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  • Mar 26 Album Reviews

    Future Islands - Singles

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    Synth pop outfit Future islands drops their most focused record yet, delivering one catchy, dramatically sung tune after another.

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  • Mar 26 Album Reviews

    The War On Drugs - Lost In the Dream

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    The new War On Drugs album is a winning combination of psychedelic rock, krautrock, folk, and Americana–just like the band’s last album, but better.

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  • Mar 26 Album Reviews

    Evian Christ - Waterfall

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    The latest EP from Evian Christ shows noticeable improvement in the rising star producer’s production chops.

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  • Mar 26 Album Reviews

    Tycho - Awake

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    Tycho makes the transition from hazy bedroom producer to what almost sounds like a full instrumental rock band on this latest record of his.

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  • Mar 26 Album Reviews

    Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Piñata

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    Indiana rapper Freddie “Gangsta” Gibbs teams up with legendary hip hop producer Madlib for one of the most essential hip hop albums of the year.

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  • Mar 26 Album Reviews

    La Dispute - The Rooms of the House

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    La Dispute comes through with a worthwhile followup to 2011’s Wildlife. While some of the stories aren’t as enthralling, the band’s minor alterations to their sound this time around makes this record worth checking out if you’ve been following them up until this point, or if

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  • Mar 26 Album Reviews

    Pharrel - G I R L

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    Pharrell’s latest full-length album has a few bright spots, but a great deal of it is a falsetto-led nightmare.

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  • Mar 25 avant-garde

    The Body - "To Carry the Seeds of Death within Me"

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bTXDLifjTUY Well, here’s a video that’ll surely give you nightmares. As if their compositions weren’t terror-inducing enough, Portland avant-garde, experimental metal duo The Body have enlisted the demented talents of London musician The Haxan Cloak just to

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  • Mar 25 clipping

    clipping. - "Work Work"

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBYzu1_OqM&feature=youtu.be clipping. is sounding pretty polished on “Work Work,” the lead single from their Sub Pop and studio debut clppng. The harsh noise elements of Midcity are all but gone, but the trio is progressing and maintaining their identity

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  • Mar 25 angel guts: red classroom

    Xiu Xiu - "Botanica de Los Angeles"

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvVJMllJo0M Xiu Xiu has made plenty of videos in support of their great (but naturally polarizing) new album Angel Guts: Red Classroom – lead single “Stupid in the Dark” first got a really gritty one, followed by a Pornhub-hosted one for “Black Dick,” another NSWF,

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