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Despite the mostly upbeat nature of Pixx's Small Mercies, there's a dread surrounding its world.

The National's eighth album is not as easy to locate or to live with, as its title suggests, but it contains passages of sublime beauty and grace.

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.

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.

On Gallipoli, Beirut bridges indie music with traditional world music elements, creating a work of somber beauty.

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.

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.

Methyl Ethel might not forge anything very unique in their introspection, yet their power to possess still manages to yield results.

Aaron and Bryce Dessner have masterfully assembled a dizzying array of contemporary artists to reinterpret the songs of the Grateful Dead.

With the 'gratuity' of music fostered by digital ubiquity came a renewed, exacting demand for magic artefacts.

There simply isn't enough to make this installment in the 4AD Session series more than just a mild curiosity.

Dreary, sweet, sci-fi and twee.

inc.’s no world is an electronic-leaning album with indie credentials.

PopMatters is pleased to present the U.S. premiere on Stornoway's latest album, Tales from Terra Firma.

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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.