Exploring similar landscapes to Frank Zappa -minus the virtuoso elements - Liverpool-?based a.P.A.t.T. are a bewildering and completely original two to seven piece band, utilizing all available genres to create a daft and beautiful music. Black and White Mass sets a new standard in home entertainment, featuring some of a.P.A.t.T.'s most accessible compositions to date, whilst still retaining an element of surprise. Some bands are just damned impossible to classify: a.P.A.t.T. are a (usually) 6-?piece   [ read more ]

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Hornet Leg, the new Northwest fuzz harbingers in tune with the 'heavy,' identify the primal symbolisms of blood as fear, death and paradoxically, life. 'The Blood Trilogy' condenses the full length concept album into three potent tracks of pure unsentimental, raw energy. Expertly engineered by Calvin Johnson at the Dub Narcotic Studios, these recordings are an immediate grab to the throat but leave a haunting grip to the ear. The arterial guitar and voice of Chris Sutton (Dub Narcotic, C.O.C.O) is the jugul   [ read more ]

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Live, their music is total spastic bliss. A complete sugar high freak out. Smiles all around - like Christmas morning, riding roller coasters, triple dips. But it's not easy to emulate the spirit and energy of the Baltimore foursome's live show on CD. Yet the outcome of this, their second release, truly embodies the spirit of the band's live gigs. Complex yet pop, raw yet refined, heavy yet sweet, Ice Cream Spiritua' needs to be blasted while standing.

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The War on Drugs push the boundaries of a quintessentially American music. Guitars soar and colorful clouds roll past whatever sun or moon you are cruising under, through whatever old bar you are reveling within. The War On Drugs point toward a tireless horizon in the distance that you will never reach but are compelled to chase. It's a tail you've chased your whole life and will continue chasing because your life is more poetic when you are moving toward it - your cinematography is more rich. Wagonwheel   [ read more ]

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The tragic virtue of folk music is its earnestness. That is, while honesty and openness are clearly good things in many contexts, too many songs about the need to save the rainforests or spreading your love around can quickly wear on the nerves. Raleigh's Bowerbirds, a couple plus a friend who have just put out their debut album, manage to keep the virtue without any tragedy. An accordion, a big thumpy bass drum (marching band-style), some pretty guitar that echoes into the far reaches of what sounds like a   [ read more ]

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The longest running punk, indie and rock compilation in history.

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Just as there are albums that artists were born to make, there are albums that labels were born to release. Waiting for the Sunrise is one of those albums for both David Vandervelde and Secretly Canadian. Upon first laying the needle down, the listener is greeted by a warm wash of sounds that seems to breeze in from decades back. Vandervelde's singular voice emerges from the drums and keys with 'When the morning comes, I will be fine, I will be fine, I will be fine' and you're pretty damn sure he wil   [ read more ]

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Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion is a brilliant live performance collaboration between Thee Oh Sees and Director Brian Lee Hughes. The project resulted in a dual disc DVD/CD featuring live performances filmed and recorded not on stages, but at a variety of haunting scenic sites in and around San Francisco. The film is also studded with dozens of stories and whatnots filmed during their 4 day adventure.

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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! The Donkeys are more than simply four California beach bums who love to surf, drink beer, and jam as the sun sets over the Pacific. If their back story contains those top-down cars and suntanned utopian surf tableaus, it also contains the malaise and the escape fantasies familiar to all suburban kids of the 80s and 90s. Miraculously, the music manages to communicate both moods at once. Any expression of existential ennui - 'is this all there is?' - is soothed by an unrushed   [ read more ]

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Why not call it GASOLINE or DEATH? Because MONEY is the root, and this is Root Music. Because MONEY will still be there after you've thinned out. Because MONEY is TIME and TIME is SPACE. MONEY is YOURS! MONEY was made differently this time. MONEY was written in your sleep. MONEY was performed by hired extras. MONEY was produced by wanted celebrities. MONEY was engineered by a secret government. MONEY was arranged to be discovered by indigenous tribes. You're in a forest of insects wearing night v   [ read more ]

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"This is the latest single from everyone's favourite makebelieve Victorian, Daedelus. Of course being a single we don't just have the fabulous track itself, but we're blessed with a trio of remixes, coming from XXXchange, Moonstar and the hotly tipped Samiyam. The XXXchange mix is predictably high quality moving into throbbing electro-house territory but the real shocker here is the incredible version from Hyperdub signing Samiyam. Known for his associations with the hot-as-hell Flying Lotus the producer sh   [ read more ]

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'Jona Bechtolt makes his way over to DFA for three tracks, all of which find him tailoring his endearing electronic pop squiggles into a far more serious sounding James Murphy-friendly setup, complete with robust live kit sounds, disco drum patterns and tough no-wave basslines. Both 'Summer Song' and 'I'm In Love With A Ripper' sound like perfect DFA fodder, with their slouchy rhythms and slick organic styling, but 'It's Boring/You Can Live Anywhere You Want' is a little more connected to indiedom - at leas   [ read more ]

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