The Cinematic Orchestra: Ma Fleur

"To Build A Home," which opens the new album from The Cinematic Orchestra, is extraordinary. A piano signature already heavy with melancholy provides the bed on which Patrick Watson's even more achingly beautiful singing voice lies. Altogether, it's moving enough to make you sorrowful on the sunniest of days. The man behind The Cinematic Orchestra, Londoner Jason Swinscoe, is acclaimed for marrying near-horizontal jazz-tinged rhythms …

Earth: Hibernaculum

The pioneering Drone bandHibernaculum, his first record in two years. The four-song CD contains some reworked classics and new songs, as well as a DVD documenting Earth’s most recent European tour. The sweet low-fi short Within the Drone was directed by Seldon Hunt and gives intimate insights into the world Carlson and the drone community. Hunt says, "Dylan Carlson is a true underground American icon, …

Spoonbill

An electronic producer with a string of international sound installation accolades, Melbourne's Spoonbill delivers his second album Nestegg with a crispness and precision that plays across a broad audio spectrum. Blending both modern and antique sounds from live performances and electronic creations, Spoonbill delivers hard beats, sweeping musical landscapes and everything in between. It's an incredibly unique sound, and is riddled with conversational sound bytes …