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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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Young Magic: Melt
From its colorful, tropical fish flying through a nebula beginnings to its laidback, shimmering closing track, Young Magic’s Melt is a trippy album. While it’s difficult to describe exactly what “chillwave” as a genre
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Grimes: Visions
Though there are plenty of female musicians making waves in many different genres of music, historically they are pigeonholed as sex-selling pop stars or cutesy indie girls – a simplification, but not entirely untrue.
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Dr. Dog: Be the Void
“Get Away,” a song at roughly the midpoint of Dr. Dog’s new album Be the Void, announces, “Oh no, I can’t walk around/ With my feet off the ground.” I don’t think of the
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The Twilight Sad: No One Can Ever Know
The album’s cover art is enough to chill your already wintry bones: it’s a half-sitting portrait, half-morgue file photo of a face with pupil-less eyes, perforated lines sectioning off parts of the upper torso
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The Big Sleep: Nature Experiments
The Big Sleep is from Brooklyn. Of course they are. New album Nature Experiments, their third full-length release, is infused with all the indie cool that’s currently associated, in a fairly kneejerk fashion, with
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A Place to Bury Strangers: Onwards to the Wall EP
A Place to Bury Strangers’ Onwards to the Wall EP comes more than three years since their last full-length release, Exploding Head. The band, led by affable New York noise sage and innovative pedal
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Tennis: Young and Old
When it comes to cutesy husband-and-wife duos, there’s a thin line between endearingly twee and gag-inducing (see Mates of State). The average listener can only handle so much unbridled joy. Denver-based band Tennis, comprised
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DJ Food: The Search Engine
The contemporary labor market increasingly demands that workers flaunt their versatility. For a person to stick to one skill, working hard to master it, is no longer a source of pride but rather of
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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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