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A Surplus Blank White Surface 27 Aug 2013 | 05:43 pm
King Krule “Neptune Estate” “Neptune Estate” has a distinct feeling, and maybe you recognize it – lonely in the middle of the night, desperate for connection, lost in your head. It’s sexy too, and th...
Fragments And Shards 22 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Rose Elinor Dougall “Strange Warnings” It’s funny now for me to look back on Rose Elinor Dougall’s time in the Pipettes because that perky, hyper-assertive music is so far from where she’s gone as a ...
You Already Know What I Want From You 21 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
Unmade Bed “Go the Whole Way” Unmade Bed is the new band featuring Dorian Cox, the guitarist and lyricist of The Long Blondes, one of the most underrated bands of the past decade. The new group is a ...
Wash Your Hands Of It 20 Aug 2013 | 04:59 pm
Neko Case “Night Still Comes” I can’t listen to this song without feeling convinced that Neko Case is singing about clinical depression. The hopelessness, the self-recrimination, the inertia, the ali...
From A Sorry Place 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Basement Jaxx featuring Sam Brookes “What A Difference Your Love Makes” This is the kind of pop song that sounds like it was made specifically to be a jingle for the very concept of romantic love. It...
Imprinted With A Purpose 16 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm
Nine Inch Nails “Copy of a” Trent Reznor has spent the past several years exploring ambient instrumentals and dense, sometimes lushly arranged pop, so it’s interesting to hear him swing in another di...
Almost Everything Could Be Forgotten 15 Aug 2013 | 07:48 am
Franz Ferdinand “Right Action” I feel a little bad for Franz Ferdinand in that they’ve been a very consistent band over the past decade, but they’re at this sort of awkward phase of their career wher...
The Funhouse 14 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
Eric Copeland “Rokzi” Eric Copeland has a great skill for building tracks that give off a strong sleazy vibe without being tremendously obvious about it. He doesn’t go for stock musical signifiers, b...
You Talk In Code 13 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
No Age “An Impression” I’ve had trouble connecting with No Age’s records in the past because I’ve always perceived a strange diffidence at the center of their music and it undermined the energy and p...
Isn’t It Quaint, Isn’t It Queer? 8 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
Grant Lee Buffalo “Drag” (Live in 2012) I have been thinking a lot lately about how much I envy singers and poets, because they have the license to say things with great emotional resonance that don’...
