Evian Christ: Kings and Them
Tri Angle’s latest signing debuts for the label with a free mixtape, collecting his recent YouTube material.
Emeli Sande: Our Version of Events
Aberdonian singer and past Wiley collaborator follows last year’s ‘Heaven’ single with a disappointing debut album.
Consequence: Exit Dream
dBridge’s Exit Records close a superb 2011 with Consequence’s second full-length.
Lana Del Rey: Born to Die
“I can’t think of an album since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy that was this big and sounded this good.”
Leila: U&I
Warp Records’ Leila still sounds like no one else on her fourth LP, but it mostly lacks the inspiration of her previous work.
Gonjasufi: MU.ZZ.LE
“A tantalizing and far too brief hint at something magnificent to come.”
Lil Jabba: Swisher
Hailing from Baltimore via Australia, Lil Jabba’s debut release twists footwork in deliriously strange new ways.
EVOL: Wormhole Shubz
The endlessly experimental EVOL explore the classic hoover bass sound to deeply twisted effect.
Imbogodom: And They Turned…
UK “unfolk hero” Alex Tucker teams up with NZ’s Daniel Beban for a remarkable album of twisted melancholy.
Regis: Adolescence: The Complete Recordings, 1994-2001
UK techno’s favourite son compiled.
T.I.: Fuck Da City Up
New mixtape from the one-time king of the South contains his best work since his 2010 prison sentence.
The Big Pink: Future This
“Charming enough, if you’re able to ignore the fact that it all sounds rather like a Richard Ashcroft B-side.”
Moon Wiring Club: Clutch it like a Gonk
The none-more-eccentric Ian Hodgson releases his best record yet.
The Internet: Purple Naked Ladies
Odd Future’s Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians team up for an album of soft psych, reminiscent of Erykah Badu, TLC and more.
Todd Terje: It’s the Arps
Norwegian space-disco touchstone follows last year’s acclaimed ‘Ragysh’ with an EP entirely made on the ARP2600 synth.
Robin Thicke: Love After War
American soul boy continues to grow into his steadily refined persona on his fifth studio album
Wiley: Evolve or be Extinct
The godfather of grime releases an “often completely ridiculous” third album for Big Dada.
Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester
Former No Pain in Pop act explore the merits of the solfeggio scale on their debut album for Double Six.
Ensemble Economique: Crossing the Path…
“An eloquent exploration of the beauty, terror and unknowability of the world.”
Octo Octa: Rough, Rugged and Raw
100% Silk release their first album, a 36-minute cassette from New Hampshire’s Octo Octa