http://www.dustedmagazine.com Independant Music Reviews And Features en Copyright 2008 Wed, 22 May 2013 18:38:01 PST http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7699 http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7699 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 PDT
by Bill Meyer
Alan Licht - Four Years Later I first heard Alan Licht when he came to Chicago in 1991 with the trio Love Child. While their songs were collegiate-cute and rickety in a way that would have made as much sense on K Records as on Homestead (the label that released their LPs), when he... Read More
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by Jennifer Kelly
Blank Realm has emerged out of the extended drones and free-form scree of the Not Not Fun world into a damaged, pedal-altered garage rock, kin to fellow Australian bands like UV Race and Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Go Easy , originally released on vinyl last year by Siltbreeze, is Blank... Read More
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by Erin Leigh Zimman
Tricky says, [ False Idols ] is about me finding myself again [bringing me] back to my natural instincts," in a much-cited interview with Primary Talent . He goes on to say, musically it is a better album, referencing his incomparable debut, Maxinquaye . Many reviewers are quoting... Read More
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by Bill Meyer
Erstwhile Records has just rolled out a new sub-label, ErstAEU. In the tradition of AMM , the AEU is not explained. Despite the paucity of officially sanctioned information you won't find any explanatory text on the label's website there's a definite aesthetic angle at work here. The label's... Read More
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by Ben Donnelly
Shambling rockers Woolen Kits showed up in Melbourne a few years ago singing teenage songs in monotone and baritone. Not contemporarily teenage, of course, but that mythically simple ideal that was pinned down by Beat Happening and Jesus and Mary Chain and the like hormones more than... Read More
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by Tobias Carroll
Low has existed as a band for 20 years now, and when you've been around that long, certain informational nuggets become music-crit clich : their roots in slowcore and its legacy; the fact that two-thirds of the band (namely Alan Sparkhawk and Mimi Parker) are a couple; that their lyrics... Read More
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by Marc Medwin
More than 50 years after the Ornette Coleman album that crystalized and changed so many things with its title and single epic piece , the phrase Free Jazz remains particularly problematic. Are we talking about the Free Jazz of the Art Ensemble of Chicago , or of a Cecil Taylor unit... Read More
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by Matthew Wuethrich
What happens in music when you remove all sense of expectation and tension? In other words, what do you get when you jettison any pre-set ideas of form? I don't know if Jennifer Veillerobe explicitly asks herself this question, but her two albums certainly make us ask it. Zweifarbige... Read More
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by Patrick Masterson
Inside and upstairs from the main level of the Berlin techno haven Berghain lies the more house-oriented vibes of the Panorama Bar. It is here, among the Wolfgang Tillmans artwork and pore-filling soundsystems lining the old power plant, that Dutchwoman Steffie Doms has mastered her take on... Read More
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by Adam Strohm
My review of Colin Stetson's New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges was a generally positive one, and, in revisiting it a few years later, I still find much of what I said to ring true, awkward constructions and all. I'm no longer as taken by Judges , however, as I was then, and I haven't... Read More
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by Dusted Magazine
Still Single Submission Guidelines Send vinyl (and only vinyl) with information about your pressing (quantity pressed, color vinyl, etc.) to: Doug Mosurock PO Box 3087 New York, NY 10185-3087 Hello, and welcome to this long-belated Dusted issue of Still Single . Truth be told, I... Read More

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by Ben Tausig
It is tempting to wax nostalgic about George Jones as a symbol of country music's erstwhile golden years. But he is an artist worth remembering in his own right, a musician who transcended the Nashville scene he so influenced. Molested until death by particularly insidious demons, Jones spent a... Read More

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by Dusted Magazine
Ellen Allien Ellen Allien is one of the most adventurous women in electronic music. The Berlin DJ has been spinning records for more than 20 years and releasing music on her own Bpitch Control (pronounced bitch control ) since the late 1990s. Over the years, her own electronic compositions... Read More

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by Dusted Magazine
Clint Mansell It's not often that a composer's soundtrack work runs rampant through popular culture, but that's what Clint Mansell's Lux terna did upon the release of Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream in 2000. The Kronos Quartet's dramatic interpretation became a staple on movie... Read More

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by Dusted Magazine
Cornershop Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres are probably sick of hearing this, but together they wrote one of the all-time great singles in Brimful of Asha. The rest of that album, When I Was Born for the 7th Time , is historically awesome as well. But that was 15 years ago now, and Singh/Ayres... Read More

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by Dusted Magazine
Matthew Friedberger Matthew Friedberger is one-half of Fiery Furnaces, the sibling rock duo that perplexed indie fans for a good portion of the 2000s. Along with his sister, Eleanor, he constructed a playful, proggy pop that many feel peaked on the 2004 LP Blueberry Boat (others disagree)... Read More

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by Otis Hart
Attention spans are getting shorter and shorter these days. We're practically to the point where anyone who adds context to year-end lists is just wasting witticisms better strutted on Twitter. I'm not quite there yet (though I am saving some great material for @spotieotis ), so in the hopes of... Read More

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by Patrick Masterson
When people say they thought the year in music wasn't that great, what they're obviously saying is that the year in music wasn't that great for them . Not to be too much of a downer, but I fall in this demographic for 2012 there were plenty of songs I got excited about, but not many albums ... Read More

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by Talya Cooper
I've always tried to make year-end lists thinking about what would stand the test of time rather than what best exemplified a given year's mood and sound. This, I realize, represents a rockist mentality, an attitude I recently heard expressed by some codgers at the Russian Baths who boasted of... Read More

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by Nate Knaebel
I feel the need to offer a quick explanation for anyone about to dive into this list. For one thing, these records aren't my top anything. It can often take well more than a year (sometime years) for any record to truly sink in and a thoughtful assessment rendered. That said, all of these... Read More

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