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AlbumsBrian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Warp’s signing of Brian Eno was a symbolic coup for the label, the spiritual homecoming of a common ancestor to their entire roster’s two-decade ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsKelly Stoltz – To Dreamers
Sitting somewhere between the Velvet Underground and T Rex, San Francisco multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz' musical horizons remain fixed firmly in the pa... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
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Chickenhawk – Modern Bodies
This record actually marks the coming together of Chickenhawk's limited edition debut album and its following EP, awkwardly titled the A. Or Not?, plus Scorp... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsSnowblink – Long Live
Long Live first trickled into view in 2008, extolled by a handful of in-the-loop bloggers and publications as one of the year’s finest albums. Despite ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
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The Thermals – Personal Life
With their tinny, post-punk guitars and fragmented lyrical critiques of bible-belt America, Oregon three-piece The Thermals openly acknowledge their ideologi... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
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How To Swim – Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love)
Glasgow's How To Swim bring us their debut album, Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love), with the promise of crossing as many musical borders as possible. ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010
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AlbumsTapso II – Tapso II
Tapso II are an Italian three-piece with an intuitive awareness of the dynamic possibilities of the power trio: whether via quiet bit/loud bit, fast bit/slow... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
AlbumsWeezer – Death To False Metal
Having nerded themselves silly over the past decade, Rivers Cuomo and co take stock of their lengthy career with a bastard collection of material that didn&r... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
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JC Satàn – Sick of Love
When a band appears with a name like JC Satàn I just want to like them; more so when I discover their tunes come wrapped in the kind of feedback swirl... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
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aM – Belong To Galaxy
The array of adjectives offered to describe Japanese electronica duo aM on the press release to their debut album is enjoyable enough on its own. Anyone up f... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
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The Sexual Objects – Cucumber
The Sexual Objects play Freudian games on debut Cucumber. The onanistic connotations of the band/album name combination, along with tracks entitled Full Pene... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
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Sharon Van Etten – Epic
You can’t argue with statistics: if the bland outweighs the good, disappoint beckons. Quality ratios can be kind to the lengthy – an opus like Th... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
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Nosferatu D2 – We’re Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On To Block Out The Noise
Thrashing frenetic guitars, and hectic jaw-drop drumming, with what sounds like Zed from Police Academy on vocals - this is a win, win, win situation! Tighte... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
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The Fruit Tree Foundation – First Edition
It’s tempting to be abnormally lenient towards a record borne of a good cause, with lyrical ideas that deal with difficult, easily overwrought themes o... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
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ESG - Dance to the Best of ESG
South Bronx's ESG (Emerald Sappire and Gold) are three street-smart sisters by the name of Scroggins who introduced punks' DIY ethic into dance music way bac... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010