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mp3 Shearwater – “You As You Were”

At the rate that Shearwater's going we'll have most of the album's tracks before Animal Joy gets released on February 14th. Adding to the ever growing list of singles off the upcoming album, Shearwater has...

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Pinemarten Releases Follow Up EP

Just a few weeks ago we wrote about Pinemarten, an anonymous Chesterfield native writing music that we described as "electronic without belaboring the point". With just a few weeks under his belt as an official...

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video: “Can’t Leave You,” by Doe Paoro

We hope you're ready to be caught flatfooted. "Can't Leave You" is a high register, deep water plunge. Soulful, worldly, expertly scored. It is rare for cello, piano and voice to flavor like...

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#currentlylistening: Passion Is Dead, by Fevers

Just under 30 minutes of nostalgic celestial gorgeousness from Ottawa. Soulful, nutrient-dense vocals like these threaten to raise the stakes for the genre. The name Fevers is dead-on, and singer Sarah Bradley has...

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TMIM reviews: Gauntlet Hair s/t

What does "gauntlet hair" sound like to you? Perhaps chainmail-clad jousters in some Renaissance Fair reenactment? Or a death metal band with spiked hair and spiked jackets? It’s a bizarre name. (And the folks...

"Sunlight" by Tune-Yards

This one is several days overdue now, but head over to 4AD and download “Sunlight” from Tune-Yards. This is the second track from her bewildering, heady Bird-Brains, which by March or April we’ll likely all realize was the album of the year in 2009. We just haven’t had enough time to piece through it yet.

That voice. Rich, fragile, textured, huge. As if its owner, Merrill Garbus, could sing you to sleep or sing a building off of its foundation, either one.

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