Records
Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It
In the last several years, Seattle has come considerably closer to exorcising the ghosts of grunge and post-grunge, as distinct...
Mar 02, 2012
Records
Blackout Beach: 11 Pink Helicopters in the Coral Sky EP
If I were to say that 11 Pink Helicopters in the Coral Sky feels like an epilogue to last year’s...
Mar 02, 2012
Records
The Caretaker: Patience (After Sebald)
I’d really hoped that this review could transcend the most obvious observations provoked by the music of the Caretaker, but...
Mar 02, 2012
Tracks
Blur: "Under the Westway"
There have been rumblings for quite a few years now about a possible new Blur album, beginning with the band’s...
Mar 01, 2012
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Battles: "White Electric (Shabazz Palaces remix)"
It’s fitting that Battles would pick Shabazz Palaces to be part of their Dross Glop remix series. The two see...
Feb 28, 2012
Jericho
Jericho / IV :: Noise, Trauma, and Resistance (Pt. 2)
Conscious sonic environments are an antidote, in terms of both space and time: one of the most prominent achievements of...
Feb 28, 2012
Tracks
Mark Harris: "In Slow Motion She Falls"
n5MD’s emotional experiments in music continue with Mark Harris, a UK sound designer who’s clearly been bottling a lot of...
Feb 26, 2012
Records
Shearwater: Animal Joy
At its depth, nature has a coldness approaching cruelty, and discovering its cruelties is sometimes as effortless as finding its...
Feb 23, 2012