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Album Stream: folk meets psychedelia on Mars Waters’ Tempus Fugit [MP3s]
I’m lovin’ this album from Portland musician Ponny Kosmas, a.k.a. Mars Water. I found it through Dance Yrself Clean, who aptly called it “Tame Impala meets Fleet Foxes.” This label suggests beautiful harmonies and folky
Read More »Review & Download: Digits & Bad Passion – Death and Desire mixtape
Release date: Apr. 2, 2012 1. Death and Desire 2. Because It’s Wrong 3. Lost Dream 4. Rockin’ Your Beats (Bad Passion) 5. The Face of Desire 6. Liquid Fire (Bad Passion) 7. Service
Read More »Review: AFTER – Edges of the World EP
Razor-sharp alternative rock with a heavier focus on mood than your average radio fare. The riffs riff and the hooks hook in all the right places.
Read More »Review: Julia Holter – Ekstasis
The thing that gives me the shivers about Ekstasis is Julia Holter's voice. Forget that it's always heavenly and gentle whether it's lilting along a Middle Eastern scale ("Four Gardens") or getting electronically bent
Read More »Review: Kaiser Chiefs – Start the Revolution Without Me
The tracklist for Start the Revolution Without Me is better than the British version of the album, and is only missing two or three of the best tracks from the 23-song project that Kaiser
Read More »Review: Miniature Tigers – Mia Pharaoh
Miniature Tigers have repeatedly shown that they have the talent to produce quality music, but since their debut LP both full-lengths have overflowed with near misses
Read More »Review: Said the Whale – Little Mountain
For all of the bright-noised catchiness that is the uphill hike on these songs, the way down is never the same
Read More »Review: Sinéad O’Connor – How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?
On her best album in 12 years, O'Connor is nothing less than brilliant – as strong a woman and as strong a voice as you've ever heard
Read More »Review: Yellow Ostrich – Strange Land
The best part? Schaaf claims to have been more "open and personal" with his lyrics on this album, trying not to go for the big metaphor all the time, and because of this, this
Read More »Review: We Have Band – Ternion
Ternion places itself in that uncomfortable middle area between present quality and future potential, that uncomfortable middle area between loveable and middling
Read More »Review: WZRD (KiD CuDi + Dot Da Genius) – WZRD
WZRD may not be the revolutionary statement that it was meant to be, but it is certainly an interesting new direction for one of pop’s hardest-to-define stars
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