Album Reviews

Deltron 3030 – Event II

[rating=7.00] Del the Funky Homosapien & co.’s postscript to their riveting, world-gone-mad opus, Deltron 3030, picks up in the post-apocalyptic year 3040, where life and all its forms have surrendered

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Tommy Keene – Excitement At Your Feet

[rating=8.00] Virtually an EP based on a running time of just over thirty minutes, recorded, like many of his albums, largely by himself with help on drums and occasional other

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Rubblebucket – Save Charlie EP

[rating=6.00] Rubblebucket, a fast rising seven piece from Brooklyn (by way of Vermont/Massachusetts), manage to combine the best of 80’s mainstream pop (think Madonna, Hall & Oates) with indie rock

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HAIM – Days Are Gone

Between its solid songs, strong production, and varied, original pop music sound, Days Are Gone is an album for anyone who truly appreciates well-written and meaningful pop music.

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Dr. Dog – B-Room

[rating=8.00] With B-Room, Dr. Dog has begun the process of highlighting various aspects of the densely crafted sound they’ve developed over their decade-plus together. Like their previous efforts, recorded in

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Mike Doughty – Circles Super Bon Bon…

[rating=7.00] Mike Doughty’s latest release, the unwieldy title of which will be abbreviated here as Circles, is much more than a re-hash of Soul Coughing tunes. This is a redemptive,

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Deer Tick – Negativity

[rating=7.00] Over the course of a career, most artists and musicians go through multiple phases in their approach to the craft. The shifting nature of the business and the turbulent

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Holy Ghost! – Dynamics

[rating=5.00] Lifelong friends and native New Yorkers Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser have been kicking around the indie dance-pop scene for a few years now. Long enough to earn some

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The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars

The Civil Wars eponymous second record, likely exemplifying the irony of their band name better now than ever, is an intensely melancholy and yet genre-expanding contribution from a band we may never hear from again.

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