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Sigur Rós: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
For just over seven minutes, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust may be the most wonderful, jubilant listen you’ve...
Jul 17, 2008
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SJ Esau: Small Vessel
Listening to Small Vessel is a bit like watching a wounded bug crawl across a tiled bathroom floor: it stumbles...
Jul 17, 2008
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The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
Stay Positive finally puts a subtle fact into stark relief: the Hold Steady are a singles band. We never noticed...
Jul 17, 2008
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Solange: "I Decided"
Who the fuck is this? I mean, I get that it’s Solange Knowles, and that when she sees Jay-Z he...
Jul 15, 2008
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Danny!: And I Love H.E.R.: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The newest (though admittedly circumstantial) setback in Danny! Swain’s self-professedly tumultuous career is having dropped a rap album within chronological...
Jul 14, 2008
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Bauhaus: Go Away White
Bauhaus were, without a doubt, the first genuinely “alternative” (at least in the pre-grunge sense of the word) band I...
Jul 14, 2008
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Head Like a Kite: There is Loud Laughter Everywhere
Songwriter Dave Einmo has such an antiquated treatment of samples that his use of them peppers the songs on this,...
Jul 14, 2008
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Goldmund: The Malady of Elegance
It would seem the folks over at Type have two distinct heads—craggy and android—and it’s the former they dust off...
Jul 14, 2008