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AlbumsThe Flaming Lips – With a Little Help From My Fwends
Here's one you genuinely couldn’t make up: The Flaming Lips bash out their own bonkers take on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with a little help... Read more »| 29 Oct 2014 -
AlbumsGolden Fable – Ancient Blue
Life in Tim and Sam’s Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam must have been difficult for Rebecca Palin. As well as the carpal strain of filling out tha... Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
AlbumsRachel Sermanni – Live in Dawson City
Considering the hefty number of gigs and festivals Rachel Sermanni has racked up over the years, a live album seems like a natural step. Recorded last summer... Read more »| 22 Oct 2014 -
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Thurston Moore – The Best Day
All the classic Sonic Youth hallmarks are here: Moore’s half-spoken, half-sung drawled delivery, Steve Shelley’s powerhouse drumming, nomadic gui... Read more »| 20 Oct 2014 -
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Carnivores – Let's Get Metaphysical
“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” asks Kenny Leckie, raising an interesting point. Can you recall hearing a new guit... Read more »| 14 Oct 2014 -
AlbumsIceage – Plowing into the Field of Love
The Lord's Favourite and Forever weren't red herrings, Iceage are – for this album at least – done with punk's unshackled abandon, songs that rag... Read more »| 10 Oct 2014
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Dope Body – Lifer
Dope Body’s Lifer wears the fug of the band’s rehearsal room – the Baltimore four-piece barely left it while thrashing this record into sha... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
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Bell Gardens – Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions
Following 2007’s minimalist monument And Their Refinement of the Decline, ambient-drone duo Stars of the Lid parted company and formed new musical pair... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
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Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Weezer are getting old. These cult Los Angeles indie rock mainstays are at album number nine (if we’re not counting 2010’s offcuts compilation De... Read more »| 03 Oct 2014 -
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Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
This collaboration between Scott Walker and Sunn O))), two absolute titans of cranium melting, molten sonic frequencies was greeted with fearsome trepidation... Read more »| 02 Oct 2014 -
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Kiasmos – Kiasmos
Kiasmos is all about the slow build. The venture has been more or less resigned to the backburner for the last several years, as collaborators Ólafur ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2014 -
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The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
When The Twilight Sad stormed into our hearts with their haunted, haunting debut EP, few could’ve detected their nascent crossover impulse. While their... Read more »| 01 Oct 2014 -
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...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – IX
Funny thing, perspective. Sometimes a band’s most spectacular achievements come so early that memory renders them frozen in the moment, as with ...Trai... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
AlbumsWampire – Bazaar
The first sound heard on Bazaar is cackling laughter – the kind that might punctuate dastardly villainy of one shade or another. It serves as a droll r... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
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A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos
A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s self-titled debut predetermined its melancholic mood via evocative track titles (Requiem for the Static King, Steep H... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014