A bizarre set of songs, seemingly untethered by taste, neither chastened or guided by quality control nor entirely driven by wild and shining inspiration.
Two Gallants – The Bloom And The Blight
Michael James Hall
Susanne Sundfør – The Silicone Veil
An album of spectral, elemental romance and intrigue, playfully but precisely woven into a tremulous tapestry of seemingly ever-oscillating sound.
Sam Flax – Age Waves
A relatively tasty bite of an emerging though perhaps not exactly ever-evolving lo-res VHS-pop genre.
“The important thing is that each record has its own personality and integrity” : Best Fit speaks to Adrian Crowley
We speak to Adrian Crowley, the man Ryan Adams described as “the best songwriter no-one’s heard of”, about his new album, and the inspiration that created it.
Frightened Rabbit – 93 Feet East, London, 18/09/12
In a venue that used to hold the worst kind of hipster runoff to a sea of unresponsive, thoughtless people, Frightened Rabbit are a buoyant, brilliant reminder of just what a truly great band can do.
Divorce – Divorce
Divorce deliver a migraine of an album that, at its best, is the sound of an art rock band pumped full of meth, shut in a folding bed and set on fire.
The Music Tapes – Mary’s Voice
A beauteous and tender embrace of melody, invention, love and strangeness, this is a magnificent, near-magical album. Something of a masterpiece.
Mono – For My Parents
This 5 track double album is a huge step in Mono’s progression towards creating the ultimate visual and emotional audio experience.
Ombre – Believe You Me
For dedicated fans of ambient avant gardism this collaboration between Julianna Barwick and Helado Negro is a delightful nocturnal ramble indeed.
R Stevie Moore – Lo Fi High Fives
These are the aftershocks of modern music, ya know? The disturbed reverberation of the colour and sound that push into the mind through radio and TV over a lifetime. They’re out there on another plane with the poltergeists.
Bailterspace – Strobosphere
An unsure, unsteady record from a band who’ve perhaps spent too long in the doldrums.
Ceremony – Safranin Sounds
A twenty track album of entirely re-recorded material from tapes that the band lost in early 2012, along with a handful of newies for good measure. Was it worth re-creating?