The School of Seven Bell's Iamundernodisguise is an electronic calypso marked by ping-ponging percussion and one of the Deheza sisters' slinkier melodies, Iamundernodisguise teases out School of Seven Bells' sinister side within the parameters of a darkly catchy pop song. Repetition is the key here, as the Dehezas sing breathy, cryptic promises (?I am neither walker nor sleeper / I am neither sister, brother, son, nor daughter?) over and over as the beat goes on.B-side Trance Figure (Nobody Remix) takes th...   [ read more ]

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Casiotone's third album finds the promise of Owen Ashworth's earlier work paying off ever more in spades. Despite a higher profile and a series of concert tours, he's not changing around the basic approach yet -- it's him, his trusty keyboards and machine beats, a guest appearance or two, and his own gift for sweet, murky, and involving songs. His gift for personal details -- an X marked on one's hand for a show, 'driving all night for no reason. . .until the tape's done' -- gets further reflection i...   [ read more ]

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Composed and recorded following the death of Panda Bear's father, it is perhaps no surprise that Young Prayer comes off as a musical eulogy. But it is nothing like a wild outpouring of emotion. There is no tearing of hair or gnashing of teeth here. Rather, the short album is a restrained lamentation, a controlled elegiac mediation on the death of a loved one. The grief has settled in to stay, and it is reflected upon from a slight distance now. Panda Bear wordlessly but somberly moans in a falsett...   [ read more ]

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