Music
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Here it is. This is it. The most achingly beautiful record of 2006. And what a story! Born in 1923 into a learned Ethiopian family, Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou was educated in Switzerland (where she firs...read more
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The follow-up to Regina Spektor‘s 2006 breakthrough, Begin to Hope, is every bit as gorgeous and whimsical as you’d expect. It’s no secret that she can work magic with a piano and...read more
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Wilco (the Album) finds this great American band getting deeper into…Wilco! Okay, I joke, but they do open with “Wilco (the Song),” on which Jeff Tweedy & Co. simply insert th...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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What a fresh disc this is—a jazz-trio session that's airy, accessible and challenging all at once, the kind of record you don't need to be a jazz fan to dig. The namesake Alon Nechushtan is out fro...read more
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When your debut solo album comes after your close-knit band (as close-knit as, say, family) has made eight and a half records, it gives you a distinct advantage: You know exactly what you've done a...read more
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They've done it before but not at this level of sophistication: two veterans, post-techno technician Alva Noto and pianist-composer (and Yellow Magic Orchestra cofounder) Ryuichi Sakamoto, explorin...read more
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It doesn't seem that there could ever be casual fans of Perfume Genius. The music that Seattle's Mike Hadreas makes is so personal that to follow him -- and you should, if you value songwriting tha...read more
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