Fever Ray - Dry & Dusty (Mute 2009) Fever Ray - Fever Ray / Mute Winter Leak Season '09 was just gearing up in late December when this record seeped through the cracks to find its way to an audience that had largely been caught sleeping. Rightfully so, too: Here was an album due in late March that shouldn't have had any fanfare for at least a month or two, yet there it was seeping slowly onto the Internet purporting to showcase the feminine side of The Knife [...]
Dälek - Street Diction (Ipecac 2009) Dälek - Gutter Tactics / Ipecac Things were pretty different when we last reviewed New Jersey duo Dälek in early 2007. We were in different cities, we were under a different president, we were still open to the idea of a certain neon-imbued monstrosity that's now completely out of control (Hey there, Elektrobär ). Landscapes and soundscapes alike have shifted paradigms; it's a new world out here, and it's probably for the better. Probably. Of course, some [...]
Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds (Bpitch Control 2009) Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself / Bpitch Control It's true that I had this review mentally written several days ago, that the words had already formed into complete sentences into whole paragraphs into a general linear train of thought. There was a swoon there for a minute, a genuine burst of unabashed positivity about the whole affair, the hopeful undercurrent that ran through the melodies of "Helen of Troy" or "You Are the Worst Thing in the World" [...]
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Domino 2009) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion / Domino It seems both obvious and appropriate that Animal Collective's ninth album is being released on the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, especially considering the fever pitch of excitement currently surrounding both the Collective and our newly minted 44th president... But something about this release has been bothering me since I was awaken to its immense hype by both Pitchfork and The Chicago Sun-Times after a deep autumnal slumber. It [...]
Capillary Action - Paperweights (Natural Selection 2008) Capillary Action - So Embarrassing / Natural Selection After posting a review on Capsule's Blue a few weeks back, I was contacted by Jonathan Pfeffer regarding the new Capillary Action album you see here. I was sure I had remembered the name, but So Embarrassing was not an album I had heard. "I thought our album would be right up your alley," he said. "We've been touring up a storm behind this record so any [...]
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