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Poetic & Overwhelmingnew
This album will strike some listeners as enlightenment and others as frippery, but all 10 tracks are dominated by Bejar's full-bore approach.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
02-24-2006 |
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Tags: Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies
The Game of Lifenew
Frost is too drained to invest any more emotion into winning back her estranged lover -- rather, she relishes the beauty in her tragedies.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
02-24-2006 |
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Tags: Edith Frost, It's a Game
Too Legit to Quitnew
BR549 has worked hard to shed the "novelty act" status and establish itself as a legitimate and viable band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
02-23-2006 |
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Falling Too Close to the Treenew
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the Lashes may be the most earnest band on the planet.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jonathan Garrett |
02-16-2006 |
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Tags: Get It, The Lashes
A Band Revisednew
This is a far more relaxed and musically confident Maximo Park than the one captured on A Certain Trigger.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jonathan Garrett |
02-16-2006 |
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Tags: Maximo Park, Missing Songs
Needs Short, Pleasing Burstsnew
Mendes' songs and their polarizing qualities are part and parcel of the album's patchwork.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
02-09-2006 |
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Tags: Sergio Mendes, Timeless
Consistency Comes Throughnew
Made in tandem with acclaimed sound auteur RJD2, this is Aceyalone's most consistent work since 1998's A Book of Human Language.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
02-09-2006 |
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Tags: Aceyalone, Magnificent City
Album Sends Them Through Pubertynew
There's a lot of straining, questioning, aching -- and not a little whining -- wrapped up in You Were Supposed to Be Beautiful.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jonathan Zwickel |
01-26-2006 |
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Way Back to the '70snew
It's not metal, mind you, but rock with an emphasis on condensed bursts of guitar riffage, and sliding-scale avalanches.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ray Cummings |
01-26-2006 |
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Tags: Pearls and Brass, The Indian Tower
Yin and Yangnew
Tortoise's streamlined instrumental post-rock jams are the yin to Bonnie Prince Billy's rural and lyric-driven yang.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-26-2006 |
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He Bends Genre Bordersnew
There's nothing particularly mad about Manx's smooth, bluesy, singer/songwriter fare, and the mantras are rarely more than bubbling under the surface.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
01-19-2006 |
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Tags: Harry Manx, Mantras for Madmen
Another Major Statement?new
For MF Doom, this box set is potentially revealing, since he is known more as a sly and sarcastic MC, not a beat-maker.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
01-19-2006 |
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Mainstream Just a Chorus Awaynew
Unlike her stylistic counterpart, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Jenny Lewis has proven herself capable of more than bleeding-heart ballads and twee indie rock.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
01-19-2006 |
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Tags: Jenny Lewis, Rabbit Fur Coat
Winning Enthusiasmnew
This Brooklyn trio doesn't reinvent the wheel, but its debut album has its charms.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
01-12-2006 |
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Random and Pleasant Surprisesnew
This four-CD box set is compiled of many appealing grooves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mikael Wood |
01-12-2006 |
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