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AlbumsKaito - Trust
Kaito, aka Hiroshi Watanabe, has long been a DJing stalwart of the US East Coast trance scene, playing in clubs like Twilo (in which Sasha and Digweed held a... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
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Anti-Pop Consortium – Fluorescent Black
Fluorescent Black opens with a tumult of punk guitars and drums, coalescing into the electro-inflected bounce of Lay Me Down. From the offset, it’s cle... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsDamon & Naomi - The Sub Pop Years
Following the demise of Galaxie 500, Damon (Krukowski) & Naomi (Yang) stuck together, lowered the volume and continued in a similarly dreamy mould. Speci... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
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You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons - Contact High Wit Da Demons
The problem with naming your band You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons is that, even if you subsequently shorten it to ‘Demons... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsDon't Move! - The New Pop Sound Of...
The seismic effect bands like The Kinks have had on contemporary music can’t be overstated, to the point where one wonders just when it starts to becom... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
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HEALTH - Get Color
Upon its release in January last year, the eponymous debut from L.A. noise botherers HEALTH polarised opinion. Those Crystal Castles fans who bought it in th... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009
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Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited
Times New Viking may joke that their fourth effort boasts “25% higher fidelity”, but they’re fooling no one: the set is slathered in fuzz a... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsPolite Sleeper - Lake Effect
Before we proceed any further, there's a great big elephant in the room that needs to be dealt with: Jason Orlovich has a set of vocal chords that make him a... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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Planet Brain & Lebatol - Split LP
Planet Brain are really two bands putting up with each other, with the rhythm section doing their level-best to sound like a Washington hardcore outf... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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Gong - 2032
Okay, apologies upfront to anyone with a deep-rooted love of late '60s progressive rock. As a particularly genial bunch of folk and notoriously devout musica... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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Peasant - On the Ground
Some albums are one night stands that blaze away momentarily before burning out, leaving a hollow aftertaste and rueful self-reflection (why did you like the... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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Last Stop China Town - Into The Volcano
In a Universe parallel to our own, not far removed, Obama lost the last US election. Liverpool won the Premiership. Michael Jackson survived a brush with dea... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
AlbumsGary War - New Raytheonport
Psychedelic music may have hit its commercial peak around the time of Sgt Pepper's, but that hasn’t stopped a succession of space cadets from setting o... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
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Mimes Of Wine - Apocalypse Sets In
It figures that these songs were written in winter. You can just imagine the claustrophobic scene; freezing cold fingers tinkling across a piano, so cold tha... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
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Kid Harpoon – Once
Here follows a warning to aspiring singer-songwriters. If you want to hold on to any hard-fought credibility on your debut album, it’s probably not a g... Read more »| 29 Aug 2009