Cluster  Qua cd/lp - Klangbad Records - Released 15th February 2010
Cluster have been making music for nearly 40 years. They have long since earned legendary status. If this bands music had lost any of its currentness, one would honor it as a gesamtkunstwerk. But it's far too early for that, as Cluster are as productive, wide awake and important as ever before. http://www.myspace.com/theonlyclusterthatmatters

Arch Garrison - King Of The Down - Double Six Records - Released 22nd February 2010
From the creative force behind North Sea Radio Orchestra comes Craig Fortnams new project Arch Garrison. Fans of NSRO have come to expect beautiful melodies, quality arrangements and chord progressions that make your insides go funny. These elements are all in abundance here but in a much sparser form, with Craigs instantly recognisable nylon and steel string guitar playing combining with his trusty Philicorda organ providing the backdrop to his modern folk tales. http://www.myspace.com/archgarrison

Lost Idol - Brave The Elements cd/lp - Cookshop - Released 22nd February 2010
James Dean, producer & man behind the Cookshop record label, steps out from the shadows to don his Lost Idol alias & deliver his second full length lp. It has been quite a wait since 2006s critically acclaimed Utters From A Cluttered Mind, however Lost Idol has spent this time carefully developing a sound that moves away from the psychedelic songcraft of his debut & into a predominantly instrumental oeuvre that reflects his love for electronica, ambient, krautrock, soundscapes & beyond. http://www.myspace.com/lostidol

Joanna Newsom 'Have One On Me' cd/lp - Drag City - Released 1st March 2010

Christy & Emily - 'No Rest' cdlp - Klangbad – Released 29th March 2010
Brooklyn based duo Christy & Emily release their third record produced by Hans Joachim Irmler of Faust at Klangbad Studios, Germany. Their second effort, 'Superstition', was quietly put out in November 2009 through Robert Lloyd (The ightingales)'s label, Big Print. It got a lot of love in reviews, but not a lot of distribution. No Rest should have both. http://www.myspace.com/christyandemily

Mark Beazley -  'Stateless' cd/lp  - Trace Recordings - Released 29th March 2010
After 11 years recording music as Rothko, Mark Beazley is releasing his first purely solo album under his own name, and on his own Trace Recordings label. More orchestral in texture and, in places, even more minimal in arrangement than past Rothko material, Beazley’s distinctive bass guitar style and tone is even more present on Stateless, chiming with an increased level of clarity among the strings and gently struck piano’s. http://www.tracerecordings.com/

Extra Life  – ‘Made Flesh'  cd/lp - LOAF Recordings - Released 29th March 2010
Extra Life is the primary musical vehicle for Charlie Looker, singer, guitarist and composer, who has become one of the most intense and respected voices in the New York experimental underground. For years Looker was a core member of legendary brutal chamber ensemble Zs and has  also worked with diverse artists such as Dirty Projectors,  Glenn Branca, William Parker and the S.E.M. Ensemble. Formed in 2007, Extra Life combines elements of Medieval chant, metallic hardcore, dark neofolk, abstract modernism and lush pop. The music is cosmic in scope, a sacred alchemical marriage of the earth’s crude, blackened weight and the ethereal light of the divine.  http://www.myspace.com/extralifetheband

Allroh - 'Hag Dec' cd/lp - Big Print - Released April 5th 2010
Hag Dec is composed and performed entirely by Allroh (Anne Rolfs). Anne is a very special one woman band – She plays electric and acoustic guitars and sings in her own truly unique style and also plays the sitar on the record. The album was recorded without using any effects or overdubs. Twelve of the songs on Hag Dec were recorded and mixed by Steve Albini in Chicago, with the album's other two songs being recorded at Church L'Eglise St Louis in France. http://www.myspace.com/allroh

Irmler + FM.Einheit -  'No Apologies' vinyl only lp - klangbad 44LP - Released April 26th 2010
Irmler and Einheit, represent two generations of legendary German musicians. Out of the ruins of 1968 "faust" emerged in the early 70s and it was with this band that Irmler's organ playing was first to be heard. Hardly a decade later FM.Einheit's performances with Einstürzenden Neubauten were an expression of a heightened self-consciousness and the self-proclaimed "Genialer Dilletanten" (Ingenious Dilettantes) in the then walled city Berlin. At the start of the year the two of them met at the Faust studio where their unusual and special sound-worlds came together in the form of a recording session. The result is an exciting sound-collage made up of Irmlers dark spheres and the percussive sounds of FM. Einheit. Opening a new chapter in sound-scapes.  www.klangbad.de

Elite Barbarian - 'It’s Only When You Get To The End That It All Makes Sense' - cd and digital download - Front and Follow - Released 10th May 2010 
Elite Barbarian is the work of Benjamin Page and Michael Donnelly, and It's Only When You Get To The End That It All Makes Senseis their debut album. 
Moving between static moods and beat-waves, from reflective abstraction to moments of searing intensity, this record is the result of improvisations using hardware synths and samplers. One of the strongest electronic beep records you will ever hear... www.myspace.com/elitebarbarian