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MOTOR
Man Made Machine

Motor has released a new album called Man Made Machine. Aside from last year’s single of the same name, Man Made Machine will be the first release on CLRX, a new subsidiary of Chris Liebing‘s techno label, CLR. Much like Motor‘s past releases, it has a heavy industrial and synth pop influence, helped in no small part by its vocal appearances: Gary Numan and Depeche Mode member Martin L. Gore both guest on the album, as does German pop singer Billie Ray Martin.

ARTIST: Motor
TITLE: Man Made Machine
LABEL: CLRX
RELEASE DATE: April 10, 2012
TIME: 41:29 min.
WEB: http://www.clr.net/

01. Messed Up [03:31]
02. Hyper Lust [02:48]
03. Man Made Machine [04:32]
04. Control [04:10]
05. Pleasure in Heaven [03:16]
06. Automne [04:33]
07. Autographic [02:47]
08. The Knife [03:11]
09. Hello [03:51]
10. In the Dark [03:37]
11. Between the Night [05:13]

Motor – Control

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DRINK TO ME
S

Second album for the Italian indie-combo Drink to Me: S is the follow-up of the critically acclaimed Brazil. With this release the trio changes suddenly its direction, leaving the noisy solutions that were a trademark of their debut and introducing massive doses of synths and hard electronics. Dancy melodies over a lo-fi substrate mixed with the beating warmth of the classical rock-instrumentations: half Liars and half Klaxons. What else?

ARTIST: Drink to Me
TITLE: S
LABEL: Unhip
RELEASE DATE: March 12, 2012
TIME: 37:23 min.
WEB: http://www.drinktome.net/

01. Henry Miller [05:15]
02. The Elevator [03:27]
03. Picture of the Sun [03:45]
04. Future Days [03:42]
05. Space [03:28]
06. Dig a Hole with a Needle [04:02]
07. L.A. 13 (pt.1) [03:26]
08. L.A. 13 (pt.2) [01:48]
09. Disaster Area [03:39]
10. Airport Song [04:51]

Drink to Me – Space

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ORBITAL
Wonky

First new album in eight years from the undefeated champions of British electronic music. Recently reunited following a long sabbatical, Paul and Phil Hartnoll are back on fighting-fit form and ready to reclaim their title as lightheaded lords of the dance arena. Both timeless and contemporary, heartwarming and exhilarating, Wonky puts a vividly modern spin on their signature blend of richly melodic, deeply emotive Electronica. Confident, energized and eclectic, Wonky already sounds like the duo’s finest release to date: most of the gleaming, whooshing, shimmering tracks on this album will instantly tap into the warm-blooded rush and restless bounce of classic Orbital.

ARTIST: Orbital
TITLE: Wonky
LABEL: PID
RELEASE DATE: April 10, 2012
TIME: 50:43 min.
WEB: http://orbitalofficial.com/

01. One Big Moment [06:17]
02. Straight Sun [05:29]
03. Never [04:44]
04. New France [04:48]
05. Distractions [07:05]
06. Stringy Acid [05:20]
07. Beelzedub [04:55]
08. Wonky [06:14]
09. Where Is It Going? [05:51]

Orbital – Never

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GIARDINI DI MIRÒ
Good Luck

Five years of silence lead us to Good Luck, 4th (5th, if we want to consider also Il Fuoco, sonorization of the 1915′s homonymous film by Giovanni Pastrone) album by Italian post-rockers Giardini di Mirò. For this album the band returns to the original line-up of the first one Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting (2001). In ten years Giardini di Mirò have been able to get out of the label of “Italian Mogwai”, carrying on an idea of sound that in time has become a trademark. Good Luck is heading to be a cross-eyed album, made of songs apparently disconnected one from another. But in the end the beauty and the strength of this release is that: shuffling the cards, alternate moments of solid and classic post-rock to more liquid and soft parts. Good Luck is geometry, not mathematics, and melody is always the center (as a proof of that, the presence of Devics‘ Sara Love as guest vocals on the ethereal This Is the Place). Welcome again.

ARTIST: Giardini di Mirò
TITLE: Good Luck
LABEL: Santeria / Audioglobe
RELEASE DATE: March 23, 2012
TIME: 38:54 min.
WEB: http://www.giardinidimiro.com/

01. Memories [02:36]
02. Spurious Love [05:06]
03. Ride [04:01]
04. There Is a Place [03:35]
05. Good Luck [04:21]
06. Rome [06:33]
07. Time On Time [05:49]
08. Flat Heart Society [06:53]

Giardini di Mirò – Ride

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LADYHAWKE
Anxiety

One of the brightest stars to light up the pop firmament this millennium is back. Thanks to her brilliant self-titled 2008 debut, Ladyhawke (a.k.a. Pip Brown), shot to stardom around the world. Her follow-up will surely even exceed those achievements, and establish the wildly talented young tunesmith as one of her generation’s most beloved pop heroines. Eighteen months in the making, Anxiety carries ten instant classics, each brimming over with irresistable hooks, fresh beats and ear-grabbing synth sounds.

ARTIST: Ladyhawke
TITLE: Anxiety
LABEL: Island
RELEASE DATE: March 28, 2012
TIME: 36:10 min.
WEB: http://www.ladyhawkemusic.com/

01. Girl Like Me [02:56]
02. Sunday Drive [04:05]
03. Black, White & Blue [03:55]
04. Vaccine [03:34]
05. Blue Eyes [03:17]
06. Vanity [03:01]
07. The Quick & the Dead [03:49]
08. Anxiety [03:24]
09. Cellophane [04:15]
10. Gone Gone Gone [03:54]

Ladyhawke – Black, White & Blue (treasure fingers remix)

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ELIAS
Fossils

Vancouver-based trio Elias, made by Brian Healy (keyboards, lead vocals), Rob Tornroos (guitar, backing vocals) and Stefan Tavares (drums), release their brand new album Fossils, on Wax Records. On Fossils, the band’s sound covers a lot of ground, moving from dark to light, from moody to anthemic, from rock hardness to melody sweetness, without resulting foregone. After a lengthy search, Jeff Dawson (Marcy Playground, Hey Ocean!) was brought onboard to produce the record and Grammy winner John O’Mahony (Coldplay, Metric) accepted to mix the sounds. Their dedication to the project was glue that allowed for the record’s emotional momentum to carry forward.

ARTIST: Elias
TITLE: Fossils
LABEL: Wax
RELEASE DATE: February 14, 2012
TIME: 44:18 min.
WEB: http://www.eliasband.com/

01. Fossils [05:00]
02. Enough [04:06]
03. Knockdown Dance [04:00]
04. Tunnel Lights [05:07]
05. Hands and Knees [04:25]
06. Lake Louise [04:49]
07. Rising Tide [03:37]
08. Catapults [04:43]
09. Glass [04:58]
10. Hold the Line [03:33]

Elias – Hands and Knees

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CHROMATICS
Kill For Love

The new Chromatics album, Kill for Love, was just released on iTunes: surprisingly they were not able to find a label. Now, two months later, everything goes in its right place, and Kill For Love sees the light physically thanks to Italians Do It Better. This is the first album since 2007′s Night Drive from this dark-dance-pop aesthetes and it’s filled with mystery, intrigue and several interesting twists and turns.

ARTIST: Chromatics
TITLE: Kill for Love
LABEL: Italians Do It Better
RELEASE DATE: January 24, 2012
TIME: 1:32:04 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/chromatics

01. Into the Black [05:23]
02. Kill for Love [03:58]
03. Back from the Grave [03:43]
04. The Page [03:36]
05. Lady [05:08]
06. These Streets Will Never Look the Same [08:37]
07. Broken Mirrors [07:04]
08. Candy [02:30]
09. The Eleventh Hour [03:28]
10. Running From the Sun [07:07]
11. Dust to Dust [02:41]
12. Birds of Paradise [04:26]
13. A Matter of Time [05:06]
14. At Your Door [03:53]
15. There’s A Light Out On the Horizon [04:44]
16. The River [06:09]
17. No Escape [14:01]

Chromatics – Back from the Grave

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WHITE RABBITS
Milk Famous

After a 2011 UK Tour supporting Muse and a US tour with Interpol, White Rabbits return with Milk Famous, the new studio album and follow-up to the critically acclaimed It’s Frightening.

ARTIST: White Rabbits
TITLE: Milk Famous
LABEL: TBD
RELEASE DATE: March 6, 2012
TIME: 40:25 min.
WEB: http://whiterabbitsmusic.com/

01. Heavy Metal [04:27]
02. I’m Not Me [03:37]
03. Hold It to the Fire [03:41]
04. Everyone Can Be Confused [03:01]
05. Temporary [03:40]
06. Are You Free [03:14]
07. It’s Frightening [02:51]
08. Danny Come Inside [04:21]
09. Back For More [04:05]
10. The Day You Won the War [03:20]
11. I Had It Coming [04:08]

White Rabbits – Temporary

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RS HOT SPOT – #05
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Just straight after the release of Port of Morrow, radioSpin is ready on the rock to give to you another special gift: an acoustic EP by The Shins containing four tracks, the brand new unplugged version of Simple Song, It’s Only Life and September and the old Young Pilgrim (from 2003′s Chutes Too Narrow) simply re-worked into a voice-and-guitar previously unreleased dress. Download it here, and don’t forgeto to say thanks.

The Shins – September (acoustic)

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THE SHINS
Port of Morrow

Port of Morrow, the 4th album from The Shins, was recorded in Los Angeles and Portland over the course of 2011 with James Mercer as usual handling all songwriting duties, lead vocals and the majority of instrumentation. The record was produced by Greg Kurstin and mixed by Rich Costey. The cover art was created by Jacob Escobedo.

ARTIST: The Shins
TITLE: Port of Morrow
LABEL: Columbia
RELEASE DATE: March 20, 2012
TIME: 40:13 min.
WEB: http://www.theshins.com/

01. The Rifle’s Spiral [03:30]
02. Simple Song [04:15]
03. It’s Only Life [04:02]
04. Bait and Switch [03:23]
05. September [03:33]
06. No Way Down [03:16]
07. For a Fool [03:57]
08. Fall of ’82 [03:48]
09. 40 Mark Strasse [04:39]
10. Port of Morrow [05:50]

The Shins – The Rifle’s Spiral

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METRONOMY
The English Riviera (unreleased remixes)

The title of the new Metronomy album is pretty self-explanatory: The English Riviera (unreleased remixes) is a collection of unreleased remixes from their album The English Riviera, and in normal circumstances, that would be the end of this review. But it’s not. On the surface, this might sound like easy listening electronic pop, but these guys are good at what they do, and with the assistance of remixers like New Villager, Benoit & Sergio, Wax Cotton, and Ewan Pearson, you get to hear The English Riviera album in an all new fauna. If anything, these remixes might help to bring new life to the original album, which wouldn’t be a bad thing.

ARTIST: Metronomy
TITLE: The English Riviera (unreleased remixes)
LABEL: Because
RELEASE DATE: April 8, 2012
TIME: 66:51 min.
WEB: http://www.metronomy.co.uk/

01. Corinne (benoit & sergio remix) [04:14]
02. Everything Goes My Way (ewan pearson dub) [07:16]
03. The Look (two inch punch’s shook shook refix) [03:46]
04. Loving Arm (soul clap’s shake a leg mix) [05:26]
05. Corinne (night angles remix) [04:56]
06. The Bay (clock opera remix) [06:07]
07. The Look (camo & krooked remix) [05:18]
08. She Wants (c-berg remix) [04:14]
09. Corinne (leodoris remix) [05:53]
10. Everything Goes My Way (jesse rose & duke dumont re-dub) [05:11]
11. Some Written (new villager remix) [03:10]
12. Corinne (mario basanov remix) [05:44]
13. The Bay (wax cotton remix) [07:12]

Metronomy – The Look (camo & krooked remix)

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MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO’S
Rot Gut, Domestic

Fresh off a five-week tour with The Twilight Singers, Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s returned home with a new batch of songs that would become the bands fourth full length album, titled Rot Gut, Domestic. The band raced into the studio and recorded the new album in ten furious days while enlisting the help of Jon Congleton (David Byrne, St. Vincent, Polyphonic Spree).

ARTIST: Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
TITLE: Rot Gut, Domestic
LABEL: Mariel
RELEASE DATE: March 20, 2012
TIME: 43:02 min.
WEB: http://margotandthenuclearsoandsos.net/

01. Disease Tobacco Free [04:07]
02. Books About Trains [02:46]
03. Shannon [03:11]
04. Prozac Rock [03:28]
05. A Journalist Falls in Love [03:36]
06. Frank Left [03:29]
07. Fisher of Man [03:42]
08. Arvydas Sabonis [03:20]
09. Coonskin Cup [03:52]
10. Ludlow Junk Hustle [04:02]
11. The Devil [04:01]
12. Christ [03:28]

Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s – Shannon

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BVDUB
The First Day

BVdub is one of the most prolific artist of the new ambient-experimental music scene. The way Brock Van Wey’s music forces one to drift into the longest forgotten memories gives a new life to all the instances that never seemed to matter, to all the people whose faces have been buried under hundreds of others and it is becoming almost second to none. It is a skill that he has been honing, perfecting and doing so at an astounding rate with each release showing a tangible improvement than the one preceding it. The First Day is a new beginning, it’s a new day rising, a welcome twist towards the more optimistic. It maintains all the elements of his previous works, such as the latest Resistance is Beautiful, the dense reverbed soundscapes, the minimal techno inspired beats, the beautiful embedded melodies, they’re all there but have taken a new direction: every single track has that ability and every spin of this album reveals a new facet of beauty that leaves one in awe, no small feat by any measure.

ARTIST: BVdub
TITLE: The First Day
LABEL: Home Normal
RELEASE DATE: February 21, 2012
TIME: 79:01 min.
WEB: http://bvdub.org/

01. Never in the Prison of Their Stars [20:29]
02. The First Day [27:31]
03. While They Dreamed We Were There [20:38]
04. My Skies Cry Your Name [10:24]

BVdub – My Skies Cry Your Name

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TINDERSTICKS
The Something Rain

Is it just us or does the instrumentation just get lovelier and lovelier with every new Tindersticks album? Those of you who have obsessed over their soundtrack work (handily collected by the Constellation label last year) will find much to fall in love with here, espeically on the short but perfectly formed album closer Goodbye Joe: it’s all spacious, padded percussion, bells and strings, showing the band at their most affecting. But back to the begining of the album and you don’t have to wait long for Stuart Staples‘ distinctive voice, augmented here by some spoken narration courtesy of David Boulter, setting the scene perfectly for what’s to follow. The Something Rain is a strong album, probably their strongest since re-forming, and a welcome addition to an already formidable body of work. Recommended.

ARTIST: Tindesticks
TITLE: The Something Rain
LABEL: Constellation
RELEASE DATE: February 20, 2012
TIME: 50:11 min.
WEB: http://www.tindersticks.co.uk/

01. Chocolate [09:04]
02. Show Me Everything [05:29]
03. This Fire of Autumn [04:17]
04. A Night So Still [05:44]
05. Slippin’ Shoes [04:32]
06. Medicine [04:59]
07. Frozen [05:43]
08. Come Inside [07:41]
09. Goodbye Joe [02:42]

Tindersticks – Frozen

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THE MARS VOLTA
Nocturniquet

While Noctourniquet was, in typical Mars Volta fashion, written by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala and produced by Rodriguez-Lopez, the 13-track album explores musical territories previously uncharted in the duo’s 20 or so years of creating music together. The spectrum of musical and emotional textures conceived and created by Rodriguez-Lopez on Noctourniquet ranges from the opening bombast of The Whip Hand to the menacing crawl of The Malkin Jewel punctuated throughout by hypnotic melodies and borderline electro-ambient washes, most notably in the epic In Absentia. The bold diversity of the new material combined with Rodriguez-Lopez’s assured producer’s hand guiding The Mars Volta’s most confident and refined performances to date make Noctourniquet an early contender for this year’s most challenging and rewarding listen. As with previous Mars Volta efforts, Bixler-Zavala’s lyrics trace a narrative journey with a defined protagonist, this time inspired by disparate elements including ’80s UK alt-rockers The Godfathers, Superman comic nemesis Solomon Grundy and the Greek myth of Hyacinthus.

ARTIST: The Mars Volta
TITLE: Nocturniquet
LABEL: Warner Bros.
RELEASE DATE: March 27, 2012
TIME: 64:38 min.
WEB: www.themarsvolta.com/

01. The Whip Hand [04:49]
02. Aegis [05:11]
03. Dyskexicon [04:22]
04. Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound [06:43]
05. The Malkin Jewel [04:45]
06. Lapochka [04:16]
07. In Absentia [07:27]
08. Imago [03:58]
09. Molochwalker [03:33]
10. Trinkets Pale of Moon [04:25]
11. Vedamalady [03:54]
12. Nocturniquet [05:39]
13. Zed and Two Naughts [05:36]

The Mars Volta – Imago

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