The visionary Berlin duo focus their inexhaustible curiosity, considerable production chops and irresistible playfulness in the direction of the dancefloor, assembling jagged vocal shards into sinuous, polyrhythms on the latest banger from new album AAI.
Listen to "Youmachine" now
A huge tip for fans of the outernational, rhythm-driven output of labels like Principe Discos and Nyege Nyege Tapes.
AAI is out on the 26th February and is available to pre-order now on limited-edition gray vinyl.
Kindred spirits pushing contemporary guitar music into exciting new territory, Anderon and Tyler's debut expands on deeply rooted traditions to craft music at once intimate and expansive, conversational and transcendent.
Listen to title track "Lost Futures" now
Lost Futures is available to pre-order now on mailorder exclusive purple, along with a limited-edition mug so you can enjoy your morning coffee alongside this remarkable album.
Visionary composers, unparalleled improvisers and prolific collaborators, Millions and Werner’s list of recent projects reads like a who’s who of experimental music: Boredoms, Philip Glass, Mark E Smith, Stereolab…we could go on.
The pair's debut collaboration Imperium Droop, featuring guest performances from free-improv figurehead Mats Gustafsson as well as Andrew Barker and Richard Hoffman sounds truly unlike anything else we’ve heard before. Occupying a liminal space between improvisation and composition, melody and rhythm, each piece feels viscerally alive, Millions and Werner masterfully sculpt waves of primal percussion and prismatic electronics into pieces that are constantly surprising.
Dive right in and listen to debut single “Sorrows and Compensation” now
Imperium Droop is also available to pre-order now on limited-edition purple and white LP.
Ripley Johnson captures the unreality of the past year while yearning for the warmer weather just on the horizon on his elegiac new Earth Trip single.
Listen to "Silver Roses" now
Dialling into the heart-on-your-sleeve emotional core of country music, and introducing a subtle melancholic undertone to Rose City Band’s usually effervescent sonics, “Silver Roses” stands out as some of Johnson’s most affecting songwriting to date. An ideal listen for those warm spring evenings while you roll yourself a “cigarette” (with some Rose City Band-branded rolling papers, no less!), sit out on the porch and do some reflecting.
Earth Trip is available to pre-order now, including limited-edition sets that come with rolling papers, totes and stickers.
Named after a Native American sacred place and hiking trail near his home in Portland, guitarist Dewey Mahood here sculpts hazy guitar drift around sombre horns into a space for reflection and meditation.
Listen to "Wind Mountain" now
Plankton Wat's new album Future Times is due out on February 26th, available to pre-order now on limited-edition red vinyl.
The new trio featuring Phil Manley of Trans Am / Life Coach channel their cosmic energy and considerable chops into a sinuous space-rock jam on the first single from their debut album, Soft Opening.
Listen to "Specificity (Or What Have You)" now
A kind of in-house band at El Studios, run by Manley along with studio co-owners Donny Newenhouse and Phil Becker, Terry Gross began as an opportunity for the trio to test the boundaries and gear of the studio. With the tapes rolling on rehearsals, Soft Opening captures the sheer exuberance of playing together, “Specificity…” in particular managing to distil the improvised sessions into a tight pop-structure without losing any of the expansive energy of the trio’s live performance.
Terry Gross debut album Soft Opening is available to pre-order now on limited-edition pink vinyl.
Welcoming, enchanting, and bewildering - French composer Cecile Schott’s music as Colleen transmutes memory and emotion into transcendent splendor.
New album The Tunnel and the Clearing, due out May 21st finds Schott at her most vulnerable and confident, honing her hardware intuition so that she can truly sing and speak through her machines. Charting a turbulent period of change and personal growth for the composer, Schott here transumates complex emotions into harmony, melody, rhythm and sound, recalling Arthur Russell at his most contemplative, or the astounding vision of electronic pioneers like Laurie Spiegel and Delia Derbyshire.
Listen to first single "Gazing at Taurus - Santa Eulalia" now
The Tunnel and the Clearing is available to pre-order now on limited-edition color LP ahead of it's May 21st release date.
A huge statement of intent from the new duo of Lee Buford (The Body) and Zac Jones (MSC), Manslaughter 777’s debut singles "Arc" and "Do You Know Who Loves You" mine electronic and dance music’s nebulous outer reaches with the same wild imagination we’ve come to expect from both musicians.
Listen to both tracks now
Showcasing two different aspects of their sound, from “Do You Know Who Loves You”s astral ambience to “ARC”s ruffneck Amen breaks, Buford and Jones strafe elements of darkside drum ‘n’ bass, hip hop and dub while sounding resolutely like themselves.
Manslaughter 777's debut album World Vision Perfect Harmony is due out March 19th, and is available to pre-order now.
