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Album of the Week: Fontaines D.C.
Loose. At times, I like my music loose. As if the music-making is going on now made by a bunch of people right. . .now.
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Album of the Week: Otoboke Beaver
Otoboke Beaver describe themselves as: “Japanese girls ‘knock out or pound cake’ band.” ‘Nuff said. Sniff!
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Album of the Week: Sly & The Family Drone
I hear a big dollop of Machine Gun. A Brötzmann attack served up by James Allsop’s baritone saxophone with pounding percussion as its main foil and electronic crush to fill in the blanks. There is […]
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Album of the Week: Aldous Harding (live!)
After Axpona ended at 4:00PM on Sunday, I went to the hotel bar to say my farewells. I arrived at 4:45 because I spent some extra time listening to music with Michael Vamos and talking […]
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Album of the Week: Billie Eilish
I love Billie Eilish’…
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Album of the Week: Scott Walker + Sunn O)))
I came to Scott Walker (born Noel Scott Engel; January 9, 1943 – March 22, 2019) late, beginning with 1995’s Tilt. To say that Walker was a singular voice is to state the painfully obvious. […]
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Album of the Week: Jessica Pratt
It was bound to happen. Inevitable, really.
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Album of the Week: Maja S. K. Ratkje
My introduction to Norwegian composer and vocalist Maja Ratkje came in 2006 with her album Stalker, a picture disk, which is about as hardcore as you can get on one side, and softcore on the […]
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Album of the Week: Oake
“OAKE is emerging Berlin duo Eric Goldstein and Bathseba Zippora, who together alchemize their own variant of dark, atmospheric techno inspired by British post-Industrial acts and the occult.” You had me at alchemize.
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Album of the Week: My Disco
Sometimes songs irritate me—melody, hooks, lyrics, and heaven forbid, a guitar solo. Sometimes I want, need?, noise. The more industrial, the better. Enter My Disco’s new album Environment in the nick of time.
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Album of the Week: Nivhek
Nivhek is Liz Harris who is also Grouper. If your taste in music are anything like mine, that’s all you need to know to know you want her new album After its own death / […]
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Album of the Week: Sneaks
Eva Moolchan sings and plays nearly everything on her new record Highway Hypnosis. While the music wanders through a number of styles, I find the ride completely enjoyable.