2012 was a big, busy year for me for a lot of reasons, some good, some bad, and some even related to music (how about that!). In any event, I found myself craving lots of familiar, comforting sounds, which I think accounts for a lot of this list. If it’s not obvious, a lot...
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Matthew Riley has been releasing music under his own name for some time, but he now goes by Red Red Ruby.
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Cadillac Spring is the alias of Vancouver, BC based musician Tom Whalen.
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Loosely translated, the title of Bernardino Femminielli’s tape means “mental soap operas.”
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To say Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, is prolific would be a total understatement, but I can say with some confidence that he consistently creates interesting and compelling music.
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Fjords are a Boston-based duo cranking out some outer space worthy music.
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First, a point of clarification: This oddly named album is not a split tape, but rather the work of one person, who happens to use a slash mark in her musical moniker.
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Steve Moore’s now out-of-print LP “Primitive Neural Pathways” was released in 2010 to some acclaim and now fetches major bucks in all the usual record nerd places.
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Take one part free jazz and one part synth exploration and you’ve got Breakway.
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For his second album, Broken Harbour (also known as Canadian musician Blake Gibson) has created an album of lush, sample-based music that will make your mind swim.
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These Feathers Have Plumes is the work of Londoner Andie Brown, who manages to showcase a lot of diverse musical talent across the two massive tracks of this cassette.
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It’s always fun when an album comes with a back story, whether it’s true or not.
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The Amazing is a Swedish supergroup of sorts led by Reine Fiske and Johan Holmegard of Dungen along with singer-songwriter Chritoffer Gunrup and an assortment of other musicians.
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