On Ambiq, Max Lodebauer collaborates with Swiss clarinet virtuoso Claudio Puntin and drummer Samuel Rohrer for an LP of low-lit grooves and ominous ambience that combines live instrumentation and warm desk work to great effect.
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Copeland, Because I’m Worth It
May 14, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Inga Copeland’s first full length since the split of Hype Williams is a luminously brusque listen, one that invites repeat listens despite its downtrodden tone.
Golden Donna, II
May 7, 2014 – 12:01 AM
The follow up to Golden Donna’s 2012 self-titled debut LP on 100% parent label, Not Not Fun Records, II has the potential to impress most people lucky enough to hear the cassette or snag it digitally.
Gesloten Cirkel, Submit X
April 30, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Submit X, the debut album from Gesloten Cirkel, works because it balances the impulses of hooky club (or car) music with implicitly bleak worldviews.
Todd Terje, It’s Album Time
April 24, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Todd Terje’s debut album, It’s Album Time, deserves to be embalmed and hung above a fireplace like a boar’s head — a relic that could conceivably be dated to any era, but one we should feel privileged to call our own.
The Central Executives, A Walk in the Dark
April 15, 2014 – 12:01 AM
The Central Executes mix the anarchic and the modern on their debut LP, A Walk In The Dark.
Bruta Non Calculant, World In A Tear
April 10, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Cititrax presents the debut LP from Bruta Non Calculant, a new project from Alaxis Andreas G, the French underground mainstay behind Le Syndicat Electronique.
Efdemin, Decay
April 1, 2014 – 12:01 AM
On Decay, Efdemin’s third album, the chilly repetition and careful attention to silence, space and reverb in his work is clearer than ever.
Sendai, A Smaller Divide
March 26, 2014 – 12:01 AM
A Smaller Divide, the follow-up to Sendai’s 2012 debut album, pulls the Belgian duo of Peter Van Hoesen and Yves De Mey outside the club and into space.
Joey Anderson, After Forever
March 20, 2014 – 12:01 AM
After Forever, Joey Anderson’s debut album, showcases much of what sets him apart from his Tri-State Area peers.
D. Edwards, Teenage Tapes
March 18, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Made up of old noise demos and blunt, new recordings in the same style, Teenage Tapes by Delroy Edwards bends listeners his will rather than the other way around.
Edit Select, Phlox
March 12, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Phlox‘s 11 ying-and-yang excursions feel like instruments of ongoing discovery, with Edit Select reaching out to grasp at the distant, darkened corners of his musical vocabulary and committing the results to record.
Community Corporation, The Salt Mines
March 11, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Positioned as “a skewed history of events that never transpired,” Community Corporation’s The Salt Mines builds on classic Midwest techno/electro templates in unexpectedly compelling ways.
Untold, Black Light Spiral
March 5, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Reportedly recorded over the course of a single July week in 2013, Black Light Spiral is a remarkable feat of squalor — the sort of stuff that would lead one to contemplate Untold’s well-being during the creation process.
Actress, Ghettoville
February 25, 2014 – 12:01 AM
Ghettoville finds its creator staring into the fundamentals of his sound, which is to say the nuts and bolts of his poetics and the inky void they exist within.
STL, At Disconnected Moments
February 18, 2014 – 12:01 AM
For those looking to dive deep into the kind of airy, long-form grooves Stephan Laubner does so well, At Disconnected Moments is a gold mine.