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Grizzly Bear attack! Shields Up! Win tickets! Rahhhr!

Sep 12, 2012, 8:31am Chromewaves

Barbara Anastacio For a band that's made their name on stately, carefully crafted chamber pop, Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear are surprisingly polarizing. Their proponents find the intricacy of their harmonies, arrangements, and musicianship exquisite while their naysayers just find them dull. I actually lean more towards the latter than the former, but temper it with a healthy amount of respect for what they do and how they do it. So with that frame of reference established, take it for what it's worth when I say their new album Shields [...]

• Cat Power - Manhattan
• of Montreal - Sails, Hermaphroditic
• Savoir Adore - Regalia

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Artist:	Cat Power
Title:	Manhattan
Link Text:	Cat Power - “Manhattan”
File Name:	Cat_Power-Manhattan.mp3
Genre:	Alternative
Year:	2012

Artist:	of Montreal
Title:	Sails, Hermaphroditic
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Pop

Artist:	Savoir Adore
Title:	Regalia
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Pop Electronic

Review of Beach House’s Bloom

May 10, 2012, 8:35am Chromewaves

Liz Flyntz If we can regard Beach House literally as their namesake, which is to say as a holiday getaway, a reliably stolid place to escape from the real world, then the amount of adoration they've gotten for largely sticking to their skeletal formula through four albums now is understandable. Their fans don't want them to reinvent themselves with each outing; they want that comforting blanket of Victoria Legrand's narcoleptic vocals and whirring keyboard interwoven with Alex Scally's languid slide guitar, and across their first two records - their 2006 self-titled debut and [...]

• Beach House - Myth
• Twin Shadow - Five Seconds
• Twin Shadow - Slow

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Artist:	Beach House
Title:	Myth
Link Text:	Beach House - “Myth”
File Name:	Beach_House-Myth.mp3
Bitrate:	320 kbps
Genre:	Alternative

Artist:	Twin Shadow
Title:	Five Seconds
Link Text:	Twin Shadow - “Five Seconds”
File Name:	TwinShadow-FiveSeconds.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Year:	2012

Artist:	Twin Shadow
Title:	Slow
Link Text:	Twin Shadow - “Slow”
File Name:	twin_shadow-slow.mp3
Bitrate:	320 kbps
Genre:	Alternative