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A new Sufjan record? Well, sort of. Yes, it’s new, but these are outtakes from the Illinois sessions, the album that justifiably made him as big a star as indiedom has produced these days. Su...read more
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Where it all began … the first recordings of Sufjan Stevens, back when he was a member of the folk group Marzuki. Recorded on four track, the album overcomes its lo-fi sound with sheer ambiti...read more
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This is the album that got Stevens his first taste of fame (as far as anyone can taste fame in indie rock these days), and justifiably so. It’s a gorgeous epic and musical homage to his nativ...read more
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In between his American epics (Michigan and Illinois) Sufjan Stevens released this touching folk record.read more
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On this second state tour, Sufjan weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop) and instrumental textures (from oboe to church organ) into a tapestry of persons famous, infamous, and anonymous...read more
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Indie rock may not always be predictable, but it’s usually a safe bet that the best indie rock album of the year would feature a guitar or two. But there is nary a six-string to be found on Gulag O...read more
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The Mountain Goats have become so popular in recent years that many don’t realize that John Darnielle, the band’s leader (and often its lone member), has been at this for quite some tim...read more
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The former members of Carissa’s Wierd regroup to form Band of Horses, whose Everything All The Time is a near-perfect rock record, a delicious amalgam of hooks-laden jangle pop and raw guitar...read more
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Chan Marshall wanted a change, and she found inspiration in her Georgian southern roots, holing up with Al Green’s session men, and quietly delivering a brilliant album, perhaps her finest work to ...read more
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This is one of those rare albums that seem to fit every occasion. It’s the album we all threw on when we need a pickup, when we need something adventurous and different, or when we simply nee...read more
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Too many people dismissed this album, and it’s most undeserved. The Black Keys, the great blues-rock duo from Ohio, were under contractual obligation to make one last record for Fat Possum be...read more
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Whoa. All it takes is a few chords and then a few lyrics of the new Thermals record, and you know that this band isn’t here to fool around. They aren’t writing frivolous pop songs, they...read more
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While critics found it easy to lump Animal Collective in with the freak folk scene after the strumming madness of Sung Tongs, Feels
may cause them to revise their opinions -- slightly. First, this...read more
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On Sung Tongs, their first record distributed by FatCat, the two-man Animal Collective
come on like sun-scorched acid eaters gathered around the campfire,
strumming and grinning while they weave ...read more
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The debut from these Williamsburg freak-folksters was one of the best albums of 2005, an endlessly beautiful, rich and inventive record that established these youngsters as one of folk’s lead...read more
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The musical world scratched its head in puzzlement when our local freak-folk favorites Grizzly Bear signed with the indie-electronica label Warp, home to the likes of Boards of Canada and Broadcast...read more
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"Rubber Factory finds the duo expanding,
stretching, and improving, coming into its own as a distinctive,
original, thoroughly great rock & roll band. With 2003's Thickfreakness,
guitarist/v...read more
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"While the vast majority of post-punk bands who have an obvious taste for
the blues seem to enjoy taking the style apart and messing around with
the bits and pieces, the Black Keys are the (relat...read more
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![Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Summer in the Southeast [live]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0000/4544/products/summer_small.jpg?101126)
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Bright Eyes' undisputed best album. OK, a few may dispute that. It's superb.
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"When Bright Eyes brainchild Conor
Oberst issued Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear
to the Ground in August 2002, he was 22 years old. Critics were
already calling him the "indie ...read more
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"In the press release that accompanies Neko Case's 2004 live album, The
Tigers Have Spoken, the singer (and her record company) insist
quite strongly that this isn't meant to be a stopgap release...read more
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"While the spare and often haunted sound of Neko Case's home-recorded Canadian
Amp EP seemed at the time like a late-night detour from
alt-country's leading songbird of the North, listening to Ca...read more
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You Are Free arrives nearly five years from her last album of original material, and everything, yet nothing, has changed about Chan Marshall's music. Initially, the album seems more diffuse ...read more
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On the The Covers Record, Chan Marshall continues her evolution into a remarkably expressive interpreter of songs; her earlier covers of Pavement's "We Dance" and Smog's "Bathysphere" are among her...read more
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