Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales: Room 29
These songs drift by languidly, as if they had been dipping into John Belushi’s barbiturate stash, leaving the listener somewhat foggy headed, but otherwise unchanged.
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Kid Koala featuring Emiliana Torrini: Music to Draw to – Satellite
The 18 tracks that make up Music to Draw to: Satellite fade in and out of each other, never actually reaching anything that could be called a climax, but hitting moments of particular beauty.
S U R V I V E: RR7349
The perils of nostalgia notwithstanding, many listeners will find the foggy atmospheres and neon-lit cityscapes of RR7349 irresistible.
Various Artists: Hungarian Noir: A Tribute to the Gloomy Sunday
The curse of "Gloomy Sunday" may or may not be lifted, but we are still left with one of the most tedious musical exercises that I have come across in some time.
Various Artists: Studio One Dub Fire Special
Studio One Dub Fire Special is as clear an overview of dub’s most basic essence as you could ask for.
Plaid: The Digging Remedy
On their new record The Digging Remedy Plaid provide us with one of the most satisfying examples of the Plaid sound yet recorded.
Clark: The Last Panthers
The Last Panthers eschews the thumping beats of his back catalog for open, airy compositions and more traditional instrumentation intended to serve a purpose beyond the music itself.
Tim Hecker: Love Streams
Tim Hecker and his accomplice Ben Frost are cooking up some of the most striking, beautiful, and genre-defying music of our time.
Marit Larsen on the Power of Nordic Pop
Marit Larsen is the hyper-talented Nordic pop heroine that many should-be fans in North America have yet to discover. When the Morning Comes should fix that.
Killing Joke: Pylon
Pylon reminds us that no one can make a soundtrack for the apocalypse quite like Killing Joke.
Maserati: Rehumanizer
The listener may find him or herself wondering why we need a brand new record of this kind of stuff in 2015.
Vanessa Carlton: Liberman
Throughout its ten consistent tracks Liberman proves itself to be a mature, developed version of Vanessa Carlton that still retains those qualities that made her earlier material so enjoyable.