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Deerhunter's Transcendent Trajectory
Deerhunter's Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? and Cryptograms are antithetical twins -- shattered mirror images, whose fragments echo each other and reflect Deerhunter's beginnings of and return to inspired experimentation.
10 May 2019
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Big Thief's 'U.F.O.F.' Embraces the Unknown and the Unknowable
Big Thief's third album U.F.O.F. is a sublime odyssey where the journey blithely overshadows the destination. U.F.O.F. is an almost perfect album.
03 May 2019
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Beirut Returns with Another Exquisite World Music Experiment in 'Gallipoli'
On Gallipoli, Beirut bridges indie music with traditional world music elements, creating a work of somber beauty.
29 Jan 2019
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The Lemon Twigs Have Written a Rites of Passage Musical About a Chimp
On Go to School, the Lemon Twigs have taken a lot of what made the first part of the 1970's vibrant and colorful and fascinating and applied those things to a contemporary work.
27 Aug 2018
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tUnE-yArDs Dial Back Their World Sound on 'I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life'
New England duo tUnE-yArDs shoot for a more accessible sound on their fourth studio album, I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life.
28 Feb 2018
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Methyl Ethel: Everything Is Forgotten
Methyl Ethel might not forge anything very unique in their introspection, yet their power to possess still manages to yield results.
16 Mar 2017
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Various Artists: Day of the Dead
Aaron and Bryce Dessner have masterfully assembled a dizzying array of contemporary artists to reinterpret the songs of the Grateful Dead.
12 Jul 2016
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The Curious Art of Wrapping Music
With the 'gratuity' of music fostered by digital ubiquity came a renewed, exacting demand for magic artefacts.
01 Apr 2015
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Camera Obscura: 4AD Session
There simply isn't enough to make this installment in the 4AD Session series more than just a mild curiosity.
12 Jun 2014
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inc.: no world
inc.’s no world is an electronic-leaning album with indie credentials.
17 Mar 2013
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Now Hear This!: Stornoway - 'Tales from Terra Firma' (US album premiere)
PopMatters is pleased to present the U.S. premiere on Stornoway's latest album, Tales from Terra Firma.
11 Mar 2013
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His Name Is Alive: The Eclipse
There is no story; or if there is a story, it isn’t well written. The album plays like a collection of out-takes, some of them quite beautiful but nonetheless without cohesion.
29 Sep 2010
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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Before Today
Some thought that Ariel Pink would be nothing without his tape fuzz and helplessness. Man, were they wrong.
08 Jun 2010
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The Big Pink: A History of Love
UK duo gets fuzzy and epic on their debut tribute to '90s shoegaze.
13 Oct 2009
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The Lines: Flood Bank
Band leader Rico Conning calls this a "Pulp Fiction" edit of his excellent post-punk band's only two full-length albums.
05 Feb 2009
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