Tag: Kranky

News

Pan-American announces new album

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 3, 2026
No Comments on Pan-American announces new album

Pan-American (photo: supplied by the artist)

Tags cHELSEA bRIDGE, Chuck Berry, Jo Stafford, Kranky, Mallory Linnehan, Mark Nelson, Michael Grigoni, Pan-American

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2025

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 19, 2025
9 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2025

Artwork by Sam Gill (IG: @sambgill)

Tags 12XU, Activity, Agriculture, Amish Records, Andreas Werliin, Barker, Battle Elf, Beacon Sound, Birdman Records, BMG, Burn Into Sleep, Carpark Records, Cass McCombs, Chat Pile, Chris Brokaw, Claire Rousay, Computer Students ™, Cooler Than Smoking, Cruel Nature Records, Dean Wareham, Deep Fade, deftones, Drag City, Dream Skills, E & X Records, FACS, Faith, Fire Records, Flying Nun, Frosti, Full Time Hobby, Fuzz Club, Glyders, Godunknown Records, gRAILS, Hayden Pedigo, Holy Sons, Horsegirl, Immersion / SUSS, Jayve Montgomery, Johan Berthling, Katuktu Collective, Kranky, Landing, Lawrence English, Lee Ranaldo, Matador, Matador Records, Mess Esque, Michael Grigoni, Michael Vallera, Moor Mother, more eaze, Northern Spy Records, Oren Ambarchi, Pan-American, Peak Oil, Pelican, Phage Tapes, Pile, Prolapse, Psychic Hotline, Rafael Toral, Room40, Run For Cover, Ruptured Records, Sargent House, Smalltown Supersound, Snakeskin, Sooper Records, Suede, Sumac, swim ~, Tapete Records, Tavare, Temporary Residence, The Armed, The Bats, The Besnard Lakes, The Ex, The Flenser, The Men, The Necks, The Spectral Light, Thrill Jockey, Throwing Muses, Tombed Visions, Tropical Fuck Storm, Trouble In Mind, Two Way Mirrors, Verity Den, Warner, Water Damage, Western Vinyl, William Tyler, Xol Meissner

Album Reviews

Loscil: Lake Fire

Loscil (photo: supplied by the artist)

Tags Kranky, Lawrence English, loscil, Scott Morgan

Albums Features Interviews

The Texas Tapes: An Interview with Kenneth James Gibson

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 13, 2025
3 Comments on The Texas Tapes: An Interview with Kenneth James Gibson

Kenneth James Gibson (photo: provided by the artist).

Albums Features

Albums Quarterly #17

Albums Quarterly #16

News

Loscil announces new album

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 27, 2025
No Comments on Loscil announces new album

Loscil (photo: supplied by the artist)

Tags James Meager, Kranky, Lawrence English, loscil, Scott Morgan

Album Reviews

Belong: Realistic IX

Belong

Tags Adam Wiltzie, Alan Vega, Belong, Brian McBride, Growing, Kompakt, Kranky, Marty Rev, Michael Jones, MJ Guider, my bloody valentine, slowdive, Stars of the Lid, Tim Hecker, Turk Dietrich

Features Interviews

Pelagic Swell: In Conversation with Adam Wiltzie

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 7, 2024
12 Comments on Pelagic Swell: In Conversation with Adam Wiltzie

Adam Wiltzie (photo: Martha Hoet)

Tags A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Adam Wiltzie, Aix Em Klemm, Brian Eno, Christina Vantzou, Harold Budd, Kranky, Loop, Main, Ninja Tune, Raised Tapes, Robert Hampson, Stars of the Lid, Stevie Wonder, The Dead Texan

Album Reviews

MJ Guider: Youth and Beauty EP

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 1, 2024
7 Comments on MJ Guider: Youth and Beauty EP

MJ Guider

Tags Aidan Baker, Jana Sotzko, Khanate James Plotkin, Kranky, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider, modemain, Trio Not Trio, William Gibson

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2023

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 18, 2023
28 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2023

Artwork by Sam Gill (IG: @samgill82)

Tags 12XU, 4000 Records, Activity, Agriculture, All Structures Align, All The Heavens Were A Bell, Amish Records, ATO Records, Bad History Month, Baxter Dury, Búho Ermitaño, Ben Chasny, Billy Woods, Birdman Records, Black Duck, Bonnacons of Doom, Buh Records, ChiaraOscuro, Chris Abrahams, Civic, Crime & The City Solution, Cruel Nature Records, Danny Paul Grody, Daron Beck, Drag City, Droneroom, Echodelick Records, Elizabeth Still, Emil Amos, Exploding In Sound, FACS, Fat Possum, Fawn Limbs, Fire Records, Ghostwoods, Gizeh Records, Godflesh, gRAILS, Great Falls, Heavenly Recordings, Home Assembly Music, Human Worth, Hypostatic Union, Idealogic Organ, Infinite River, Ipecac Recordings, Jayve Montgomery, Kenny Segal, Kranky, Les Conches Valasques, Luggage, Marginal Glitch Records, Marthe, Michael Plater, Monastral, Mute, Nadja, Nefarious Industries, Neurot Recordings, Niecy Blues, Ninja Tune, Northern Spy, Oren Ambarchi, Oxbow, Partisan Records, pj harvey, Pound Land, Prewn, Prison, Purge, Rabbit Hash, Ramble Records, Repitidor, Rick Tomlinson, Robbie Avenaim, Rocket Recordings, Roman Numeral Records, RVG, Sacred Bones, Sludge Lord Records, Solid Brass Records, Southern Lord Recordings, SQÜRL, Stephen O’Malley, Temporary Residence, The Declining Winter, The Flenser, The Necks, The Pines of Rome, The Serfs, Three Lobed Recordings, Thrill Jockey, Tim Wyskida, TORPOR, Trio Not Trio, Trouble In Mind, Vox Records, Water Damage, Western Vinyl, Winterwood, Wolves and Vibrancy, Wrong Speed Records, Young Fathers

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #10

Niecy Blue (photo: Koko Odogba)

Album Reviews

Slowdive: everything is alive

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 8, 2023
5 Comments on Slowdive: everything is alive

Slowdive (photo: via artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Blur, Christian Savill, Dead Oceans, Kranky, Neil Halstead, Nick Chaplin, oasis, Rachel Goswell, Simon Scott, slowdive

Features Opinion

Articulate Silences: Remembering Brian McBride

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 31, 2023
11 Comments on Articulate Silences: Remembering Brian McBride

Brian McBride (photo: Steve Molter)

Tags A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Adam Wiltzie, Aix Em Klemm, All Tomorrow's Parties, Bell Gardens, Brian Eno, Brian McBride, Explosions In The Sky, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, Labdraford, Rick Froberg, Robert Donne, Stars of the Lid, Steve Reich

Features Interviews

Less Bells Interview: “The desert makes suggestions”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 13, 2023
4 Comments on Less Bells Interview: “The desert makes suggestions”

Less Bells

Tags Bell Gardens, Dain Luscombe, Julie Carpenter, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, Less Bells, Marjorie Fair, Meadows Heavy Recorders

Album Reviews

Charbel Haber & Fadi Tabbal: Enfin la nuit

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 8, 2023
5 Comments on Charbel Haber & Fadi Tabbal: Enfin la nuit

Charbel Haber and Fadi Tabbal (photo via artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Asil Ensemble, At Tunefork, Charbel Haber, Fadi Tabbal, Field Works, Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, Julia Sabre, Kranky, Malayeen, Nadim Tabet, Nahal Recordings, Oiseaux-Tempête, Scrambled Eggs, The Bunny Tylers, The Incompetents, Youmna Saba

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #6

Ale Hop & Laura Robles (photo: Kasia Zacharko)

Singles

Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘Drowned Ground’

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 6, 2023
No Comments on Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘Drowned Ground’

Less Bells

Tags Bell Gardens, Dain Luscombe, Julie Carpenter, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, Less Bells, Marjorie Fair, Meadows Heavy Recorders

Album Reviews

Loscil // Lawrence English: Colours of Air

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 2, 2023
7 Comments on Loscil // Lawrence English: Colours of Air

Loscil // Lawrence English (photo credit: CWS Marshall)

Tags Kranky, Lawrence English, loscil, Room40, Scott Morgan, The Old Museum

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 16, 2022
35 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022

Collage by Sam Gill (@samgill82)

Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 4ad, Aidan Baker, All Structures Align, Andreas Werliin, Archers of Loaf, Bella Union, BMG, Breathless, Broken Spine Records, Brutus, BUÑUEL, Chat Pile, Clouds Hill, Constellation Records, Cooking Vinyl, Cruel Nature Records, Desert Records, Destroyer, Dine Alone Records, Dischord Records, Drag City, Droneroom, Duquette Johnston, Duster, Earl Sweatshirt, Editions Mego, Ellis Swan, Empty House, Enablers, Esmerine, Exploding In Sound, Fat Possum Records, Golden Chariot Records, Gvantsa Narim, Haress, Hassle Records, Houseplants, Irregular Patterns, Jenny Hval, Johan Berthling, Joyful Noise Recordings, Kal Marks, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, La Tempesta International, Late Music, Lebenswelt, Lensmen, Loop, Luke Mawdsley, Matt Christensen, Meadows Heavy Recorders, Merge, Merge Records, Miasmah Recordings, Midira Records, Monastral, Mondkopf, Nadja, Nightingales, Nik Colk Void, Numero Group, OFF!, Oneida, Oren Ambarchi, OuZel Recordings / Under My Bed Recordings, Pan-American, Petra Haden, Preoccupations, Profound Lore Records, Quindi Records, Raum, Reactor, Rocio Zavala, Salisman & His Hermetic Order, Sarah Davachi, Sargent House, Sea Power, Single Lock Records, Soft Abuse, Soulside, Southern Lord Recordings, SPINE, Steven R. Smith, Suede, Swami John Reis, Swami Records, Tan Cressida, Tenor Vossa Records Ltd, The Flenser, The Lord, The Mars Volta, The Reds Pinks and Purples, Tiny Global Productions, Tough Love, Win Big Records, Winterwood, Wrong Speed Records, Yellowelectric, Yoshiwara

Singles

Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘A Failure of Horses’

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 30, 2022
1 Comment on Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘A Failure of Horses’

Less Bells

Tags Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, Less Bells, Meadows Heavy Recorders

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #2

Tags Blanket Swimming, Christina Vantzou, Cruel Nature Records, Elrond, Kranky, Music for a Nightmare, Rocket Recordings, Shit and Shine, Stuart Cook, Waxing Crescent Records

Features Lost Albums

Southpacific: Constance

Southpacific - Constance

Tags Bethany Curve, Graeme Fleming, Highspire, Joachim Toelke, Kranky, my bloody valentine, Phil Stewart-Bowes, Seefeel, SoPac, Southpacific, The Bowery Electric, Turnbuckle Records

Albums Features

Landing’s Seasons 20th anniversary

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date July 22, 2022
3 Comments on Landing’s Seasons 20th anniversary

Landing (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Albums Features

Albums Quarterly #6

Photo credit: original images taken from respective artists' Bandcamp pages.

Tags Astrel K, ATO Records, Broken Spine, Bronzerat Records, Chris Corsano, Colpitts, Constellation, Cruel Nature Records, Cult Of Luna, Drug Church, Duphonic Super 45s, DVANOV, Earthen Sea, Ghost Power, half man half biscuit, Helms Alee, Holy Island, Huercos S. Incienso, HVOB, Improved Sequence, Ivan The Tolerable, Jon Spencer, Jon Spencer & the hitmakers, Kee Avil, Keeley Forsyth, Kranky, Library of the Occult, Metal Blade Records, Michael Flower, P.E., Past Inside the Present, Patricia Wolf, PIAS, Pink Mountaintops, PLOSIVS, Pure Noise Records, R M Qualtral, Rocket Recordings, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Rubber Oh, Sargent House, Sub Pop, Swami Records, The Leaf Label, Thrill Jockey, VHF Reocrds, Wharf Cat Records

Features Interviews

Pan-American Interview: “Memory is the place where inward-facing emotion lives”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 18, 2022
21 Comments on Pan-American Interview: “Memory is the place where inward-facing emotion lives”

Pan-American (photo credit: Luka Nelson)

Tags Grouper, Kranky, Labradford, Mark Nelson, Pan-American

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 17, 2021
41 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021

Original image via Unsplash (Florencia Viadana)

Tags 20-20-20, AD 93, Aging, Aging ~ Land Trance, Allen Moore, Ben Chasny, big brave, big country, BIG | BRAVE, Bill Orcutt, Black Tempel Pyrämid, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bronzerat, Charlie Butler, Chris Abrahams, Chris Corsano, Circle, Claire Cronin, Comedy Minus One, Constellation Records, Cruel Nature Records, Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, Daniela Weinmann, David Colohan, David Wurth, Deafheaven, Divide And Dissolve, Domino Recordings, Donovan Quinn, Drag City, Dub Cthonic, Eleventh Dream Day, Emil Amos, Emma Ruth Rundle, Ex-Easter Island Head, FACS, Fading Tapes, Fake Fruit, Fat Cat, Fire Records, Flemish Eye, Fly Pan Am, Full Time Hobby, Gaffa Bandana, Glenn Donaldson, Gnod, Goliath Enterprises Limited, Grouper, Holy Sons, Hominid Sounds, Human Worth, International Anthem, Invada Records, Iron Lung Records, Jeff Parker, Jim White, Joyful Noise, Joyful Noise Recordings, Katuku Collective, Kowloon Walled City, Kranky, Kulk, Land Trance, Light Conductor, Lingua Ignota, loscil, Low, Matt Christensen, Matt Sweeney, Mess Esque, Miasmah Recordings, Midwife, Moin, Monastra, Naomi Yang, Neurot Recordings, New Bums, nick cave, Ninja Tune, Odd Beholder, Ohm Resistance, Orindal Records, P.M. Tummala, Palilalia, Patrick R. Pärk, richard dawson, Rock In Your Head, Rocket Recordings, Rough Trade, Sargent House, Simm, Sinnbus, Six Organs of Admittance, slant, sleaford mods, Southern Lord, Springtime, Stuart Cook, Sub Pop, The Besnard Lakes, The Bug, The Flenser, The Reds Pinks and Purples, The Still, Three Lobed Recordings, Tough Love, Tropical Fuck Storm, Trouble In Mind, Vapour Theories, warren ellis, Waxing Cresent Records, Will Oldham, XIMES

Album Reviews

Light Conductor: Sequence Two – “radical colours that pulsate”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 29, 2021
3 Comments on Light Conductor: Sequence Two – “radical colours that pulsate”

Light Conductor (photo credit: via Constellation website)

Tags Constellation Records, Jace Lacek, Kranky, Light Conductor, Stephen Ramsay, The Besnard Lakes, Young Galaxy

Album Reviews

Grouper: Shade – “a fascinating collection of songs”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 21, 2021
10 Comments on Grouper: Shade – “a fascinating collection of songs”

Grouper (photo credit: Gordon Ashworth)

Tags Grouper, Kranky, Liz Harris

Features Interviews

Constant World: In Conversation with Matt Christensen – Part 2

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 23, 2021
10 Comments on Constant World: In Conversation with Matt Christensen – Part 2

Matt Christensen (photo credit: Tim Breen)

Tags Brian Eno, Depeche Mode, King Crimson, Kranky, Labradford, Matt Christensen, Neil Young, Sea And Cake, slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Spaceman 3, spiritualized, Talk Talk, Tortoise, Wax Trax!, Zelienople

Singles

MJ Guider: Matanzas – “darkwave-inspired soundscapes”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 17, 2021
3 Comments on MJ Guider: Matanzas – “darkwave-inspired soundscapes”

MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy)

Tags Kranky, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider, modelmain, Seefeel

Album Reviews

Loscil: Clara – “sprawling collages”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 7, 2021
8 Comments on Loscil: Clara – “sprawling collages”

loscil (photo credit: Ben Didier)

Tags Kranky, loscil, Primavera, Scott Morgan, Shellac, The Sight Below

Features Interviews

Zelienople Interview: “our biggest enemy is cynicism”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 8, 2021
26 Comments on Zelienople Interview: “our biggest enemy is cynicism”

Zelienople (photo credit: Christopher Michael Hefner)

Tags Kranky, Matt Christensen, Miashma Recordings, Mike Weis, Sun Ra, Tortoise, Zelienople

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2020

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 11, 2020
83 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2020

Original image source: Unsplash

Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Activity, Albums of the year, Albums of the year 2020, Algiers, Andrea, ATO Records, Bad Amputee, Bambara, Baxter Dury, Bella Union, Bruxa Maria, Cohn Corporation, CS + Kreme, Daniel Avery, Dead Oceans, Destroyer, Dine Alone Records, Dis Fig, Dogleg, Domino Recordings, Drag City, Drive-By Truckers, Einstürzende Neubauten, Emil Amos, Emma Ruth Rundle, Epic Records, Epitaph Records, Ex-Easter Island Head, FACS, Family Jukebox, Fiona Apple, Flying Nun Records, Fotocrime, Heavenly Recordings, Holy Sons, Hominid Sounds, Hyperdub, Illian Tape, Illian Tapes, Jehnny Beth, Julianna Barwick, Keeley Forsyth, Kevin Martin, Kranky, Land Trance, Matador Records, Merge Records, Miashma Recordings, MJ Guider, Moses Boyd, Muzz, Ninja Tune, Northern Spy Records, Nuclear Blast, P.E., Pallbearer, Phantasy Sound, Phil Elverum, PIAS, Potomak, Profound Lore, protomartyr, Sacred Bones, Serengeti, Shabazz Palaces, Six Organs of Admittance, Sony Records, The Bats, The Bug, The Flaming Lips, The Innocence Mission, The Leaf Label, The Microphones, The Necks, The Trilogy Tapes, Thou, Thrill Jockey, Torres, Touché Amoré, Triple Crown Records, Trouble In Mind, Uniform, Walter Martin, Warp, Western Vinyl, Wharf Cat Records, Wreikmeister Harmonies, Wrekmeister Harmonies, yves tumor, Zelienople

Features Interviews

MJ Guider Interview: “I didn’t set out with a specific inspiration for making the record other than my standard compulsion”

MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy)

Tags Bowery Electric, cocteau twins, Julianna Barwick, Kranky, Less Bells, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider

Album Reviews

Less Bells: Mourning Jewelry – “an album for solitude to escape everyday burdens”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 21, 2020
7 Comments on Less Bells: Mourning Jewelry – “an album for solitude to escape everyday burdens”

Less Bells (photo credit: Baha H. Danesh)

The second installment from Julie Carpenter reflects on darkness of the past.

Tags A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Bowery Electric, Fennesz, Julianna Barwick, Julie Carpenter, Kranky, Less Bells, Mourning Jewelry