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MSTRKRFT Reviewed
MSTRKRFT The Looks (Last Gang) Death From Above 1979 remix offshoot MSTRKRFT rent some electro space on their one-note debut.
Loch Vostok reviewed
Loch Vostok Destruction Time Again! (Escapi) Former members of Swedish prog metal outfit Mayadome release their second as Loch Vostok.
Cities Come To Town
Cities Cities (Yep Roc) Chapel Hill calling themselves Cities? Someone explain (and do it quick because the bassist just left the band).
Diana Ross Reviewed
Diana Ross Blue (Motown) A lost standards album from 1972 finally gets its release.
Krak Music
CX Kidtronik Krak Attack (Sound Ink) Atlanta hip-hop O.D.J. makes his personal debut and wastes little time establishing how f’d up he can get.
Ta Smallz Reviewed
Ta Smallz Having My Way (Life Entertainment) When you need to print your name’s pronunciation on the cover of your CD, you’re gonna find problems.
Slow Learner Reviewed
Slow Learner In Their Time They Are Magnificent (self-released) Greg Dulli friend and Ani DiFranco beau Mike Napolitano bows as Slow Learner.
Greg Laswell Reviewed
Greg Laswell Through Toledo (Vanguard) Greg Laswell could have left “High And Low” off his sophomore album and no one would have said a word about Coldplay. Not a fucking word.
The Evening Episode Reviewed
The Evening Episode The Physicist Has Known Sin (Slowdance) After a series of tests, you might find trip-hop/schleptronica to be slow, a sedative, and an encumbrence on the motor functions.
Replacements anthologized
The Replacements Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best Of The Replacements (Sire/Reprise/Rhino) Touted as the first compilation featuring both The Replacements’ label careers, Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? concentrates a little too heavily on their serious side.
Dinosaur reissues
Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind/Where You Been (Reprise/Rhino) Aiding in Merge’s reissuance of the early, SST Dinosaur albums, Rhino finishes the job.
Evangelicals reviewed
Evangelicals So Gone (Misra) Norman, Oklahoma’s Evangelicals have little in common with the college football powerhouse in their hometown and, culturally for the villa, couldn’t have come any soooner.
Kooks singles reviewed
The Kooks “Eddie’s Gun”/”Naive” (Virgin UK) They’re already crowning a successor to Arctic Monkeys in the U.K.
Blow Up Hollywood reviewed
Blow Up Hollywood The Diaries Of Henry Hill (MJ12) Similarly themed to Sleep Station’s After The War, Diaries Of Henry Hill is based on the private writings of a KIA Iraqi War veteran (not a Goodfellas reference).
Cosmic Cowboy
Gram Parsons The Complete Reprise Sessions (Rhino) Rhino uncorks a disc of alternate takes to coincide with reissues of the little understood cosmic American’s only solo albums.
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