Air, 'Love 2' (Astralwerks)
Transcontinental drifters still amusing our bouche.
By David Marchese 10.07.09 5:58 PM
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard, 'One Fast Move or I'm Gone' (F-Stop/Atlantic)
Boozy Beat memoir gets a tenderly rootsy rehab.
By Josh Modell 10.07.09 5:43 PM
The Son Volt and Death Cab for Cutie frontmen (respectively) go spare on this tribute to Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel Big Sur, wedding text from the chronicle of a writer's alcoholic breakdown to simple melodies and instrumentation.
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Electric Six, 'Kill' (Metropolis)
Motor City horndogs are back to trash happy hour.
By Josh Modell 10.07.09 5:36 PM
This Detroit band has yet to match the goofy disco-metal glory of 2003's Fire (you'll recall "Danger!
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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, 'Summer of Fear' (Saddle Creek)
Brooklyn's Mr. Lonelyhearts places devastating personal ad.
By David Marchese 10.07.09 5:30 PM
On his self-titled 2008 debut, singer-songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson sounded like it was all he could do to hold himself together long enough to sing about falling apart. Though that album's postaddiction, confessional howl was one of the year's most darkly magnetic listens, it was also cause for artistic concern.
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Lightning Bolt, 'Earthly Delights' (Load)
Punk two-piece hitch a ride outta Rhode Island.
By Mikael Wood 10.07.09 5:04 PM
These Providence noisescene kings' fifth album comes by its title honestly: Earthly Delights plays like an epic couch-surf around the globe, with scratchy African guitars ("Flooded Chamber"), scuzzy Southernboogie riffs ("Funny Farm"), and a springy dream-pop melody straight out of the Kiwi-rock handbook ("Rain on Lake I'm Swimming In").
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Del the Funky Homosapien & Tame One, 'Parallel Uni-Verses' (Gold Dust Media)
Stoner MCs hungrily look back on oddball odyssey.
By Mosi Reeves 10.07.09 4:54 PM
With two decades of graffiti writing, drug consumption, and alt-rap classics under their belts, Del and Tame One have much to reminisce about.
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