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I had never heard of David Berman or the Silver Jews until Swedish folk sister duo First Aid Kit released ‘Strange Beauty’ and their cover of ‘Random Rules.’ But swimming in the rawness of their terror at Berman’s sudden passing …
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Ross from Friends’ (Felix Weatherall’s) new EP, Epiphany musically picks up where Family Portrait left off. Epiphany EP opens with the song ‘Epiphany’ which itself begins by whispering, “None of this is real,” and continues to say, “This is …
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A Poem in Three Parts …
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When I heard Clair(o)e Cottrill’s big little hit ‘Pretty Girl,’ I knew I wanted to hear more. Not a whole album of more, but more. The naïve musicality clicked with the message of the song which clicked with the video, and it all clicked so …
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Armand Jakobsson has slipped into his DJ Seinfeld skin to provide each and every one of us charter to an undisclosed, unadulterated, and definitely privately owned island. …
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Chance the Rapper’s latest release, The Big Day, stops short, swerves, and stumbles. For all intents and purposes, The Big Day betrays itself as Chance’s first album, revealing through its disjointed nature and wide cast of contributors to …
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Oh, take me to the jungles of my imagination. Barefoot, we’ll hop-scotch around the dangers of the forest floor as a brazen fire threatening the canopy above. Magnificently profound. Unquestionably deadly. An oxymoron? More like …
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Recently incoming young confident mystery firebrand producer R.O.S.H. is already ready to start anew, or perhaps this is his new beginning already started—it’s hard and beside the point to tell at this juncture. Hard and beside the …
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Joyless would be a bit of an under or overstatement (which one I’m unsure). In any case, the newest release on Bobby Donny, They Promised Us Ponies by Broke Brotherhood finds its musical and atmospheric orbits in close …
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In Years To Burn, Indie Folk Rock masters Calexico and Iron & Wine collaborate again on a new collection of ballads, and the album is highly variable, easy to listen to, and full of unexpected moments that shamelessly showcase their …
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