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Guacamolina
Juana Molina Son (Domino) Former Argentine comedienne pixie’s third proper LP relies less on loops yet meanders all the same.
Pass This Way, Talk This Way
Bedroom Walls All Good Dreamers Pass This Way (Baria) This West Coast pop band is neither West Coast nor pop: discuss.
Quoth the raven, ‘Evermore’
Evermore Dreams (Zealous) While we await the predicted bubbling over from down under, Evermore’s two-year-old debut gains Stateside release.
Parle vous Anglais?
Phoenix It’s Never Been Like That (Astralwerks) Commercially borne of the surge of French pop in Air’s wake, Phoenix’s latest is easily their best.
This one Goes To 11
Pearl Jam Pearl Jam (J) All this time, and Eddie Vedder still hasn’t learned how to sing.
Todd. Just Todd.
Todd Come To Your House (Southern) London’s noisemongers do their best to cave your skull in with this violent-ass, death train of an album.
World’s Latest Violins
Violins Pink Water (Contraphonic) Michael Lyons, formerly of Clyde Federal, stokes the embers of Pavement and Luna.
Dead, Dead Heart
Dead Heart Bloom Dead Heart Bloom (KEI) Formerly of Phaser, Boris Skalsky locked himself in a room to write the songs that would become his nom de plume and debut album.
Shear Heart Attack
Shearwater Palo Santo (Misra) Okkervil River offshoot makes its bid for independence.
Stills Of The Night
The Stills Without Feathers (Vice) Before we get all misty-eyed about how The Stills mended their flaws heading into their second album, let’s get one thing straight: They needed to.
Run Like The Whirlwind
Whirlwind Heat Types Of Wood (Brille) One looks at the name and album cover of Types Of Wood and wonders, why can’t the music be this sharp?
I want candy
Candy Bars On Cutting Ti-Gers In Half And Understanding Narravation (New Granada) With a title such as this, you can expect either a dearth of people taking you seriously or more than you want.
First star I see tonight
Starlight Mints Drowatron (Barsuk) Was a time when Starlight Mints were hailed as knights at The Flaming Lips’ roundish table. Somehow, all identity has been drained.
The Goo Goo Dolls CD Review
The Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In (Warner Bros.) Well they’ve done it. Throwing their cards down and tearing off their disguises, The Goo Goo Dolls drop the charade and cover Supertramp.
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