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Julianna Barwick: Nepenthe 27 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Rating: 4.25/5 Julianna Barwick is predominantly a vocal-centric artist, using looped choruses of her own layered voice as a foundation to construct wordless, naturalistic emotional landscapes, wh...
Revisit: Steely Dan: Gaucho 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Steely Dan has never been easy to categorize, either musically or in their public image. Though ostensibly a rock band, the duo of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have rarely indulged in the personae o...
Dent May: Warm Blanket 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Rating: 2.5/5 Imagine you’re at a crowded party. Everyone is standing around, drinking beer and people are littered on the furniture. They spread into the kitchen and maybe the backyard. It’s summ...
Revisit: 24 Hour Party People 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
No single label provides a better focus for charting the rapid evolution of British pop in the wake of punk like Factory Records. That owes nothing to the greatness of its roster—Mute, Rough Trade, 4A...
Savannah 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Rating: 1/5 Christmas Moultrie was the last child born into slavery on the Mulberry Grove Plantation near Port Wentworth, Georgia. In 1864, when Christmas was only a few months old, what remained ...
Black Joe Lewis: Electric Slave 26 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Rating: 3/5 Some things never change. Oh, the record label can change. They can have the band streamline and change their name. They can even bring in a new producer to change the sound. With the ...
True Widow: Circumambulation 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Rating: 2/5 True Widow is all about simplicity. The Texas trio of guitarist/vocalist Daniel Phillips, bassist/vocalist Nicole Estill and drummer Timothy “Slim” Starks strip down rock ‘n’ roll to i...
My Lunches with Orson: Edited by Peter Biskind 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Rating: 4/5 In the early 1980s, director Henry Jaglom occasionally joined Orson Welles for lunch at Ma Maison, where the pair talked at length about current film projects, silent movie stars, past...
The World’s End 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Rating: 3.5/5 At first glance, Edgar Wright’s The World’s End is a very similar animal to prior features Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, all part of the so-called “Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy....
No Age: An Object 23 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
Rating: 2.75/5 Simply stated, An Object is a drastic over-correction toward raw DIY for LA-based noise-pop duo No Age. After leaving us with the firework-riddled harmonics of “Chem Trails” – the c...
