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With their reverb-drenched, melancholic guitars and somnolent rhythms, Dylan Carson’s revived Earth always seemed the perfect audio accompaniment to a photographic journey through America’s hinterland. But while the band’s last release, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull, hymned sweeping expanses and giant skies, this, their sixth studio album, has a more claustrophobic, funereal feel – Robert Frank rather than Ansel Adams, perhaps. The addition of Lori Goldston’s cello – her stringed hum a nod to Carson’s drone-metal past – is the defining factor, bringing depth, substance and emotion to an already rich mix, particularly on the chilling and beautiful Father Midnight. This is Earth’s best-realised work to date – stunning stuff.-Guardian

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Explosions In The Sky, Take Care Take Care Take Care
Of Montreal, Controller Sphere
Green Day Awesome As F**k
Jefferson Airplane, Worst Of Jefferson Airplane (Greatest Hits)
Sleigh Bells, Treats
Thao & Mirah, Thao & Mirah
Dennis Coffey, Dennis Coffey
T.Rex, Tanx
Holly Golightly The Brokeoffs, No Help Coming
Prefuse 73, Only She Chapters
Silverstein, Rescue
Swingin’ Utters, Here Under Protest
Times New Viking, Dancer Equired

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As hip-hop is revitalized by an influx of youthful aggressors, Atmosphere has started getting interesting again just as the anger fades from its music. The shift began with 2008’s When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, as Slug’s undeniable gift for pathos evolved into a sympathetic, storytelling everyman stance. That shift has solidified on The Family Sign, the sixth full-length from the Minneapolis crew. Listening to piano-heavy downers like “The Last To Stay” or “Your Name Here,” it’s easy to picture Slug at the ivories, wearing a tux and sipping bourbon as he raps about, respectively, abusive relationships and his growing ennui, for instance, toward groupies. The best songs are like these—sad, minimal, and instrument-driven. Near the end of the record, there’s the taut, pretty “Something So,” a heartfelt look back at that rarest of careers that’s allowed the artist to discover humility along the way. “They tell me that / I’m not qualified to lend my voice / To something so beautiful,” Slug delicately croons. Whoever “they” are, he should stop listening.-AVCLUB

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Ray Charles, Genious + Soul = Jazz
Adela Diane, Adela Diane & Wild Divine
Brian Setzer Orchestra, Setzer Goes Insra-Mental!
Tap Tap, Lanzafame

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Tomboy is a homogenous record, its eleven songs a steady mix of jagged, attacking guitars and that one damn sunshine and rainbows harmony. But it is a dynamic record as well, alive, moving, intimate. I admit, what sold me on this beast was that first crack of “Slow Motion,” that snap that slices through the track’s as-yet-developed, unstoppable groove. It’s a jarring moment, a part that confirms what the broadened remasters of “You Can Count on Me” and “Tomboy” suggest: that Panda Bear still has the creative ingenuity that made him Animal Collective’s most fascinating member for the past half decade. It’s difficult to not appreciate the delicious irony of Noah opening Tomboy with “Know you can count on me” when the time between the release of the lackluster first cut of “Tomboy” and the album’s own highly anticipated release date had been just long enough to let doubts of Tomboy’s quality seep in. But there was no need for worry. Tomboy is every bit as good as it promised to be, and more.

The “as good” bit comes from the songs. Prerelease singles “Slow Motion,” “Alsatian Darn” and “Last Night at the Jetty” rightfully generated quite a buzz for Tomboy. In their unmixed form, they were terrific, showing a Panda Bear not so dissimilar from the Panda Bear whose Brian Wilson influence drenched Merriweather Post Pavilion and Fall Be Kind. When they’re mixed, however, they acquire new, exciting textures, filling the open space evoked by Lennox’s ever-present reverb. Producing credit goes to Sonic Boom, who earns it by deepening the low end of Panda Bear’s tracks and letting Lennox’s voice cover every inch of the record, creating Tomboy’s lush wall of sound. As he did on Person Pitch, Lennox trades in a beach-y, surf-y, what-have-you vibe. But unlike Person Pitch, Tomboy is immediate, as though Panda Bear has, for the first time in his solo career, allowed himself to come in close, singing not from a distance but vibrantly next to us.

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/42890/Panda-Bear-Tomboy/

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Tv On The Radio, Nine Types Of Light
Foo Fighters, Wasting Light
Winter, Into Darkness
Jimi Hendrix, South Saturn Delta
Jeff Buckley, Grace
Brett Dennen, Loverboy
Feelies, Here Before
Rory Gallegher, Irish Tour 74
Low, C’mon
Ponytail, Do Whatever You Want All The Time
Rebelution, Bright Side Of Life
Rebelution, Courage To Grow
Thursday, No Devolucion
Whiskeytown, Pneumonia

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