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The Farewell State – Dial Everything
Once you reach a certain age, time becomes…strange. We are taught ad infinitum that time goes on our independent variable axis, and its scale remains equidistant. But again, after you hit forty, it becomes more like one of those orange and white logarithmic paper situations. Dial Everything is The Farewell State newest album. It’s a…
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Live review: Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago
Day one An empty Union Park under the unforgiving scorching sun. A chorus of cicadas, as loud as vuvuzelas in a world cup match. Random guitar notes start to gel together and it’s Black Duck, offering relief to the few that arrived early. Chill improvisational experimental music that offers a groove, but not for long.…
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Listen to: Echodrone – Tranquility / This is when
SHUGETORONIKA FOR ONE AND ALL
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Listen to: New Ghost – Over
Meandering review of New Ghost’s Over.
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Review: The Dramatic Lovers – Hiatus EP
It’s often said that burnout can be an unavoidable calamity for creative endeavours. Burnout is perpetual motionless machine, frustration feeds an unmovable pen, which feeds procrastination, which exacerbates frustration. Blank pages beget a drought of thoughts. Milwaukee’s The Dramatic Lovers pierce through that gray desolation with the Hiatus EP, led by Billy Seidel’s haunting but…
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Review: Mock Tudors – I am Bozo
I have a recurring dream. A clown wearing a teal scarf chases me through dark ginnels. The half-rotten leaves covering the ground offer no footing at all and the clown eventually catches me. Then it starts playing a bass solo. That’s all well and good, but outside of the clown-motif, it has nothing to do…
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Wake up to Vast Robot Armies – Like a bug
The fierce bass line. A very The Kinks – like keyboard groove. Then an inevitable comedown. Like a bug, Vast Robot Armies brand new single, swarms your emotions, creating an almost sensurround atmosphere that intertwines longing with resignment. Acquiesce through past experiences, embrace the pop nature deep in our alveoli, and with each exhale, enjoy…
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Wake up to… New Ghost – The Wolf of Allendale
What was the last thing you dreamed? The one I had yesterday left me confused. I was in a strange hotel/casino, supposedly in Paris. My plane was due to leave in 8 hours, so my mother said I should look around the place and kill some time. The casino had a water slide running everywhere,…
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Wake up to … Electric Tape Recorder – Repeater.
The long trek Electric Tape Recorder saunters upon finds a new path to dark territories. The former duo, now a four piece, encounters the unnerving ‘Repeater’, released this past July in the midst of torrential rains and overcast days. Shoegazey in spirit, Psychedelic by nature, ‘Repeater’ smoulders deep through the terrain, with its peaty aftertaste…
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Review: Junkbond – Spring the locks
One of the strangest things you learn as you get older is that no idea is a bad idea, it just needs to simmer for a longer time. Maybe a draft you left in a musty drawer is now ready to find its voice. Perhaps the half finished Locrian scale ditty that’s been swirling on…
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