Grammys 2012: I Won! I Don’t Care!
on February 8, 2012
Kudos to the Grammys, for not going gentle into that good night. Nobody really cares. But kudos anyway.
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Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
on January 31, 2012
True to herself as ever, Van Etten’s power in the folk spectrum is her ability to drawn the listener into the narrative, and elicit a separate feeling from the one she’s expressing herself.
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Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
on January 30, 2012
Just as the blogosphere seems uniquely obsessed with debating Rey’s authenticity, so Born To Die fires back with a bevy of masks, as if the question was an answer in itself.
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Craig Finn – Clear Heart Full Eyes
on January 24, 2012
It’s almost awkward how natural Jesus’ presence feels on Finn’s first solo full-length, Clear Heart Full Eyes.
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Not So Nice, Nice: Lifter Puller’s Fiestas & Fiascos
on January 20, 2012
Fiestas & Fiascos stands as a black light in a white light world, reminding everybody that really, things aren’t so clean once you start digging.
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Poor Boy’s Soul – Burn Down
on January 16, 2012
Poor Boy’s Soul survives on a mixture of tense emotion, gruff shout-song and an endearing knack for how riffs should be played; the mixture gets murky when one of those outweighs the other.
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Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
on January 12, 2012
Edwards’ latest record, Voyageur, handles the naturally gentrified genre of folk-pop with such grace and uniqueness.
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It’s Finally Us Against Them Again
on January 2, 2012
A lot of messy and often contradictory politics are involved in the Occupy movement.
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Common – The Dreamer/The Believer
on January 2, 2012
Breezy and relatively well-edited, Common rebounds back to acceptability, a musical development akin to his first post-Be effort, Finding Forever.
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Up to ’11: The Year in Music
on December 31, 2011
The eleventh year of this increasingly tweeted millennium came through as a worthy successor to 2010, and if you don’t believe us, here are some reasons.
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In the Bedroom with Youth Lagoon
on December 30, 2011
“Cannons” could be a suitable model for first steps from under the blankets—use active feelings, and come out swinging.
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Everybody’s Mixtape
on November 30, 2011
The key to a great mixtape is elevating the middling tracks by surrounding them with great ones; rarely anything on Now could ever be described as great, but the rule holds.
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