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HELICOPTERS-"Sizin g Up Distance"

Feb 18, 2009, 2:53pm Berkeley Place
Those who send me submissions should know two things. First, I find most electronic-based rock sterile. It's just personal taste. To me, the genre hit its high point with Postal Service, largely due to Gibbard's brilliant lyrics. Second, if you send me a hard CD, I'm much more likely to stick with the submission than if you send me a zip file. I do so out of respect: If you've bothered to get something pressed, and spent money and effort on postage, I think you deserve a little more than the mass e-mailers who clog [...]
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