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The Sea and Cake - Car Alarm -
Hot on the heels of last year’s Everybody, their first album in four years, Car Alarm is the engine-heated sound of Chicago’s the Sea and Cake as they’ve always been, but with an urgency driving their airy substance. Beginning in 1994, the storied quartet of Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt, John...
Jim O'Rourke to Issue Double Album Via Chicago's Drag City and Streamline - Jim ORourke, who has worked with everyone from Derek Bailey, Mats Gustafsson, Mayo Thompson, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Merzbow, Nurse With Wound, Fennesz, Organum, Henry Kaiser, Flying Saucer Attack, Joanna Newsom, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Stereolab, Kahimi Karie, Quruli, John Fahey, Smog, Faust, Tony Conrad, The Red Krayola, Bobby Conn, Beth Orton,...
David Grubbs -
A majority of the tracks on An Optimist Notes the Dusk, the latest album by David Grubbs (formerly of the much-loved Chicago band Gastr del Sol and others), feature generic melodies dressed up in beautiful, peculiar playing and inventive arrangements. Delicate tones, sparse arrangements, economical guitar playing, somber and restrained...
New Tortoise Remixes Drop Mid-August -
Given the success of the Tortoise remix series of the '90s, Thrill Jockey is releasing a new limited 12" featuring two new remixes of tracks from Beacons of Ancestorship. "High Class Slim Came Floatin' In" gets the remix treatment from Japanese freakout artist Eye of Similar Artists:
