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Shearwater - Animal Life →
Recently started listening to this band who have been going for some while without me really noticing.
The music isn’t a million miles from the Americana-tinged indie-rock of The National, but the vocals are something else. Over the top, certainly, but packed full of melodrama.
Love it.
July 2012
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David Grubbs - An Optinist Declines (edit) →
Just listening to this track (the full unedited version), it’s an ace, drone-y piece of work. Minimal and crunchy. The album, An Optimist Notes the Dusk is superb. Kinda Sonic Youth-y in its melodies, but also flits between improv minimalism and constrained raucousness.
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June 2012
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Speaking of Gorky’s - as I did in my last post - I...
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