I know it seems like we practically run a Thrill Jockey blog, but few labels are putting out stuff that is anywhere near as inventive and consistent.  Their newest release is the first album from Radian in four years.  “Chimeric” is a dark, brooding, sometimes harsh and chaotic record.  Normally you could put this band [...]

If you don’t know who Them Crooked Vultures are, here’s all you need to know:  Dave Grohl plays drums, Josh Homme plays guitar and sings, and John Paul Jones plays bass and keyboards.  In other words, rock bands don’t get much bigger than this.  Their debut, self-titled album is just around the corner.  The vinyl [...]

I admittedly know nothing of this band, but I rarely pass up the opportunity to purchase a new title from Mr. Kranky. Felix are a boy/girl (man/woman?) duo from the UK who dabble in “minimalist chamber pop”. My interest is piqued. Gatefold jacket limited to 1000? I’m sold. Have a listen and then head over [...]

If you were interested in the Robedoor LP on Not Not Fun we posted about recently, you would probably be interested in this seven-inch as well. It was recorded by the same lineup at the same studio for similar results. One dollar per inch from the ketchupcavern.com.

It’s easy to get bogged down searching out the hottest and most obscure black art-metal trends. Sometimes we forget what this whole thing is really all about. Riffs. Saviours seem to have mined plenty for their newest album, fueled on by a discriminating diet of fine ganja and cheap whiskey. This isn’t about standing around [...]

Moving into the tail-end of ’09, it looks like this might just end up being the year of the dubstep full-length. With the genre itself beginning to seep into and absorb sounds and moods from neighboring styles and no longer confined to 45rpm 12″s, a lot of the more progressive artists are producing whole albums [...]

NYC crate-diggers Javelin have their first 12″ coming out on Thrill Jockey.  If you somehow haven’t heard this duo, they play sample-heavy music that is way too hard to put a label on.  I’ve heard people say they remind them of Quiet Village, which isn’t a great comparison, but it will do.  Anyway, this 12″ [...]

Apparently this Simon Scott fellow used to be the drummer for this band called Slowdive. You would have never guessed it listening to the blissful, droney dirges on his solo LP, but I swear: it’s true. I read it on the internet. This album comes to us courtesy of the fine folks at Miasmah, who [...]

Oh, great. Another “death ambient” release. Right? Well, that was kind of my thought when I saw this go up at Boomkat. Then I listened to the samples… then I watched some YouTube video featuring footage culled from Night of the Lepus (wow, really? why did I know that?)… and now I’m a believer. I’ll [...]

I know some of you guys need something heavy to blow out that last Neon Indian post, so here it is.  Neurot band US Christmas have a new record out, and it’s good.  “Eat The Low Dogs” is a bluesy, sludgey, stoney piece of psychedelic rock that should please any respectable OMGVinyl reader.  These are [...]

Alan Palomo’s Neon Indian project is something you’re either going to love or hate.  It has all the elements of this little “glow-fi” movement we are currently experiencing – bedroom production, 80′s pop sensibility, and boombox-blasting beats.  That said, it is also the cream of that crop, so if you are into bands like Washed [...]

Immune is back with a new vinyl release, which means this is some high-quality shit.  C Joynes is a renowned British guitar player that has released some CD-Rs and ultra-limited vinyl.  “Revenants, Prodigies, and The Restless Dead” is his first widely-available vinyl release, thank goodness for Immune.  The music is rooted in traditional folk fingerpicking, [...]

If you’re already listening to bands like Blank Dogs and Washed Out, you might as well go deeper down the hole and listen to Miami’s Teepee, as it’s probably what you’ll be listening to in a year anyway.  Lower-fi, dronier, and more psychedelic than the aforementioned artists, this one-man record should definitely impress your hipster [...]

I got this record in the mail for review, and I am pretty much blown away by it.  WROOM are a Portland duo on Arena Rock Recording Company that play beautiful, precise atmospheric/textural/drone/ambient music.  This album has actually been out since the beginning of the year, but this is the first time I have heard [...]

You may remember stoner rockers Naam from when we wrote about their debut EP.  Well, now they are ready for their full-fledged LP to drop on Tee Pee, home of all the best stoners.  Loud, smoked-out psychedelia reigns here, and you will like it.  The 2xLP drops in a couple of weeks, but you can [...]