Record of the Week
Charli XCX “Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat”
Charli XCX’s remix album is like a hazy fever dream you wake up from at 3 AM, clutching at the fra…
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Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales „Consumed in Key”
"Chillys Transformation von „Consumed“ ist jedenfalls weit komplexer und nachhaltiger als ich zu…
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SUNN O))) „Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs“
SUNN O))) „Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs“ (Southern …
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Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas und Billy Bultheel „SEX“ & Pan Daijing „Tissues“
"Tissues", analogous to "SEX", made me think a lot about the untimeliness of such let's call it bore…
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Cat Power „Covers”
One thing remains to be said: Cat Power helps me. Nevertheless, this figure remains ambivalent. Not …
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THOM YORKE ”ANIMA” (XL RECORDINGS)
"Anima" is Thom Yorke's third solo album after "The Eraser" from 2006 (his homage to Scott Walker) a…
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Colin Self „Siblings“ (RVNG Intl.)
"If this voice leaves you cold, you have long ago sold your humanity to the shadow beings." – Tho…
Record of the Week: „Working Class Woman“ by Marie Davidson
Marie Davidson: “The quality of your creative output does not depend on what is between your legs.”
"I don't want to be a niche artist, I'm not and never have been part of a cool clique, a gang, why w…
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Helena Hauff “Qualm”
"And since Hauff does not allow for a dramatic pause, the urgency never decreases, you almost dissol…
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TUNE-YARDS “I CAN FEEL YOU CREEP INTO MY PRIVATE LIFE”
The topics are politically current; it’s gender equality, American politics, the destruction of th…
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ALEXANDRA ATNIF “RHYTHMIC BRUTALISM 1 & 2”
" It is a bleak joy to experience how uncompromising Atnif approaches her sound material on “Rhyth…
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Alvvays “Antisocialites”
"Alvvays are contrasting themselves from similar bands by acting less one-dimensional. Their attitud…
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LCD Soundsystem “American Dream”
Many have therefore celebrated the new LCD Soundsystem album as a new beginning and rebirth, connect…
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Phoenix “Ti Amo”
Phoenix do of course know that they are not the band for explicit political statements, that people …
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Laurel Halo “Dust”
When somebody says about a musician that their newest album is “more accessible” it mostly equal…
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Kreidler “European Song”
Triggered by Erdogan, Trump, Putin and co. the four musicians from Düsseldorf deferred to the urgen…
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Dirty Projectors „Dirty Projectors“
The opener “Keep Your Name” immediately lets the listener feel that this is something very speci…
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Visible Cloaks / Melanie Velarde
The records of the week are all about archaeological quests, operations at the open hear and soft fe…
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The XX “I See You”
But it would be wrong to just talk about “I See You” ex negativo, because it is such a prolific,…
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani … Rune Bagge & Schaake
At the end of the year, one does not only realize what moments and artifacts sticked most with him, …
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Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions “Until the Hunter”
With her side project The Warm Inventions with Colm O’Ciosoid (My Bloody Valentine) Hope also reve…
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The Notwist „Superheroes, Ghostvillains + Stuff“
"It is an object lesson on the modus operandi of the band, without containing the air of just presen…
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Planetary Assault System „Arc Angel“
It’s free to our imagination to guess where the “Arc Angel”, if we surmise it’s ship-ness, s…
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Britney Spears “Glory”
I would like to make it clear get-go, that it is in no way my intention to slam Britney Spear’s ne…
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The Julie Ruin “Hit Reset”
Kathleen Hanna, Kathi Wilcox, Sara Landeau, Carmine Covelli, and Kenny Mellman have so much verve an…
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Diverse “C 87”
This compilation helps to remember who big the gap between indie and mainstream used to be. Contact …
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Mondo Sangue “L’Isola dei Dannati”
“L’Isola dei Dannati” from Luchino Martello don’t really exist: Mondo Sangue alias Yvy Pop a…
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Boys Noize “Mayday”
"The only surprising moment is “Starchild”, the song on which Poliça sings. For the first time …
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Stabil Elite “Spumante”
All these songs tell of the end of the moment, of transience, that is sustained in the act of tellin…
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James Blake “The Color In Anything” / Christian Naujoks „Wave“
Last night I dreamt, that I was lying in a hotel room with James Blake. Not, as one might expect, in…
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ANOHNI “Hopelessness”
Music in a time of omnipresent violence. A task that musicians are confronted with nowadays in light…
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Der Ringer “Glücklich“
"Glücklich“ appears like a lecture titled "Living in the digital world – compatibility of biolo…
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Various Artists “The Ladies of too Slow to Disco”
DJ Supermarkt has once again unearthed amazing songs, that are perfectly balanced between virtuosity…
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Pet Shop Boys “Super”
It would probably be exaggerated to label "Super" as the Eurodance record of the Pet Shop Boys. None…
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Animal Collective “Painting With”
We really ought to be thankful that Dave Portner/Avey Tare, Noah Lennox/Panda Bear, Brian “Geologi…
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Jóhann Jóhannsson “End of Summer”
Jóhannsson stands for lived solidarity through music in a world that pretty much stands for exactl…
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Grimes “Art Angels”
Sound-wise “Art Angels” presents itself rather slick and enhanced, teeming with detail: 90s elec…
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John Cale “M : FANS / Music For A New Society“
It was not a rare thing for Cale to try and cure frailty with toughness. The grim and angry rocker …
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“Falscher Ort Falsche Zeit – Power Pop & Mod Sounds”
Whether all of the bands featured on the compilation do in fact fall under the category “Mod” is…
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Tracey Thorn „Solo Songs and Collaborations 1982-2015“
"Tracey Thorn creates music that outlines melodrama without yielding to it fully." Mario Lasar and C…
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Jennylee „Right On!“
Christina Mohr on the solo debut of Warpaint bassist Jenny Lee - comes with a big need for new synon…
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Beat Happening „Look Around“
"I cannot help, but touch upon my own personal history in reviewing this." So says our writer Jens F…
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Miley Cyrus “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz”
Christina Mohr and Jens Friebe on "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz" by Miley Cyrus. …
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Peaches “Rub”
The title track of the album pretty much constitutes the work that is most typical of Peaches. How a…
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Lana Del Rey “Honeymoon”
While the world keeps spinning, Lana Del Rey's songs freeze individual moments. Mario Lasar and Chri…
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Visionist „Safe“
With “Safe”, Louis Carnell has managed to create a fantastic album, an electronic opera about ou…
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LE1F “KOI”
3 minutes and 48 seconds worth of pop music with the license to make you feel dizzy.…
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FKA twigs “M3LL155X”-EP
Christina Mohr thinks that FKA twigs comes across as a revenant of Kate Bush with different means. …
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Health „Death Magic“
Christina Mohr can clearly state that no other album of 2015 has up until now managed to captivate h…
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Galactic “Into the Deep”
Jens Friebe on tragic misunderstandings in pop history and "Into the Deep" from Galactic.…
