Album Reviews

Sound Tribe Sector 9: Artifact: Perspectives

In the five years separating the recently released Artifact from their previous studio effort, STS9 has toured and performed with Tortoise, drum & bass guru LTJ Bukem and beat alchemists like Telefon Tel Aviv and Karsh Kale among others, and they

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Calexico/Iron & Wine : In The Reins

In the first of what we can only hope will become a series of collaborations between Calexico and Iron & Wine, this seven song effort features the minimalist Sam Beam approach floating on neo-folk and country-western waters.

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Maria Muldaur: Sweet Lovin

Maria Muldaur is one of those artists who have defied classification. Since her 1973 debut she has dabbled with everything from pop, country, boogie, gospel, and Memphis jug.

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back and to the left: Obsolete

The idea of passing up the simple but commercially effective strategy of retrofitting 80s New Wave for mass consumption by the pierced-face audiences of today may be a tough thing for goal-oriented techno bands to consider, but Backandtotheleft appears content to keep the musical company of such EBM purists as Cesium 137 and Angels+Agony.

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My Morning Jacket: Z

As the opening minutes of Z pass by with nary a crashing cymbal or a ringing chord, impossible doubts seep in through the membrane of denial: Has My Morning Jacket become a keyboard band? Did the departed Johnny Quaid and Danny Cash rip the backbeating heart from My Morning Jacket

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