VINYL LP

Australia's world-renowned cinematic soul outfit Surprise Chef return with new album Superb. A record that represents a change in their creative approach and turns up the heat in their music. Trading in their meticulous writing and recording techniques...

Pythagoras, the new Pyramids album nine years in the making, is set for release in 2025 via avant-tastemakers The Flenser. Yet another daring study in genre synthesis, the band continues to push boundaries in both sound and aesthetic, blending jagged...

AIME SIMONE / REV - Aime Simone is back with his third album REV, his most ambitious and conceptually complex project to date. "REV" carries multiple meanings: "revving the engine," revolution, revenge, revelation, and "rêve," the French word for dream...

A Certain Darkness Is Needed to See the Stars" (38:51 min.) is an energetic, minimal, polyrhythmic composition. It was played on a single prepared drum set (with aluminium foil), without any loops or overdubs. Time and form dissolve as loops and...

If there's a group in this age that faithfully carries the torch of real group soul harmony, it must be these three cats from the US west coast by the name of Thee Baby Cuffs. Currently composed of Joe Narvaez, Gilberto Rodriguez and Reality Jonez, the...

The celebrated Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond on alto sax remained together until 1967, when Brubeck switched focus from music to composition and disbanded the group. Desmond's saxophone style was cool, subtle and often romantic. This fit well...

Good Charlotte's The Young and the Hopeless is punk-pop déjà vu. Rehashing worn clichés aplenty on each track, cuts such as "The Anthem" emerge exactly as the title overtly implies: a high-velocity, guitar-driven reason to lash out against the usual...