Pick of the Week:
Gonjasufi: Muzzle
What's a "mini-album"? In the case of Muzzle, the new Gonjasufi record (which has a sticker declaring it to be this odd format), it's evidence that 24 (and a half) minutes is enough time to flow ten beat-trippy songs and song fragments together in a head-spinning mass. Static and transistor-radio vocals mix with dramatically soulful beats (slow,...read more
The Best of the Rest . . .
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Chairlift: Something
More than three years after Does You Inspire You (and the iPod) vaulted Brooklyn emigrants Chairlift into the upper echelons of indiedom, the band -- now a duo after the departure of...read more
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First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar
Ladies, hide your boyfriends: First Aid Kit are a pair of young Swedish sisters who comfortably inhabit the best folk-pop traditions, from clothes to sound, and their second album, T...read more
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Nada Surf: The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
Let's be honest here: What Nada Surf fans want from a Nada Surf record is some Nada Surf. And so for their seventh album in their two-decade history, the NYC trio resists any temptat...read more
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Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory
Whoa. And here I was, running around, calling Dylan Baldi a wuss. Listening to Cloud Nothing's newest album, Attack on Memory, is a bit of an eye-opener -- sorta like finding out ...read more
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Guided By Voices: Let’s Go Eat the Factory
After a handful of hit-or-miss releases both on his own and with various outfits, songwriter Robert Pollard blows the dust off the classic line-up of his original band, Guided by V...read more
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Howler: America Give Up
Every now and again I wish we didn't include cover art with our reviews...and this is one of those times. The debut from Minneapolis quartet Howler comes in a cover that looks like s...read more
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The Big Pink: Future This
Album number two for British duo the Big Pink is a big-synths-and-hooks affair, the kind of thing that M83 fans need to wrap their ears around immediately. While upbeat tunes with cl...read more
