Ulver s Blood-Red Baroque n Roll Album turns 18! Hailed by critics and clerics upon it s release, and described by the band as a maelstrom full of wreckage, 2005s Blood Inside is undoubtedly their most byzantine and excessive work to date. A trip through the lavish void. This album is pressed on 140 gram…
Childhood s End is a compilation album of cover songs by Norwegian experimental collective Ulver. Produced by Ulver, the album was recorded live in Crystal Canyon Studios, Oslo, over two sessions, in autumn 2008 and summer 2011, and issued in May, 2012 on Jester Records under exclusive license to Kscope.
Umberto is an artist whose work is distinctly cinematic. Composer Matt Hill’s performances and delicate compositions taken together have the cumulative ability to surprise. Hill, whose Umberto moniker is an homage to director Umberto Lenzi, is an experienced and active film composer, most recently scoring the film All That We Destroy. In addition to film…
Asking For A Friend – Umphrey s McGee – Recorded during the pandemic, David Fricke calls Asking for a Friend, the best and most emotionally direct album Umphrey s McGee have ever made. NOTHING TOO FANCY MUSIC
A disorientating journey through Kevin Starrs (aka Uncle Acid) wonkiest dreams, Wasteland glides majestically from punchy and direct psych-rock anthems like I See Through You and Shockwave City to the viscous, somnambulant ooze of the eight-minute No Return and the twinkly-eyed bad trip of the album s mesmerizing title track. Recorded at the legendary Sunset…
Daniel Lopatin returns with his latest score for A24 The Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems out December 13 on Warp Records. Rapturously received by critics and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Uncut Gems features token pulp action, starring Adam Sandler (in an outstanding career performance) as well as NBA star Kevin Garnett, Lakeith Stanfield, The Weeknd…
What if the antihero in your favorite film or book had no chance to repent, reconcile, or redeem himself? There s no victim to rescue. There s no evil to thwart. There s no tyranny to turnover. Instead of saving the day against his better judgment, he just walks a Sisyphean circle of existential malaise…
From the ashes of Moss Icon, Universal Order of Armageddon blasted out of Annapolis, MD in a fiery maelstrom of punishing riffs, syncopated breakbeats, and terrifying shrieks. Compiled here are the complete Gravity, Vermin Scum, and Kill Rock Stars recordings, remixed and remastered from the original session tapes, and housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket…
Emerging from rampant hedonism and isolation is II, the new album from Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The musical vision of Portlander-via-New Zealand Ruban Nielson started as an anonymous home-recording project that fused psychedelia, soul, choppy percussion and funk. UMO came to life in basements and bedrooms after Nielson moved from his native New Zealand to Portland, Oregon with his family….
Vinyl LP pressing. Where are we headed? What are we consuming, how is it affecting us, and why does everything feel so bad and weird sometimes? These are some of the questions posed on Ruban Nielson s fourth album as Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Sex & Food – a delightfully shapeshifting album that filters these real-deal…
Improvised Munitions is the unreleased first Unsane album originally slated to be released in 1989 by Circuit Records. Following the band s approval of the test pressings, Circuit folded. A huge letdown at the time, Unsane managed to use a couple of tracks for singles and re-recorded some of the tracks to put on the…
By 1991 Unsane had perfected a unique extreme sound that established them as an important part of the NYC noise scene. With a couple singles and an unreleased 12 EP ( Improvised Munitions eventually released in 2020), vocalist and guitarist Chris Spencer explains We got offered a CBGB s show with Sonic Youth, although we…
Tulsa, Oklahoma s Unwed Sailor have been on a tear over the past few years. Following a quiet phase through much of the 2010s, they reëmerged with the aptly titled Heavy Age (2019), and two more full-lengths, Truth Or Consequences (2021) and Mute The Charm (2023), that chart a remarkable evolution of their bass-led, pop-leaning…