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The music of Contre Jour

Imagine Cut The Rope meeting Angry Birds Space somewhere in French children's literature, and you're getting close. If you've got a smart phone, you owe yourself a copy of Contre Jour for several reasons,...

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free download: Symptomatic EP, by La Machine

In March we met La Machine, concluding, "Sung through a pulse jet and stripped down to the sub-bass." Their dark-as-a-cave, quick-as-a-Zoloft releases continue with the Symptomatic EP. The title track sets paint-can percussion...

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video: “Same Old,” by Audioley

TMIM regulars are already familiar with Francois Peglau, who has been releasing a track-by-track follow up to The Imminent Failure of since December 2010. His singalong verse, campy wit and upbeat revolutionary politics are...

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video vault: “Snow,” by Pooma

How is this for degrees of separation? Desiree's new Finnish obsession leads us to a month-thence Soundcloud upload of a toddler-aged remix of a five-year old track. It's "Snow," by Pooma, from their...

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profile: John Harrison of Cedar Lines

Sunday, January 29, 2012, 11:45am John Harrison can’t find a kit that he likes. The drum line is already written: a smudged, industrial arrangement that summons Cleveland, not Cincinnati. It would work just fine on its own,...

"life is a train … solely yours … having no conductor … no companions … no operator … the stops are announced by your inner voice … and the route is utterly intuitive … the roam is geographical … and it is emotional … you wander from one idea to another one … searching for harmony … until you once realize that the whole process is the harmony"

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That’s the way Clinical Archives introduces Transfer to Unknown by Maria Grigoryeva. Their tear sheet says she’s 22, but she looks crazy young on her Myspace pictures. Here’s a taste:

Beautiful. Go hear the EP now and forget the whole Fred+4 Sloan recommendation that I briefly posted the other night.

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