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Age Before Beauty
Fiery Furnaces' new Rehearsing My Choir begins to grow on a critic after she listens to it roughly 23 times. Of course, spending nearly a day of your life with someone else's art-rock quasi-oral history won't appeal to just anybody.
Washington City Paper |
Anne Marson |
12-02-2005 |
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For Better and Worsenew
It's time to give Donovan his due. Often dismissed, he was, when he was good, both distinct and representational, a performer who ingested and then reflected the temper of the times.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
12-02-2005 |
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Under the Shinfluence
Oakland, Calif.'s, Rogue Wave is a perfect example of the new Sub Pop signee. Its music is mellow, catchy, and rooted in indie-rock tradition. It's not as blue-collar brutal as, say, Tad or Soundgarden, but it's not wholly without aggression or grandiosity, either.
Washington City Paper |
David Dunlap Jr. |
12-02-2005 |
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Substance Abusenew
The English band Darkness’s second album, One Way Ticket to Hell . . . And Back , continues the English band's unblinking voyage into the preposterous.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
12-02-2005 |
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Afro-Funknew
From the vintage-looking, low-budget album art to the vintage-sounding, low-budget grooves within, Daptone's modus operandi has been to evoke the thrill of finding ancient, obscure funk, without the messy waiting-around-for-30-years that the real thing requires.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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Tags: The Budos Band
Psychedelia Revivednew
The fine folks at Shadoks once again shine a light on a group that was obscure in the late '60s psych scene and is completely unknown today.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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Tags: Time, Before There Was...
Feminine and Hostilenew
Libby Schaub is the type of girl who can drink everyone under the table while intentionally saying just the wrong things to the redneck at the bar, and her band is So I Had to Shoot Him.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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A Cultural Stewnew
Algerian singer/songwriter Souad Massi -- with her soft-focus beauty and acoustic guitar-based songs -- may, at first impression, seem like a sort of Middle Eastern Sarah McLachlan.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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Another Kind of Dissatisfactionnew
If there's such a thing as laissez-faire funk, this reissue of Hot Chip's 2004 album proves that these London electro-weirdos excel at it.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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Tags: Hot Chip, Coming On Strong
Turkish Undergroundnew
If you've heard of Turkey's psychedelic rock scene, you might think that Erkin Koray was its alpha and omega.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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She Should Be Played on Phonographnew
Listening to this album is like going to your grandmother's country home, sitting on her front porch swing and staring up at her in awe as she and a few friends recount tales of their lives with the use of fiddles, piano, banjo and guitar.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Al Kaufman |
12-01-2005 |
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Blurring the Linesnew
Call Bishop Don a band of dilettantes. The guys dip their toes into a variety of forms to cadge together a sound reminiscent of an old bar band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-01-2005 |
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Tags: Bishop Don, Flowers from the Devil
Light and Airynew
While not designed for all climates and moods, American Analog Set forges music of subtle, unassuming beauty.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-01-2005 |
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Tags: American Analog Set, Set Free
New DVD Showcases More Music-Video Auteursnew
Despite the varying qualities of its new editions, the Directors Label series remains an essential guide to charting the ambitions -- both failed and realized -- of the music video industry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
12-01-2005 |
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Womanly Worknew
Kate Bush has always made music that could have sprung only from a female psyche. Aerial is a mysterious, meditative work reminiscent of Joni Mitchell.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
11-30-2005 |
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