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Led Er Est: The Diver
I have to admit, it was pretty obvious after taking in only a sampling of Led Er Est’s new LP,...
Jun 01, 2012
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THEESatisfaction: awE naturalE
“awE,” the first track on awE naturalE, opens with a stuttering wash of sounds—twisting sounds that blend and bleat, that...
Jun 01, 2012
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Shackleton: The Drawbar Organ EPs/Music for the Quiet Hour
For the longest time I thought Sam Shackleton’s (now obvious) nom de electro-plume was actually a reference to early 20th...
May 26, 2012
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John Wesley Coleman: The Last Donkey Show
The first and final songs on John Wesley Coleman’s fourth album, The Last Donkey Show, begin with the same lines:...
May 26, 2012
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Ramona Falls: Prophet
When Brent Knopf is on, he’s on. None of his songs are perfect or close to it—they are, almost without...
May 26, 2012
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Hauschka / Hilary Hahn: Silfra
Volker Bertelmann’s rigid, formalist pieces are many things, most of them admirable and skillfully achieved, but they can rarely be...
May 26, 2012
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Friendzone : Collection 1 Mixtape
Cloud rap has gone beyond rap; maybe it always was. This woozy, graciously lovely aesthetic could never have been constrained...
May 19, 2012
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Lower Dens: Nootropics
Lower Dens have come good. This Baltimore quintet’s second album presents an alluring mix of weird Americana, slightly outmoded space-rock...
May 19, 2012
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Kishi Bashi: 151a
About two months ago, there was an intensely competent (vanilla) New Yorker piece published about the (vanilla) group the Shins,...
May 19, 2012