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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. »
Atlas Sound Parallax
The cover art is telling. Atlas Sound is having retro-fits. »
Pygmy Shrews You People Can All Go Straight To Hell
Pygmy Shrews send it straight to hell with brain damage on its latest record. »
Raleigh Moncrief Watered Lawn
Raleigh Moncrief's debut is like Lou Barlow studying drum machine science. »
Way Through Arrow Shower
Way Through tours pastoral England and the 70's post-punk record bins. »
Pow Wows Nightmare Soda
Pow Wows offer the question, "if you dig rock music, how can you not like this?" »
Bare Wires Cheap Perfume
Bare Wires' third album is unflinching in garage gold. »
Radiation City The Hands That Take You
Radiation City debut like a couple'a god-sent glories. »
Noah And The Megafauna Anthems For A Stateless Nation
You'll holler Django. You'll holler Pogues. But it's Noah and the Megafauna. »
Madi Diaz Far From Things That We Know
Madi Diaz debuts with an iPad commercial jingle, a song for Johnny and something sleepy. »
Lydia Loveless Indestructible Machine
A country love letter to the brown bottle, signed "Sincerely, Lydia Loveless". »
Kid Creole & The Coconuts I Wake Up Screaming
Kid Creole & The Coconuts' mongrel music hangs a disco ball in the dancehall. »
Hermit Thrushes Mystery Ocean
Hermit Thrushes eighth record in three years furthers the mystery. »
Rocket From The Tombs Barfly
Rockets From The Tomb rise from a 37-year grave. Peter Laughner wisely stayed behind. »
Abstract Artimus Rite of Passage
The many faces of Abstract Artimus are fit for college radio airwaves. »
Milagres Glowing Mouth
Milagres debut is ripe for the indie-flick soundtrack picking season. »
Wooden Shjips West
Wooden Shjips push us towards thoughts of a western on an acid trip. »
Augustus Pablo Message Music: Digital Productions 1986-1994
Roots reggae experimentalist Augustus Pablo gets a reissue. »
Various Artists BBE15 - 15 Years of Real Music for Real People
Barely Breaking Even celebrates its 15-year anniversary of being busy. »
Supreme Cuts Trouble
If there's life on Mars, Supreme Cuts will give them Trouble. »
The War on Drugs Slave Ambient
Adam Granduciel brings it out of living room and into the festival arena. »
Diva The Glitter End
The LA sci-fi priestess Diva hits critical heights. »
Richard Buckner Our Blood
Richard Buckner's ninth album is a quiet masterpiece. »
Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum (Deluxe Reissue)
The album that started it all for Black Moth Super Rainbow. »
Blanck Mass Blanck Mass
The third Fuck Buttons record, all but in name »
Cults Cults
If Lily Allen could have signed Best Coast it might have sounded like this. »
Bozmo Hosanna in the Highest
It takes a beast to tackle childhood. »
Kids on a Crime Spree We Love You So Bad
Kids on a Crime Spree drop their Slumberland debut. »
Handsome Furs Sound Kapital
Handsome Fur's life-affirming new album is paradoxically remote. »
White Orange White Orange
Is this band’s moniker a reference to some kind of lysergic acid? »
When Saints Go Machine Konkylie
Otherworldly beauty from When Saints Go Machine. »
Mount Moriah Mount Moriah
Mount Moriah reconfigure folk and Americana, as hard as that is to do. »
31 Knots Trump Harm
31 Knots stay complicated, make worst album cover ever. »
13 & God Own Your Ghost
13 & God fail to ride out the white boy 70s funk they were meant to construct. »
Daedelus Bespoke
Daedelus meshes styles that shouldn't work on paper. »
Bibio Mind Bokeh
Bibio blurs the digital divide on his latest. »
Shark? Hip Hop Hooray/You Don't Love Me Anymore
Shark?? Kick ass. »
Matthew Cooper Some Days Are Better Than Others
Locking the world out with Matthew Cooper's soundtrack to the Matthew McCormick film. »
The Feelies Here Before
It’s good to have the Feelies back. »
Wolf + Lamb vs. Soul Clap DJ Kicks
Wolf + Lamb vs. Soul Clap vs. your penis. »
K-Holes K-Holes
Including the second best werewolf song in recent memory. »
Anna Calvi Anna Calvi
Her thrilling voice meets limits on her self-titled outing. »