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AlbumsLoch Lomond/The Builders and the Butchers - Split 12"
Demonstrating Scottish label Song By Toad’s talent-spotting credentials, this 12” combines two acts plucked from Portland’s teeming music s... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsThe Gothenburg Address - The Gothenburg Address
The Gothenburg Address have two on guitars, one on bass, one on drums and zero on vocals; looks like it’s time to dig out the Post-Rock Thesaurus. So, ... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsSufjan Stevens/Osso - Run Rabbit Run
Enjoy Your Rabbit occupies a unique place in Sufjan Stevens’ discography due to its Chinese calendar (rather than US geography) theme and a glitchy ele... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Laura Gibson - Beasts of Season
For all its organic charms, this is a record destined to skim the ears as late night silence-filler Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Cuddly Shark - Cuddly Shark
This album would make more sense if it was made by a group of long-haired, intensely trendy, drug-hungry young dudes from Brooklyn or Austin, Texas, and if i... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Converge - Axe to Fall
The undisputed kings of modern progressive hardcore Read more »| 22 Oct 2009
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Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Arriving hot on the heels of last year’s gloriously hypnotic skull-rattling debut Street Horrrsing, the quick turnaround of Fuck Buttons’ second ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
If La Roux and her silly quiff and slices of radio-friendly synth-pop hark back to the frivolity of the early eighties, Cold Cave summon up the darker spirit... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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Molina & Johnson - Molina & Johnson
Molina & Johnson sound like investment bankers. I don’t just mean that their ampersand-friendly stage name bears resemblance to high-flying/brough... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Albums2562 - Unbalance
It’s dubstep, but not as Streatham or Croydon would know it. This second album from the Hague-based 2562 takes the blueprint of monstrous, murky bass, ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsPelican - What We All Come to Need
What We All Come to Need could be construed as an assuming title. When ascribing the idea of necessity to one’s own project, one risks abject failure, ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan
By all means applaud the ambition, just don’t expect it to have any substance Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Omar Rodriguez-López - Xenophanes
The solo work of Omar Rodriguez-López can vary wildly from sheer noise (see Despair) to records considered as Mars Volta releases in everything but n... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
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Espers – III
If any genre of music epitomized the late 1960s it was psychedelic folk. The meeting of acoustic guitars and trippy boundary pushing seems rooted in those fe... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
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Daniel Johnston - Is And Always Was
Iconic outsider artist upgrades from the bedroom to the studio to pleasingly excellent effect. Read more »| 20 Oct 2009