Review: Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You for Today
Death Cab’s ninth studio album Thank You for Today is more of exactly what you’d expect from the seasoned indie rockers.
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Review: The Vaccines – Combat Sports
The Vaccines’ fourth album Combat Sports combines styles past and present to make an album that doesn’t necessarily push the envelope, but comfortably fulfills its modest ambitions.
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Review: Jack White – Boarding House Reach
On third solo album Boarding House Reach, Jack White lays waste to our expectations about his music, but you might not like the results.
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Review: The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl
I’ll Be Your Girl occasionally shows signs of brilliance, but its indecisiveness results less in ingenuity and more in blandness.
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Review: Of Montreal – White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood
The wholly electronic-based White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood is a scatterbrained album that delights as often as it confounds, and really stands out from every other of Montreal release.
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Review: Titus Andronicus – A Productive Cough
A Productive Cough is an altogether accessible and forthright album that shows a new side of Titus Andronicus, but compared to the band’s previous highs, it can sometimes feel like half a masterpiece.
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Review: Brand New – Science Fiction
Whenever Brand New makes an announcement or otherwise enters public discourse in some way, you’re almost guaranteed to hear someone reminiscing about their high school days. This is understandable, since Brand New and fellow Long Island emo titans Taking Back Sunday wrote some top-notch tracks that perfectly encapsulated teenage angst. Brand New’s 2001 debut Your
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Review: Phoenix – Ti Amo
When Phoenix hit it big in 2009 with their hits “Lizstomania” and “1901” off the album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, there were a couple surprises in store for their newly-acquired legion of listeners. First, that the band had been around for quite a while – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix was actually their fourth album (they released
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Review: !!! – Shake the Shudder
The ungoogleable band !!! (pronounced ‘chk-chk-chk’) has long been a prime candidate for a “best of” album. Their studio albums to date have been decent enough, but each contained one or two tracks that blew all the others clear out of the water. Just to name some examples, their self-titled album had “KooKooKa Fuk-U,” Louden
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Review: The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
It’s easy enough to describe the New Pornographers’ music. Over the course of six studio albums released in just under a decade and a half, the band has created an incredibly distinctive style of upbeat indie rock filled with pop hooks and singalong choruses. Pinning them down is something else entirely. The New Pornographers are
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Review: Conor Oberst – Salutations
Ah Conor Oberst. Feels like it was just the other day that I was writing about him… Oh wait, that’s because he only released the album Ruminations in October of last year. If you’re thinking five months is a relatively short gap between albums, realize that Ruminations was a fairly bare bones release. It consisted
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Review: Japandroids – Near to the Wild Heart of Life
Reading the titles of Canadian indie rock duo Japandroids’ albums gives you a fairly good sense of what they’re all about. Their 2009 debut Post-Nothing suggests a band lacking a grand vision of what they’re supposed to be, bucking subgenre designations like “post-punk” and “post-rock” in the process. More descriptive is the band’s 2012 sophomore
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