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Game Theory – Big Shot Chronicles (1986)
That Game Theory’s entire catalog is seemingly terminally out of print is a great travesty. Certainly they were one of the most important purveyors of ’80s pop music in America. Over the course of three incredibly a...
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The Vapors – New Clear Days (1980)
In the stream of excellent hard-hitting power-pop albums that were released in the aftermath of the punk explosion, there were bound to be a couple ones forgotten, or associated bands being relegated to one-hit wonder status. T...
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Wooden Shjips – West (2011)
…and then, in an act of reverence, they took their melodies, their intervals between notes, their rhythmic variation and burnt them, a sanctified offering to the great god of fuzz. And listeners looked down upon their off...
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Cass McCombs – Humor Risk (2011)
Cass McCombs’ second full-length of 2011, Humor Risk, is an ace-in-the-hole for anyone arguing that McCombs’ delivery is “classic”, as in a singer-songwriting with a dominating presence who combines lyrical idiosync...
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Atlas Sound – Parallax (2011)
Some artists would be better off focusing on one project, exerting their energy toward one cohesive sound that merges their stylistic preferences. Bradford Cox is not one of them. His dozen or so releases since 2005 project enj...
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David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time (2011)
Expectations for David Lynch’s first album revolve around two reference points. The most glaring is to his idiosyncratic work as a filmmaker. It is expected that Crazy Clown Time will contain the darkness and mystique of films ...
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Mink Freud – Gelatinous (2011)
Cast your mind back to the early and mid-’90s. You may recall a specific revolution in electronic ambient music. Artists like Aphex Twin, Orbital and Brian Eno brought a whole new meaning to the electronica of that era, k...
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Mario Gonzalez – Lindsay Lohan Likes Blood (2011)
This EP is excellently done, and every song except the title track is a wonderful, drone and glitch-filled pop delight. Delicate and graceful melodies slip between the cracks of digital wreckage, or sometimes emerge from the ca...
