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Pure X: Pleasure
The signifiers don’t add up. Between originally being called Pure Ecstasy and releasing an album called Pleasure, with, of all...
Sep 19, 2011
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The Weeknd: Thursday Mixtape
If the Weeknd’s coke-chic shtick is pure fantasy, some affected paean to a lifestyle Abel Tesfaye’s maybe dabbled in but...
Sep 15, 2011
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The Cool Kids: When Fish Ride Bicycles
In his review for Curren$y’s Pilot Talk (2010), staffer Chris Molnar made the assertion that a Fly Spitta soliloquy would...
Sep 15, 2011
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Thundercat: The Golden Age of Apocalypse
First things first: Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner is a world-class musician. Whatever reservations one might have about The Golden Age of...
Sep 15, 2011
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: I'm With You
I hope one day I’m fortunate enough to bump into Josh Klinghoffer, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ guitarist du jour—we’d...
Sep 15, 2011
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Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost
More than ever, Girls sound utterly out of step with their surroundings. Unlike the many very good San Francisco bands...
Sep 12, 2011
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Balam Acab: Wander/Wonder
Pennsylvanian Alec Koone, who goes by Balam Acab, a name derived from not-so-Pennsylvanian Mayan deities, has been thrown about between...
Sep 12, 2011
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Young Jeezy: The Real is Back 2 Mixtape
Rappers never deliver albums on time. This is usually because they guarantee a release date for an album that has...
Sep 12, 2011
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Widowspeak: Widowspeak
The aloofly haunting and unassuming self-titled debut from Brooklyn’s Widowspeak is built of modestly psychedelic and frequently soft songs. There’s...
Sep 12, 2011