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On the first track to drop from Feist’s upcoming album, Metals, the instrumentation hits a light groove as the lyrics detail a story about finding a love that was once there. However, all efforts seem to be doomed from the start. The music doesn’t come on hard. It
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A music video for the track “Bad Ritual,” which comes off Timber Timbre’s new album, Creep On Creepin’ On. The album is out now via Arts & Crafts, and check out a glowing review of the album right here. Directed and edited by Olivier Groulx, this video captures what
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MP3 Siskiyou is a Canadian quartet that’s readying to drop a second album via Constellation Records. The band’s approach to folk and folk rock has always been an experimental one, but this album sounds like it’ll be sporting a much bolder sound. On “Twigs and Stones,” Colin
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A new video from the new collaborative album between electronica producer Jon Hopkins and one of the UK’s more prolific singer-songwriters, King Creosote. I wouldn’t call myself an expert on either of these musicians, but I knew enough to be kind of surprised by the pairing. Hopkins’ and
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Goodbye Vibrations by Bill Baird Just when I thought my summer would blow by without falling in love with a singer-songwriter record, Bill Baird gets ready to drop a new LP. This guy is a Texan with numerous projects under his belt. The most widely acknowledged stuff he’s put
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From New York via New Zealand, Lips is the solo project of Stephanie Brown. Back in her homeland, she played keyboards in numerous groups, but came to the U.S. in ’07 to make a name for herself as a solo musician. She’s got an EP that she dropped
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On Bon Iver’s Bon Iver, the project opens the floodgates and welcomes in a sea of new instrumentation. Everything from clarinet to string arrangements are laced into these songs to widen the spectrum of sounds that were once so sparse four years ago on For Emma, Forever Ago. But
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On the Shivers’ More, the band’s frontman, Keith Zariello, comes off a little more lovesick than usual. The songs here deal with many flavors of love, but many of them don’t taste all that good. And intentionally so, because More doesn’t have a very positive outlook when
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MP3 It’s another track from the new Shivers album, More. Frontman Keith Zariello is sounding particularly sexy on this one, seriously. But there are a lot of layers to this track if we scratch below the shoulder-swaying grooves and corny lyrics. My first reaction to this song was a
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Singer-songwriter Basia Bulat premieres a new song, “It Can’t Be You,” through a new video on yourstru.ly. Basia’s latest album dropped last year. Here’s a review of it.
