The Friday Fangasm: Beaucoup Fish by Underworld
Not many make odd albums that are as commercially and critically popular as this»
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HEALTH - Vol. 4 :: Slaves Of Fear
A record that oozes its way into your brain via osmosis»
Daniel Avery - Song for Alpha
A talented producer carving his own path, and making dancefloors a little bit weirder»
Blondes - Warmth
Still lots to enjoy here»
Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence
Reznor knows how to tweak his formula just enough to tread that line between utopia and oblivion»
Katy Perry - Witness
This behemoth of industry thinking seems a long way away from the massively enjoyable, almost-pop-punk debut»
Anathema - The Optimist
Anathema cement their title as one of the UK’s most revered rock bands, prog or otherwise»
Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
A raw, jagged-to-the-bone stream of ideas, spat with such ferocity that you forget he’s now in his seventies»
Soulwax - From Deewee
It’s good to see an actual, proper Soulwax record in the world again»
Powell - Sport
It’s a weird, scrappy, bizarre little thing,but it somehow can’t really figure itself out»
Low - The Exit Papers
More one for the collectors and the hardcore»
Video Premiere: William Ryan Fritch - 'A Slow Collapse'
A mesmerising visual treat.»
Wes Borland - Crystal Machete
One of the better post-rock albums of the last five or so years»
Colder - The Rain
It highlights a more introspective side to Tan’s work, one less focussed on rhythm, and more on an overall feeling»
Holy Fuck - Congrats
A perfect crossroads between all their disparate elements, finely tuned and full of vigour»
Dälek - Asphalt for Eden
An album that’s as punishing as it is rewarding»
Western Skies Motel - Settlers
Settlers is one of those beautifully cinematic records - evocative and rich»
The Field - The Follower
Nothing seems to have changed that much in the past nine years»
Pere Ubu - Architecture of Language
Pere Ubu sacrificed mainstream success to explore the outer fringes of music’s possibilities»
Tortoise - The Catastrophist
Tortoise manage that weirdness, that jazz infused strangeness, and that downright groove that they’ve always traded in»
Alan Vega Alex Chilton and Ben Vaughan - Cubist Blues (remastered)
There’s an awful lot to get your teeth into here»
Colder - Many Colours
a lesson in what Colder excels at doing:»
Die Verboten - 2007
It’s kind-of, almost, the krautrock album you always wanted»
Premiere: New video from Australian noiseniks The Drones' 7th LP
Here's 'Taman Shud', a song named after the mysterious (and unsolved) case of a dead body that washed ashore in Adelaide in 1948 - but finds Gareth Liddiard and co. in especially fiery and mischievous form.»
Blue Daisy - Darker than Blue
More black metal than most black metal albums, more punk attitude than most punk bands manage in their entire career»
Masayoshi Fujita - Apologues
A master craftsman plucking at your heartstrings mercilessly»
Roger Waters - Amused to Death (reissue)
Feels like rather than being ‘Roger Waters of Pink Floyd’, he was starting to become simply Roger Waters.»
Blondes - Rein + Persuasion
Blondes at their most heads-down ferocious.»
Heather Woods Broderick - Glider
For those of us with a melancholic heart, this could be our record of the year»
The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD
It actually sounds kinda fun»