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+ Svalastog - Woodwork
+ Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
+ Rosy Parlane - Jessamine
+ Jarvis Cocker - The Jarvis Cocker Record
+ Múm - Peel Session
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+ 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
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+ 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
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+ Cex - Actual Fucking
+ Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
+ Leafcutter John - The Forest And The Sea
+ Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
+ Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass Is Always Greener
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+ Peaches - Impeach My Bush
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+ Klee - Honeysuckle
+ The Court & Spark - Hearts
+ TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
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+ Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth
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+ Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs
+ The Moore Brothers - Murdered By The Moore Brothers
+ Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
+ The 1900s - Plume Delivery EP
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+ Function - The Secret Miracle Fountain
+ Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
+ Loscil - Plume
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+ 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
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+ The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
+ Motorpsycho - Black Hole/Blank Canvas
+ The Red Krayola - Introduction
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+ Sondre Lerche And The Faces Down Quartet - Duper Sessions
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Lightning Bolt are the Fight Club of rock, their tense muscles and masculine intensity and two-dudes-in-a-van prison-loving a turned-inwards celebration of violence as form of evolutionary beauty. Black Eyes bear and wear the same scars of so many scrapes, and they do so with pride, but the DC outfit aren't fighting in an enclave, hoping their microcosm can influence the macrocosm. Rather, they're railing against the society that surrounds them, their wars fought with wars fought abroad. Their poetry a commentary on hypocrisy, they cast judgments on those who cast judgment, as men, like they're God, such staunch standing like a line drawn in the sand, like they wish to make their side of the line the place punk-rock spirit is holy, their conception of it, and all this, being that the days of heedful pre-millennial tension have been replaced by smug post-millennial satisfaction. Black Eyes work to capture that tension, to make it their captive, their music placing tension within parameters. By setting the cat of free-ranging/free-rein free-jazz fuckery amongst the pigeons of hardcore's mighty-uptighty militarism, the quintet are creating a carefully controlled chaos where all the discord leaves aesthetic abrasions: the bruised eye-sockets of their fightin' spirit matched with bloody-lipped horn-honk and concussive drums, guitars played with ripped skin left clinging to the strings, tiny traces of flesh under the players' nails. The ultimate depiction of their cultivated friction comes in the opposing voices of Hugh McElroy and Daniel Martin-McCormick, their distinctly different throats throwing up vocals that often run directly into each other, set against each other in songs that wish to maximize their differences for maximum tension. The discordance of this hoarse/screech disparity/polarity could be seen as typically Dischordian; but the vocal yin-yang of McElroy/Martin-McCormick goes far beyond simple Ian/Guy sportsmanship. The spilling collision of their tangled metal/glass tonality inhabits the sort of off-the-end-of-the-pier post-hardcore plunge taken by those two dudes in the Blood Brothers.


by Anthony Carew




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