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Medicine Shot Forth Self Living/The Buried Life (Reissues)
Shot Forth Self Living: The Buried Life: Medicine played a strand of shoegaze in the early 1990s when the mainstream was primarily fixated on grunge, alt-rock and – at least for dedicated listeners –
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Salim Nourallah: Hit Parade
The joys of true love and domesticity have long been the subjects of song, often the domain of aging musicians who’ve exchanged youthful rebellion for, to borrow a phrase, a quiet normal life. Songs
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Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action at a Distance
While Bradford Cox has spent his time recently being, depending on one’s point of view, either obnoxious or brilliant – or maybe a bit of each – his Deerhunter bandmate Lockett Pundt has instead
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Rediscover: David McComb: Love of Will
Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. Domino’s reissue series of the Triffids catalog, launched in 2006 with the band’s
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Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records, 1991-2011: by Kaitlin Fontana
Oral histories can be notoriously unreliable: they’re entirely at the mercy of its contributors’ sometimes faulty memories, tendencies to whitewash certain events while mythologizing others and petty desires to settle old scores or otherwise
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Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
With their shifting arrangements, unexpected mood swings and lyrical tendencies towards darkly humorous, somber or otherwise fatalistic subject matter, many of Andrew Bird’s songs feels like a great jumbling of the senses or having
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Archers of Loaf: Vee Vee (Reissue)
Archers of Loaf were courted by at least one major label in 1995 after the release of Vee Vee, the band’s sophomore full length and their most commercially successful album to date. To a
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Various Artists: Aimer et Perdre: To Love & To Lose Songs, 1917-1934
Aimer et Perdre: To Love & To Lose Songs, 1917-1934 combines songs from the Carpathian Mountains with those from the Cajun bayou and old, rural America. If this sounds like a strange threesome, it’s
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War: by Tony Horwitz
In the span of a few years between 1856 and 1859, the abolitionist John Brown led a raid that left five pro-slavery men dead in Pottawattamie, Kansas, staged a takeover of the federal armory
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