May 29, 2012
Music
Issue #41 - Yeasayer
For their seventh album, Heaven, The Walkmen hired Phil Ek (Built To Spill, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Les Savy Fav, etc.) to handle production duties. It’s safe to assume this choice had something to do with The Walkmen opening for Fleet Foxes last year, as Ek produced both of Fleet Foxes’ LPs.
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May 29, 2012
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On what’s about the 200th release from this psych duo, Matt Valentine and Erika Elder provide more of what they do best.
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May 28, 2012
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The year 2000, when Bright Eyes’ Fevers and Mirrors was initially released, was, in retrospect, the final vestige of an era of mystery, soon to be supplanted by Internet message board inundation and Twitter ubiquity.
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May 25, 2012
Music
Issue #41 - Yeasayer
The good news is, with a Sigur Rós album, you know what you’re getting into. The bad news is…oh, come on, you thought there was truly any bad news associated with a new Sigur Rós album?
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May 25, 2012
Music
Issue #41 - Yeasayer
If Teen Daze is Max Fischer, chillwave is his Rushmore. Unlike contemporaries such as Toro Y Moi and Washed Out—who graduated from the pseudo-genre’s lackadaisical backbeats and murky synths on the strength of their pop chops—the nameless Canadian producer seems happy to wallow in the world of hazy electro soundscapes.
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May 24, 2012
Music
Issue #41 - Yeasayer
Weird Dreams aren’t quite as odd as they make themselves out to be, despite a casual reference to “666” or naming a jaunty little tune “River of the Damned.” Choreography is an album that owes its very existence to the twin pillars of The Beatles and The Beach Boys, the kind of retro jangle-pop people listen to when reminiscing about the glories of summers past.
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May 24, 2012
Music
Issue #41 - Yeasayer
San Francisco’s all-femme post-punk trio returns with a third album, the first on their very own record label.
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May 23, 2012
Music
Soulsavers
Over their last two albums, Rich Machin and Ian Glover of Soulsavers have created epic soundscapes of emotion, filled out by guest singers who penned lyrics and sang to Machin and Glover’s compositions.
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May 23, 2012
Music
Unsprung
Ursprung is a new studio project from German electronic music producer/DJ Hendrik Weber, aka Pantha du Prince, and Stephan Abry of Workshop. Where this pair’s creative leanings typically involve electronic music, Ursprung places the guitar at its center.
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May 22, 2012
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Here’s more plodding, plaintive, Pacific Northwest pabulum from Phil Elverum. This is the first of two full-lengths lined up to be released this year, both recorded in his new studio, a repurposed church in Anacortes, WA.
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