10 Aug - 31 Aug 2018

BC Camplight - Deportation Blues (2018) - "a peephole into the angst, pain, stress and turbulence of relocation, placelessness and a clamouring for belonging."

Papa M - A Broke Moon Rises (2018) - "from rumbling metal to glitchy electronics to lovely fingerpicked folk-blues."

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle (2017) - "tackles ideas of faith, love and the state of the world with a perfect mixture of soft ambient guitar and subtle accompaniment"

Mike Hart - Mike Hart Bleeds (1969) - "uk, superb psychedelic/folk blues ..."

Ólafur Arnalds - Re:member (2018) - "recorded on pioneering new Stratus software, two ”self-playing, semi-generative player pianos”."

19 July - 9 Aug

Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960) - "Most of its tracks exemplify two of Montgomery's distinguishing techniques: "thumb picking" and the use of octaves."

Wayne Shorter - Juju (1964) - "the first great showcase for both his performance and compositional gifts."

Elis Regina - Elis (1972) - "listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the 100 best Brazilian albums in history"

Denim - Novelty Rock (1997) - "a compilation of previously released B-sides alongside bizarre new tracks like 'The New Potatoes' and 'Tampax Advert' "

Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White - s-t (2017) - "Another release from Mark Kozelek which begs the question: where’s this all leading??"

Miles Davis Quintet - Miles Smiles (1967) - "... shows a group of brilliant musicians as they mesh their skills into a cohesive and tight unit and then interacting, stretching and challenging each other."

Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue (1965) - "masterpiece of avant-garde jazz ... bursting with ideas that still sound fresh today."

Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1973) - "sees the composer treading where few men have gone before, leading to some of the most challenging yet rewarding sounds to come out of (let’s say) the autumnal years of jazz."

Lifetones - For a Reason (1983) - "a strange amalgam of post-punk’s desolation set to dub reggae’s sunny lilt."

Les Rallizes Denudes - ‘77 Live (1991) - "noisy, raw, psychedelic, hypnotic, lo-fi, dissonant, heavy, repetitive, avant-garde, male vocals, chaotic, nihilistic, passionate"

Gaz Coombes - World’s Strongest Man (2018) - "A bold, brisk, rather beautiful zip through multiple pop genres."

Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (1970) - "unidentified sound effects and a hard-line approach to free improvisation"

Miranda July - 10 Million Hours A Mile (1997) - "The entirety of 10 Million Hours a Mile is disturbing, with no letup in its onslaught of faceless children on tricycles, creepy peep-show customers, and unhappy family members who want to kill each other."

Elliott Smith - An Introduction to… (2010) - "Kill Rock Stars assembles a very solid single-disc overview of Smith's best work from his entire career."

Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (1971) - "jam session made by a psychedelic rock band interested in improvisation and unusual unconventional sound experimentation"

Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage (2018) - "album of gleefully overstuffed psych-pop."

Golden Dawn Arkestra - Children Of The Sun (2018) - "Golden Dawn Arkestra continues to experiment with a myriad of musical styles & genres, all the while remaining true to their expansive cinematic sound."

Catapilla - s-t (1971) - "consists of four tracks with extended, instrumental passages where guitar, saxophone, and keyboards get lots of solo space"

Catapilla - Changes (1972) - "more ethereal and spacey, but still a terrific blend of jazz rock/brass rock with an occasional psychedelic edge"

Heavens To Betsy - Calculated (1994) - "brimming over with passion and the kind of power of which many bands in the hardcore scene aren't even capable"

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears (2016) - "In her hands, acoustic instruments sound like electronic ones, synthetic sounds reference nature, and human voices sound like the creation of machines."

Jean-Claude Vannier - Des coups de poing dans la gueule (1976) - "His voice isn't wonderful, and as a musical work this also lacks the strange and dreamlike musique concrete-inspired madness of his debut"

Expo ‘70 - Exquisite Lust (2016) - "Gorgeous drifting ethereal krautrocky ambience"

Bridget St John - Ask Me No Questions (1968) - "St. John sang low-key, reflective, slightly sad songs that were unsurpassed, really, in their extraordinary level of containment."

Junior Kimbrough - All Night Long (1992) -  "a big, scruffy racket of an electric blues album"

Tangerine Dream - Zeit (1972) - "German synth explorers’ third goes beyond space-rock to ponder the nature of eternity itself..."

1 Jul - 18 Jul

Human Don’t Be Angry - s-t (2012) - "the most recent guise for Malcolm Middleton, finds him flexing his 80s melodic muscles in pursuit of a largely instrumental but hugely entertaining project"

Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas - Automaginary (2015) - "music that sounds repetitive, but is constantly undergoing subtle scene shifts and mutations"

The Isley Brothers – Mojo Presents... An Introduction To The Isley Brothers (2004) - "a solid if predictable collection of 17 tunes from the long-lived soul unit that focuses primarily on the 1970s"

Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head (1975) - "a terrific all-star affair that still holds up enormously well"

Träd, Gräs och Stenar - s-t (1970) - "This record is underrated! I am saying that and afterwards giving it two stars"

The Salsoul Orchestra - s-t (1975) - "Their music featured elements of Philadelphia soul, funk, Latin and disco"

Deerhunter - Double Dream Of Spring (2018) - "It sounds somewhere between ghostly demos and a lo-fi avant-garde ambient composition"

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs (2018) - "jangling, propulsive pop-rock"

Circuit des Yeux - In Plain Speech (2015) - "Her disarmingly strange, resonant baritone [and] avant-folk instrumentation"

Michelle Gurevich - Party Girl (2007) - "le hasard d'une rencontre virtuelle m'a fait découvrir Michelle, ses textes font écho a de nombreuses émotions qui me remplissent."

Lee Perry - Songs To Bring Back The Ark (2000) - "Rare Dub CD From The Originator..."

Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus - Kibir-Am-Lak (1977) - "Grounation roots at it's finest"

Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus - Rastafari Dub (1972) - "Stripped down funky nyabinghi early 70s roots music"

31 May - 30 Jun

Gwenno - Le Kov (2018) -"Cornish identity in full-colour psychedelia"

Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds (2018) - "a throwback to a bygone era when soul-baring, peace-loving singer-songwriters ruled supreme"

Howlin' Wolf - London Howlin' Wolf Sessions (1971) - "nowhere near as awful as some blues purists make it out to be"

Muddy Waters - The London Muddy Waters Sessions (1972) - "If you like hearing '70s British rock stars attempting to jam with one of the originators of the form, then you'll probably like the results from this tepid 1971 session."

Muddy Waters - Hard Again (1977) - "Waters is not only at the top of his game, but is having the time of his life while he's at it."

Drinks - Hippo Lite (2018) - "an album of peculiar grace: a mini-odyssey in quiet post-punk experimentation"

Destroyer - Ken (2017) - "contains semi-acoustic strumming, hurtling shoegaze and shimmering Italian house, but mostly settles on a blissful, electronic pop sound"

Lord Huron - Vide Noir (2018) - "cosmic folk-rock trip with a concept"

Soft Machine - Fourth (1971) - "a lot of skillful playing going on, as the mix of free jazz, straight-ahead jazz, and Gong-like psychedelia coalesces into a skronky plateau"

Soft Machine - Fifth (1972) - "Eclectic may be one word but inconsistent is a better one when concerning Soft Machine's fifth album"

Soft Machine - Six (1973) - "The live part is much better than the studio lp for me with some good jams and laidback spaciness"

Annette Peacock - 31:31 (2005) - "inspired by & conceived for the car environment - a trippy ride of songfeels"

Fujiya & Miyagi - Different Blades From The Same Pair Of Scissors (2017) - "Indie Rock, Prog Rock, Krautrock, Space Rock, Disco, Post Rock"

Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance (2018) - "A grower, this. ... It's Tim Buckley to Beefheart to Bert Jansch and beyond"

Lump - Lump (2018) - "Laura Marling's melodic side-project lingers in the mind"

MGMT - Little Dark Age (2018) - "Abandoning the belabored excess of their last two albums, they opt for streamlined synth-pop"

Flat Worms - s-t (2017) - "Psych rock supergroup Flat Worms make as much noise as possible on a messy thrill of a record"

Parquet Courts - Wide Awaaaaake! (2018) - "the joyous sound of a band taking everything that makes them great and amplifying it, toying with it and producing something even greater"

Damien Jurado - The Horizon Just Laughed (2018) - "an intricate personal diorama, teeming with characters and scenery culled from stacks of diaries and snapshots"

Bitchin Bajas - Bitchitronics (2013) - "a serene cloud of hovering tones and near-zero motion, full of sounds that feel so good that they feel like events in themselves"

Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination (2017) - "darkly classy post-punk, in which the ghosts of PJ Harvey and Siouxsie and the Banshees hover over grinding guitars and rasping sax"

Leroy Hutson - The Very Best of Leroy Hutson (1997) - "Hutson closely followed the musical trends of his time, and listeners are liable to be struck by the similarity of some of his songs to the music of better-known R&B acts."

Johnny Marr - Call the Comet (2018) - "The strongest moments come from Marr’s uniquely colourful guitar arrangements"

Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears (2018) - "alive with furious pop, unapologetic grandeur, intimate ballads..."

5 May - 30 May

The Orb - Pomme Fritz (1994) - "The first hint that the Orb might have taken their work a bit too far"

Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic (2018) - "the listener will encounter sustained moments of darkness and experience immersion in tense, enigmatic, and unnerving sonic environments that evoke the kind of distressing emotions hinted at by the album's overall aesthetic presentation"

Jon Hopkins - Singularity (2018) - "Pitched between heat-seeking acid house and ambient bliss"

Lusine - Sensorimotor (2017) - "chopped up vocal tunes and [his] minimalistic house tracks"

Wreckless Eric - The Donovan of Trash (2014) - "determinedly lo-fi, and frequently swings back and forth between the witty and the caustic"

Shame - Songs of Praise (2018) - "tightly wound, ready to explode, and packed with lyrics dripping in a heady cocktail of venom and sarcasm"

Grouper - Grid Of Points (2018) - "Aside from piano, reverb and her own voice, Harris includes extended periods of complete stillness and atmospheric silence"

Can - Out of Reach (1978) - "finds them going deep into Latin disco rock territory"

Can - Rite Time (1989) - "Instead of melodies and hooks, Can meander in drawn out, tuneless improvisational sections"

Cave - Hunt Like Devil/ Jamz (2006) -" shifting metrics of gunky synths, repetitive basslines and overall astral-gazing"

Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On (2018) - "... capture the feeling of post-traumatic calm on their latest album"

King Curtis - Soul Serenade (1964) - "the last of the great R&B tenor sax giants"

Forest Swords - Engravings (2013) - "A well-crafted synthesis of psych rock and thematic beat-making"

Eleanor Friedberger - Rebound (2018) - "a diverse set of arrangements and melodies - sometimes subtly funky, others dreamier, austere, or jazzier"

Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous (2015) - "Massive, mysterious gloom led by an enormous church organ"

Goat Girl - Goat Girl (2018) - "ragged, jagged music that’s at once spookily ominous and utterly exhilarating"

Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018) - "full of incessantly catchy guitar riffs; a keen, driving rhythm section; and the unparalleled witty lyrics with which Barnett made her name"

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF ‎– In The Devil’s Focus (2017) - "raucous garage rock"

Mark Kozelek - Mark Kozelek (2018) - "It’s a dreary record, with 11 songs that meander aimlessly through the minutiae of what sounds like a banal existence"

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Here Lies The Body (2018) -  "grizzled words artfully interlacing revealing monologues, deadpan deliveries and dramatic soliloquies with a gruff ease around the delicate, spidery guitar work"

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Sparkle Hard (2018) - "his sonic palette extends from cosmic and country rock to sun-drenched neo-psychedelia and prog-pop"

11 Apr - 4 May

Neil Young + Promise of the Real - Paradox (Original Music From the Film) (2018) - "soundtrack to largely incoherent film achieves a shaky sense of grace thanks to the dusty music"

Mystic Moods Orchestra - Touch (1978) - "Comes in gatefold sleeve."

MV + EE - Liberty Rose (2010) - "this new album reaches slowly inward and outward at the same time, connecting distant echoes with our own utterances and creeping notes with our own synapses."

Sir Richard Bishop - Tangier Sessions (2015) - "Rick Bishop picked up a new guitar in Switzerland, and by the time he got to Tangier, these songs fell out!"

Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak of Araby (2009) - "includes covers of several songs written by Egyptian guitarist/composer Omar Khorshid"

Lusine - The Waiting Room (2013) - "demonstrates his prowess across melodic techno, deep house, and even the indie-electronic realm."

Edith Frost - Telescopic (1998) - "almost psychedelic at times, with layers of guitars and keyboards"

OM - God is Good (2009) - "What was once an implied spirituality, drawn out through trance-like repetition, has become spoon-fed."

Fucking Am - Gold (2004) - "Indie rock for metalheads, Gold is intellectual and immediately satisfying"

Dope Body - Natural History (2012) - "juxtaposing tighter musicianship and a sleeker ear for melody while retaining the intensity that’s made them an archetype for sweaty-basement fuzz."

Tycho - Awake (Deluxe Version) (2016) - "a compelling gallery of electronic minimalism whose emotional depth requires a rich listen."

Nosaj Thing - No Reality (2016) - "Startling synths, hand claps, looping pianos, a constantly fluctuating background, just some of his inherent placemats set here"

Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life (1971) - "soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded in 1970"

Klein - Tommy EP (2017) - "the London electronic musician slathers on processed vocals in thick, inky layers"

Bitchin Bajas - Transporteur (2015) - "mostly based on synths that have been used to build warm, dusty, and comforting sound through looping melodic patterns that are layered over top of a foundation of gentle drones."

Scout Niblett - The Calcination of Scout Niblett (2010) - "Her music has always been lonely, introverted, and anguished, but the stakes seem much higher on this album, like it's a do-or-die scenario."

Bitchin’ Bajas - Bajas Fresh (2017) - "a dynamic set of patterned tones, docile drones and burbling dervishes that prove there is real momentum to be found in meditative music"

Alan Licht & Loren MazzaCane Connors - Hoffman Estates (1998) - "a psychedelic brew of fuzzed-out free jazz and howling blues"

Cave - Threace (2013) - "Cave’s heart still beats to the motorik pulse, but they’ve broadened out their repertoire to include some of the other groovy, stoney sounds of the 70s."

Cave - Neverendless (2011) - "Thicker, denser, warbling and crunching in time — a motorik masterwork!"

Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments (2007) - "Here we get fast-picked folk, Django Reinhardt-worthy gypsy tunes, Chet Atkins-style ditties, Hindi-influenced melodies, and a lode of other, less classifiable stuff."

TransChamps - Double Exposure (2001) - "darting from dark, driving, electronics- and percussion-led pieces to energetic, triumphant stoner riffage"

Nathan Fake - Providence (2017) - "a rain-soaked exercise in dance floor dystopia"

Dope Body ‎– Nupping (2011) - "mixes nasty hooks and razor-sharp melodies into the greasy barrage alongside with tropes snatched from throughout pop music's history books"

17 Mar - 10 Apr

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) (2018) - "the eleventh studio album by indie rock band ...  is a complete re-recording and reworking of the band's sixth studio album"

U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (2018) -  "the music shape shifts from ... G-funk to delicately dreamy atmospherics  or swaggering electro-disco via an array of sax-blasting pop-dance songs"

Screaming Females - All at Once (2018) -  "the aggression of punk and the flair of 80s power-rock collide"

Jimi Hendrix - Both Sides of the Sky (2018) - "the third release in a trilogy of posthumously released "archival recordings" compilation albums highlighted as intended for a follow-up to Electric Ladyland"

Meadow House - This Should Not Be Happening (2017) - "... contains catharsis, cries for help, requests for relief/employment, and much much more.. The LP is almost entirely produced using instruments and materials found in bins"

Black Panther The Album (Music From And Inspired By) (2018) - "The references to the film on this project are few and far between, with Kendrick and TDE instead choosing to echo the spirit of the movie without directly assimilating the plot into the music."

Metronomy: LateNightTales (2012) -  "If you need new material for lonesome rides home in the subway, a walk through the dark streets in the middle of night but also for wonderful hours together with the ones you love than we highly recommend you checking out this beautiful selection of music, sounds and atmosphere."

David Crosby - Sky Trails (2017) - "caressing vocals, a melancholic chord progression and lyrics that manage to be both esoteric and evocative."

Bill Ryder-Jones ‎– West Kirby County Primary (2015) - "Themes of bereavement, illness and struggling love are covered but make no mistake, this is far from a miserabilist work or in any way a depressing listen."

Pell Mell - Flow (1991) - "these tracks showcase the bands undeniably good skill in making jam sessions into well executed bursts of creativity, with everything from punk pace to slow acoustics, mostly surf rock, southwestern prog."
             
The Kinks - Something Else (1967) - "The listener is amused and confused, enchanted and entertained, and always questioning."

Tycho - Epoch (2016) - "the fourth studio album by the ambient music project Tycho"

Tycho - Sunrise Projector (2004) -  "Is there any way to describe the music of Tycho other than ‘shimmering’?"

Pell Mell - For Years We Stood Clearly as One Thing (1985) - "Pell Mell was an instrumental rock combo, formed in 1980 in Portland, Oregon."

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things, Vol. 1 (2016) - "The score is ultimately more than a mood. It’s a world unto itself."

Steve Reich - Sextet: Six Marimbas (1986) - "'Six Marimbas' is actually one of his best minor works. Although basically a re-scored version of 'Six Pianos', the lighter texture dramatically improves the piece. Almost funky in places, it's a delight."

Guided by Voices - Space Gun (2018) - "the guitars clang and jangle, the rhythm section goes "boom" and the lyrics are the usual charming gibberish"

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) - "a willfully perverse musical statement, one of unlimited contradictions and no small genius."

Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl (2018) - "While they haven't lost their taste for repointing American and European folk, there's a brash, stadium-rock dazzle to these songs..."