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(Bladen County)   www.bladencountyrecords.com   With their third full-length, Birds of Avalon have completed the stylistic-aesthetic shift that had been bubbling around in their son more...

(Dead Oceans)   www.deadoceans.com     The album title sounds like something you'd say far more often as a kid than an adult, and the same audience might be appropriate for th more...

(Temporary Residence, Ltd.)   www.temporaryresidence.com   When Oberlin College students Jon Fine, Orestes Morfin and Sooyoung Park put their shared affinities for the likes of Scratc more...

(Compass) www.compassrecords.com Living up to the band moniker, the Bittersweets' second album conveys a series of breathless, gushing melodies fraught with unsettled circumstances.  The more...

(Nonesuch)   www.nonesuch.com Watching the DVD portion of Bjork's new live album, Voltaic, it's fun to imagine her aging into a bizarro-world version of Etta James. As a pop singer, Bjork more...

(One Little Indian/Nonesuch)     www.nonesuch.com   Get beyond recent solo efforts like the glacial Volta and throat warbling Medula. Put aside the app chatter, the details of more...

(Light in The Attic)   www.lightintheattic.net     “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” the Black Angels’ motto — borrowed from ‘60s supporter of medi more...

  (Blue Horizon)   www.theblackangels.com   Phosphene is the phenomenon of seeing light with light not actually entering the retina, often experienced by users of hard psychedelic more...

     (Blue Horizon)   www.bluehorizonrecords.com   The Black Angels can quite literally molecularly alter one's grey matter. Talk about breaking through to the other more...

(Drag City)   http://www.dragcity.com/   It's only fitting that Black Bananas would waylay the world via Drag City; the same label that began with a Royal Trux release and remained l more...