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still warm: Future Nostalgia for sale, by Hiva Oa

The first half-minute, indeed the first ten seconds set the terms. This whitewashed chorus is the sound of inner dissonance, nothing really to do with the external world of instruments or processing. This...

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Stream: The Neighborhood – “I’m Sorry”

I stumbled across the band The Neighborhood this morning to great pleasure. The band is a Los Angeles based quintet that mixes together a perfect blend of soul, indie rock and hip-hop. Their debut EP,...

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name your price: The Rigged Orchestra, by Temi I Idei

One of our most frequently-revisited songs from 2009 is "02," track #6 from the fydhws release Impresii. The artist behind fydhws identifies himself only as "R" and the song truly is a six-minute continent,...

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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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The Only Way To Kill You by Greylag

Just making sure everyone is on the same page today: Greylag’s debut EP The Only Way To Kill You has officially dropped. And as promised last March, I’ve put together some thoughts to...

Merge to Reissue Neutral Milk Hotel

Merge Records is reissuing, yet again, the classic 90′s Neutral Milk Hotel album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea as well as their previous album On Avery Island on 180 gram vinyl, each LP will come with a download code so you can put them on the mp3 player of your choice even though they’re probably already there. To celebrate the reissue Merge has also dug up some old video of a show that group did in 1998 at New York’s The Knitting Factory. I must say that I have never tried to search out live videos of Neutral Milk Hotel before but watching Jeff Mangum perform there two tracks all I can say is that guy is intense and fearless.

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