Pop
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The neo-psych pop project Black Moth Super Rainbow is back with a new tune and an album announcement via SoundCloud. Stream the track “Spraypaint” above, which is, to me, one of the prettiest songs I’ve heard come out of the project. It features the usual set of punchy beats
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Kindness is the musical project of Mr. Adam Bainbridge, a producer who hasn’t really been heard from since dropping a cover for the Replacements tune “Swinging Party” in ’09 on Moshi Moshi Records. Out of nowhere, Bainbridge is back with a set of tunes that embrace the new wave,
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Dirty Projectors release a new single, teasing toward the release of the band’s latest album, Swing Lo Magellan. It’ll be out on July 10th via Domino. While Dirty Projectors has had its accessible moments in the past–and the group’s albums have definitely been foreshadowing a move
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Ku Klux Glam ~ Ariel Pink R. Stevie Moore by R. STEVIE MOORE I just got turned onto this through our Facebook page, and I can’t believe I missed this. So, basically, this is a collaboration between two generations of self-recording enthusiasts. R. Stevie Moore has been releasing eccentric, homemade
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Ice Level by Ava Luna Brooklyn’s Ava Luna has been releasing material, as far as I can tell, since about 2009. However, this Ice Level album is the first time I’m hearing of them. I couldn’t ask for a better introduction, too. There are points where the
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On the Shins’ fourth album, the band bring some newer, bigger production to the table. However, the band doesn’t exactly present the energy or personality to make these ambitious sounds exciting.
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Beach House drops a new track titled “Myth,” which is from the duo’s newly announced album, Bloom. After improving their recording quality on Devotion, and increasing the variety of sounds in their music on Teen Dream, Beach House seems content to settle on the advances they’ve made with
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This is a series of short spiels discussing albums that I’ve failed to review for the past month or so. Sorry I didn’t get to them. I would have liked to, but I’m just one man. I can’t review everything. Here are the albums and artists
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MP3 Royal Headache is an Australian rock outfit with a self-titled album made of the stuff that makes guitarists smash their six strings into into splinters–even if they’re playing to a generous estimate of 25 people in a smelly old basement. ON the track “Girl,” a single guitar
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Stream: The Magnetic Fields- Love At the Bottom of the Sea The new album from The Magnetic Fields is streaming on NPR Music right now. The concept behind this LP seems to be that of a confused and conflicted love. All the various vocalists sing with their own unique personality
