Loss – Despond (Profound Lore, 2011) This is doom metal, there will be no mistaking it for anything else. The band is Loss, the album is Despond and the first 10 minute track is call Open Veins To A Curtain Closed. This is not meant to be happy music, but don’t let all the...
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Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital (Sub Pop, 2011) ‘I won’t be the same no more‘ If back in 2005 someone would have told me that by 2011 Wolf Parade would have ceased to exist and Dan Boeckner would be just as known for his sex-infused electronic-rock project Handsome Furs, I would have called bullshit. As implausible...
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Cults – Cults (In The Name Of, 2011) It seems a little strange to be recommending Cults debut album now. I feel like I have been listening to most of these songs for a over a year now — probably because I have. Go Outside was one of my favorite songs of summer last...
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Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years (Matador, 2011) In theory, Cold Cave is still just Wesley Eisold‘s synthpop homage to the 80′s — the project of one man and his love for the darker side of the new wave movement, but with Cherish the Light Years the project sounds like an actual real-life...
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Austra – Feel It Break (Domino, 2011) Dark, sensual waves of texture layered beneath Katie Stelmanis‘ seductive vocals render the debut album from Canada‘s latest export slightly addictive. Austra – Beat and the Pulse Full Reviews: Slant No Ripchord Drowned In Sound
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The ‘chillwave summer’ is officially in the history books and the genre itself has been declared null and void, but that doesn’t mean the market for lo-fi, laptop-manipulated, 80′s synth doesn’t exist. There is still room for the one-man show in the club, in the concert hall and on the festival stage. There are...
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Wugazi – 13 Chambers (self-released, 2011) Obviously this album layers Wu-Tang rhymes over Fugazi post-rock to create the ultimate tribute to the early 90′s. What might not be so obvious before listening to the album is how well these diverse groups fit together. Like Danger Mouse and Jaydiohead before them, Cecil Otter, Swiss Andy,...
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Beyoncé – 4 (Columbia, 2011) What might seem like an odd album recommendation for this site, it will make sense to those who know me and my affection for female r&b singers. Usually I keep these guilty pleasures within the confines of my own home and ipod, but Beyoncé‘s fourth full-length since going solo...
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Fucked Up – David Comes To Life (Matador, 2011) A hardcore concept album concerning a heartbroken factory worker? An 80 minute album of epic proportions from a band that was known for 7″‘s overflowing with screw-you-in-your-face political punk rock just a few short years ago? The end, right? They literally fucked up, right? What’s...
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Eilen Jewell – Queen of the Minor Key (Signature Sounds, 2011) My precious blogging time has been hijacked by ‘real’ world responsibilities. These commitments in faraway lands like Park City, Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco seem to multiply with every task I complete. Even today, on the day of rest, I can’t seem to...
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WHITE HORSE – THE REVENANT GOSPELS – volume III (self-released, 2011) Ben Chisolm found time in his busy schedule with Chelsea Wolfe to post more creepy images on his tumblr account and more importantly, to record volume III of his Revenant Gospels. This third volume in a series of samples put to electronic music...
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