MJ Guider - Triple Black (Precious Systems - 2016)

MJ Guider is Melissa Guion’s hazy, pastoral electronica project. ‘Precious Systems’, she states, is “inspired and influenced by the landscape in and near New Orleans, particularly the juxtaposition of the natural with industrial and commercial constructs as they reflect life here. ~normanrecords

Dedekind Cut (Lee Bannon) - Instinct ($uccessor -  2016)

On his first full-length as Dedekind Cut, the artist formerly known as Lee Bannon constructs an ambitious form of ambient music, reflecting the violence and anxiety pervading our atmosphere today. [...] ~pitchfork

Powell - Her Face (Sport - 2016)

[...] Powell's music is based on an impossible separation of body and brain, a desire to stretch the mind with endless synthesizer offshoots while commandeering the body with pummelling drums and tom-led beats. [...] ~residentadvisor

Babyfather - God Hour (feat. Micachu) (''BBF'' Hosted By DJ Escrow - 2016)

[...] Essentially BBF - Hosted by DJ Escrow is a definitive UK hip hop album of the decade so far; a shadow-play of paranoid & surreal atmospheres, ambiguous juxtapositions, upfront infidelity and playful/dreadful intentions that perhaps best reflect street-view observations of the knackered, profane, pagan and pointedly archaic in contrast to supposedly progressive national values and the schizoid political and artistic double-speak of the “elite”. [...] ~boomkat

Andy Stott - Too Many Voices (Too Many Voices, 2016)

4th Album from Andy Stott, a follow-up to 2014’s Faith In Strangers, featuring Fourth World pop variants joining the dots between Haruomi Hosono & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Newworldaquarium, Ruff Sqwad and Theo Parrish...~boomkat

Christina Vantzou - Laurie Spiegel (The Sight Below Remix) ( 3.5 (Nº3 Remixes) ,2016)

Library Tapes - Silhouettes (Escapism , 2016)

The album and its individual tracks may be short, but the emotional heft is huge.  Escapism is melancholic and moving, powerfully sad.  If one were to experience more of it, one might melt. ~acloserlisten

Orior -  Earth Rhythm (Strange Beauty , 2016)

Reissue of incredible ‘lost’ post-punk recordings c.1979-1983 from the mysterious Orior, a huge influence on Demdike Stare. Original tape masters baked and restored by Andy Popplewell, mastered and Cut by Matt Colton. ~boomkat

Deux Filles - Drinking at a Stream (Silence & Wisdom, 1982)

The short, mysterious career of aptly named French female duo Deux Filles is bookended by tragedy. Gemini Forque and Claudine Coule met as teenagers on a holiday pilgrimage to Lourdes, during which Coule's mother died of an incurable lung disease and Forque's mother was killed and her father paralyzed in a grisly auto accident. The two teens bonded over their shared grief and worked through their bereavement with music. However, after recording two critically acclaimed albums and playing throughout Europe and North America, Forque and Coule disappeared without a trace during a trip to Algiers in 1984, where Forque had lived from birth to the age of five. In the ensuing years, not a trace of the duo has surfaced, except for a mysterious letter purportedly written by Coule claiming that the pair journeyed to India on a spiritual quest, only to meet with further hardships. Indeed, the short and terribly unhappy lives of Forque and Coule are at the root of the small but fervent cult following the mysterious duo have gained since their disappearance, not least because the placid, largely instrumental music on the duo's albums betrays no hint of the sorrow that framed their personal lives. ~ltmrecordings