Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Kevin Hartford
Your enjoyment of Scissor Sisters will depend heavily on your attitude toward disco music. If a novelty band with members named Ana Matronic, Babydaddy, Randy Real, and Del Marquis playing a tongue-in-cheek Pro Tools mash-up of the Bee Gees and Queen seems like it would be your cup of [...]
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Rating: 1 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy
Body Talk 1 is a strange album: despite it being total shit people seem to love it. Has ironic interest gone so far that irony can no longer truly exist?
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Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Greg Hutton
Anticipation tends to accompany apprehension when a beloved cult band comes back from an extended hiatus. While a group like Mission of Burma proved that they could still produce albums essential to their discography 20 years after initially breaking up, a diehard’s inescapable fear of the gospel being corrupted [...]
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Rating: 5 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy
Just to get it over with: the one (albeit small) downside to the exceptional This is Happening is that there is no song for secret summer kisses. James Murphy accounts for every possible circumstance of bad behaviour save for that one: bad choices on dark, hot, summer nights with [...]
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Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: Greg Hutton
Suppose you were to combine equal parts of the stark-yet-danceable post-punk of Joy Division, the tribal drumming of early ‘80s Killing Joke, the eclectic electronic pop of M.I.A. and, just for fun, abundant bassoon. These New Puritans’ latest effort, Hidden, could very well be the outcome of such an [...]
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Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov
Teen Dream is just the third album in the already impressive career of Baltimore’s Beach House. With each album, the duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally grow infinitely more confident, but it’s hard to imagine how things are going to get much better than they do here.
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Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Jon Roe
Tony Simon (aka Blockhead), the producer for Aesop Rock, has put together a collection of moody soundscapes on his fourth solo effort, The Music Scene.
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell
“Fragile, this side up” should be the warning label on El Perro Del Mar’s Love Is Not Pop. The Swedish pop songstress, also known as Sarah Assbring, sings in such brittle, sorrowful whispers that you sense the slightest mishap just might send her over the edge.
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