Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Dappled sunlight
and faint stale smells of beer
as the morning comes to consciousness
beneath an alpine sky

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Electrelane - Rock It to the Moon

Debut album

Length: 73:55

Released: April 30, 2001

Genre: post-rock, indie rock, instrumental

"just the way a debut album should be... utterly focused [and] stripped of all extraneous flab."^[7]
A lot of things could be like debut albums...

In other news, for Muslims, angels walk the Earth tonight--the 27th night of Ramadan, the Night of Power. Around 1.6 billion Muslims inhabit the planet. 1.6 billion.

Though you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping you and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable:

I simply am not there.

 
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Ratatat - Classics

reposting because you guys don't seem to like ratatat do you
that's right you don't. ratatat sucks.

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'n

The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead

Cool stuff that needs to be heard more often

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'n

Broken Bells - Broken Bells

4/5 Cocks

Broken Bells, on the face of it, is anything but remarkable. The singer-songwriter/Danger Mouse team-up format has born such fruit as the psychedelic soul-pop of Gnarls Barkley to the transcontinental orgy of singer-songwriters and Danger Mouse that was Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night of The Soul, it's been an undeniably successful formula, or at the very least a fun one. On Broken Bells, it's Danger Mouse and James Mercer of the Shins teaming up this time.

The first thing you'll notice, from the opening notes of The High Road, is that it's a very pretty album, something that could go very wrong in the hands of less-talented musicians. But it's not empty prettiness, an affliction which affects a lot of indie pop/rock. Apart from Citizen, which slops into a spineless mess, from start to finish the prettiness has something going for it that isn't just, well, prettiness. And Mongrel Heart and The Mall & Misery, the two closing tracks, kind of rock, actually.

-K

New Ratatat

So Ratatat has their fourth album leaked already, and fuck music reviews.

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