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Titus Andronicus – Local Business (XL)

Titus Andronicus – Local Business (XL)

If anyone in The Hold Steady was less than 45 years old, they might sound like this.…

Bat For Lashes – Haunted Man (Capitol)

Bat For Lashes – Haunted Man (Capitol)

This half-assed Paula Cole bullshit bores the crap out of me. Its Enya-esque sonic soundscapes make me wretch.…

Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular Fontana)

Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular Fontana)

It’s the psychedelia of sitting around your friend’s teenage bedroom smoking shitty weed, listening to people say the most banal shit, and wishing you could leave.…

Melody’s Echo Chamber – S/T (Fat Possum)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – S/T (Fat Possum)

Guitars dissolve in smudged razors, pushpins hidden in your lipstick. There may or may not be a horror show lurking within your candyfloss.…

Matt & Kim – Lightning (Fader)

Matt & Kim – Lightning (Fader)

Say what you want to about the quality of the music, it makes an excellent litmus test for weeding out fluff-eating imbeciles.…

Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp)

Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp)

Shields is a city album. It functions as a nice urban version of Fleet Foxes — a sound born out of concrete rather than forests, glass instead of rivers, subways instead of trails.…

The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth (Merge)

The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth (Merge)

Darnielle fashions Hallmark epiphanies out of his Wal-Mart realism.…

The Go-Betweens – Quiet Heart (EMI Australia)

The Go-Betweens – Quiet Heart (EMI Australia)

In my 20s, I liked the Go-Betweens. In my 30s I loved them. As I prepare to enter my 40s, I am in awe of them. By the time I reach my 60s, they might be all I listen to.…

REVIEWED IN PICTURES Muse – The 2nd Law (Warner Bros)

REVIEWED IN PICTURES Muse – The 2nd Law (Warner Bros)

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An A-Z of Divorce

An A-Z of Divorce

Divorce sound like witches burning and power tools. …

Various – Why Diet When You Could Riot? (Tuff Enuff)

Various – Why Diet When You Could Riot? (Tuff Enuff)

“It seems that the only way to escape is to attempt to carve out however small a pocket of resistance as one can,” reads the album's fanzine…

Wild Nothing – Nocturne (Captured Tracks)

Wild Nothing – Nocturne (Captured Tracks)

If you’re in downtown Athens, Georgia and you find yourself needing to take a shit, you aren’t going to find a better place to go than the University of Georgia’s main library on north campus. …

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