Tobias Freund’s Leaning Over Backwards is an album that gracefully sidesteps expectation, revealing the work of an artist interested only in expounding his theories through working practice.
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Kangding Ray, Or
August 25, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Kangding Ray’s Or marks a stark and rewarding move away from the melodic emphasis of his last album, Automne Fold.
Nebraska, Displacement
August 23, 2011 – 10:01 AM
After two well received EPs of new material, Gibbs returns with his highest profile statement yet, the Displacement LP for Rush Hour.
Echologist, Subterranean
August 18, 2011 – 10:01 AM
The second Echologist album, Subterranean, explores the possibilities of forgoing most of the kicks and snares often associated with dub techno.
Massimiliano Pagliara, Focus For Infinity
August 17, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Massimiliano Pagliara expands his brief discography with Focus For Infinity, a bountiful full-length debut for Live At Robert Johnson.
Jus-Ed, Vision Dance
August 4, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Vision Dance is the moment Jus-Ed has gone from the magnetic but prickly man in the corner to the true blue friend sitting just to your right.
Tevo Howard, Pandora’s Box
July 28, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Tevo Howard has been vocal about his reverence for the synth-pop and Italo disco building blocks of house, and it’s these genres that are referenced most prominently on Pandora’s Box.
Machinedrum, Room(s)
July 26, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Room(s), the fruit of Stewart’s new production ethic, proves that music can sound as 2011 as any album put out this year without sounding much like anything else.
Deadbeat, Drawn & Quartered
July 14, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Deadbeat’s latest album, Drawn & Quartered, is a sometimes dark, sometimes effortlessly beautiful foray into deep rhythms and floating synthesis.
Spatial, Infra001-4
June 30, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Infra001-4 is a remarkable charting of not only Spatial’s output, but also of the mutating sounds of dance music over the past couple years as well.
Samiyam, Sam Baker’s Album
June 23, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Samiyam’s Sam Baker’s Album it’s not so much derivative of Dilla’s work as it is a slightly different aperture setting on the same camera.
Vladislav Delay Quartet, Vladislav Delay Quartet
June 22, 2011 – 10:01 AM
By deconstructing jazz to the level of noise, Vladislav Delay Quartet’s debut album explores rarely tread sonic territory.
Boxcutter, The Dissolve
June 16, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Despite some stellar tracks and ideas, the sum of The Dissolve‘s parts just doesn’t add up to a coherent whole.
Surgeon, Breaking The Frame
June 15, 2011 – 10:01 AM
Surgeon’s Breaking The Frame is a difficult album that lives up to its title’s promise of deconstruction and paradigm shifting.
K-S.H.E., Routes Not Roots
June 8, 2011 – 10:01 AM
In our culture obsessed with authenticity, with having “been there at the beginning,” with sticking to one’s roots, Thaemlitz elegantly shows that it’s not these roots that unite us but rather our common experiences.
Hyetal, Broadcast
June 3, 2011 – 12:01 AM
Broadcast, Hyetal’s debut album on Black Acre, finds him moving further into introspection, as well as pushing retro tones and laboriously paced rhythms.
LV & Joshua Idehen, Routes
June 2, 2011 – 10:01 AM
While each of LV’s singles have offered new developments in their sound, none of them prepared listeners for the perfectly formed statement that is Routes.