Stepping away from his Moderat collaboration with fellow Germans Modeselektor, Sascha Ring returns after six years with a new album under his Apparat guise. Again, he provides another otherworldly blend of deep orchestration, post-rock echoes, and techno-informed pop.

A Vigilante makes the most of its limited resources in the way any good exploitation should, but rather than relish in grime or gore, Dagger-Nickson strips its look down to an elemental version of the standard indie aesthetic.

A lot of people don’t know what to make of These New Puritans. The trajectory of their career has seen them become ever more “experimental,” something of a dirty word in contemporary musical parlance.

Pop has a delusion problem. In a quest to viewed as something more than throw away, it is run-through with allusions to “empowerment” but often it falls short. It’s often an act, marketing not activism, wrapped in the sonically mundane.

The prospect of a new HEALTH album has been a mouth-watering one since their self-titled debut dropped unsuspectingly 12 years ago. Every subsequent release has pushed the boundaries of both expectation and achievement, even if their output over the course of the band’s existence can hardly be called prolific.

As Animal Collective ventures further into jam band territory, Avey Tare‘s solo work pulls in the opposite direction, providing a much needed respite from the literal minded excess that has marked the band’s more recent output.

A little movie called Goodfellas halted the first attempt at producing Donnie Brasco, when the studio rightly chose to wait until the light from Scorsese’s landmark 1990 mob feature faded.

We at Under the Radar are a little late on the scene with Tamino but, fresh from wowing many at SXSW, it seems timely to draw attention to the debut album, Amir.

It would be a misnomer to categorize Sasami Ashworth as simply a guitarist. The Los Angeles-based polymath has been stamping her imprimatur onto film scores, orchestral compositions, and recently provided her deft musicianship to Cherry Glazer as their resident synthesist.