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Daily Disc: Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam
Strawberry Jam, Animal Collective Domino The Collective ’s sound, especially on tracks like Peacebone, is almost as random as the names of the group’s members: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin and Geologist. Of course the bandmates have real names, but they...(read more)..
The Ampersand
Publication date 2007-09-13 02:30:00 ·
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Daily Disc: The Go! Team, Proof of Youth
Proof of Youth, The Go! Team Secret City Records After the raging success of 2004s Thunder Lighting Strike and its accompanying sweat-drenched tour, Brighton, U.K.-based sextet The Go! Team have returned with another album of eclectically arranged and...(read more)..
The Ampersand
Publication date 2007-09-12 03:00:00 ·
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Daily Disc: Kanye West, Graduation
Graduation, Kanye West Roc-a-Fella Graduation , the weakest of the three pioneering Kanye West CDs still contains Stronger and Can’t Tell Me Nothing , the year’s two hottest singles, and Homecoming , an infectious, almost Cuban-inspired duet with Coldplay’s...(read more)..
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Publication date 2007-09-11 01:36:00 ·
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Daily Disc: Super Furry Animals, Hey Venus!
Hey Venus!, Super Furry Animals Rough Trade While Super Furry Animals have never focused on a single species of song, Hey Venus! is as close as they’ve come to walking in a straight line. Sunshine pop is the default setting, although yellow comes in many...(read more)..
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Publication date 2007-09-05 22:43:00 ·
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Daily Disc: Yung Joc, Hustlenomics
Hustlenomics, Yung Joc Bad Boy South / Warner If you are unfamiliar with the marketing term "hustlenomics," Georgia rapper Yung Joc provides a helpful primer at the beginning of his new album of the same name. "Its like selling Mercedes back to the Benz,"...(read more)..
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Publication date 2007-09-04 22:41:00 ·
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Daily Disc: Manu Chao, La Radiolina
La Radiolina, Manu Chao Warner While at the dawn of the 20th century social utopians held high hopes that Esperanto would become the international language and usher in a new era of peace and inter-cultural understanding, the language has been losing...(read more)..
The Ampersand
Publication date 2007-09-01 01:42:00 ·
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Daily Disc: Josh Ritter, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, Josh Ritter, Sony BMG Theres a fine line between being ambitious and going bananas. Josh Ritter has one foot on each side of it. Ritters last album, The Animal Years , was an outstanding work that cross-bred...(read more)..
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Publication date 2007-08-30 04:16:00 ·
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Daily Disc: Rilo Kiley, Under the Blacklight
Under the Blacklight, Rilo Kiley Warner Bros. Under the Blacklight is the sound of a former indie band giving the finger to expectations. While much of the Rilo Kiley fan base was wary of the small shifts in direction on the last album, More Adventurous...(read more)..
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Publication date 2007-08-29 00:12:00 ·
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Daily Disc: Mendelson Joe, Everyone Needs a Pimp
Everyone Needs a Pimp, Mendelson Joe Pacemaker A self-described "sexygenarian," Mendelson Joe is also an artist, musician and multi-platform iconoclast. Now holed up in a cabin near Elmsdale, Ont., Joe spent years in Toronto raging against pollution,...(read more)..
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Publication date 2007-08-25 01:04:00 ·
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Daily Disc: The New Pornographers, Challengers
Challengers, The New Pornographers Matador The New Pornographers have never sounded so refined as on their latest disc, which may have been a dodgy move for a band of such raw, power-pop strengths had they not produced tunes this charming. Lead Pornographers...(read more)..
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Publication date 2007-08-24 00:56:00 ·
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