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The Phoenix Foundation: Happy Ending
Wellington’s Phoenix Foundation take their name from the bosses in MacGyver; collect fifteen indie points right there. Normally a choice...
Sep 24, 2009
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Harlem: Free Drugs
Like almost everybody lives outside their country of birth, musically-speaking. God knows where I was when Pixies came a-callin’—in front...
Sep 24, 2009
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Rameses III: "The Kindness in Letting Go"
More relaxing oblivion from Type, this time via polite instruments instead of fridge-buzz recorded in the underworld. Even pioneers appreciate...
Sep 21, 2009
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Girls: Album
As much as I hate to begin another Girls review the exact same way, their name is still rich...
Sep 21, 2009
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tUnE-yArDs: BiRd-BrAiNs
Not that engaging little contextual tidbits is a reasonable critical approach, but the name really says it all: tUnE-YaRdS. Making...
Sep 21, 2009
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Kimi Djabaté: Karam
Kimi Djabaté, a griot from the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau, was literally born to play music. Hailing from Tabato,...
Sep 21, 2009
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Pens: Hey Friend, What You Doing?
An ersatz movement devolving from an obsessive fixation on authenticity, lo-fi garage rock—in this era of pure volume (meaning quantity...
Sep 21, 2009
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Roommate: "Don't Bomb the Moon"
At this very moment, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is hurtling soundlessly through the ineffable expanse...
Sep 18, 2009
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Rich Boy f/ Chili Chil: "Top of the World"
In what appears to be a hyper-competitive battle for immodesty, Polow Da Don punctuates two cartoonishly ferocious Rich Boy verses...
Sep 18, 2009