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Young Fathers | Tape One

Anticon (2012)
Scotland does boldly inventive/wildly playful indie-pop (and prior to that, post-punk) with such machine-like efficiency that it's been a detriment to the country's other genres.

By: RYAN FOLEY | December 10, 2012

Black Moth Super Rainbow | Cobra Juicy

Rad Cult Records (2012)
Technology makes secrecy well-nigh impossible, so Black Moth Super Rainbow settle for employing it as a narrative device.

By: RYAN FOLEY | October 09, 2012

Swans | The Seer

Young God (2012)
Swans albums are the unparalleled expression of multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira, who often sounds like he's either deranged with enthusiasm or deranged with bitterness.

By: RYAN FOLEY | August 28, 2012

Six Organs of Admittance | Ascent

Drag City (2012)
Ben Chasny is the thinking man's shredder, a chin-stroking, Gaston Bachelard-quoting antithesis to philistine six-string savants like Steve Vai.

By: RYAN FOLEY | August 14, 2012

Candlemass | Psalms For The Dead

Napalm
If this is truly, certainly, most definitely the final Candlemass album (the doom-metal progenitors called it quits in both 1994 and 2002, only to reform both times), then the swan song on their swan-song release is "Black as Time," a middling, excessively lengthy number.

By: RYAN FOLEY | July 31, 2012

Van She | Idea Of Happiness

Modular (2012)
Somewhere in a coastal town right now, Van She's synthpop anthem "Beat of the Drum" is playing while groggy, bubblegum-pink, already-nostalgic 20-year-olds move out of the beach house they rented for a week.

By: RYAN FOLEY | July 10, 2012

Echo Lake | Wild Peace

Slumberland
Few labels have fed the shoegaze/dream-pop hydra as regularly as Oakland-based Slumberland. Wild Peace is the label's latest offering, the debut from London duo Echo Lake.

By: RYAN FOLEY | July 03, 2012

Damon Albarn | Dr Dee

Parlophone
"I think my greatest achievement is to keep ensuring that I am beginning again," conceded director Rufus Norris, one half of the creative partnership behind Dr Dee, an opera delving into the life of 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee.

By: RYAN FOLEY | May 08, 2012

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