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Pantha du Prince: Black Noise
In 2007 after some labored comparisons to Werner Herzog I called This Bliss Hendrik Weber’s Aguirre. Here in 2010 Black...
Feb 20, 2010
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Sloan: B-Sides Win: Extras, Bonus Tracks and B-Sides 1992-2008
Sloan has always been kinda retro, so it’s been fun watching them transition into a full-on internet band. The fuzzy...
Feb 20, 2010
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Emma Pollock: The Law of Large Numbers
In 2005, when tenors of cutting-edge self-disgust the Delgados were boldly bowing out, their joint chiefs and founders went off...
Feb 20, 2010
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jj: jj n° 3
Eight months isn’t a particularly long time, but it’s marked a whole lot of changes for jj. The mystery surrounding...
Feb 20, 2010
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Phantogram: Eyelid Movies
Phantogram is an electro-pop duo from Saratoga Springs, New York that recorded their Barsuk debut, Eyelid Movies, in a barn...
Feb 17, 2010
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Title Tracks: It Was Easy
The DC scene has so long been tied to words like “fury,” “intensity,” and even “anger,” that its current state...
Feb 17, 2010
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Young Money: We Are Young Money
At some point over the last let’s say year and a half—maybe around the time Dedication III got a free...
Feb 17, 2010
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Taken By Trees: East of Eden
East of Eden is a short, oddly satisfying album in which Victoria Bergsman (ex-Concretes and -“Young Folks”) is able to...
Feb 17, 2010
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Peter Gabriel: "Flume"
In an interview with the Quietus, Peter Gabriel describes making his cover of “Flume” by saying, “There were a couple...
Feb 17, 2010