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+ Donato Wharton - Body Isolations
+ Svalastog - Woodwork
+ Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
+ Rosy Parlane - Jessamine
+ Jarvis Cocker - The Jarvis Cocker Record
+ Múm - Peel Session
+ Deloris - Ten Lives
+ Minimum Chips - Lady Grey
+ Badly Drawn Boy - Born In The U.K.
+ The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls Together
+ The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
+ The Places - Songs For Creeps
+ Camille - Le Fil
+ Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
+ Christina Carter - Electrice
+ The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
+ Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
+ Various Artists - Musics In The Margin
+ Rafael Toral - Space
+ Bob Dylan - Modern Times
+ Excepter - Alternation
+ Chris Thile - How To Grow A Woman From The Ground
+ Brad Mehldau - Live in Japan
+ M Ward - Post-War
+ Various Artists - Touch 25
+ The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
+ The White Birch - Come Up For Air
+ Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
+ Coachwhips - Double Death
+ Various Artists - Tibetan And Bhutanese Instrumental And Folk Music, Volume 2
+ Giuseppe Ielasi - Giuseppe Ielasi
+ Cex - Actual Fucking
+ Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
+ Leafcutter John - The Forest And The Sea
+ Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
+ Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass Is Always Greener
+ Robin Guthrie - Continental
+ Peaches - Impeach My Bush
+ Oakley Hall - Second Guessing
+ Klee - Honeysuckle
+ The Court & Spark - Hearts
+ TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
+ Awesome Color - Awesome Color
+ Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth
+ Asobi Seksu - Citrus
+ Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs
+ The Moore Brothers - Murdered By The Moore Brothers
+ Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
+ The 1900s - Plume Delivery EP
+ Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror
+ Function - The Secret Miracle Fountain
+ Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
+ Loscil - Plume
+ Boris - Pink
+ Deadboy And The Elephantmen - We Are Night Sky
+ Glissandro 70 - Glissandro 70
+ Calexico - Garden Ruin (Review #2)
+ Calexico - Garden Ruin (Review #1)
+ The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
+ The Glass Family - Sleep Inside This Wheel
+ Various Artists - Songs For Sixty Five Roses
+ The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
+ Motorpsycho - Black Hole/Blank Canvas
+ The Red Krayola - Introduction
+ Metal Hearts - Socialize
+ American Princes - Less And Less
+ Sondre Lerche And The Faces Down Quartet - Duper Sessions
+ Supersilent - 7
+ Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
+ Dudley Perkins - Expressions
+ Growing - Color Wheel
+ Red Carpet - The Noise Of Red Carpet
+ The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
+ Espers - II
+ Wilderness - Vessel States

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No inhibitions, hon. No indifference. No nailing yourself to the wall. No wallflowers at all. The Gossip are ripping shit, ripping shit up, ripping down banners banning dancing by the indie-rockist hipoisie as they rip the timid into the midst of this fury. And no flowery words can bring into existence the sweaty distress that's caused when florid sentiments are left to wilt and whimper under a stampede of rock-'n'-roll revivalism that comes free from sentimentalism and without the obsequiousness to haircuts that seems to be at the heart of so much rock-is-the-new-rock fare. Without fanfare, and certainly minus the kind of fanfaronade laid at the feet of likely likes like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gossip make this revival all right by me, dropping beats to the floor without obligatory obeisance for hairy men of rock lore from rock's yore; this combo places no hands on hearts as they play with blackhearted belligerence, their sound laying down dance floors where you barely believed they could be, heartlessly enticing hearts to be beating at a fluttering rate, rating so high in my esteem that an elephant's eye isn't an appropriate metaphor. And we start taking the gospel-singing past of Gossip-singer Beth Ditto as gospel, and look heavenward for the appropriate high-meaning-high-quality imagery. Even though all of this should really be about Beth's powerfully-piped belting it out, and the throb of the two-piece combo keeping to the tightest beat of their four-disc career, and how said throb and all the hollers that go with it and the frank tone of the rec's hollered text should really conjure non-clichéd writerly review-type words salivating in syntax at such a captured distillation of sex and sweating and dancing on disc. Which should lead to, like, proclamations, to you, to be a part of the choir, to feel your spirit swell like rising bellows, to feel that blustering breeze fan flames. I proclaim that this disc is burning, and that the sweet song of this congregated band/fans/movement congregation can lift you higher than any sweet song of some choir (any hunka burning love for that matter), and that subsuming yourself to rock 'n' roll with this much soul feels like wading in the water, and that this might just be salvation. So, let me hear you say Amen. Then say it again. Because a girl can't be tied down.


by Anthony Carew




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