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Tindersticks: The Something Rain
If you’re going to be really late to a party, you hope that when you finally show there’ll be someone...
Mar 22, 2012
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Mouse on Mars: Parastrophics
Ah, shit. Looks like Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma are just about ripe to suffer the progenitor’s curse. Last...
Mar 19, 2012
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Xiu Xiu: Always
Subjecting Jamie Stewart’s public catharsis to the pithy whiles of music criticism seems insensitive. Just yesterday a friend and I...
Mar 19, 2012
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The Magnetic Fields : Love at the Bottom of the Sea
When its first single “Andrew in Drag” hit, many (myself included) were hopeful that the Magnetic Fields’ new record, Love...
Mar 19, 2012
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Jacques Greene: Concealer EP
On 2011’s “Another Girl,” Jacques Greene played out a vocal sample which he cut the throat of just before its...
Mar 19, 2012
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The Men : Open Your Heart
The second-half of “Please Don’t Go Away,” in my opinion the best song of this young year, pretty much encapsulates...
Mar 13, 2012
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of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks
The only problem I have is caring.
Yeah. We know, Kevin. Us too.
Paralytic Stalks is an album about flagellation. It’s of...
Mar 13, 2012
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Heartless Bastards: Arrow
The Heartless Bastards are a totally competent band. Competent like Tom Petty’s competent. Which may initially smack of some back-handed...
Mar 13, 2012
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Jon Porras: Black Mesa
On the surface, there’s very little that Jon Porras’ Black Mesa and Dustin Wong’s Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow...
Mar 13, 2012