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(Captured Tracks)   www.capturedtracks.com   A spiky sketch of bass calls, a trio of female voices responds in tear-dropped shaped exclamations of "oh-oh." Girlish sweetness fights more...

(!K7)   www.k7.com   A new competitor for the Antony Hegarty Memorial "Most Delicate Falsetto in a Disco Setting" award has emerged from the unlikely environs of Copenhagen. Nikolaj more...

(Acony)   (www.aconyrecords.com)   It could be argued, and no doubt successfully as well, that Whispertown 2000 chose their name with an eye -or rather, an ear - towards trumpeting more...

(Transmission)   www.transmissionentertainment.com   When White Denim burst on to the scene last year with a high energy live show and an EP full of wild guitars, many people thought more...

(Downtown)   www.downtownmusic.com   Like Spoon and Trail of Dead, this Austin trio defies what we usually expect from their mostly roots-rock hometown.  Their explosive sound more...

(Downtown)   www.downtownmusic.com   Although the name of White Denim's new album is simply D, a more deserving title might be "B" for the effort put into the Austin band's fourth fu more...

(Thrill Jockey)     www.thrilljockey.com     Of late, there seems to have been a notable trend toward gentility and precision when it comes to music that could broadly b more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   H-p1 is the kind of album that can be best appreciated in the vinyl format. Not because the band sounds better when bursting out of a groove more...

(Dead Oceans) www.deadoceans.com     Casey Dienel and her cohorts under the White Hinterland banner have fashioned an alluring forty-five minutes that eludes easy categorization. H more...

(Dead Oceans)   www.deadoceans.com   When Casey Dienel made her debut, with the charming Wind-Up Canary in 2006, there was an engaging girl-next-door quality to her jazz-folk vocal more...