May 13, 2014
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Only when it’s too late do you realize that “Screen Shot,” the opening track on Swans’ new magnum opus, is the sound of being stalked.
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May 09, 2014
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Woods
The eighth album from stoner folk quartet Woods, With Light and With Love is their first recorded in a professional studio. Next to the digitized, future-slicked sounds of other latter-day psych totems such as Lonerism orMerriweather Post Pavilion, it feels like a reverent, immersive ramble through the corridors of lysergic pop history.
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May 09, 2014
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Slint
Slint. You’ve heard of them, one assumes. The scope of their influence is difficult to overstate. In fact, you’ve heard it stated every which way, haven’t you? They invented post-rock. They invented math-rock. They invented math. They invented prefixes. The sheer act of invention? Yeah, that was them, no bigs.
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May 08, 2014
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MONEY
MONEY‘s The Shadow of Heaven feels both epic in scope and poetic in tone, shunning expected notions of pop to deal with weighty concepts, spacious arrangements, and lyrical preoccupations with the wider concerns of humanity.
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May 08, 2014
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PAWS
The Scottish indie canon is as broad as it is deep. From the bubble-gum electronica of CHVRCHES to Twilight Sad’s misanthropic doom-rock, all the way to Frightened Rabbit’s Celtic-blooded jangling, it’s a country that’s packing one heck of a melodic punch.
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May 07, 2014
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Eno • Hyde
Where might be the common ground between Karl Hyde, known for his work with the electronic music group Underworld, and Brian Eno, whose background opens up myriad possibilities within a collaboration?
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May 07, 2014
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Given the hardships of Jason Quever’s story so far, Life Among the Savages feels like an appropriate title for Papercuts’ fourth studio recording. The San Francisco-born songwriter has always done things the hard way—sometimes by choice, sometimes by cruel twists of fate—and his latest LP suggests his struggles are unlikely to end any time soon.
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