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Kream: Short Days and Long Nights Mixtape
Kream’s Short Days and Long Nights is nothing if not an example of the rap game’s excesses. Not of the...
Jan 31, 2012
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The Weeknd: Echoes of Silence Mixtape
Oh good. He did it. He balked, we balked, he balked again—so much balking—and finally, as if ordained, as if...
Jan 28, 2012
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Machinedrum / Matthew Dear / Todd Terje: SXLND / Headcage / It's the Arps EP
With dance music arguably experiencing its most fashionable popular standing since the late ‘90s, it’s been interesting to watch various...
Jan 28, 2012
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Nada Surf: The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
The obvious thing about Nada Surf, known to anyone who likes them and attempts to share them with others, is...
Jan 28, 2012
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The Big Pink: Future This
As the archives of this site will attest, I thoroughly enjoyed the Big Pink’s 2009 debut A Brief History of...
Jan 28, 2012
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Squadda B: Back $ellin Crack Mixtape
This feels like a gift. Released on Christmas Day, Back $ellin Crack is the second Squadda B solo mixtape to...
Jan 25, 2012
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Jason Urick: I Love You
Looking back at the history of a cold, cold genre, a good deal of ambient music depersonalizes spaces reserved by...
Jan 25, 2012
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Chairlift: Something
Like many artists who’ve erupted commercially on the strength of just one song—or in this case, just one ad—Chairlift’s...
Jan 25, 2012
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The Besnard Lakes : Volume 1
Enveloped in fog and suffused in a sinister, unwelcoming darkness, Volume 1 conjures a kind of futile promise—the tentative hint...
Jan 25, 2012