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(Mercury/Decca)   www.deccarecords-us.com     "Hey Ma / the boys in body bags / coming home in pieces," sings Tim Booth with a jaunty swagger on the title track of James' first more...

(self-released)   www.loxsly.com     These post-Spoon Austin indie-rockers ease into their four-song followup to Maps and Organs with a spacey little ballad that feels somethi more...

(XL Recordings)   www.xl-recordings.com     Friendly Fires' debut is a damn fun ride that rockets off from the first track and, happily, does not relent. The UK trio-comprised more...

(Sub Pop) www.subpop.com   Soft Airplane's most successful tracks sound like they were recorded at the River Styx-or maybe on the banks of  Chad VanGaalen's personal purgatory. "No o more...

(Secretly Canadian)   www.secretlycanadian.com   On her second album, the Swedish singer-songwriter Frida Hyvönen applies her clear, dulcet voice and melodically muscular piano more...

(Abstract Logix)   www.abstractlogix.com     Defining the parameters for Jazz can be an elusive exercise at best.  Ever since the arrival of Fusion in the late ‘60s more...

(Quarterstick)   www.quarterstickrecords.com     On 2006's Garden Ruin, Calexico shifted gears: they downplayed their widescreen Southwestern sound in favor of more traditiona more...

(Forty Below Records) www.ericcornemusic.com   Having emerged from the same Toronto indie-rock milieu that spawned Broken Social Scene, Feist and various other well-regarded operatives, E more...

(Graveface)   www.graveface.com     Hospital Ships takes its name from a Flaming Lips song, and its emotion-laden vocal flutter from the Wayne Coyne playbook. Yet there's an e more...

(anticon)     www.anticon.com   One most approach an album released by the anitcon label by keeping in mind certain parameters. These include, but are not limited to: quirky v more...