Cru Servers – Blubber Totem

Elliot Stevens
Gurgling up from the broiling mulch, Cru Servers make solid 12th Isle’s imprint whilst taking us further into the uneasy and unfamiliar. Whereas the label’s initial release might have been intercepted signals f...

Premiere: Indoor Plants – Dandelions

Matt Blair
Steeped in history, the Russian city of Smolensk has an endearingly traditional feel to it. That's why the emergence of producers like Gamayun and Indoor Plants AKA Vyacheslav Shutov might seem like a real curv...

UnknownmiX – Chew Some More

Michael Sutton
Zürich-based label Lux Rec release some native Swiss material with Chew Some More, a refined taster of the band UnknownmiX. The group, who were active from 1983 to 1992, put out five LPs and three EPs of materi...

Lutto Lento – Dark Secret World

Michael Sutton
Polish artist Lubomir Grzelak, AKA Lutto Lento, returns with his first proper release of 2017, and it proves to be the experimental producer’s debut album no less. Put out by UK label Where To Now?, the intrigu...

SAD – Super Sounds II

Michael Sutton
Tape obsessives Vlad Dobrovolski and Vasily Stepanov (AKA P_SH) reunite as SAD for their latest sonic adventure, Super Sounds II, an LP put out by the prolifically strange and wonderful Russian label, Udacha. F...

Raymonde – J’aime Bien Le Tonnerre

Michael Sutton
Zèbres Records, the newly set-up, Lyon-based vinyl label put together by Frère Zèbre, presents its inaugural release with a 12” from Raymonde. Thibaut de Raymond is a fellow Lyon resident who, up until this poi...