The Horrors – Luminous (XL)
Recorded over 15 months in The Horror’s east London studio-laboratory-bunker with co-producer Craig Silvey, Luminous is the follow-up to the band’s 2007 debut Strange House, the Mercury-nominated Primary Colours (2009), and the critically-acclaimed Skying (2011) – a record that entered the charts at Number Five, featured prominently in the end-of-year magazine/newspaper polls, and was anointed NME’s Album Of The Year.
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Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack (4AD)
Nikki Nack – the third album from tUnE-yArDs – was first announced when Merrill Garbus celebrated her birthday by posting a ‘MegaMix’ of album tracks online. Succeeding 2011’s W H O K I L L (an album that featured prominently in most year end lists, including NZ Listener and Groove Guide, and her amazing performance at that year’s Rhythm & Vines Festival in Gisborne), Nikki Nack is brilliantly playful, more than matching its jump-rope-chant title.
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