#51 Seller of 2005! 8.6 on Pitchfork. SPECIAL IMPORT. Norwegian Serena Maneesh present their self-titled, full-length debut Serena Maneesh with eleven songs that slide down a razor's edge of distortion and pop whimsy, raucous guitar work and underwater static, angelic voices and primal screams. The strange melodies are strikingly original, yet they strike to the heart of something familiar: a classic rock guitar lick, a wound, a kiss. Inspired by everything from Southern blues via Neu! to Gershwin, Sere...   [ read more ]

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Follow-up to his critically acclaimed album, Michigan. Stevens actually penned this material for Michigan, but found he had too many songs for one record. Instead of shelving them, he recorded them with Daniel Smith (Danielson Famile frontman) and released them here. Even more intimate and personal than Michigan, Seven Swans lyrically focuses on themes of love and religion and highlights Stevens' banjo playing. Word on the street: pretty amazing.

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! The follow-up to St. Vincent's (Annie Clark's) first album Marry Me (2007) features eleven new songs, all written and arranged by Clark. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired. Actor takes the ambitious compositional and sonic underpinnings of Clark's debut as a starting point and never looks back. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more co...   [ read more ]

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