Posts Tagged ‘recommends’
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Death Grips – No Love Deep Web

Bringing a whole new meaning to "difficult third album" No Love Deep Web captures Death Grips at their most abrasive and obtuse.


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Woods – Bend Beyond

Woods seventh full-length delivers the same quality and consistency we've grown to expect amid some subtle developments.


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JJ DOOM – Key to the Kuffs

So it might not be the DOOM collaboration that the world is most anticipating, with the Ghostface Killah collaboration album still little more than a wish, but in 2012 any Daniel Dumile release is an event.


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Purity Ring – Shrines

It’s welcome to see music take note of Hitchcock’s old advice to “film your murders like love scenes and film your love scenes like murders”.


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DIIV – Oshin

DIIV's debut album is a light, delectable blend of shoegaze, indie, and dream pop. This album shows you can always have multiple approaches and sound fantastic with all of them.


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Dusted – Total Dust

Total Dust is the debut full-length from a side project of Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt and producer Leon Taheny. It’s a substantial departure from the former’s day job, being an alternately pretty and gritty electric folk record, ... read more



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Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

A slight tradeoff between weirdness and straight-up songwriting still leaves a solid and enjoyable album from Dirty Projectors.


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Twin Shadow – Confess

On his second album Twin Shadow crosses the boundary from 80s nostalgia into something more direct, shameless and absolutely compelling.