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1. Boris: Pink
This Japanese sludge-metal trio have not only given us their best album but also their most focused, melodic and (dare we say this) accessible work, an album of such ferocious power and energy that...read more
2. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon
As Whitman walked around the titular city with his hearing nearly gone, he says everything suddenly clicked. The result is this record, a live show featruing one 41-minute track awash in guitars an...read more
3. Boris: Akuma No Uta
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4. Boris: Amplifier Worship
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5. Boris: Boris At Last - Feedbacker
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6. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: The Proposition [sdtk]
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7. Tim Hecker: Harmony in Ultraviolet
Another breathtaking album from one of electronica’s true giants, Harmony in Ultraviolet, the sixth proper solo record from Tim Hecker, dazzles on numerous levels. It’s an electronic al...read more
8. Sunn0))) and Boris: Altar
Excess has always been a big part of heavy metal, and the pairing of Sunn 0))) and Boris seems to fit right into this tradition – an all-star, Godzilla-and-King-Kong collaboration between two...read more
9. Fennesz: Endless Summer
Adorning the front of our store right now in the form a light box is Christian Fennesz’s electronic masterpiece, Endless Summer. It’s warm, inviting image of a sunset and the sea has be...read more
10. Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children
Boards of Canada’s groundbreaking record is noted as one of the best electronic releases of 1998. Often compared to the early works of Aphex Twin and Autechre.read more
11. Fennesz & Sakamoto: Cendre
This is one of the most beautiful and shattering records of the year. The first full-length collaboration between electronic frontiersman Christian Fennesz and prolific composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, C...read more
12. Philip Jeck: Sand
This is Philip Jeck’s fifth solo album for Touch. Sand was recorded live in Holland and England in 2006/2007 and edited in Liverpool in January, 2008 using Fidelity record players, Casio SK k...read more
13. Philip Jeck: Stoke
A long-overdue reissue of one of British turntablist Philip Jeck’s finest works, his third album, Stoke, from 2002. The record was made using Bush, Fidelity and Philips record players, a Casi...read more
14. v/a: Pop Ambient 2009
The latest installment of one of the Kompakt label’s signature series should give you that stimulating life-begins-anew feeling. In fact, Pop Ambient 2009 strikes us as one of the finer editi...read more
15. Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country
Montreal electronicist Tim Hecker returns with another set of lush, leaned-into and full-bodied ambient pieces. And when an artist like this titles an album An Imaginary Country, you’ve almos...read more
16. Sparklehorse + Fennesz: In the Fishtank
Sparklehorse always brought a touch of experimentalism to their indie-pop bona fides, so this inspired pairing with Austria’s electronic maestro Christian Fennesz is not as odd as it might seem. At...read more
17. Brock Van Wey: White Clouds Drift On and On
Brock Van Wey is better known (and more prolific) as a dub techno artist under his pseudonym, Bvdub. His first album under his real name is ambient of the most beautiful sort, awash in vast swells ...read more
18. v/a: Pop Ambient 2010
In a long-running, much-lauded series like Pop Ambient, there’s really only one thing you can do to keep things fresh on a new installment: Line up your best ambient travelers and stamp their...read more
19. Autechre: Oversteps
Album No. 10 from this slippery, idiosyncratic UK duo might be their best — and not coincidentally, least glitchy — since 1994’s classic Amber. Actually, let’s clarify that:...read more
20. Jónsi: Go
Smaller. For some reason that’s the word that comes to mind when trying to contextualize how Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson‘s first solo album compares to his main band’s freq...read more
21. Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here?
While the experimental trio Emeralds has piles of small-run CD-r and cassette releases, each a snapshot of a particular moment in the Cleveland band's existence, we can best chart the group's cours...read more
22. Windsor for the Derby: Against Love
After years of being lumped into the "post-rock" ghetto (whatever and wherever that is), the roving band known as Windsor for the Derby reveals its true genre on Against Love: What this now Austin-...read more
23. Noveller: Desert Fires
Noveller is the nom de guitar of Brooklynite Sarah Lipstate, whose last album, 2009's Red Rainbows, was a jarring, technicolor rampage through sculpted noise and crashing dynamics. For Desert Fires...read more
24. Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams: Small Craft on a Milk Sea
It's been years since Brian Eno should've retired to a cozy life of well-paid lecturing on his enormously important career. Well, he kind of has done that, but he also continues to make new music a...read more
25. The Fun Years: God Was Like, No
Kind of feels like I've been waiting for this sound for a long time (news to me that this group has several albums and self-released home recordings) — rough waves set in mellow ambient seas, a sou...read more
26. Seefeel: s/t
This is a most welcome return. Seefeel were one of the stars of the Too Pure label in the '90s -- and since the roster also boasted Th' Faith Healers, PJ Harvey, Stereolab and Pram, that's saying s...read more
27. Demdike Stare: Tryptych
The spooky Manchester, UK, duo known as Demdike Stare (one of them is a prime mover at Andy Votel's Finders Keepers label) drop a staggering three-disc set of thoroughly modern, explosively evocati...read more
28. Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972
For my money, Tim Hecker is the best electronic composer today (especially now that Milton Babbitt is no longer with us), and his latest release, Ravedeath, 1972, once again shows the master in fin...read more
29. Mark McGuire: A Young Person's Guide to...
Such is the singular and whole appeal of this sprawling two-disc set from Mark McGuire that it's kind of mind-blowing when you learn it cherry-picks from a horde of cassette and CD-r releases by th...read more
30. Noveller: Glacial Glow
As in, that which may follow Desert Fires. Sound Fix fave Noveller delivers her fourth album, Glacial Glow, her most meditative effort yet. Crystallizing a direction in which she's been moving over...read more
31. Brian Eno: Drums Between the Bells
Brian Eno is the sort of artist who can do anything he wants, and one of the very few who should be allowed to do anything he wants. His latest project has been years in the making, or at least in ...read more
32. Tim Hecker: Dropped Pianos
Wait a minute...a new Tim Hecker album? Isn't Ravedeath, 1972 still on steady rotation in the store? Far be it for us to complain when there's a new Tim Hecker release, but the news of this alb...read more