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Nosaj Thing: Home – Music Review – No Ripcord
Music Reviews (Timetable) Buy it from Insound On 2009 s Drift, newcomer Nosaj Thing sounded like a down-tempo electronic prodigy. The record had frequent flashes of brilliance but, at least for me,...
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Torres: Torres – Music Review – No Ripcord
(self-released) Buy it from Insound Mackenzie Scott, aka Torres, owes her family big time. The 22-year-old singer/songwriter was already equipped with warm and enticing vocals, notable guitar skills,...
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Majical Cloudz: Impersonator
(Matador) Buy it from Insound It s amazing how the simple act of making eye contact with another human being can be so intimate and completely uncomfortable at the same time. In the most abstract sense...
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Icona Pop: This Is…Icona Pop – Music Review – No Ripcord
(Atlantic) Buy it from Insound This Is… Icona Pop is the international debut album by Icona Pop (obviously). The Swedish duo made up of best friends Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt first made waves back...
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John Frusciante: Enclosure
Music Reviews (Record Collection) Buy it from Insound Since quitting the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2009, John Frusciante has been re-inventing the art of going solo. If 1994 s Niandra Lades and Usually...
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Fear of Men: Loom – Music Review
Music Reviews (Kanine) Buy it from Insound Fear of Men often get cited more for their coy art-school affectations than their musical efforts, which is moreso a presentational modality than anything...
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clipping.: CLPPNG – Music Review – No Ripcord
Music Reviews (Sub Pop) Buy it from Insound Innovation and vitality aren t always the same thing. Let s get the lazy Death Grips comparison over with by way of analogy: these bands sound little alike...
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Spoon: They Want My Soul
Music Reviews (Loma Vista) Buy it from Insound Spoon ended 2010 s Transference with the sputtering Nobody Gets Me Like You, a riff on eighties excess that had frontman Britt Daniel questioning, Those...
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Death From Above 1979: The Physical World
Music Reviews (Last Gang) Buy it from Insound It s hard to believe that it was a whole decade ago that Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger dropped You re A Woman, I m A Machine – an LP that was...
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