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Album Reviews: Beirut: The Rip Tide
Zach Condon 's been wonderfully stuck in the past since 2006, when he first arrived on the scene armed with a ukulele and dreams of old Europe-- in 2011, though, he and his art suddenly seem especially out of place. In the five years since Gulag Orkestar became a surprise success, the dialog surrounding indie culture has drastically shifted away from flesh-and-blood odysseys like Condon's and toward synth textures and vague electronic sighs. (Arguably, Condon and the current crop of emotionally distanced indie stars share nostalgia for experiences not necessarily known first-hand, but that's another conversation.) What's more, many of his peers are in drastically different places, both aesthetically and commercially, since Beirut's last full-length, 2007's excellent The Flying Club Cup .
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Album Reviews: Aphex Twin: Drukqs
Shoegaze is a genre of late '80s and early '90s British indie rock, named after the bands' motionless performing style, where they stood on stage and stared at the floor while they played. But shoegaze wasn't about visuals -- it was about pure sound.
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Posted in Bangin by nick | Tags: Anthem , BANGER , Bass Music , Betty Borderline , Dubstep , Vaski Vaski after releasing the massive “Insane (Ft. Ave)” earlier in the year just let loose another huge anthem “Baddest (Ft. Betty Borderline)” .
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Aesop Rock: Labor Days: Pitchfork Review
Aesop Rock Labor Days [Def Jux; 2001] Rating: 8.7 Your humble reviewer is not hugely invested in the state or the fate of hip-hop. A lot of folks are, though, sometimes to an unfortunate extent-- hip-hop spends almost as much time drawing lines and fighting over its own image as the punk and hardcore zines do, albeit more entertainingly.Album Reviews: The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
Over its seven-year gestation, Christmas on Mars had come to represent everything wonderful and frustrating about the Flaming Lips. As much as we loved the idea of Wayne Coyne producing a sci-fi flick in his backyard with hardware-store materials, the Lips' musical production became less frequent-- and less consistent-- during its making. 2006's scattershot At War With the Mystics tried to cut down on the lightness of their two previous landmark albums but was largely overwhelmed by cloying singles ("The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", "Free Radicals") that felt like little more than excuses to shoot off their confetti cannons. The trio's desire to produce crowd-pleasing spectacle-- whether on stage or on film-- had seemingly taken priority over their desire to be a band.
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Updated on 1/23/2013 to Include: the reissue of Illmatic by Nas . Obviously. Updated on 1/16/2013 to include: J Dillas’s Donuts (45 Box Set). I don’t know much about J Dilla so this will be fun to listen to. Updated on 12/12/2012 to include: D’Angelo’s Voodoo .