pitchfork friday, july 8

The avant-pop songwriter whose career has intersected with that of Ariel Pink focuses on melody and delivers a delightfully weird full-length.

Artist:John Maus

Album: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

Label: Ribbon Music/Upset the Rhythm

Pitchfork 8.4

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The avant-pop songwriter whose career has intersected with that of Ariel Pink focuses on melody and delivers a delightfully weird full-length.

Artist: Vybz Kartel

Album: Kingston Story

Label: Mixpak

Pitchfork 5.7

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UK bass label Hessle Audio offers its first full-length release: one disc of classic label cuts and another of new material.

Artist: Various Artists

Album: 116 & Rising

Label: Hessle

Pitchfork 7.2

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Prolific drone artist Sarah Lipstate comes into her own with her best and most distinctive record yet..

Artist: Noveller

Album: Glacial Glow

Label: Weird Forest / Saffron

Pitchfork 7.6

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Numero Group unearths a transfixing unreleased 1973 debut from a psychedelic soul band from Washington, D.C.

Artist: Father's Children

Album: Who's Gonna Save the World

Label: Numero Group

Pitchfork 7.6

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pitchfork thursday, july 7

Following on Seek Magic, his satisfying debut of hazy dream-pop, Memory Tapes' Dayve Hawk goes for more of a full-band sound with mixed results.

Artist: Memory Tapes

Album: Player Piano

Label:Carpark

Pitchfork 6.0

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UK producer's debut full-length inches closer to pop than his post-dubstep contemporaries James Blake or Jamie Woon.

Artist: SBTRKT

Album: SBTRKT

Label: Young Turks

Pitchfork 8.1

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The German electro-punks' first album in years is a curious thing indeed: a nostalgic work that evokes an idea of the future that turned out to be absurd.

Artist: Atari Teenage Riot

Album: Is This Hyperreal?

Label: Digital Hardcore

pitchfork 5.1

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Sonic collagist and Black Dice member's latest LP boasts some of his catchiest songs to date.

Artist: Eric Copeland

Album: Waco Taco Combo

Label: Escho

Pitchfork 7.5

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One-half of legendary indie-rap duo Cannibal Ox follows 2008's Dueces Wild with an album that briefly features CanOx partner Vordul Mega.

Artist: Vast Aire

Album: OX 2010: A Street Odyssey

Label: Fat Beats / Man Bites Dog

Pitchfork 4.6

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pitchfork wednesday, july 6

Producer behind the recent reemergence of Dipset and Cam'ron strikes out on his own, making lush instrumentals with his own fully developed aesthetic.

Artist: AraabMuzik

Album: Electronic Dream

Label: Duke

Pitchfork 8.2

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The name of this Austin trio has changed, but their delayed-gratification summer vibes have only become more refined and elemental on this welcome debut LP.

Artist: Pure X

Album: Pleasure

Label: Acéphale / Light Lodge

Pitchfork 7.6

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The likable Detroit rapper's debut on Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music features West, The-Dream, Lupe Fiasco, Wiz Khalifa, Pusha T, and more

Artist: Big Sean

Album: Finally Famous

Label: Def Jam / G.O.O.D.

Pitchfork 6.1

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The tirelessly touring Iowa indie rockers follow 2010's sprawiing Sad Sour Future with a sharper, more streamlined album.

Artist: The Poison Control Center

Album: Stranger Ballet

Label: Afternoon

Pitchfork 7.6

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Mixing gothic mysticism and hazy dream pop, Gardens & Villa step out with a promising full-length debut.

Artist: Gardens & Villa

Album: Gardens & Villa

Label: Secretly Canadian

Pitchfork 6.8

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pitchfork tuesday, july 5

On his latest album for Warp, the legendary sonic architect teams with poet Rick Holland for an inconsistent but occasionally brilliant set.

Artist: Brian Eno / Rick Holland

Album: Drums Between the Bells

Label: Warp

Pitchfork 6.6

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Prolific Princeton, N.J., artist releases his debut full-length, which works as a polite companion to his Cyanide Sisters EP.

Artist: Com Truise

Album: Galactic Melt

Label: Ghostly

Pitchfork 7.3

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The Portland duo's second DFA album fuses a utopian concept with nervy, spastic electro-funk.

Artist: YACHT

Album: Shangri-La

Label: DFA

Pitchfork 6.5

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The debut from this Philadelphia indie pop group owes a debt to the gentle psych-pop of the Elephant 6 collective

 

Artist: Brown Recluse

Album: Evening Tapestry

Label: Slumberland

Pitchfork 7.4

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Ernest Gonzales' debut LP as Mexicans With Guns aims for the cinematic but lacks nuance and pacing.

Artist: Mexicans With Guns

Album: Ceremony

Label: Innovative Leisure

Pitchfork 5.5

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pitchfork friday, july 1

Freddie Gibbs teams up with East Coast producer Statik Selektah to record an EP in a single day.

Artist: Statik Selektah / Freddie Gibbs

Album: Lord Giveth, Lord Taketh Away EP

Label: CTE / Showoff

Pitchfork 7.2

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Remastered and reissued by Dischord, the Baltimore post-hardcore band's long-out-of-print eighth record is a good entry point to its singular catalog.

Artist: Lungfish

Album: The Unanimous Hour

Label: Dischord

Pitchfork 8.1

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Created outside any sort of label system, the UK grime godfather's latest is his first album distributed by Big Dada since 2007's Playtime Is Over.

Artist: Wiley

Album: 100% Publishing

Label: Big Dada

Pitchfork 7.5

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The death-obsessed everyman's comedy LP is typically indulgent and frequently hilarious.

Artist: Norm Macdonald

Album: Me Doing Standup

Label:Comedy Central

Pitchfork 6.5

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The Japanese 11-piece's first readily available release consists of two dramatic 24-minute tracks, featuring ex-Swans singer Jarboe and noise lord Merzbow.

Artist: Vampillia

Album: Alchemic Heart

Label: Important

Pitchfork 8.0

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