February 2012
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Review: Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (2012, Matador)
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By Justin
“Hold my hand, I am afraid.”
These are the first words spoken on the second track of Perfume Genius’ second album, Put Your Back N 2 It. While it’s easy to use lyrics like this to connect the album to its artist’s haunting sound, it has almost become too easy to describe him as such. So...
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Review: Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa (2012, Secretly Canadian)
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By Alex Damien Jurado’s music is great at making you envision long road trips through dense forests and there’s no lack of this feeling on Maraqopa. It’s a pretty sonically ambitious album as it is not as catchy as 2010’s Saint Bartlett. Luckily, Maraqopa makes up for catchiness with a lush, dreamy sound and...
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Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers - Onwards...
A Place To Bury Strangers - Onwards To The Wall EP (2012, Dead Oceans)
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-By Justin
A Place To Bury Strangers last released an album in 2009. It feels like a long time now, and much too long for a band of this quality to release a sequel to the excellent Exploding Head. It’s been almost as long since we’ve heard legitimate new material from the band either. Luckily,...
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Album Review: The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever...
The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know (2012, FatCat)
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On each consecutive album, The Twilight Sad have tried a different variation of their sound. No One Can Ever Know utilizes less guitar and feedback for a cleaner, more rhythm focused sound. Long gone is the is the bleak, almost post-rock sound of their debut. This change in sound has sapped them of a lot of their strengths as...
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Album Review: of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl, 2012)
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By Alex
On Paralytic Stalks of Montreal (Kevin Barnes) deliver paranoid confessionals with songs whose arrangements change at a manic pace. This isn’t always a bad thing. Paralytic Stalks is an album created by Barnes for Barnes, and one can tell by the length of most of the tracks on it. Barnes doesn’t want you to listen....
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Album Review: Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (2012, Jagjaguwar)
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-By Justin
Sharon Van Etten’s exponential growth as an artist has been staggering. While she has always been a great songwriter, her musicianship has just recently begun to evolve at the same level. 2010’s Epic was an emotionally powerful album that showed a massive amount of potential in an all too short package. On...
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Album Review: Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die (2012, Interscope)
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By Alex
Lana Del Rey’s debut album, Born to Die has finally arrived after months of think pieces and backlash and the such. I’m not going to try and write a think piece here, too many people have done that already. After having listened to Born to Die so many times, I can’t say that I’ve particularly enjoyed it. Which honestly makes me a bit...