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New in town? Little Boots has your back. The streets aren’t safe around here and you can’t trust just anyone, but she’s different—she doesn’t hang with the crowd (though which crowd she’s talking about isn’t particularly clear), she’s poor, she wears crappy clothes, and she’ll show you ...
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Little Boots
Insofar as weekly reviews can be insistent, mine have definitely been that 2009’s class of ambient music is among the best—the most diverse, the most novel, the most harrowing, the most melodic, the most inspiring and invigorating—in years. And so allow me to harp further: in no ...
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Pop songs are small things. A bit of harmony, a bit of rhythm. A little snatch of melody. The very tiniest of a new spin on a dogmatic set of conventions. We rant and pace and rend our clothing in their honour, and in return they express that most insipid set of emotions: puppy love, etc. ...
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Embrace
I get the feeling I’m going to be writing a lot of reviews like this. Animal Collective continue to put out really stunning material, but besides saying the material’s really stunning, I’m sort of at a loss. At some point the inevitable will happen and this band (like all ...
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Animal Collective
The Fall
Playing to a morosely undernourished room, the increasingly sensible pairing of Detroit’s Deastro and not-Detroit’s Max Tundra received very little love from Portland Friday night, a void (of rapport, affection, and general acceptance c/o the audience) that’s increasingly worrisome. A month ...
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Max Tundra
Selected CMG staffers’ reactions to Eye Weekly’s interview with music critic Christopher Weingarten , a dude who reviewed 1,000 records in the past year via Twitter and has basically made his name trumpeting the death of music criticism, and who in this interview has some pretty ...
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Kranky’s been involved in some strange business as of late. Since signing Deerhunter and that band’s various solo projects, it seems almost as if the label’s become comfortable with things like singing and songwriting, which they’ve shied away from for so long. ...
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It must be a weird time to be a relatively unknown rapper—a good number of them are releasing veritable torrents of mixtapes in some attempt at “making it” without having much of a conception of what that entails. It seems the best Internet rappers can pray for these days is ...
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In this current rock climate dominated by sensitive beards and laptop jockeys, Mission of Burma’s continued, three-decade no-bullshit approach to post-punk is refreshing. Frou-frou is kept to a bare minimum: save producer Bob Weston on occasional tape loop duty (Martin Swope pre-2002), all ...
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Mission of Burma
There is a way of pinpointing, with almost mathematical precision, the saturation point of a trend: it’s the moment at which old things that were once widespread, universal givens start sounding refreshingly new again. I’d like to think that we’re nearing this point in this ...
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Grass
Enjoy the decade's last NBHurrah to the sounds of: Grass Widow, Julianna Barwick, Surfer Blood, Jordaan Mason, Male Nurse, Noveller, Musette, Touching Earth Made of Steel... Keyword Tags: Balconies ,
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Jordaan Mason ,
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Grass
There is absolutely nothing less fun than a noise show, which I had determined in advance this Fuck Buttons one would not be, being as on the duo’s truly excellent new Tarot Sport they’ve jettisoned all the hollering/noise in favor of hyper-sleek electronic post-rock with a Max ...
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Fuck Buttons
The Mantles, San Francisco rockers headquartered steadfastly from the garage, released an eponymous album this year with a few intriguing contrasts masquerading as flat-out contradictions: on one side outwardly sloppy singing and playing, loose tempos, and a fuzzy, lo-fi feel, the other wound ...
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Newsflash: there’s a real-life Wishing Seat at Chessington World of Adventures, or at least there was in 1998 when I last went there for the day. Come out of the Chocolate Castle, chuck a right past the kidsafe maze, and bingo!—there between two benches, a fake stone high chair ...
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It doesn’t take a complete listen of brutally bad albums like Daft Club (2003) or Silent Alarm Remixed (2005) to figure out that expectations should be low for a remixed version of the latest Phoenix record. This year’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has 36 snappy, well-formed, and eminently ...
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Phoenix
No Wonder is—for fans of Owen and Nick Drake, of Sondre Lerche before he pitched headlong into the extravagances of singer-songwriterdom, of yearning for the perpetual gush of unapologetic naiveté—more of the earnestness and bittersweetness that Will Stratton offered up so much of ...
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Will Haven
Stevie Wonder
Many people frowned upon Moon as it neared its restricted release: its one-man cast, its lack of CGI , its poster that fucks your TV screen. Musically, the most interesting fact made public about the film was that its director/conceiver is David Bowie’s son, starting out his film career ...
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Jermiside is making my own little dream for his development as a rapper come true. In my ’06 NBH introduction to the MC with the Red Giants’ (his group with producer Brickbeats) self-titled debut I reveled in his “wordplay,” “convoluted references,” ...
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Last month I saw the Pains of Being Pure at Heart play to a packed Black Cat in DC and their stage banter was full of all the wide-eyed indie pop ebullience their debut record so gloriously captures. “We’re so excited to be playing in DC, home of our label, Slumberland ...
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Cat Stevens
Hey, look, it’s that album we were all expecting in 2005. Remember? Think way back. Conor Oberst was still playing with Bright Eyes, and they weren’t full-time awful; M. Ward hadn’t yet blown all the good will that accompanied his one great album ( Transfiguration of Vincent [2003]); ...
