and critics with 2010's Halcyon Digest. The follow up album to the sprawling Microcastle / Weird Era Continued f...
View full detailshushed R&B w/ smooth house + garage beats, Regelbau-affiliated
"Born in Portugal to Belgian and Cape Verdean parents and raised in Denmark, Erika de Casier initially made her mark as an ally of the Regelbau col...
View full details2022 mixtape ft. The Weeknd, Jorja Smith + more
"CAPRISONGS… it’s bronzer in the sink, alco pop on the side, a cherry lolly, apple juice when you’re thirsty, friends in the park, your favourite p...
View full detailshighly sought-after debut EP from UK songstress
Debut recordings of Tahliah Barnett, a.k.a. FKA Twigs. Originally a self-released white label EP recorded under the name Twigs (hence the FKA) that...
View full detailsethereal, futuristic r&b
Next level. The second EP for FKA Twigs finds the young London-based musician exploring realms of leftfield R&B with a futurist edge. The word ...
View full details3rd full-length inspired by late nights in the underground techno scene of Prague
"FKA twigs releases her highly-anticipated third studio album, EUSEXUA via Atlantic / Young Recordings. Eusexua is a state of being. A feeling of m...
View full details3rd full-length inspired by late nights in the underground techno scene of Prague
"FKA twigs releases her highly-anticipated third studio album, EUSEXUA via Atlantic / Young Recordings. Eusexua is a state of being. A feeling of m...
View full detailsmuch anticipated debut album from the UK R&B queen
There's nothing else like this. FKA Twigs continues her exploration of the outer edges of futuristic R&B with LP1. She moves in the decaying fr...
View full detailsfuture proof R&B
The mighty return of FKA Twigs! Taliah Barnett (FKA Twigs) follows up her critically acclaimed debut LP1 with a 5 track EP titled M3LL155X (pronoun...
View full details'a record about every lover that I’ve ever had, and every lover that I’m going to have'
It’s been a long five years since the universally acclaimed genre-bending LP1. FKA twigs' music is based in the familiar sounds of 90's R&B but...
View full detailsDublin post-punks level up on XL debut
"Irish indie rock sensation Fontaines D.C. return with new album ROMANCE, their debut on XL Recordings, out on August 23rd. Recorded shortly after ...
View full detailsBaltimore synthpop trio's 2014 breakthrough
Future Islands seem to have come out of nowhere to win over fans and critics. The Baltimore based three piece synth pop outfit has been working the...
View full detailshigh energy jazz/funk/post-rock solo debut from ex-Black Midi singer/guitarist
"'Music can be so much more than learning to play the same as everybody else. It can be anything you want. With recording The New Sound, it was the...
View full detailsGil Scott's 'I'm New Here' album remixed by Jamie xx, a match made in heaven
After whetting our appetites with "New York Is Killing Me," Jamie xx releases We're New Here, a thirteen-track full-length featuring The xx produce...
View full detailsfinal album from revolutionary soul jazz artist
Gil Scott-Heron is a legend. You might know of him from his revolutionary street poetry of the 70's, his influential spoken word albums, or maybe j...
View full details2011 sophomore album from SF indie band, grander in scale w/ horns, choir + psych elements
"The long-awaited second full-length from San Francisco band Girls is spontaneous and stripped-down in a gorgeous, largely minor-key record. Father...
View full detailsmodern synth pop and beyond from Claire Boucher
It's the much anticipated return of Grimes! The talented Canadian singer/producer shook the music world up in a major way with 2012's critically-ac...
View full details2012 4AD debut ft. 'Genesis,' 'Oblivion'
I got lost in this album's cover for about twenty minutes before I started this review. One of the more intriguing skull designs I've seen over the...
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