When Free Kitten took an extended sabbatical following their second album, Kim Gordon spent her spare time outside Sonic Youth putting together a new trio with two other luminaries from the New York downtown scene: former drummer of no-wave legends DNA, Ikue Mori, and turntablist extraordinaire DJ Olive of We and Liminal (not to mention the coiner of the term "illbient"). The trio started playing together in 1999, arriving at a sonic concept before recording their debut album (the f...   [ read more ]

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Bodega is the perfect title for this album. Like a good downtown corner shop, it offers a warm and friendly ambience, and is well stocked with a variety of tasty international treats. There's the rich dubwise reggae flavor of the aptly titled "Yard Swing," the rhythmic found-sound kaleidoscope of "Take It to the Corner," the South-America-Meets-south-India ambiguity of "Back Fence Suite," the faintly creepy "Funky Cortado," with its surf guitar and wisps of crooning vocals, and, last b...   [ read more ]

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