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Adventure: "Battle Cat"
Adventure jacks the skuzzy 8-bit sonics that made Dan Friel’s Ghost Town EP one of this year’s most crowdpleasing headfucks...
Jul 11, 2008
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Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Lie Down In The Light
For most Oldham fans, it’s always been enough to get a new batch of songs, even if it’s in the...
Jul 11, 2008
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Jaytech: Everything is OK
IDM, or “intelligent dance music” for those of you born in the ’90s, is still used to describe fêted...
Jul 11, 2008
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Beck: Modern Guilt
Poor, poor Beck. At times saddled with an expectation for an almost Dylanesque (yeah, I used it) insight into the...
Jul 11, 2008
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James Blackshaw: Litany of Echoes
The first pleasant surprise from acoustic guitar virtuoso James Blackshaw’s latest release is that its opening track presents not even...
Jul 11, 2008
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T.I.: "No Matter What"
While “What You Know” is obviously the best song T.I.’s ever touched, the triumph was all DJ Toomp’s. In an...
Jul 10, 2008
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Flying Lotus: Los Angeles
Nuance feels dead. Flip around, drive around, browse around; it becomes obvious rather quickly: yelling is the new talking, XL’s...
Jul 07, 2008
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The Garlands: The Garlands EP
It comes in the mail, and it’s fucking adorable. Everything about the Garlands’ self-titled EP is small and cute: it...
Jul 07, 2008
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Spiritualized: Songs in A&E
Even as a Spiritualized fan and a close follower of everything they release, I can’t help but feel that front...
Jul 07, 2008