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Liars: WIXIW
In her review of Liars’ new LP, AMG’s Heather Phares recounts that “at the time of [WIXIW‘s] release…Liars...
Jul 04, 2012
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Hot Chip: In Our Heads
For much of their career, Hot Chip has felt like a study in contradictions. As far back as 2004’s Coming...
Jul 04, 2012
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Rush: Clockwork Angels
With all due to respect to your deft brand of R&B pop single craft: fuck you, Usher. Your callous decision...
Jul 04, 2012
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Barbara Morgenstern: Sweet Silence
Way back in 2006, I wrote the following of Barbara Morgenstern’s occasionally quite good The Grass Is Always Greener: “Previous...
Jul 04, 2012
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Fiona Apple : The Idler Wheel...
In this Era of Immediacy, when artists churn out records at a James Patterson-like rate, or at least squeeze out...
Jun 22, 2012
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Swans: We Rose From Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head
In a recent discussion about this album, I made mention of Michael Gira’s once and now thankfully abandoned tendency to...
Jun 22, 2012
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Guided by Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO
Guided by Voices are victims of their own greatness. Hiatus notwithstanding, they’ve been so good for so long that we’ve...
Jun 22, 2012
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The Young : Dub Egg
The Young is slow, very slow, on its Matador debut Dub Egg, which is all kinds of surprising when you...
Jun 22, 2012
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The Walkmen: Heaven
“Walkmen records always bore me for the first month, then they’re all I listen to for the next two.”
That...
Jun 14, 2012