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Library Tapes: Fragment -

Opinions can be expressed as simply as you like. A mere grunt can convey personal acceptability. So to write about an album involves fleshing out the grunt. Delving into the background and personalities of those who've shaped the art we are confronted with. Light-hearted comparisons to contemporaries to express the...

Eluvium - Similes -

Ambient music suffered terribly at the hands of a late-90s boom in chill-out compilations, ostensibly assembled to bring one down after a night of hackneyed gesticulating to the sounds of the Gallaghers and their laddish ilk. Bands you knew, remixes you didn’t, but the end products always much of a...

Jakob Dylan: Women + Country -

The title of Jakob Dylan’s sophomore solo record seems apropos with the addition of backing vocals from women Neko Case and Kelly Hogan and with a much more country edge than his previous work. Women + Country features many of T Bone Burnett’s hallmarks â€" the same tight production that...

Saxon Shore Sign Publishing Deal - Saxon Shore have inked a publishing deal with Primary Wave Music (Nirvana) and is headed into the studio with Fridmann to record new music. Saxon Shore's music can be heard in this Sony HD commerical and will soon be found in ads from: Sundance Film Festival, Major League Baseball,...

Reviews: God Is An Astronaut - Age Of The Fifth Sun -

Rating: 7Given that post-rock as a genre is so often described in terms of apocalyptic imagery, it always come as something of a surprise that so few instrumental bands have sought to deal with the subject directly. However, as the somewhat portentous title (not to mention highly questionable cover art)...

Maserati - Passages (2009) -

Maserati's 2009 release, Passages, was a pleasant surprise for me in my latest review package.  I haven't heard a band like this in a long time.  Maserati incorporates a mixture of post-rock, progressive rock, and electronica that comes out sounding decent.  My only complaint with the album is simply that it...

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