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Four Tet - There Is Love In You

Domino/EMI

Kieran Hebden's latest full-length is an impressive combination of fractured folk, edited acoustica and propulsive rhythmic elements. Love Cry is the expansive house jam that preceded the album release, and numerous other cuts from 'There Is Love In You' explore a slightly more upbeat and dance inspired tempo than would be familiar from previous Four Tet full-lengths. Many of the tracks were conceived and refined during Kieran Hebden's recent DJ residency at London club Plastic People.

Various Artists - Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox

Spunk/EMI

This double CD compilation is dedicated to Chris Knox, the spiritual godfather of New Zealand's seminal Flying Nun label, who suffered a terrible stroke in 2009. On Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox, thirty two musicians and bands contribute cover versions of Chris Knox originals, paying tribute to Chris' enormous influence as a musician, artist and songwriter. Included on the release are recordings by Jay Reatard, Shayne Carter, The Mountain Goats, The Verlaines, Boh Runga, David Kilgour, Don McGlashan, and Will Oldham.

Beach House - Teen Dream

Mistletone/Inertia

The third album from Baltimore duo Beach House is an intricate, intimate record of sophisticated pop arrangements and advanced emotional engineering. Recorded over a month in a converted church with producer Chris Coady, Teen Dream weaves gently insinuating melodies and hazy soundwaves into an atmospheric record that will remain with listeners long after the last note fades.

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Monkey Marc - As The Market Crashed

Omelette

The long-anticipated debut solo album from producer Monkey Marc is a fascintating blend of hip hop, jazz, blues, and globally influenced beat styles, with a heavy dub undertone throughout the second half of the record. Underscored with political messages, introduced through spoken samples, As The Market Crashed is an inspired record that illustrates the extensive production prowess and compositional creativity of Melbourne's Monkey Marc.

Songs - Songs

Popfrenzy

Champions of bold new-wave revisionism, Songs sculpt modernist pop music with a strong melodic sensibility and an edgy undertone. Inspired as much by the New York scene of the 70s as New Zealand in the 80s, the Sydney-based band present a compelling collection of, well, songs, with a strong universal appeal.

Various Artists - Hyperdub 5

Hyperdub / Fuse

Founded by London DJ and electronic producer Steve Goodman (Kode9), Hyperdub records is a leading label of the dubstep and post-dubstep movement. Over its five year history, Hyperdub has introduced some of the most influential artists associated with experimental urban UK music, including Zomby, Burial, and King Midas Sound, and showcased forward-thinking hip-hop and techno variations from international artists such as Flying Lotus, Samiyam and Rustie. Hyperdub 5 is a double-CD compilation featuring new material from the label roster as well as highlights from the impressive back-catalogue, presenting a fascinating survey of hybridised hip hop, dub, techno, and electronic sounds.

Blakroc - Blakroc

Blakroc/Shock

Blakroc is the collaboration between Ohio blues duo, The Black Keys, and numerous MC’s including Mos Def, Qtip, RZA, Raekwon, Pharoahe Monch and ODB. The self-titled album was completed in just eleven days and features entirely live instrumentation.

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Warner

The Flaming Lips release their twelfth album, Embryonic, since forming in 1983.  Embryonic is a return to classic Flaming Lips, pounding its way through eighteen dense, and at times dark, tracks. Featuring contributions from Karen O and MGMT, Embryonic takes an ambitious and inventive direction for The Flaming Lips, now in their twenty-sixth year.

Ned Collette and Wirewalker - Over the Stones, Under the Stars

Dot Dash/Remote Control

Ned Collette releases his third album, ‘Over The Stones, Under the Stars’ joined by Wirewalker: Ben Bourke and Joe Talia.  Layered and satisfyingly dark the album delves into the underbelly of the everyday, whilst playing expertly with musical form. The album sees Collette develop upon his previous work and secures him as one of the important local songwriters of our time.

Bridezilla - The First Dance

Inertia

After returning from playing a dream show at New York ATP, Sydney band, Bridezilla deliver their debut fourteen track album produced by Kramer (Galazie 500, Urge Overkill, Low, Daniel Johnson). Recorded in a barn with rats and bats beside the ColoRiver in NSW, the album sparkles with strong arrangements that sit amongst the ethereal vocal beauty of Holiday Sidewinder. 

The UV Race - The UV Race

Aaarght! / Shock

Melbourne's six-piece proto-punk purveyors The UV Race release their debut self-titled full-length record, produced and engineered by Mikey Young of Ooga Booga and Eddy Current Supression Ring renoun. Demonstrating the restless energy and creative drive that have attracted so many fans to their live shows and 7" singles, the The UV Race LP is a consistently strong and surprising album.

Girls - Album

Pod/Inertia

The debut album from San Franciscan based Girls is a concise and wholy satisfying audio excursion through 60s west-coast pop, 80s post punk and damaged lo-fi acoustica. Equally melodic and discordant, harmonious and unsettled, Album is a rare record that impresses on first listen and grows in complexity upon further investigation.

Rowland S. Howard - Pop Crimes

Liberation/Mushroom Group Promotions

Rowland S Howard, a key figure of the Melbourne underground music for decades, releases his second solo album entitled Pop Crimes. Having showcased his distinctive, occasionally bleak romanticism through influential bands such as the Boys Next Door, the Birthday Party, These Immortal Souls, Crime And The City Solution, and Honeymoon In Red, Rowland S. Howard's latest record is a powerful and haunting reminder of Rowland's continuing strength and originality as a songwriter.

Atlas Sound - Logos

4AD/Remote Control

The second solo full-length from Deerhunter's Bradford Cox exhibits both the sparse meloncholic elements of previous lo-fi recordings as well as a vitality and vibrant percussive spirit reflecting a new approach to his song-writing process. Featuring a couple of stand-out collaborations with Noah Lennox of Panda Bear and Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, Logos is an instant classic from an intriguing and ever-inventive artist.

White Denim - Fits

Downtown / Inertia

Following their impressive debut album in 2008, Texan band White Denim have attracted a great deal of attention and adulation for their ambitious, eclectic, garage rock style, leading to their signing to respected New York label Downtown Records. Fits, their anticipated second record, does not disappoint, with an equally astounding array of musical styles and influences combined in a perfect combination of harmony and disarray. Displaying their lo-fi origins, blended with a mixture of indie punk, psychedelia, pop, afro-beat, and funk, Fits is a brilliant record from an eternally surprising record.

The Clean - Mister Pop

Arch Hill

With a career spanning thirty two years, New Zealand's The Clean are one of the first wave of influential punk artists and one of the very few bands from that era still releasing new material. Mister Pop is their first studio album in eight years, and exhibits the lo-fi production style and simple, engaging melodic structures that have gained The Clean so many fans and inspired so many bands over their career.

Crayon Fields - All The Pleasures Of The World

Chapter Music

The long-anticipated second album from Melbourne four-piece Crayon Fields is a striking collection of original music, with artful arrangements and thoughtful lyrics. Featuring the memorable singles Mirror Ball and All The Pleasures Of The World, the full-length takes a widescreen pop perspective, encompassing polyrhythmic percussive sounds, hypnotic harmonies and sumptuous strings.

Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement

Stones Throw/Fuse

The solo project of Michigan singer/songwriter/producer/DJ Mayer Hawthorne, A Strange Arrangement is a incredibly authentic sounding set of vintage RnB and soul. Inspired strongly by the legends of Motown, as well as more recent Detroit visionaries such as J Dilla, Mayer Hawthorne has created one of the more interesting and surprising debuts of the year.

The xx - The xx

Young Turks/XL/Remote Control

The debut self-titled album from London four-piece The xx is an extremely impressive collection of slow and slightly sinister pop music. Informed equally by the desolation of new-wave and the tight minimalism of modern rnb, The xx present alternating male and female lead vocals that weave furtive melodies through a soundscape of compressed beats and minor synthetic undertones.

YACHT - See Mystery Lights

DFA/Shock

On ‘See Mystery Lights’, YACHTs founding producer Jona Bechtolt and newest member Claire L. Evans create an album of new wave Summer jams and elastic funk excursions. Released on James Murphy’s DFA Records, ‘See Mystery Lights’ clearly pays tribute to the label’s influence on modern dance music, but adds as well to YACHT’s growing reputation as an innovative pop ensemble with it’s sophisticated grooves and detailed compositions.

Love Of Diagrams - Nowhere Forever

Unstable Ape/Remote Control

Illustrating the musical precision and subtlety that has distinguished the band’s celebrated career, this latest collection of songs from Melbourne band Love Of Diagrams is a wholly satisfying musical experience filled with distorted guitars, grainy sonic textures, and crafty hooks. Throughout the album a strong reverence and appreciation for noisy shoegaze and 90s indie-rock clearly emerges, although the end result, with its sonic echos from the last decade, is much greater than the sum of its influences.

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Dappled Cities - Zounds

Speak N Spell/Inertia

Sydney’s Dappled Cities continue their dedication to emotionally expansive and spiritually uplifting pop on their third studio album ‘Zounds’. Incorporating a greater range of synthesized sounds and rhythmic structures, the album also showcases Dappled Cities continuing commitment to studio experimentation and sonic innovation.

Diafrix - Concrete Jungle

Illusive / Liberation

The debut album from this acclaimed Melbourne crew is a brilliantly varied and accomplished collection of soulful beats and mindful rhymes. Comprising the two frontmen Momo and Azmarino who met in Footscray after settling in Melbourne from Comoros Islands and Eritrea, Diafrix represents a unique and vital force in Australian hip hop. Don't miss the rich musical landscape of Concrete Jungle!