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Ape School out TODAY! -

A swamp-ape from panhandle Florida, Michael Johnson arrived in Philadelphia to teach music technology at a downtown arts university. There he made a discovery with which he would create the Ape School. Hidden away in a corner of the school was the fourth Moog Modular synthesizer that Robert Moog ever...

Fruit Bats - Tripper -

You can almost hear the bronchial cough of dogs echoing around a vista of deserted gas stations, hot asphalt and dustbowl scrub on this, Fruit Bats’ fifth album " and their most affecting yet.

Considerably more introspective than 2009’s Ruminant Band long-player, this is to all intents and purposes a solo...

Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009) -

You may have noticed that I added Califone's All My Friends are Funeral Singers on my year end list. You may also have noticed that up until now no review existed for this outstanding album. Sometimes it is hard to find the words to write a review for albums that...

Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts -

Like Bill Callahan or Will Oldham, Ray Raposa finds a secret spot in the fabric of American music that allows tradition's loose threads to bind with a very present and personal point of view. This fifth release, on the heels of last year's stark City of Refuge, combines dusty acoustic...

Iron And Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (2011) -

Recently Sam Beam told SPIN magazine that Kiss Each Other Clean “is more of a focused pop record. It sounds like music people heard in their parent’s car growing up…that early-to-mid ‘70s FM, radio-friendly music” and he’s right. And it’s very surprising and very very very good. Excellent even. Astounding,...

Okkervil River: I Am Very Far -

Few bands are more acclaimed than Austin, Texas’ Okkervil River. Rock critic clichés like “hyper-literate lyrics” and “atmospheric indie-rock” abound"but that never seemed to matter on the 2005 breakthrough Black Sheep Boy and its follow-ups The Stage Names and The Stand Ins as Okkervil scrawled out gothic folk rock tales...

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