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August 18, 2017The band's first album in five years delivers lavish, open-ended meditations on personal and political chaos.
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August 18, 2017These sibling singer/songwriters deliver an evocative and arresting set of covers and a lone heartbreaking original on their first collaborative album.
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August 18, 2017The restless, intrepid, and prolific singer/songwriter tips his hat to the progressive pop records of his youth on this panoramic collection.
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August 18, 2017The Traverse City, Michigan outfit’s Sony Masterworks debut (and first LP as high school graduates) offers ambitious yet breezy folk-rock.
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August 18, 2017One of British electronica's biggest innovators delivers another alluring and magnetic effort, featuring old and new friends.
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August 18, 2017Based in California, the singer/songwriter's fourth album is sunny, emotionally rich, and packed with memorable tunes.
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August 18, 2017A confident and musically robust comeback gem from the New York-via-Madison indie rock trio.
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August 18, 2017The prolific Dobro maestro and his septet revisit the past and carve out new ground as bluegrass, jazz, country-rock, and blues collide.
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August 18, 2017A box containing excellent new remasters of Neil Young's mid-'70s "doom" era.
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August 18, 2017A box containing excellent new remasters of Neil Young's late-'70s LPs.
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August 18, 2017A balmy set of lush, electronic dream pop with flourishes of pastoral English folk and Swinging London-era psych-pop.
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August 18, 2017The Midwest trio delivers a windswept blast of sludge metal and shoegaze-addled post-rock that blurs the line between seismic and serene.
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August 18, 2017The art-rockers' Zeitgeist-inspired fourth LP captures escalating instability in high-contrast dance-rock.
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August 18, 2017The winsome and worldly indie pop trio return after a ten-year gap with an expanded version of their Brazilian-influenced sound.
1974
Upon release, Steve Ashley's debut album was rated The Sunday Telegraph's folk album of the year, and even landed its maker a U.S. deal with Motown, which released it to wild acclaim in America in 1975. After that, Ashley more or less vanished, condemning Stroll On to a "lost treasure" status that wholly undervalues its importance in the UK folk-rock genre.
April 7, 2004
Originally released as a free download courtesy of Kenneth Goldsmith's indispensable UbuWeb, this album contains pieces by Vicki Bennett recorded for freeform radio station WFMU and as a session for the late, legendary DJ John Peel, as well as a handful of other tracks from limited vinyl releases. Bennett is an expert at slicing and dicing fragments of familiar pop songs, film and television clips, and pure kitsch, resulting in absurdist yet accessible collages which trigger memories and elicit a wide range of emotions. Abridged Too Far is easily her best work, and a high water mark for plunderphonics.
