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These Arms Are Snakes

Tail Swallower & Dove

(Suicide Squeeze)   www.suicidesqueeze.com Angry, testosterone-fueled metal and hardcore is nothing new to the members of Seattle's These Arms Are Snakes. After all, they got their start more...

We The People

Too Much Noise [reissue]

(Sundazed Music)    www.sundazed.com     The legend of late-‘60s garage-rockers We The People rests squarely on the shoulders of a single song - the manic, psyche-dr more...

Pontiak

Sun on Sun

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   Van, Lain and Jennings Carney have names straight out of a Breece D'J Pancake story and hail from Blue Ridge farm country in Virginia. But more...

Charlie Louvin

Steps To Heaven

(Tompkins Square)   www.tompkinssquare.com     So what if Charlie Louvin's voice shows the ravages of age? Louvin has history and experience on his side. The 81-year-old has be more...

Lotus

Hammerstrike

(Sci Fidelity)   www.scifidelity.com     Lotus's most anticipated album to date, Hammerstrike (their sixth), showcases the Philly band's ability to use straight-forward organic more...

Jóhann Jóhannson

Fordlândia

(4AD) www.4ad.com Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson weaves a couple of primary themes through Fordlândia; as he explains in notes accompanying review copies, "If doomed an more...

Juana Molina

Un Dia

(Domino)   www.dominorecordco.us     With Un Dia, Juana Molina has moved far beyond the quiet beauty of albums like Segundo and Son and into something willfully abstract and in more...

Aterciopelados

Rio

(Nacional)   www.nacionalrecords.com       After 2006's dark yet sprightly Oye you'd be hard pressed to guess how much farther out Aterciopelados could take Colombia's a more...

Supersuckers

Get It Together

(Mid-Fi)   www.supersuckers.com     Twenty years can seem like an eternity but for some reason it seems like only yesterday Seattle's Supersuckers unleashed their fiery brand more...

Bloc Party

Intimacy

(Atlantic)   www.atlanticrecords.com       With its texturally advanced second record failure far behind them, Bloc Party move into CD three with its bruised egos now bol more...


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