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Wild Beasts: Limbo, Panto

It all hangs on that one precipitous note, trembling in the first bar of the first song and declaring, for...

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Enjoy that rapturous sigh of relief to the soothing DIY sounds of: Moi Non Plus, Tickley Feather, Farms in Trouble, Ghost Bees, Hospital Bombers…

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Another Electronic Musician: Five

First of all: he isn’t. The fact that California pad-prodder Jase Rex has been signed to n5MD gives him a...

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The Music Tapes: Music Tapes For Clouds And Tornados

In Julian Koster’s private universe, revealed to us slowly with his Music Tapes project, there are sweetly harmonizing singing saws,...

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T.I.: Paper Trail

I knew my opinion of T.I.’s Paper Trail before I ever heard it. Here: “After a career defined by technical...

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Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping

“I used to love these guys. Now I hate this guy.”
–Steve Albini, on the Replacements

It’s an admonition I’m...

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Hotel Hotel: "The Captain Goes Down With The Ship (Sinking)"

What happens when two post-rock land-lubbers team up with a salt-sucking barfly and go seek out the Mary Celeste? Somewhere...

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Björk: "Náttúra"

Björk has become so capital-S substantial that she’s damned to weigh down even her one-offs. The short form: this song...

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Atlas Sound: "Danse Infernale/Danse Macabre"

I feel like Bradford Cox’s output, and specifically Atlas Sound’s Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot...