1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

In 2007, Chairlift moved from Colorado to Brooklyn to pursue a strangely common 21st-century dream -- to create a thoroughly modern indie-pop album inspired by '80s synth-goth kitsch.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

Getting past Raymond Raposa's world-weary façade -- big beard, deliberately grizzled voice, atmospheric instrumental interludes -- takes a willful suspension of disbelief not unlike what Will Oldham requires, but City of Refuge often rewards that patience.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

This California band's second album begins with the click of a drum machine, which seems like a deliberate departure from their debut's pleasantly anachronistic '70s country rock.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

DJ Daniele Baldelli spun at the Italian Riviera's versions of Studio 54 and Paradise Garage in the late '70s and early '80s, slowing down reggae and Kraftwerk in order to create a more stoned, so-called "cosmic" sound.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

News flash: Coldplay aren’t the only dreamy British pop-rock band with an experimental streak. On album three, Keane trick out their pretty piano melodies with tasty synths ("The Lovers Are Losing"), booming rap beats ("Spiralling"), and fuzzy new-wave guitars ("You Haven’t Told Me Anything").

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

One of roots music’s slyest, smartest songwriters, Nashville-based Todd Snider isn’t up to the usual protest-song ploys on this eight-song mini album (which nonetheless protests plenty): "I did not do this to change your mind about anything," he explains in a spoken interlude.