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Various Artists Kitsuné America
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Royal Headache Royal Headache
Royal Headache's strong debut and greater riches to come. »
Casy & Brian Casy & Brian EP
Casy & Brian transform the banality of instructions into dance parties. »
Test House Bitemarks EP
Test House revisit less traveled 80s nostalgia and the darker waves. »
White Fence Family Perfume Vol. I & II
White Fence instills convoluted charm to the psych clutter. »
Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance
Lotus Plaza step out of Bradford Cox's gangly shadow. »
Ty Segall & White Fence Hair
Tim brings a vet's cool. Ty brings passionate will. »
Death Grips The Money Store
Death Grips are resilient and aligned with injustice. Also Epic. »
billy woods History Will Absolve Me
billy woods offers a dense record of poetic memoir and New York rap. »
Dinowalrus Best Behavior
Dinowalrus slap the legacy of LCD Soundsystem in its stupid face. »
Mouse On Mars Parastrophics
Mouse On Mars return with unbridled enthusiasm after hiatus. »
Emily Wells Mama
Emily Wells can make the phrase "horse's ass" sound pretty. »
Serengeti Kenny Dennis EP
Serengeti brings high caliber parody to a 6-song EP. »
AU Both Lights
AU balance the seedy depths of psyche with naturalist folk. »
World Tour Believe EP
Enjoy 18-minutes of charming escapism with World Tour. »
Julia Holter Ekstasis
An essential album from Julia Holter to be felt first, studied later. »
PC Worship Toxic Love
PC Worship play it slow and play it gutter. »
Eyes, Wings And Many Other Things Napalm Beach
Let Eyes, Wings and Many Other Things ease you into neo-psych. »
s/s/s Beak & Claw
The unlikely trio of Serengeti, Sufjan and Son Lux deliver. »
Zammuto Zammuto
Nick of The Books goes solo and it is blissfully weird. »
Lazerbeak & Edison Kill Switch
Lazerbeak and Edison contribute to the harmonic conversation. »
Monster Rally & RUMTUM MR & RT EP
Monster Rally & RUMTUM balance the Pete Rock influence with dub-trance. »
Xray Eyeballs Splendor Squalor
Xray Eyeballs' synth addition still results in blank vibes. »
White Hills Frying On This Rock
White Hills' psychedelic locomotive EP. Start here. Work backwards. »
The Caretaker Patience
The Caretaker envisions tape hiss and The Shining soundtrack together. »
John Talabot fIN
John Talabot's debut borders dynamic insanity and retro-dance. »
Gabriel & The Hounds Kiss Full of Teeth
Gabriel & The Hound waltz into an unwelcome blues. »
Dirty Three Toward The Low Sun
Dirty Three return from a seven-year hiatus. »
Boy Friend Egyptian Wrinkle
Boy Friend dodge comparison and circle into the same trap. »
Colleen Green Milo Goes to Compton
Straight outta Oakland, Colleen Green goes to Compton(sorta). »
Poliça Give You The Ghost
Poliça is like Sarah McLachlan's interpretation of Blade Runner. »
Jonquil Point Of Go
Jonquil are inescapably British, but beyond the constraints of Calypso-pop. »
RareBit Daizo
Rarebit splatters free jazz and electronica across the canvas. »
Lil' Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation
Don't let the pen & pixel dissuade from Richmond's Lil' Ugly Mane. »
Wymond Miles Earth Has Doors
Wymond Miles' break from the Fresh & Onlys is heavy. »
Wire The Black Sessions: Paris, 10 May 2011
Do we tell Wire to take a vacation or try a 5-hour energy? »
Summer Twins Summer Twins
Summer Twins are best in moderation in order to avoid a toothache. »
Buildings Everything In Parallel
D.C.'s Buildings overcome "instrumental post-rock" for a spacious punk excursion. »
Gonjasufi MU.ZZ.LE
Gonjasufi slices his efforts in half, causing need for a bigger follow-up. »
Suzanne Ciani Lixiviation
Suzanne Ciani, dare we call her the Bruce Haack of her time? »
Imperial China How We Connect
Imperial China is a glimmer of hope in the agonizing "DC music scene" discussion. »
Pop.1280 The Horror
Pop.1280 take on all things grotesque, grimy, and grating and revel in the tragic humor. »
Porcelain Raft Strange Weekend
Porcelain Raft's full length exposes the superficial layer of immediate pedigree. »
Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory
Cloud Nothings refuse to walk away from the mess with just an "I Survived..." t-shirt. »
Matthew Dear Headcage EP
Is collaboration clogging Matthew Dear or can an EP properly clear the kinks? »
Matthew Dear Headcage EP
M. Dear is still re-inventing how he and we dance to dance music »
Lee Bannon Gnarlon Bando's Midnight Noir
A mixtape fit for a Rockstar Games soundtrack or a night of misadventure. »
Cough Cool/Johnny Hawaii Cough Cool/Johnny Hawaii Split
The lonely riffing Philly slacker meets a Marseilles man with sun-soaked pet sounds. »
Royal Trux Singles, Live, Unreleased
Drag City collects everything odd and compelling from Royal Trux. »
Boris New Album
Boris combines two records and some loose ends to settle a few genre-explorations. »
Pete Swanson Man With Potential
Pete Swanson's latest seeks celebration over noisy assaults. »
Mwahaha self-titled
Pushing play on Mwahaha's self-titled debut feels like rips from a 6-foot bong. »
Ela Orleans Mars Is Heaven
Ela Orleans misses the concept album mark. »
Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid/Mats Gustafsson Live At The South Bank
The first and sadly, last power trio record by Hebden, Reid and Gustafsson. »
Eddy Current Suppression Ring So Many Things
The Eddy Current Suppression Ring compilation that achieves divine insanity. »
Ty Segall Singles 2007-2010
Ty Segall's singles collection is for the completist as well as the Ty-curious. »
Thee Oh Sees Carrion Crawler/ The Dream
Thee Oh Sees' latest fuzz filth speaks to a through-and-through weirdness. »
Small Black Moon Killer
Small Black's free mixtape is prime for dancing and drifting. »
Katalyst Deep Impressions
Katalyst offers the Side A of a treasured road trip cassette of his greatest influences. »
Kurt Vile So Outta Reach EP
Kurt Vile's deluxe edition addendum explores his signature melodic restlessness. »