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Enigmatic singer-songwriter and former baroque pop crooner Scott Walker grows stranger and stranger with each release–or at least that’s what the two tracks embedded above illustrate. On December 4th, he’ll be putting out Bish Bosch, which will be his first record in five years, making the the
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A menagerie of precisely placed sounds dance in divine sequence on Mesita’s new single, “XYXY.” A creature of constant flux, the song opens with a beautiful string and horn passage before locking into a tight groove of punchy drums and bass synth stabs. It’s in this section where
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It’s been quite the productive year for Geoff Barrow. While he hasn’t been working on the fourth Portishead album that music nerds everywhere would sell their souls to see realized, 2012 did see the release of Quakers, the debut album of his mercurial hip hop endeavor, and >
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TIMETIMETIME&TIME by YYU A perplexing combination of jittery electronics and looped samples of what sounds like someone singing and playing acoustic guitar on this new YYU album, TIMETIMETIME&TIME. It’s like a strange combination of juke, footwork, and abstract plunderphonics. A lot of the tracks on
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English art pop outfit Alt-J has seen fit to drop some visuals on the track “Fitzpleasure,” which comes from the band’s latest LP, An Awesome Wave. Watch a review for the album here.
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On the Bad Plus’ latest record, the band continues to focus more on original material than their career-defining covers, and the band manages to create some pretty fantastic, modern jazz tracks in the process–not to mention incorporate synths and drum machines into many of these tunes, too. WATCH THE
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While it isn’t as creepily textured as Stott’s beloved Passed Me By EP that dropped last year, the mood he creates on these sound-rich and minimal techno tracks are mostly captivating. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Darkened songstress Chelsea Wolfe tries her hand at crafting a set of acoustic songs on her latest release. WATCH THE REVIEW
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_ _ by BNNT BNNT is a Polish rock outfit, but I wouldn’t say that really has any bearings on enjoying their new album, because their chaotically noisy sound and weird personality, I’m sure, will translate universally with modern music listeners. BNNT works about every angle they can to delivery
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dripping by Pile Bring on the moody, noisy, strange post-hardcore, please. Thank you! Pile is a Boston band, and Dripping is their latest full-length effort, and I’m really enjoying what I’m hearing on the album thus far. It’s a pretty solid offering of slightly off-kilter rock tunage,
