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2011年8月29日 星期一
2011年8月26日 星期五
2011年8月18日 星期四
2011年8月15日 星期一
2011年8月11日 星期四
2011年8月10日 星期三
2011年8月8日 星期一
2011年8月5日 星期五
pitchfork friday, august 5
Three recent Will Oldham releases highlight how the prolific folk-not-folksinger has managed to make inconsistency part of his artistic identity.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney / Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Phantom Family Halo| There Is No God / Must Be Blind / The Mindeater |Drag City / Sophomore Lounge | Pitchfork 7.0 / 6.2 / 5.8
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Thee Silver Mt. Zionist's solo debut recalls John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
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Efrim Manuel Menuck | Plays "High Gospel" | Constellation | Pitchfork 7.6
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On his Polow Da Don-produced King of Hearts, the endearlngly romantic vocalist makes a bid for a higher level of R&B-world recognition.
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Lloyd| King of Hearts | Interscope / Zone 4 Inc. | Pitchfork 7.9
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The L.A. transplant's Kompakt debut LP collects 12 tech-house instrumentals, which can act as a form of comedown comfort food.
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John Tejada | Parabolas | Pitchfork 7.1
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Young UK crooner Alex Clare's The Lateness of the Hour, featuring production from Diplo and Switch, comes off like a Ray LaMontagne record with beats.
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Alex Clare | The Lateness of the Hour | Island | Pitchfork 3.7
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2011年8月3日 星期三
pitchfork thursday, august 4
A few months after chart-topper The King Is Dead, the Oregon indie folk band's new eight-song EP includes covers of Leonard Cohen and Fruit Bats.
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The Decemberists | iTunes Session | Capitol | Pitchfork 6.9
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On album five, Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard's power-pop band Boston Spaceships take a stab at a classic double LP
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Boston Spaceships | Let It Beard | Guided By Voices, Inc | Pitchfork 6.0
Sci-fi-friendly Detroit garage rockers Human Eye's focus on extraterrestrials has finally been matched by an equally exacting focus on music
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Human Eye | They Came From the Sky | Sacred Bones | Pitchfork 7.7
On his Body EP, unidentified New York-based R&B imploder Autre Ne Veut pushes messily human pop exclamations to the forefront.
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Autre Ne Veut | Body EP | Hippos in Tanks | Pitchfork 7.5
Philly rap duo Chiddy Bang'smixtape pairs a disregard for language with indie-baiting production.
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Chiddy Bang | Peanut Butter and Swelly | Datpiff.com / Illroots / The CMSN | Pitchfork 2.1
2011年8月2日 星期二
pitchfork wednesday, august 3
This record, initially issued in a small run in the early 80s, is richly evocative of the natural world and holds up as an immersive ambient experience.
Artist: Jürgen Müller
Album: Science of the Sea
Label: Digitalis
Pitchfork 8.4
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This collection of previously unreleased late-90s Screaming Trees recordings offers an epitaph for a band that died of natural causes.
Artist: Screaming Trees
Album: Last Words: The Final Recordings
Label: Sunyata
Pitchfork 5.7
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The Portland duo's beguiling Captured Tracks debut LP bears traces of virtually every bleakly gliding descendant of Kraftwerk's original synth-pop grooves.
Artist: Soft Metals
Album: Soft Metals
Label: Captured Tracks
Pitchfork 7.5
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UK indie pop lifers team with Orange Juice's Edwyn Collins, the Cribs' Ryan Jarman, and others for their first new album since 2005.
Artist: Comet Gain
Album: Howl of the Lonely Crowd
Label: What's Your Rupture? / Fortuna Pop!
Pitchfork 7.3
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Assembled by Thrill Jockey and Bamba himself, this compilation spans some of Mali's diverse musical traditions, updated in the 1970s with guitars and organs.
Artist: Sorry Bamba
Album: Volume One 1970-1979
Label: Thrill Jockey
Pitchfork 7.7
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2011年8月1日 星期一
pitchfork tuesday, august 2
Spencer Krug's project away from Sunset Rubdown and the on-hiatus Wolf Parade continues to obsess over the properties of specific instruments.
Artist: Moonface
Album: Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped
Label: Jagjaguwar
Pitchfork 6.1
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With new verses from almost every top Clansman, Wu-Tang's latest isn't an odds-and-sods LP, but it isn't a proper follow-up to 2007's 8 Diagrams, either.
Artist: Wu-Tang
Album: Legendary Weapons
Label: E1
Pitchfork 5.0
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The more you know about the new solo project from William Bennett, founding member of UK noise group Whitehouse, the deeper and richer the music sounds.
Artist: Cut Hands
Album: Afro Noise I
Label:Very Friendly / 101 Distribution
Pitchfork 7.8
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William Elliott Whitmore, a banjo-toting folkie raised on hardcore, sings about hammers, steamboats, and dying in a deep, gnarled, energizing voice.
Artist: William Elliott Whitmore
Album: Field Songs
Label: Anti-
Pitchfork 7.5
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The Brooklyn dream-pop veterans recruit the Antibalas horns, Jeff Buckley drummer Matt Johnson, and members of Bon Iver and Antony and the Johnsons.
Artist: Elysian Fields
Album: Last Night on Earth
Label: Vicious Circle
Pitchfork 5.9
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2011年7月31日 星期日
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The Archers' searing 1993 debut still stands as a high-water mark in 90s indie rock, and is augmented on this deluxe reissue with a key EP and singles.
Artist: Archers of Loaf
Album: Icky Mettle
Label: Merge
Pitchfork 9.0
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Amid attention from mainstream hip-hop, the Glasgow producer's latest shows he has improved markedly since 2009 debut Butter.
Artist: Hudson Mohawke
Album: Satin Panthers EP
Label: Warp
Pitchfork 7.6
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The Rogue Wave frontman makes a solo album and captures some of what made his main band's early records interesting.
Artist: Release the Sunbird
Album: Come Back to Us
Label: Brushfire
Pitchfork 6.2
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This album of bright, hymn-like drone is mesmerizing but also oddly challenging, with constantly shifting textures that invite steady attention.
Artist: Nicholas Szczepanik
Album: Please Stop Loving Me
Label: Streamline
Pitchfork 7.8
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The rapper's first album for Rhymesayers (and third overall) zeroes in on the drudgery of being broke, kicking addictions, and getting over ex-girlfriends.
Artist: Grieves
Album: Together/Apart
Label: Rhymesayers
Pitchfork 5.2
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2011年7月28日 星期四
pitchfork friday, july 29
The Odd Future project's 2010 album has been re-shuffled and remastered with two additional tracks for release on Fat Possum.
Artist: MellowHype
Album: BlackenedWhite
Label: Fat Possum
Pitchfork 8.0
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Artist: Motor City Drum Ensemble
Album: DJ-Kicks
Label: !K7
Pitchfork 8.0
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For its follow-up to 2009 debut Rejoicer, the Brooklyn trio dives headlong into the sweeping erotic confusion of 1990s alt-rock's dreamier set.
Artist: Grooms
Album: Prom
Label: Kanine
Pitchfork 7.0
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Latest album from the Kansas City, Missouri, multimedia art project playfully mixes disco and attitude-heavy electro pop.
Artist: Ssion
Album: Bent
Pitchfork 6.8
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Hyped UK band tries to recapture the glory days of Britpop and fails rather miserably.
Artist: Viva Brother
Album: Famous First Words
Label: Geffen
Pitchfork 2.9
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2011年7月27日 星期三
pitchfork tuesday, july 28
The classic 1971 LP, a landmark for Gaye and pop music at large, is reissued in a deluxe package including an early mix and demos.
Artist: Marvin Gaye
Album: What's Going On [40th Anniversary Edition]
Label: Universal / Motown
Pitchfork 9.5
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Artist: Philip Selway
Album: Running Blind EP
Label: Nonesuch / Bella Union
Pitchfork 5.8
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The New Jersey-based founder of the labels Troubleman Unlimited, Italians Do It Better, and Perseo steps out with an atmospheric post-disco EP.
Artist: 5.8
Album: Capricorn Rising EP
Label: Italians Do It Better
Pitchfork 7.1
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Bristol-via-Manchester bass producer Baobinga's first LP on his Build label is crammed with so many collaborations he shares the artist credit.
Artist: Baobinga and Co.
Album: Joint Ventures
Label: Build
Pitchfork 7.3
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Rather than embrace her techno past or more fully flesh out the mixed-genre approach of 2009's Adaptations, Ada goes soft pop on her new LP.
Artist: Ada
Album: Meine Zarten Pfoten
Label: Pampa
Pitchfork 5.1
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2011年7月26日 星期二
pitchfork wednesday, july 27
Unlike Dedication 2 or Da Drought 3, Wayne's new mixtape sounds like the work of a mortal-- who raps very well.
Artist: Lil Wayne
Album: Sorry 4 the Wait
Pitchfork 7.1
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Artist:Tiger & Woods
Album: Through the Green
Label: Running Back
Pitchfork 8.2
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Familiarity mostly works in the L.A. indie popsters' favor on their taut, tuneful second album, a song cycle about a relationship gone awry.
Artist: Army Navy
Album: The Last Place
Label: Fever Zone
Pitchfork 7.0
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Montreal singer-songwriter works with scene vet Sam Shalabi and others in the Constellation stable on an album of colorful psych-folk.
Artist: Molly Sweeney
Album: Gold Rings and Fur Pelts
Label: Syren
Pitchfork 5.8
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This Bay Area duo is another entry in the post-Animal Collective dream-pop stakes, with swirling electronics and songs about water and sleep.
Artist: Painted Palms
Album: Canopy EP
Label: Secretly Canadian
Pitchfork 5.2
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2011年7月25日 星期一
pitchfork thursday, july 26
Tom Krell follows 2010's terrific Love Remains with a low-key, four-song release that affirms there is something special about this project.
Artist: How to Dress Well
Album: Just Once EP
Label: Love Letters Ink
Pitchfork 7.8
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Sweden's Little Dragon have a distinct and immediately alluring style, and on their third album, they double down on their futuristic pop sound.
Artist:Little Dragon
Album: Ritual Union
Label: Peacefrog
Pitchfork 6.7
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Hip-hop supergroup comprising Brooklyn's Sean Price, Detroit's Guilty Simpson, and Black Milk finally releases its long-gestating debut.
Artist: Random Axe
Album: Random Axe
Label: Duck Down
Pitchfork 6.6
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The Portland-bred space-rockers and Long Beach-based vibe merchant come together for a 40-minute Austin jam session, with trippy results.
Artist: Eternal Tapestry / Sun Araw
Album: Night Gallery
Label: Thrill Jockey
Pitchfork 7.0
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The Ed Banger-affiliated French producer's debut album is packed with nasty-sounding, repetition-heavy grindhouse electro.
Artist: SebastiAn
Album: Total
Label: Big Beat / Because / Ed Banger
Pitchfork 5.6
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2011年7月24日 星期日
pitchfork monday, july 25
The Horrors tone down the experiments of Primary Colours for a record with obvious stylistic debts and impeccable taste.
Artist: The Horrors
Album: Skying
Label: XL
Pitchfork 7.5
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A new EP featuring three original tracks and two remixes from the production duo behind a number of eclectic and forward-thinking mixes.
Artist:Nguzunguzu
Album: Timesup EP
Label: Fade to Mind
Pitchfork 7.6
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A cosmopolitan approach to making music yields kaleidoscopic results on this atmospheric dream-pop debut.
Artist: La Big Vic
Album: Actually
Label: Underwater Peoples
Pitchfork 7.3
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Long-time UK producer infuses his tricky beats with in-vogue vocal samples, which is both good and bad.
Artist: Machinedrum
Album: Room(s)
Label: Planet Mu
Pitchfork 6.6
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Debut 4AD EP from the L.A. brothers and Prince acolytes turns out to be a maximalist grotesquerie of minimal sounds.
Artist: Inc
Album: 3 EP
Label: 4AD
Pitchfork 4.8
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