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 [...]
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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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Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Lukas Clark-Memler Basement Jaxx, the genre-fusing South Londoners, have been making bona fide party music since the beginning of the millennium. Yet as 2009 comes to an end, and we bid adieu to this decade, it seems rather probable that in turn we are also saying farewell to the Basement [...]
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue ‘Uprising,’ the first single off Muse’s new album, The Resistence, is a fun and upbeat pop number that is unfortunately unrivaled over the remainder of the album. Despite that, the band’s songwriting does maintain a level of consistency that holds true throughout.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell The problem with reviewing an album like Imogen Heap’s Ellipse is that it requires optimal listening conditions for its stereophonic production to be rendered adequately. The filmic quality of her music just begs for one of those cinema-ready five speaker setups.
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Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell The Starlight Mints are one of a handful of bands from the bible belt that continually pokes their listeners in the eye with audacious indie pop. On their previous release, 2006’s Drowaton, the Mints unleashed their fun-house like antics in what would be described as restrained, compared to [...]
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