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(Astralwerks)   www.astralwerks.com   It's easy to draw a straight line backwards from Natasha Khan to Tori Amos to Kate Bush, and that line is even thicker and darker with Khan's s more...

(Hidden Agenda)   www.parasol.com   Once upon a time, a song like "Satellites" might have been described as sounding like third-album era Velvet Underground, thanks to its chugging more...

(Cryptogramophone)   www.crypto.tv   The trio of Tim Berne (alto saxophone), Jim Black (drums, laptop) and Nels Cline (guitar, effects) might have been a relatively new group at the more...

(Capitol)   www.capitolrecords.com   I feel like Kramer in that episode of Seinfeld, moaning to Jerry that somebody stole his idea for a men's cologne that smelled just like the bea more...

(Capitol/EMI)   www.capitolrecords.com   So, this is what it felt like to be a fly on the wall during the 1966-67 sessions for mythical Beach Boys' album SMiLE. Capitol/EMI has fina more...

(Captured Tracks)   www.capturedtracks.com   On their eponymous 2010 debut, Beach Fossils brought forth a carefree sense of frivolity to the gauzy din of the Brooklyn chillwave movem more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Bob Dylan set the scene back when he stowed away at The Band's Big Pink in Saugerties following his infamous motorcycle wipeout and recorded some of the more...

(Ipecac)   www.ipecac.com   Portishead might not be renowned for their work-rate, but lately Geoff Barrow has kept busy running his Invada label, co-producing the Horrors and, most more...

(anticon.)   www.anticon.com   The 2009 reunion of the NYC avant-rap crew Anti-Pop Consortium was one of the most promising things to happen in the otherwise hapless East Coast wing more...

(Hometapes)   www.home-tapes.com   Jon Philpot's second full length as Bear in Heaven is an inchoate monster of an album, weighted with ritual percussive clangor and slow blossoming more...