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Shawn Lee Sing a Song
Shawn Lee’s partnership with Ubiquity Records has undoubtedly led to the most musically prolific time of his career. When you’re known to release ... »
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Tender Trap Dansette Dansette
Another collection of infectious summery pop. »
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KODE9 DJ-Kicks
Validating the notion that dubstep is concerned with far more than just itself. »
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The-Dream Love King
It’s easy to hate him but probably easier just to identify with him. »
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Microtia Spacemaker
Maybe they should have stayed away from the beer and gone straight for the crack pipe. »
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Koes Bersaudara Koes Bersaudara 1967
Listen to a world where the rock n’ roll is outlawed. »
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Little Women Throat
Timing is on the group’s side. »
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Hanoi Janes Year Of Panic
He just has to purge these demons first. »
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James Holden DJ-Kicks
Trance hasn’t been worth a damn since 1993. »
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Neverever Angelic Swells
Underachievers, please try harder. »
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White Fence White Fence
A minimalist wonder of vast influence and a damn alluring immediacy. »
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Caddywhompus Remainder
Fractured roots music, dancing with fractured electronics. »
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Open Mike Eagle Unapologetic Art Rap
Dissecting art rap is for the birds, while this record is for birds of all feathers. »
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Woods At Echo Lake
30-minutes of wispy campfire songs »
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The Poison Control Center Sad Sour Future
“A” for effort,” B+” for execution. »
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My Education Sunrise
Demonstrating some serious non-commercial balls. »
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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today
Fans will rejoice while nonbelievers will be forced to reconsider. »
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Beach Fossils Beach Fossils
If you find yourself hating on this, it's a sure sign you need a vacation. »
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Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
To the future. »
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Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band The Wages
One of those acts that’s great when you’re wasted. »
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Nick Jaina A Bird In The Opera House
More "alt" less "folk." »
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Jniero Jarel Android Love Mayhem EP
A forewarning of potentially deeper travels into outer space. »
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Christian Prommer Drumlesson Zwei
Making your techno smarter. »
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Deer Tick The Black Dirt Sessions
Five straight songs of whompity-whomp »
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CoConuts Coconuts
35 minutes that make you want to cut yourself and then make out. »
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Club 8 The People's Record
Their seventh full-length enlists the continents of Africa, South America. »
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Woven Bones In and Out and Back Again
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. »
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The Depreciation Guild Spirit Youth
Not the stuff you blast from your car with the windows down in the middle of summer. »
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Guilty Simpson and Madlib O.J. Simpson
Man, the Juice must be rattling the bars at his Lovelock Correctional Center digs. Detroit’s Guilty Simpson and mad professor Madlib have combined t... »
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Indian Jewelry (Sucks, Rules) Totaled
And now for a new installment of Sucks vs. Rules. First up: »
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LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening
If depression created Sound of Silver, does happiness preclude a follow-up? »
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Delorean Subiza
The Barcelonan-quartet are dishing out the same sun-soaked anthems. »
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Stereo Total Baby Ouh!
If you want to hear a Euro-centric skim of the brightest corners of pop’s histories on a candy high, the ride is all yours. »
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Just A Band 82
The Kenyan underground musical collective manages to touch on about a dozen sub-genres on their self-released second album. »
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The Juan Maclean DJ-Kicks
A great addition to the DJ-Kicks series, house music couldn’t ask for a better ambassador right now. »
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The Lodger Flashbacks
This record should find a place in a lot of music collections this summer. »
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The Bamboos 4
Album number four captures the Bamboos at their funkiest, acknowledging their influences of the past while still managing to convey a modern sound. »
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Javelin No Más
Reconstructions of self-made samples put to a Williamsburg beat by Brooklyn’s discount record bin-binging duo. »
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The Internal Tulips Mislead Into A Field By A Deformed Deer
The Internal Tulips is the result of a long-term working relationship between Brad Laner and Alex Graham, both of whom are well familiar with laptop t... »
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Black Tambourine Black Tambourine
Some bands were only meant to last a short time. They enjoy a profound impact over a brief period, because that impact is dense and weighty (see Joy D... »
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Earl Greyhound Suspicious Package
Earl Greyhound first came onto my radar during their face-melting performance on Saul Williams’ Afro-Punk tour last year. Captivating the stage with... »
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Sally Seltman Heart That's Pounding
“I wear my heart on my sleeve, I used to loose it on the breeze,” muses singer-songwriter Sally Seltmann on “I Tossed A Coin”. Seltmann... »
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Bonobo Black Sands
Recording once again as Bonobo, Simon Green thinks like a jazz ensemble, not like an individual. »
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High Places High Places vs. Mankind
I keep thinking about the Japanese art of ikebana flower arrangement as I listen to this record. »
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Kleenex/LiLiPUT Live Recordings, TV-Clips & Roadmovie
For those acquainted with Kleenex/LiLiPUT, this is a must. For the casual post-punk listener, this sound and vision experience is also a must. »
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Transient Songs Cave Syndrome
Frum, the lone wolf, avoids the “bedroom artist/bedroom athlete” syndrome by looking out of his lair toward the world. »
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Mulatu Astatke Mulatu Steps Ahead
The most important figure in contemporary Ethiopian music, Mulatu Steps Ahead represents his first solo work in over two decades. »
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Broken Bells Broken Bells
James Mercer vs. Danger Mouse. Digging this tasty mish-mash. »
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Poirier Running High
A club kid turned dancehall maven showcases massive re-versions and new material along with fist pumping reinventions via a pile of remixes. »
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Future Islands In Evening Air
For those who missed the live-tweeted review. »
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Oh No Ono Eggs
In much better stead when they eschew the dance elements and play from a more exploratory mindset. »
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Moon Duo Escape
Wash it down with acid, if you're into nightmare trips. »
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Josiah Wolf Jet Lag
Don't be embarrassed, Josiah. »
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Blessure Grave Judged by Twelve, Carried by Six
If you haven’t had your fill of bands that sound like Joy Division, Southern California’s got another one for you. Happy moping! »
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These New Puritans Hidden
Hidden deserves a few close listens but for the ADHD-afflicted, it provides a monstrous soundtrack for a Halo shoot-em-up. »
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Jason Falkner I'm Ok, You're Ok
I won’t say Jason Falkner is pushing the envelope, but if he’s getting his freak on and his fans like it, who the hell am I to judge? »
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Phantogram Eyelid Movies
To prove just how forward-thinking Phantogram is, they dropped the best album of 2010 last year. »
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Toro y Moi Causers of This
There’s nothing chilly about this album. Causers of This is sunshine. »
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Matt Pond PA The Dark Leaves
This is the kind of careful pop that should be pumping out of radios and racking up soundscan numbers across America. »
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Yeasayer Odd Blood
This isn't a hot turd, but it's no revelation either. »