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(Nonesuch)   www.nonesuch.com   Next to John Adams, he's America's most noted composer who's still got a pulse and like Adams, he's saddled with the tag of "minimalism." But being a more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   For its bloated 27-song track list and hour-and-16-minutes running time, Cosmopolis feels surprisingly concise. What could-and probably ought to be-a les more...

(Kelp Monthly/Marriage Records)   www.kelplunacy.com     The ultra-prolific Karl Blau's newest album, the pun-ishly titled Nature's Got Away, expertly keeps one foot in the s more...

(Urban Jungle Records)   www.urbanjungle.com.br   Recently released in the U.S. Télépathique's Last Time first crawled out of the primordial soup and onto South Ame more...

(Omni Recording Corporation)     www.worldwentdown.com/omni     Hoyt Axton's 1969 LP My Griffin Is Gone, originally released to little notice on Columbia, belongs to tha more...

(Jagjaguwar)     www.jagjaguwar.com Parts & Labor's sound is often compared to fellow label-mates and Brooklyn residents, experimental noise and drone fetishists Oneida. But th more...

(Anticon)   www.anticon.com       Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow makes stuff sputter, singe, blur and belch on this, his debut solo thing.  I say "stuff" and "t more...

(Hi Fi Recordings)   www.musicpubco.net   The bittersweet pop sensibility that often made it hard to tell Todd Rundgren's early hits apart from Carole King's is nowhere to be found more...

(iheartcomix)   www.iheartcomix.com     It's kind of a bummer when timing blows a band's shot at the big time. Boys Noize will always be the band that came stateside after Just more...

(Blind Pig)   www.blindpigrecords.com     Blues guitarist Albert Cummings isn't as well known as some of his peers, but in the decade since his self-released debut album, he sh more...