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Bransby: "One Night Stand"
We’ve all been there before; let’s not be glib. The morning after an incompatible dalliance, shuffling home like a fresh...
Oct 27, 2008
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Guns N' Roses: "Chinese Democracy"
I’ll admit it: I didn’t approach “Chinese Democracy” completely free of bias. It’s impossible for anyone with even a passing...
Oct 25, 2008
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Max Tundra: Parallax Error Beheads You
In his review of Saint Dymphna, Mark Abraham rightly challenges the conventional wisdom that bands that start out playing experimental...
Oct 24, 2008
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Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
So, not exactly the most popular calling then. Of Montreal—that swinging dick band—have made the album you always wished/feared they’d...
Oct 24, 2008
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AC/DC: Black Ice
Black Ice, easily AC/DC’s finest studio album in nigh three decades, finds Brian Johnson and the Young brothers impossibly reinvigorated,...
Oct 24, 2008
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Final Fantasy: Spectrum, 14th Century / Plays To Please EP
As with the charming company he keeps, Owen Pallett treats his influences like a turkey dinner, first glutting on the...
Oct 24, 2008
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Lau Nau: Nukkuu
Lau Nau’s sophomore effort is paradoxical: a series of drawn out emotions as repetitious photo essay, but as each photo...
Oct 23, 2008
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Tickley Feather: Tickley Feather
I stumbled across Tickley Feather in one of those gratifying occasions we all sporadically enjoy, one that is expanded from...
Oct 23, 2008
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Squarepusher: Just A Souvenir
Squarepusher is, let’s admit upfront, challenging. The question, then, for each album is: is this a good, mind-expanding, try-and-keep-up challenge,...
Oct 23, 2008