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2020 release ** "Essential and colorful. The Brightest Room's cover art is perfectly in sync with the music of the Milanese quartet. This spartan rigor is also evident in the choice of titles for their second album, which entrust a single word with t…
Presents: Bøh (Music To An Imaginary Nordic Horror Tale)
1997 release ** "This big band, led by T.S. Heg (alto sax & keyboards) is nominally a 'jazz outfit', but since in addition to lots of reeds, brass, bass and drums, they work with guitars, synths, sampling, etc., it's a fairly safe bet that this isn't…
Acini
2018 release ** "In this new album, Saporiti chooses a register that resembles a caress on a defeated face, a balm for past wounds that still hurt, reflected in the incisive yet never overbearing arrangements, with a balance that ends up appearing co…
Bisognava Dirlo A Tuo Padre Che A Fare Un Figlio Con Uno Schizofrenico Avremmo Creato Tutta Questa Sofferenza
2014 release ** "A few months after his self-titled album, he returns with another great work. The 2014 album was the one of full manifestation, this one, the one of explosion. Faced with such a "hunger to express," there's never a lack of substance …
Paolo Saporiti
2014 release ** "Fifth studio album and year zero for Paolo Saporiti. An absolute masterpiece, a near-perfect album, the epitome of the most cultured Italian independent rock, but also, and above all, something new and focused. The lyrics, for the fi…
Silver Monk Time - A Tribute To The Monks
2006 release ** "Unlike many tribute projects that fall flat due to those involved being either overawed or ignorant of the original material, Silver Monk Time succeeds because the participants have taken the group´s primitive rock surge as a templat…
Action, please!
2008 release ** "If many indie bands, for at least a year now, look to the German area and the Eighties as their only point of inspiration, Kobenhavn Store pushes higher, going towards Scandinavia, towards the ice and the pure and rarefied atmospher…
All The Pleasures Of The World
2009 release ** "Melbourne minor key pop magicians Crayon Fields announce the release of their long awaited second album, All the Pleasures of the World. In 2006, their airy, chiming debut, Animal Bells, was one of the year's most acclaimed releases…
Kc
2010 release ** "The Shipwreck Bag Show are Roberto Bertacchini (Starfuckers, Sinistri) and Xabier Iriondo. Survivors in the ocean of pop, refugees in a land without time with their suitcases full of metal, wood and electronic circuits. Avant-garage-…
Striving For The Lazy Perfection + Singles
2005 release (RARE) ** Extended album with five bonus tracks from singles and demo sessions. "When indie pop fans speak of the fabled Sarah label and its roster, it seems that the Orchids are rarely afforded the same hushed, reverential tones receive…
Skiptracing
2016 release (VERY RARE!) ** "Mild High Club founder Alexander Brettin grew up playing flute in the school band and majoring in jazz studies in Chicago. In 2012, a visit to Los Angeles allowed him to connect with the Stones Throw crew. Within a year,…
Nel Ventre Della Balena
1995 release ** Piume E Sangue disguised as Duo Portugal in two long tracks of bizzare interpretation of contemporary music.
Il Giardino Dell'Ossigeno
2010 release ** "...scraps of ulcerated, painful, immensely precarious songs. how to continue using a polaroid to fix images and faces with the awareness that what will stand out in the image, afterwards, will be the absence, not the living detail. I…
Sprint Mill
2008 release ** "As near to perfect production as you can find that captures the spirit of a person and a place. Sprint Mill, Edward Acland’s studio and workspace, stands at a southern gateway for the traveller who pauses before entering the paradigm…
Tramp (Deluxe Edition)
2025 stock ** "Tramp is titled for the period of post-relationship uncertainty and the period of homelessness Van Etten experienced during its 14-month recording process. Produced by the National's Aaron Dessner, who puts the songwriter's fine singin…
Smoke Ring For My Halo
2025 stock ** "Philly’s Kurt Vile can sound like Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp or Lou Reed — if those standard-bearers were murmuring through a speakerphone after a few salvia bongs. On Vile’s fourth LP, the stoner haze lifts a bit, and he settles on a …
Suicidio
'Suicidio' is the first studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Faust'O, originally released in 1978 and produced by Alberto Radius. Now available in a new green vinyl / 180 gram edition with a limited and numbered run of 500 copies.
The Mirror Test
One of the most respected British bands in the mid-80s post punk era. Sad Lovers and Giants played highly atmospheric music made of melancholic melodies and epic guitar riffs. An overtly romantic attitude that slowly developed towards an even more op…