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Hot Disc: Brasstronaut, Mt. Chimaera

By Eli Yarhi | March 3rd, 2010 | 4:30 pm

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Consider the mythical chimaera. It has the body of a lion, a serpent’s head for a tail, and a goat’s head jutting from its back. Weird, right? But considering its relevance to Brasstronaut’s debut full-length, Mt. Chimaera (Unfamiliar Records), it’s not all Classics Club geekdom. Grazing and gobbling up genres in its path with cunning sensibility, Brasstronaut manages to fuse pop, electronica, klezmer (yup, pokey clarinet) and jazz into one highbred take. Every moment of Mt. Chimaera is fresh—dashing your anticipations at each unexpected turn. Read more »

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Hot Disc: Woodhands, Remorsecapade

By Eli Yarhi | January 28th, 2010 | 3:30 pm

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We don’t recommend you sit at home and listen to Woodhands’ Remorsecapade (Paper Bag). Get out and request their songs when you’re at a sweaty dance party—you’ll bounce along with this record’s front loaded punch and intensity.

Woodhands is Dan Werb and Paul Banwatt, an inditronica drum and keytar synth based in Toronto who rock in both drollery and sensibility. On Remoresecapade you’re either having far too much fun, or on the verge of bumming out. On tunes like “CP24,” Werb lets you know that “I’m gonna’ be on CP24, pointing sixteen-hundred roman candles at your door.” It’s relentless, it’s spastic, entirely danceable and lyrically odd. Read more »

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Hot Disc: Four Tet, There Is Love In You

By Eli Yarhi | January 26th, 2010 | 2:06 pm

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Kieran Hebden first started releasing upbeat patchwork productions as Four Tet back in 1999 in order to find a creative outlet beyond his post-rock outfit, Fridge. Dialogue and four subsequent full-lengths constantly shifted personality while staying within the indie-electronic category of digital looping, slicing and pasting.

On his latest outing, There Is Love In You (Domino), Hebden shows that his work remains as richly syncopated, dynamic and elemental as it’s always been. This time around though, Four Tet plays partial to arching soundscapes over the hip-hop inflected basement-nerd tunes previously offered. Read more »

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Hot Disc: The Magnetic Fields, Realism

By Eli Yarhi | January 22nd, 2010 | 10:30 am

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Always experimenting, but consistently sincere, you can always trust The Magnetic Fields aren’t just playing a one off. In the past they pulled out all the stops on 69 Love Songs, an album so comprehensive it spread across three discs and many, many inconsolable hours of your life. Then came Distortion, a much different tune, paying homage to shoegaze drone-fuzz and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Now on Realism, The Magnetic Fields’ third Nonesuch release, singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt takes the band into ersatz production on what is ostensibly a variety-folk concept album.

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Hot disc: Woodpigeon, Die Stadt Muzikanten

By Eli Yarhi | January 12th, 2010 | 2:00 pm

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Photography by Lindsey Baker

Photography by Lindsey Baker

Woodpigeon is often compared to Sufjan Stevens and Belle & Sebastian, which could have something to do with what follows. Woodpigeon’s third LP, Die Stadt Muzikanten (Boompa), offers some of the happiest sad songs we’ve heard in a while. Writing in a small Berlin apartment, Calgarian songwriter Mark Andrew Hamilton started “thinking in terms of couples, of people coming and going, of walls and windows,” he says. Read more »

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Depeche Mode: Sounds of the Universe

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | April 22nd, 2009 | 3:38 pm

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Anton Corbijn, 2009

Anton Corbijn, 2009

Maybe Depeche Mode (depechemode.com) got tired of Brooklyn kids biting their sounds. Maybe they ran out of cash to keep stocked in black turtlenecks. Maybe they, like Christophe Decarnin at Balmain, are going to cash in on the ‘80s revival as long as there’s still cash to go around. Whatever the reason, we’re happy the super trio is still making music in the 21st century–until we actually listen to the music and then we feel doubly sad. There’s the romantic sad: the existential lyrics, those gloomy Moogs! It’s dance music for partnerless wallflowers. And then there’s the nostalgic sad: didn’t they used to sound, well, exactly the same, but better back then? Read more »

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The Juan MacLean: The Future Will Come

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | April 14th, 2009 | 3:16 pm

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Photography by Sebastian Mylnarski

Photography by Sebastian Mylnarski

Happy belated Easter: LCD Soundsystem, the “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down,” piano-tronic crew pronounced dead last year, is risen. No, James Murphy isn’t back on the synthesizer; instead, he’s producing his own reincarnation in the form of The Juan MacLean (myspace.com/thejuanmaclean).
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Peter Bjorn and John: Living Thing

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | March 31st, 2009 | 3:02 pm

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You think you don’t know who Peter Bjorn and John (myspace.com/peterbjornandjohn) are (three of the disciples? It’s been a while since Sunday school) but you’re wrong. You know their wondrous one hit, “Young Folks,” a peachy jam of a three-year-old tune. YouTube it if you doubt the claim: unless you spent the summer of ’07 under an indie-rock ban, you were whistling the then one-year-old “Young Folks.” You, Kanye, Gossip Girl and probably your cocker spaniel, too.
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