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Eels: Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
In my review of Tortoise’s Beacons of Ancestorship I suggested that to review the band’s individual efforts was to ignore...
Jul 06, 2009
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Mount Eerie: "Stone's Ode"
Bound to be overwhelmed by his concepts—as he likes to be; as he very well may hate himself—Phil Elverum’s returned...
Jul 06, 2009
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Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
Dragonslayer is a shockingly good record, but it should be no surprise that things ended up this way. Spencer Krug’s...
Jul 03, 2009
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Tomutonttu: Tomutonto/Tomutonttu Reissue
After my $2 cheap ear buds had given out I finally got around to investing in some low-end Skullcandys, the...
Jul 03, 2009
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Royal City: 1999-2004
From 1999 to 2004, Aaron Riches fronted Royal City, a lynchpin of the much-missed Three Gut Records. Now he studies...
Jul 03, 2009
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Major Lazer: Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
I’m still ambivalent on most anything Diplo and his mates (in the case of Major Lazer, Switch) produce. A lot...
Jul 03, 2009
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Shango: "The One"
Jackpot Records were the shit. If you ever needed to make inroads into nineties’ club culture but lacked the free...
Jul 03, 2009
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Dinosaur Jr.: Farm
J Mascis states in Michael Azerrad’s excellent Our Band Could Be Your Life that his idea for Dinosaur Jr. was...
Jul 01, 2009