Autechre: LP5 (1998, Warp) At a time when I’ve been scrambling to get as much quality 2014 release listening in as possible lately (working on my year-end round-up, due to run here soon!),...
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Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum (Recollection GRM) This 1975 opus by French composer Parmegiani is startlingly ahead of its time, even today, nearly 40 years later. Receiving a new...
20 years old today: Pet Shop Boys’ Very It’s certainly more unabashedly pop than the music I normally write about or post here, but Pet Shop Boys’ Very turns 20 years old...
The Legendary Pink Dots: “City of Needles” (Shadow Weaver, PIAS 1992) Classic dark psychedelia from Edward Ka-Spel, the Silver Man and the rest of the Pink Dots troupe. This might have...
Maeror Tri: “Myein” (Myein, ND 1995) I picked up Maeror Tri’s oddly-packaged Myein promptly after its release in 1995 after reading a glowing review in an indie mag at the time....
Current 93: “Raio No Terrasu (Jesus Wept)” (Dogs Blood Rising, 1984) Before Current 93 was a neo-folk tribe of troubadours, David Tibet & his very different companions of the time...
What a great year for music it’s been. I’m sure there are glaring omissions even by my own finnicky standards. Some releases earned a slot toward the top right away (Deaf...
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