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Tone-Loc: Loc-ed After Dark (Deluxe Edition)

What is it with adolescent Jews and party raps? When I first heard that Tone-Loc’s debut was going to be...

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Point 7: What?

Toytronic Records were always the thinking man’s gold standard. If you happened to come in to some dirty money but...

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Here We Go Magic: "Tunnelvision"

The rise of Barack Obama is musical, not visual. Portraits of a face looking upwards to tomorrow will never quite...

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Dead Mellotron: "Nothing I Ever Imagined"

We all like a bit of shoegaze; we all like a night in the mosh pit. Indulge the two at...

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Metamorfrozen: Antarctica

The Larsen B Ice Shelf has inspired its quota over the years, from symphonic eighties Vangelis through to that Dennis...

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Iran: Dissolver

Well, here’s a disappointment so mild I can barely taste it. I think I’m disappointed, maybe, but I’m not sure...

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Beirut: March of the Zapotec / Realpeople: Holland

I’m still sufficiently charmed by the back story: Zach Condon, aimless adolescence incarnate, tired of holing up in a bedroom...

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Svarte Greiner: Kappe

Do you believe in signs? Not I. “Subway: Eat Fresh Today!”: health scare. “Do not touch any military debris—it may...

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Swan Lake: "Spanish Gold, 2044"

MercerWatch 2009

Here comes Swan Lake’s second album! To me what’s most important is that Carey Mercer’s finally poised to make...