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![Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: The Proposition [sdtk]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0000/4544/products/proposition_small.jpg?101244)
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Everyone who fell under the spell of UK hippie-goth siren Natasha Khan’s 2007 debut, Fur and Gold, had the same worry: Would the attention paid to it (and its not very unattractive creator) s...read more
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Monoliths & Dimensions is a fantastic display of that hugeness you’ve likely read about in stories on this band and the new avant-doom-metal scene that orbits it. What no amount of hype c...read more
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We knew this day would come. The Dirty Projectors were one of those bands that just got better and better with each new release, and on Bitte Orca, 2009’s indie breakout hit and the Projector...read more
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Those of you outside of our fair city may not have reason to know it, but as real New York bands go — the ones who sound like they could only be from New York, who ooze sultry (and mythical) ...read more
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Yeasayer is the rare band these days that can take more than two years to follow-up a much-loved debut and find their fans waiting and hungry (as opposed to finding them moved on to something else)...read more
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Smaller. For some reason that’s the word that comes to mind when trying to contextualize how Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson‘s first solo album compares to his main band’s freq...read more
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New genre coinage: indie-chamber-classical-folk-pop. (You heard it here first, and perhaps hopefully, last as well.) With All We Grow, Sean Carey, a member of Bon Iver's band and a student of class...read more
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For album number four, Antony Hegarty immediately dispels the weight of any expectations set by his previous, much-lauded work, and simply sings beauty: Swanlights is characterized by an apparent o...read more
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The old Wire fire burns hotly on the motorik punk assault of
"Two Minutes," while "A Flat Tent" and "Smash" find
drummer Robert Gotobed bashing energetically as well. But by and large, this is
Wire...read more
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For Deerhoof, it's not too grand a title: This 16-year-old band, amazingly sounding as fresh and unpredictable as the day they were born, might make you think they're 12 different groups on 12 diff...read more
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Album numero five from the do-everything trio Akron/Family comes wrapped in a decidedly unwieldy title, about which the band has said, "We have no idea what [it] means." Well okay then! How to desc...read more
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Nine Types of Light begins (typically) cryptically -- for one thing, the opening tune is called "Second Song" -- but unmistakably positive, signaling a more emotionally upbeat TV on the Radio on it...read more
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"My country 'tis of thee / Sweet land of liberty" sings Merrill Garbus, a.k.a. Tune-Yards, leaning into the last word to show just how different her idea is than that of our founders. On her second...read more
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A monster record featuring some of planet Earth's heaviest hitters, the curiously named Unreleased? makes adventurous avant-jazz positively groove. The quartet -- Jim O'Rourke on guitar and synth, ...read more
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Just another typical Wilco album. By which, of course, I mean a two-record sprawl that encompasses so many forms of pop -- rootsy, alternative (whatever that means), orchestrated and borderline exp...read more
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It's album number 17 for one of postmodern music's elder statesmen, as well as his first set of all-new material in seven years. And yet, as kaleidoscopic as Tom Waits's sound is, Bad as Me seems t...read more
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Bradford Cox is so ably advancing so many different narratives at the same time that he should be like, really well-known and widely admired. He is? Well, good. The Deerhunter capo's latest as Atla...read more
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Around here we're kind of experts in the usage of saxophone in less than traditional environments. But few have developed the instrument's language as much as Colin Stetson, a frequent touring memb...read more
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Even on record, Kate Bush is one of the most powerful presences in music. On her tenth album (and second release of the year!), Bush's slightly deepening voice -- still instantly recognizable -- is...read more
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Here's one from the bottom of the deck, by which we mean Australia: The Necks are a more or less perpetually stunning trio of versatile inside/outside players, meaning they are as comfy with compos...read more
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The eleventh installment of Kevin Barnes's unpredictable, borderline untraceable evolution as Of Montreal is a...is a...well gosh, Paralytic Stalks is surprisingly listenable. That's not meant to s...read more
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There is no such thing as a casual Xiu Xiu fan -- Jamie Stewart's music is just too intense for that to be possible, and for proof, the cover of Always is a tattoo of band and album name on some un...read more
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This might sound weird, but because of the band he's in, and because everything regarding that band now is Big News (whether a new album, a concert featuring a classic album played in its entirety,...read more
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