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Silver Swans: Secrets EP
2010 was a good year for swans: Yellow Swans’ Going Places earned the noise duo some posthumous worship; Michael...
Jan 22, 2011
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Ducktails: Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics
Despite his fellow New Jerseyites and their Brooklyn-based peers, despite chillwave and hypnagogic pop being as much in-jokes as potentially...
Jan 22, 2011
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Pigeons: Liasons
Released in November, it was unlikely this third full-length album from Pigeons would make an appearance on any of the...
Jan 22, 2011
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La Sera: "Devils Hearts Grow Gold"
Late in 2008, the Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls barreled onto the indie world’s stage like the Ronettes behind the controls...
Jan 20, 2011
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Braids: Native Speaker
Allow Braids to attempt the seemingly impossible: allow them with Native Speaker to engage with you directly, to communicate an...
Jan 19, 2011
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Thank You: Golden Worry
Golden Worry is a tight beast, a bloodshot horse ridden with a switch to intense thirst—driven to economy, gaunt and...
Jan 19, 2011
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The Beets: Stay Home
In the summer of 2009, I saw the Beets open for Vivian Girls at Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum. I’d never...
Jan 19, 2011
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Teen Daze: My Bedroom Floor
“Sometimes there’s a man…I won’t say a hero, ‘cause, what’s a hero? But sometimes, there’s a man…well, he’s the man...
Jan 19, 2011
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G-Side: The ONE... COHESIVE
Though the Bama natives have frequently laid their verses down over a bed of dense beats and glorious layers of...
Jan 17, 2011