Music

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   1. Swans: Swans Are Dead (Live '95-'97)

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   2. Swans: The Great Annihilator

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   3. Sunn: Flight of the Behemoth

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   4. Sunn: The Grimmrobe Demos

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   5. Sunn: White2

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   6. Sunn: White1

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   7. Deerhoof: Holdypaws

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   8. Deerhoof: Apple O'

   Crashing in at just over half an hour long, Apple O' brims over with as many vivid bursts of musical and lyrical inspiration as Deerhoof's other albums, but offers a little more conceptual structu...read more

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   9. Deerhoof: Reveille

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    10. Deerhoof: The Man, The King, The Girl

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    11. Deerhoof: The Runners Four

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    12. Sonic Youth: The Eternal

    Sonic Youth’s return to the indie ranks resulted in no major changes from their previous song album, 2006’s Rather Ripped. The Eternal still features lots of moody mid-tempo grooves; the text...read more

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    13. Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions

    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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    14. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport

    Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power of Bristol-based electro duo Fuck Buttons are noisy experimentalists, but they are devoted to rhythm. On this gorgeously assaultive second LP, a typical track wi...read more

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    15. Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here?

    While the experimental trio Emeralds has piles of small-run CD-r and cassette releases, each a snapshot of a particular moment in the Cleveland band's existence, we can best chart the group's cours...read more

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    16. Noveller: Desert Fires

    Noveller is the nom de guitar of Brooklynite Sarah Lipstate, whose last album, 2009's Red Rainbows, was a jarring, technicolor rampage through sculpted noise and crashing dynamics. For Desert Fires...read more

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    17. Seefeel: s/t

    This is a most welcome return. Seefeel were one of the stars of the Too Pure label in the '90s -- and since the roster also boasted Th' Faith Healers, PJ Harvey, Stereolab and Pram, that's saying s...read more

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    18. Mark McGuire: A Young Person's Guide to...

    Such is the singular and whole appeal of this sprawling two-disc set from Mark McGuire that it's kind of mind-blowing when you learn it cherry-picks from a horde of cassette and CD-r releases by th...read more

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    19. Prurient: Bermuda Drain

    One of New York's signature artists is reborn, severely. The noise/power-electronics magus (and Hospital Recordings capo) Dominick Fernow, a.k.a. Prurient, has spent the past couple of years in a d...read more

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    20. Black Dice: Mr. Impossible

    Feels a little funny to be talking about "focus" on a Black Dice record, and yet, here we are. Mr. Impossible, the NYC trio's sixth album, peels away more of the violent noise that's always been th...read more

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