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Mogwai’s latest album is a potent concentrate of the band’s usual formula. Rather than varying in volume throughout a given song, the compositions here concentrate on adding more and more layers of guitars, keys, and effects as each song progresses. It’s pretty krautrock of them if you
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New video for the Mogwai track “Mexican Grand Prix.” Does anybody else think this track breathes “krautrock”? Check my review of the band’s new LP, Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will right here. Look for the album on Sub Pop. –
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Dumbo Gets Mad’s debut album is a pretty hefty piece of psychedelic rock and pop. Rarely does anything about this LP come off as “normal.” We’re basically talking about an album full of odd synths, chipmunked vocals, bubble samples, and lyrics about prawns. So it’s hard to
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I’ve said on a couple occasions that I’m looking forward to this new, self-titled James Blake LP. This video only intensifies the passion! It’s for Blake’s new single, which is set for a March 7th release. The album it’s from is dropping next week via
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Since their rise to fame with albums like Strawberry Jam and Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective has had a lot of copycats following in their paw tracks. However, it was only a matter of time before one of ’em started doing a pretty good job. When it comes to psychedelic
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On “Kingdom Come” comes off like a redneck, backwater version of Fleet Foxes, but don’t count out this project out yet. Eventually, the dam breaks and an ocean of layered acoustic instrumentation hits the mix. There’s a nice sliced and looped crescendo in the track at 2:50
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One of my last album reviews of ’09 was Julianna Barwick’s Flourine, and I vividly remember having a few near-religious experiences with that album / ep / thing. On 2/22, Asthmatic Kitty is set to release Julianna’s latest album, the Magic Place. Download the title track below. Much like
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I know I wasn’t the biggest fan of No Age’s latest album, but I really do like this live session video the band put together with P4K for “Fever Dreaming.” It’s got a nice, raw, in-the-moment feel to it. It’s awesome to know the buys can
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