Review: Animal Collective – Time Skiffs
While Time Skiffs breathes new life into Animal Collective, it doesn’t really excite.
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Review: Beirut – Artifacts
Artifacts highlights both Condon’s maximalist, full-sounding folk side and his scaled-back electronic side, making it a great introduction to Beirut.
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Review: Broken Social Scene – Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities
If you’re an already-established Broken Social Scene fan, Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities is essential listening
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Review: The Vaccines – Back In Love City
The Vaccines’ fifth album Back in Love City expands their sound even further, doing so from the most unexpected of places.
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Review: The Killers – Pressure Machine
The Killers’ seventh country-fied album Pressure Machine is about as far as you can get from the bright lights of Vegas
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Review: Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket
Modest Mouse’s seventh studio album The Golden Casket mashes the band’s radio-friendly and downright weird sides together, to say the least.
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Review: Kings of Convenience – Peace or Love
You’ll be glad Kings of Convenience are back after 12 years, but Peace or Love doesn’t surpass the duo’s 2000s releases.
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Review: Islands – Islomania
You might not have even noticed they were gone, but Islands are back and better than ever on Islomania.
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Review: Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers
Is 4 Lovers has the trappings of a new Death From Above 1979 to lead us into the 2020s, but spends most of its time recalling the band’s early intensity
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Review: The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You
We Will Always Love You’s embrace of musical guests makes it a good pop album, at the expense of the Avalanches’ presence and charm
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Review: Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison
Serpentine Prison shows a new side of Matt Berninger, but it’s hard to imagine anyone other than existing fans of the National picking it up.
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Review: Everything Everything – Re-Animator
For a band who thrives in maximalism, the toned-down Re-Animator is surprisingly well done, even it comes at the expense of some excitement.
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