Records
Autechre: Quaristice
Based on the history of criticism and praise surrounding Autechre, one might assume the band has been given a Golden...
Feb 28, 2008
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CoCoComa: CoCoComa
CoCoComa is an up-and-coming Chicago three-piece that plays brisk garage punk with ultra-compressed cymbals, vaguely taunting organ lines, slowly trilled...
Feb 28, 2008
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Rameses III: Basilica
Ramesses III ruled Egypt for thirty years; Rameses III has ruled my headphones for three weeks. Thanks, Wikipedia....
Feb 28, 2008
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Laura Barrett: Earth Sciences EP
Laura Barrett is teetering on the edge of the diving board above the pool of Can-rock greatness. For swimmers the...
Feb 28, 2008
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Chris Walla: Field Manual
It’s in the smaller spaces that the kinds of teenagers we sometimes hate, and once were, fester in the miasma...
Feb 26, 2008
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Xiu Xiu: Women as Lovers
I suffered a little death at the hands of Xiu Xiu. Yes, I mean that in the French way, le...
Feb 26, 2008
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Arp: In Light
Constructed primarily on various keyboards—no drum machines to be found here— In Light unfolds with a series of synthesizer arpeggios,...
Feb 26, 2008
Tracks
Howlin' Rain: "Dancers At the End of Time"
Oh, hell yeah.
Ethan Miller’s Howlin’ Rain aren’t so much a proper band as an unabashed AOR fantasy camp—a satanic...
Feb 26, 2008