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John Talabot: ƒIN
“Tropical” is a frequently bandied-about descriptor of John Talabot’s work. While his debut full-length ƒIN certainly sounds as though it was extracted from amidst the shadows of canopy cover, its offerings aren’t breezy and
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Mouse on Mars: Parastrophics
Thank God for bleeps and bloops. All reductiveness aside, electronic music is one of the more challenging and rewarding genres of music, due to the role it puts the listener into. With its complex
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The Cramps: File Under Sacred Music
A large component of the story of punk rock is that it was an effort to return to the simplicity of early rock ‘n’ roll, an attempt to break down the walls of pretension
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The Men: Open Your Heart
As I’ve listened to Open Your Heart over the past couple of weeks, I feel like I’ve been at war with myself. The music critic part of my brain wants to dissect the Men’s
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Porter Ricks: Biokinetics (Reissue)
The 20th century saw great sonic experimentation from musicians and composers, many of whom seemed more intent on discovering new sounds than on using the old sounds in a new way. Classical music experimented
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White Rabbits: Milk Famous
A few years ago when White Rabbits were deciding how best to follow up their debut, they settled on surrendering themselves completely to a make over courtesy of Spoon’s Britt Daniel. The result was
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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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Tindersticks: The Something Rain
Tindersticks have all the makings of a longtime working band: a career spanning just over two decades, a consistent sound that could be called more influential than commercially successful and a few dissolutions and
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Sleigh Bells: Reign of Terror
Sleigh Bells drops on you with the fun-loving velocity of a cartoon anvil. Together on their debut, the (excellently) giddy migraine that was 2010’s Treats, songwriter/guitarist Derek Miller and vocalist Alexis Krauss showed that
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Burial: Kindred EP
It’s been nearly six years since William Bevan unassumingly released his debut album under the Burial moniker. Less than a year later he would alter the course of modern bass music with his sophomore
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