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(Drag City)     www.dragcity.com     Only Six Organs of Admittance could get away with a song title like this: "Nightly Trembling: 1. Redefinition of Being Featuring Cre more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   Ben Chasny's 11th album as Six Organs of Admittance explores the darker, chillier undercurrents of psychedelic folk, bringing in Sun O))) producer more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   For the first three songs, Ben Chasny evokes the elements, infusing acoustically-picked "Above a Desert I've Never Seen" with a dry, sandblown heat, more...

(Tomlab)   www.tomlab.com      Genre shape-shifter Matt Mehlan doesn't make it easy to file his albums. If you sort alphabetically by artist, you'll have to puzzle over t more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   When the great Julian Cope offers your band a public endorsement, you know you are on the right track.   And after five years of gaini more...

(Albert Productions) www.albertmusic.com   6   In the ‘80s, to be an Australian rock band meant that while you might eye the American market with at least a little envy, your ch more...

(Dangerbird) www.dangerbirdrecords.com   Expectations run high when a band boldly names itself after the lead-off track from, of all things, an album by Eno, in this case, Another Green Wor more...

(Hellcat-Epitaph)   www.hell-cat.com   In the mid-‘90s, ska bands were about as ubiquitous as pigeons on the New York City streets. And if you did any kind of college radio ba more...

(Music Road) www.slaid.com   Slaid Cleaves is an especially incisive singer/songwriter, and while far too few people may be aware of his talents, his new album provides all the proof nee more...

(Home Tapes)   www.home-tapes.com     The EP name is right on the money. Slaraffenland does sound like sunshine. Here, on a stop-gap, recording between 2007's Private Cinema an more...