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Aagoo
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Tumbao
Aagoo, 2008 | Reviewed by: Solomiya Moroz
This is a very interesting approach to electronic ambient music. The artist is Brazilian and is manipulating subtle Bossa Nova rhythms to create a solid sub rhyt...
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Absolutely Kosher
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The Bloody Hand
Absolutely Kosher, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Two early Frog Eyes albums have been reissued by Absolutely Kosher, both featuring quite substantial “bonus track” sections. The Bloody Hand is one of the two... -
The Golden River
Absolutely Kosher, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
The Golden River is one of two of early Frog Eyes albums tto have been recently reissued by Absolutely Kosher, both featuring substantial “bonus track” sectio... -
Let's Build A Fire
Absolutely Kosher, 2007 | Reviewed by: Erik Virtanen
NYC’s +/- {Plus/Minus} delivers thirteen expertly crafted alt-rock tracks with close attention to creative, sometimes surprising, production techniques that nurture...
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Ace Fu
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Curse Your Little Heart
Ace Fu, 2006 | Reviewed by: Jason Miller
East Van in the spring-time: cherry blossoms covering the sidewalk everywhere; smiles covering everyone’s faces; the sunshine covering everything; kissing, covered ... -
Nautical Antiques
Ace Fu, 2006 | Reviewed by: Kristen Cudmore
Pinback has developed a head nodding, persisting, indie-rock rooted hum. With purrs, drones and whines, their music tends to pulsate through you in a very effective...
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Be He Me
Ace Fu, 2006 | Reviewed by: Jason Miller
Comfort food or not, you add anything to a pot of Kraft Dinner, it will make it better. Rather immediately. The same with any Top 40 song. You add any kind of tal...
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Ache
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Very Rec
Ache, 2005 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Andy Dixon, the man behind Secret Mommy, continues along the high-concept lines of his last album, Hawaii 5.0 which saw Dixon utliizing Hawaii-related sound sou... -
Sylissain oot
Ache, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Free forest jazz from Finland, Rauhan Orkestei and their sub-group, Lauhkeat Lampaat, combine the playful joi de vivre of Rahsaan Roland Kirk with brief bursts of scre... -
Project: Bicycle
Ache, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Project: Bicycle is a concept album of sorts and also a sort of 'jeu' as chefs are known to play: everyone gets the same limited set of ingredients and tries ... -
Of / Greg Davis 7-inch split
Ache, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
This newest 7-inch in the Ache record Div/Orce series sees Of paired up with Greg Davis. Of is also known as Loren Chasse of San Francisco's Jewelled Antler Collective... -
Birthday Party
Ache, 2007 | Reviewed by: Erik Virtanen
Birthday Party is another gem from production team, JC/DC (The New Pornographers, Destroyer, Tegan & Sara). Vancouver’s The Winks (essentially duo, Tyr J...
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This Is An Ad For Cigarettes
Ache, 2007 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Oooh this is a weird one. On This Is An Ad For Cigarettes Winning manage to successfully combine elements of (1) jagged angular punk in the vein of Smell s...
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Could We Believe In Magic
Ache, 2008 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Could We Believe In Magic? is another weirdly wonderful Winning album... It seems like the band is going in two opposite directions on this, their sophom...
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Acuarela
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Trouble
Acuarela, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Female-fronted San Francisco indie rock for fans of Harriet and Sarah Records bands, classsic indie-rockers like Versus, Velocity Girl and the Washington post-hardcore... -
Songs To Break God's Heart Vol. 1
Acuarela, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Spanish label Acuarela doesn't believe in compilations and Song To Break God's Heart is their reluctant first. it's a shame they resist because they've done ... -
Sad Boys Dance When No One's Watching
Acuarela, 2006 | Reviewed by: Stephanie Rebick
The size of the music industry is just staggering. Sometimes I get completely overwhelmed by how much music is being made, most of it mediocre at best, but some fract... -
Amoral Certitudes
Acuarela, 2007 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Smart, pretty indie pop with echoes of R.E.M. and The Magnetic Fields. This is apparently an EP teaser for the new full-length. I wasn't crazy about their first al...
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No Land Recordings
Acuarela, 2007 | Reviewed by: Matthew Rich
Remate I’m finding a little difficult to listen to. At it’s best it reminds me a lot of Blur, with that sort of twinkley piano thing they do, and some really g...
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Firefly Dragonfly
Acuarela, 2008 | Reviewed by: Matthew Rich
When I first put on Firefly Dragonfly it absolutely repulsed me. I mean really, I had like the equivalent of a musical allergic reaction and started having a fit ...
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Aeronaut
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10 The Hard Way
Aeronaut, 2005 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
I went to LA for the first time last year, the thing that blew me away was this feeling that scenes long forgotten by the rest of the world can survive and even thrive... -
Nous Non Plus
Aeronaut, 2005 | Reviewed by: Michael Byrne
As a rule, America and France have a somewhat shaky relationship. So for New York indie-pop group Nous Non Plus to sing in French for the majority of their album would...
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Akachic
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Sex Makes Song
Akachic, 2008 | Reviewed by: Matthew Rich
I think what I like about Navel4eve is that, although it definitely falls into a sort of indie-electro-pop-punk genre, unlike a lot of bands that try to do this the...
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Alive
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Fall In Love All Over Again With Col. Knowledge & The Lickity Splits
Alive, 2005 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Fall In Love Again With Col. Knowledge and the Lickity Splits is like an authentic sixties dance party completely captured in pristine ‘Alive Natural Sound’ and... -
Yoo Doo Right, Yoo Doo Slide
Alive, 2005 | Reviewed by: Ben Jones
One of the most remarkable things I remember about the Japanese culture is how effectively they take elements of familiar things, dice them up and reassemble them in a... -
Milky Ways
Alive, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
A rollicking good time of snotty, bluesy garage rock from Montreal's Milky Ways. Featuring members of Del-Gators, Sexareenos, Spaceshits and Honey and Lies, Milky ... -
Buffalo Killers
Alive, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
Wah wah guitars, vocals redolent of the American South, healthy doses of sixties Britain and lots of strut form the basis for the sound of Buffalo Killers' self-title... -
Lonely Road Revival
Alive, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
A brilliant collusion of laid-back sixties/seventies country-rock with punk energy, fans of Uncle Tupleo will love the hell out of San Francisco's Trainwreck Riders. I... -
Who To Trust, Who To Kill, Who To Love
Alive, 2006 | Reviewed by: Gordon B. Isnor
The Bloody Hollies' Alive release, Who To to Trust, Who to Kill, Who to Love is an album of balls-out, baddass rock and rock roll with a huge, blown-out. k...
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Every Damn Time
Alive, 2008 | Reviewed by: Freddy Jisp
This an fascinating rehash of something we have heard a million times before, just not in decades. It’s like a vinyl record you’d pay .25 cents for at a garag...
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