May 2012
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Willis Earl Beal - Acousmatic Sorcery
Review: Eric Kossina [5/22/2012] It has been very difficult to write this review.  Not because of my opinion per se, I know exactly how I feel about this record, but because Beal’s music relies so much on aesthetic that any explanation or rejection based on his aesthetic seems ignorant and distasteful.  But that is one of the key reasons why his songs inherently fail.  It’s not that...
May 22nd
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Listen“Idle Hands” - JK Flesh How many...
May 20th
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“Of Course I’m Fucking Broken” - Carrion Spring There’s all this news about Facebook today, but the most important thing it’s done for me (which is what really matters) is clue me into the face that Carrion Spring have remixed/remastered last year’s incredible A Short History of Decay and put it up on their Bandcamp. More importantly, they’ve also...
May 18th
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Craft Spells - Gallery EP
Review: Kyle Minton [5/14/2012] Nothing about Craft Spells’ year-long evolution from Justin Vallesteros’s bedroom passion to touring sensation should surprise anyone given the success of Idle Labor, Vallesteros’ love-letter to lonely and stoic post-punk lovers everywhere. That Vallesteros had little trouble gathering a live act to perform his intimate hits wasn’t the...
May 14th
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Animal Collective Release New 7"
After occupying their fans on Record Store Day with their newest impenetrable brand of psychedelia transmedia Transverse Temporal Gyrus (link), the Animal Collective bunch have recently dropped two brand new tracks “Honeycomb,” and “Gotham.” The former begins as you might expect, brimming with afrobeat-inspired percussion as bouncing vocals leap from one corner of the...
May 7th
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May 3rd
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April 2012
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“Fox’s Dream of the Log Flume” - mewithoutYou mewithoutYou posted the pre-order and EPK (link) for the upcoming Ten Stories (self-released, May 15th) late last night along with this song. In short, it rules. The song is available as an instant download with the pre-order of the album and is more than worth the price of admission. As with “February 1878,” the...
Apr 17th
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Memoryhouse - The Slideshow Effect
Review: Kyle Minton [4/8/2012] Just as Memoryhouse’s nostalgic obsession of aligning photographs and sound seems downright archaic, the notion that lo-fi bedroom pop has already passed out of vogue feels absurd. Just yesteryear we championed the lo-fi and heralded those who held the courage to yell into laptop microphones while the rest of us cowards slept through the wee hours of the night,...
Apr 9th
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