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Various Artists: City of Dreams

[13.Mar.08] :. This collection spreads piano, blues, street beats, and slippery funk over four discs that are as joyous and imperfect as the Crescent City itself.

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Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief

[19.Oct.07] :. Humor is a funny thing. Here to prove it are three Monty Python albums, revealing the revolutionary constructs of their work, the dangers of self-parody, and, well, something completely different.

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Wyndham Lewis: The Irascible Enemy

[27.Aug.07] :. Wyndham Lewis brought a scintillating intellect to his artistic endeavors. If only we could let him loose on the majority culture of our time.

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Howard Devoto: Jerky Versions of The Dream

[24.Aug.07] :. Erudite perspectives on the romantic dream from a shape-shifting man-insect who left punk before we knew it existed. Awkwardness has never sounded so varied, cinematic, stupid and sexual.

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Carry on Compressing!: Joe Meek and 1960s Britain

[5.Jul.07] :. Joe Meek’s pioneering genius will not be forgotten, but overexposure to his work is like living in a hall of mirrors, on four hours sleep, tequila, and cotton candy.

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Now Hear This! The Gubernatorial Candidates [New Orleans]

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Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic

[15.May.08] :. Bryars’ magnificent treatise on the persistence of sound, and the courage and invention of human beings renders comment superfluous. Listen to it before you read any review.

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Suite Crude: Space Age Gutbucket Afrodelic Jazzploitation

[23.Apr.08] :. Suite Crude is a new alias of Daniel Zelonky whose previous projects include Low Res and Crank.

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Richard Julian: Sunday Morning in Saturday's Shoes

[17.Apr.08] :. Richard Julian recalls Peter Case's passion, the jazz-inflected languor of Lyle Lovett, John Prine's worldliness, and the exaggerated laziness of Leon Redbone.

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Electric Penguins: Goodbye From The Electric Penguins

[16.Apr.08] :. It’s reasonable to expect a debut album to have more energy than this polite affair.

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Miwa Gemini: This Is How I Found You

[15.Apr.08] :. Miwa Gemini’s second record is full of pretty songs that aren’t too radical or terribly profound, yet her floating voice seems perfect for the kind of half-life experience that is afforded by shopping or waiting for someone in a restaurant.

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Music Folklore: The Ghost of H.W. Beaverman

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Joe Higgs: Life of Contradiction

[4.Apr.08] :. Joe Higgs’ brilliant album is as calm, fluid, and uplifting as Willie Nelson, and as soulful as James Carr on a Jamaican vacation.

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Music Marc Wilkinson: Blood on Satan's Claw

DVDs Thunderbirds: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition Megaset

Music Murmur: Fermata

Music Suzy Mangion: The Other Side of the Mountain

Music Maximilian Hecker: Live Radio Sessions

Music Various Artists: Soul Jazz Records Singles 2006-2007

Music No Neck Blues Band: Live At Kens Electric Lake

Music Various Artists: Now We Are Ten

Music Hoax Funeral: Pour Away The Ocean

Music Eric Malmberg: Verklighet & Beat

Music Lord Infamous: The Man, The Myth, The Legacy

Music Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Music Loren Connors: As Roses Bow

Music Sir Richard Bishop: While My Guitar Violently Bleeds

Music Mono: Gone

Music Judee Sill: Live in London

Music A Place To Bury Strangers: A Place to Bury Strangers

Music Sleepy John Estes: On The Chicago Blues Scene

Music Richard Youngs: Autumn Response

Music The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey

Music John Wolfington: American Dreamsicle

Music Wooden Shjips: Wooden Shjips

Music Vashti Bunyan: Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind

Music Cory Arcangel: The Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum

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Jakob Olausson: Moonlight Farm

[12.Oct.07] :. A psychedelic folk-rock masterpiece. When the music-police take 99% of my collection, this will be in the bundle, under the floorboards.

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