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The National Trouble Will Find

Album Review: The National – Trouble Will Find Me

By on May 17th, 2013

★★★★½

Unlikely optimism makes for a new kind of National album.

Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City

Album Review: Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

By on May 13th, 2013

★★★★½

See through the Ivy and hear them deliver their most comprehensive effort to date.

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Album Review: Mikal Cronin – MCII

By on May 6th, 2013

★★★★½

Ty Segall’s partner-in-crime shocks us with his sophomore album.

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 3

Album Review: Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

By on May 1st, 2013

★★★★½

A universal language like nothing you’ve ever heard.

The Flaming Lps The Terrors

Album Review: The Flaming Lips – The Terror

By on April 19th, 2013

★★★★½

How? Call it the R.A. Dickey method.

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Album Review: The Postal Service – Give Up

By on April 12th, 2013

★★★★★

This 10th anniversary release reminds us of the album’s enduring adolescent legacy.

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Album Review: Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze

By on April 10th, 2013

★★★★½

From Fleetwood to Young and Browne to Petty, Vile creates That ’70s Album.

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Album Review: The Knife – Shaking the Habitual

By on April 8th, 2013

★★★★½

The Knife revolt—against power, privilege, and pop tradition.

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Album Review: The Thermals – The Body, the Blood, and the Machine [Reissue]

By on March 8th, 2013

★★★★½

Nearly seven years later, it still has us believing.

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Album Review: The Men – New Moon

By on March 5th, 2013

★★★★½

Loud or soft, The Men are one of the most exciting acts around today.

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