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The Roots f/ Big K.R.I.T.: "Make My"
Considering the last five years of the Roots’ discography—three albums of murky, minimalist arrangements and unapproachably dark themes, as if...
Oct 19, 2011
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Kurt Vile: "The Creature"
It takes very little time to identify a Kurt Vile song; the very moment those drowsy, spaced-out guitars creep from...
Oct 18, 2011
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Das Racist: Relax
Like a ball of silly putty rolling through the zeitgeist, Das Racist would like to thank G-chat. They would also...
Oct 18, 2011
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Future Islands: On the Water
For those of us who also pored over last year’s wonderful In Evening Air, it’s becoming increasingly clear that vocalist...
Oct 18, 2011
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Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire: Lost in Translation Mixtape
There’s enough familiar territory covered at the start of Lost in Translation that one might be forgiven for assuming this...
Oct 18, 2011
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Biosphere: N-Plants
Much has been made of N-Plants‘ origin-point: a photograph of the Mihama nuclear plant which, located so near to the...
Oct 18, 2011
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A Classic Education: "Forever Boy"
There’s a bit of something anthological about A Classic Education’s sparkling new single “Forever Boy”: a tingling sense of instant...
Oct 17, 2011
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Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire
Ashes & Fire is Ryan Adams’ first widely available album of new material since 2008’s questionable Cardinology; the three year...
Oct 15, 2011
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Mark McGuire: Get Lost
Mark McGuire has been releasing a steady stream—and I do mean steady; like thirty some-odd releases in four years steady—of...
Oct 15, 2011