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AlbumsCold 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 -
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2562 - 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 -
AlbumsThe 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 -
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Melvins - Chicken Switch
There is nothing you could dance to on this ‘remix’ album, not a single person with a ‘DJ’ prefix on the tracklisting. Instead, the M... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
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Asobi Seksu - Acoustic At Olympic Studios
Acoustic reworkings aren't often worth the effort, either too similar to their original incarnations to warrant the additional labour or misguided and ill-f... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsMiike Snow - Miike Snow
Stepping blinking into the spotlight come Scandinavian über-producers Bloodshy and Avant (with singing friend Andrew Wyatt) fresh from covering themselv... Read more »| 19 Oct 2009 -
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Keser - Robo_Ghost
If Martin Hannett had lived to see 2009, I’m sure he’d have loved to produce an album like Robo_Ghost. As it happens, Keser have done a pretty go... Read more »| 19 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsHudson Mohawke - Butter
LuckyMe's Hudson Mohawke finally delivers his debut album, with exceptional results. Read more »| 13 Oct 2009 -
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Spiral Stairs - The Real Feel
Despite being voted Most Likely to Succeed alongside childhood friend Stephen Malkmus in the 1999 Pavement yearbook, Scott Kannberg has made only modest busi... Read more »| 13 Oct 2009 -
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Meretto - Street Talking
Meretto have a difficult battle ahead of them. With the lad-rock market currently saturated by the likes of The Enemy, Reverend and the Makers, Pigeon Detect... Read more »| 13 Oct 2009