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The Lost One - Northwestern songsmith Carroll has toured and recorded with Crooked Fingers and Eric Bachmann, but this, his third album, establishes him as a serious solo contender. A wistful and melancholy tone infuses his vocals, as on haunting steel-tinged opener Pretty Girls Going To Ruin My Life (Again). The often sardonic, lustful...

Grizzly Bear Covers Hot Chip -

Take a listen to Grizzly Bear covering Hot Chip's "Boy From School" here.

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Sondre Lerche -

slightly off-balance ramble, Sondre Lerche's Heartbeat Radio is defined by two styles that never really gel, a sweeping orchestral side which at times feels at odds with its singer-songwriter side. The strings that crash over his songs often have an exhilarating effect, but it's a tenuous faintness that Lerche is...

Beirut - The Rip Tide -

"I may drift a while," sings Zach Condon on Port of Call, The Rip Tide’s closing song, one of a number of references to feeling lost, alone or swept up by something not entirely fathomable that appear on Beirut’s third album.

Having assimilated and channelled Eastern European folk styles into...

Au Revoir Simone Party Hard -

Brooklyn trio Au Revoir Simone have spoken to ClashMusic about their party habits.

Making chilled out electronica, Au Revoir Simone present the image of being cool, calm and collected. Yet it seems that whenever the trio get out on the road the Brooklyn band like to party hard.

Speaking to ClashMusic,...

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