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(Barsuk)   www.barsuk.com   Portland, Oregon's Menomena has perfected the knack of making melancholy and malaise sonically unique and catchy. Like debut Friend or Foe, Mines includes more...

(The Kora)   www.thekorarecords.com   Oscillating between his stark folk-tinged past and a new, electronica- and orchestral-spiked direction, Meredith Bragg's sophomore effort reads l more...

(self-released, through Subterranean)   www.subterranean.org   Meri St. Mary has always sounded like the spunky younger sister of Patti Smith. Although her roots don't go back quit more...

(Crossroads of America)   www.xrarecords.com   There's a profound, lingering calm at the center of the long-playing debut from Indiana's Metavari. Across the course of its 45 minute more...

(Last Gang Records)   www.lastgangrecords.com   Listening to Metric's new release Fantasies, it's easy to hear a real theme developing.   That's not to say the first album in f more...

(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com   Somewhere between Asia and King Crimson circa Larks' Tongues in Aspic exists No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away more...

(Nacional)   www.nacionalrecords.com     Camilo Lara's one-man-band way, where Mexicali electro wonk is concerned, has been duly noted by this writer on so many occasions I fee more...

(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com   MGMT's Congratulations is like a script to an electrifying, dance infused musical. The plot propels the cast - charismatic guitars, split-per more...

(Quarterstick)   www.touchandgorecords.com   This San Francisco trio features two members of Dischord darlings Black Eyes, and with that pedigree in tow there is, as you might expec more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   The opening track on Mi Ami's second album, Steal Your Face, mingles dubby bass, polyrhythmic thump and sheets of clanging guitar underneath more...