Posts Tagged ‘Grimes’
Playlists
Obscure Sound: Best of February 2012
The best tracks from February are compiled for easy listening. Among those featured are Bryan Scary, Andrew Bird, The Explorers Club, Arctic Monkeys, Frankie Rose, Moonface, Cats on Fire, and Deerhunter.
Tracks
MP3: Grimes – “Angel”
"Angel" is a bonus track off Grimes' new album Visions, released yesterday. Hear it inside.
Features
Best Albums of 2011: #30 to #21
The list's mid-point. There's plenty of great material here, from rookie breakthroughs NewVillager to arena-ready acts like The Black Keys and Fleet Foxes. Take a look.
Reviews
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...
Features
Autre Ne Veut
Contemporary interpretations of rhythmically inclined genres, like R&B and soul, have remained a continuous trend. Quality predecessors have already shown the style to appear timeless, so that is one attributing factor, but...
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The Mighty Lord Huron
It is not surprising that Benji Schneider grew up on a lake. Michigan’s Lake Huron, to be exact. Most of Schneider’s press photos and album artwork depict him and a body of water in the background, or just the latter. The...
Playlists
Obscure Sound: Best of October 2010
It is getting to that point where serious consideration for the year-end feature must be done. This year’s top 20 or so is relatively easy for me to make; there are so many quality albums that could fit. It is the actual ...
Features
Grimes’ Halfaxa
In my first feature of Grimes, I made the point that the music of Claire Boucher resembled conceptual art. With gauzy layers of synth that embed themselves into post-punk rhythms reminiscent of Joy Division’s “She&#...
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A Sunset, A Shining Moon
Bill Baird treats his fans well. He maintains a dedicated following that, if his new album Loveshines But The Moon Is Shining Too is any indication, should increase exponentially shortly. Baird appears quite kind to fans as wel...
Playlists
Obscure Sound: Best of April 2010
A collection of the best MP3s from April, with artists that include Gogol Bordello, The Mynabirds, Ariel Pink, Librarians, Sleigh Bells, Grimes, and Secret Cities.
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