A contender for Song of the Year, and we still haven’t heard the studio version. This is a video from one of the best shows of SXSW 2012, Mess With Texas, which we reviewed here. Local Business out 10/23 on XL Records.
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“There is a powerful, sinister quality to Ask the Dust, the newest release from Milwaukee-based electronic producer Lorn. The album has almost a transformational quality to it. I first listened to it in a Laundromat, as once innocent looking dryers morphed into cold and distant industrial machinery; a paunchy, shirtless man transforming from an eccentric curiosity into a symbol of hopelessness with whom I was suddenly unwilling to make eye contact. It was as though suddenly my laundry trip was directed by Christopher Nolan.”
Tim Myers reviews Ask The Dust, the excellent new record from Milwaukee producer Lorn.
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Aphex Twin’s Richard D. James and I Care Because You Do are getting the Warp Reissue treatment, along with Grizzly Bear and Flying Lotus.
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Russian Circles are one of the best active touring bands you can find. Although their records rarely reach the affirming highs and crushing lows this three-piece is capable of, their show is the best bang for any concertgoer’s buck. See if they’re coming your way.
Russian Circles 8/9/12
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“Released as summer days reached their longest, the album is a warm and inviting meditation on the season, and like summer, ends sooner than you’d hope. The firefly-flecked title track quivers with a day’s dying bird songs, cooling into what might be a field recording of several extremely relaxed musicians enjoying sweet tea on a porch at twilight. Playing it loose but keeping it tight, the band rolls into the charming ‘Cereal’ before pulling out the big guns (or rather, flower bombs) on ‘Eyes of Love.’”
Tiffany Hairston reviews new records from Murals and Electric Guest.
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“In fact, much of Electric Guest’s Mondo – which makes its case convincingly if somewhat losing sight of its argument during the album’s second half – could serve as a good but broken man’s confessional, shot through a lens of cinematic beauty. Here is where Danger Mouse’s genius becomes apparent, as the super producer supplies his patented kinetic spark, which leaps off of tracks like “This Head I Hold” and gives the groovy bassline of “Awake” swagger to spare, even as he engineers songs like “Amber” and “Troubleman” to possess the tonal resonance of faded love letters.”
Tiffany Hairston reviews new albums from Electric Guest and Murals.
(Source: Spotify)
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“Any extended period of city living results in the accumulation of things that wear one’s spirit down, little by little, leaving emotions raw and nerves frayed. This can happen as easily in Paris as it does in New York or London or São Paulo. Certainly, it pushes away some of the very same people who arrived in these places with stars in their eyes a year or five or a decade before. However, in Baldwin’s case, his love for Paris does not become noticeably tarnished over time. Right up until his last moments in the city of lights, he writes, ‘There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.’”
Anna Kushner reviews Rosencrans Baldwin’s Paris I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down.
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TitusAndronicusLLC: LOCAL BUSINESS: the new Titus Andronicus LP →
Dear friends, this is just to say that October 23rd will see the release of the third Titus Andronicus album titled Local Business via XL Recordings. A nationwide US tour will follow the albums release, dates TBA.
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Long Island emo punkers Bomb the Music Industry! may have just announced their indefinite hiatus from touring, but they’ll keep making music, according to songwriter and bandleader Jeff Rosenstock. This is a good thing, since last year’s Vacation widely expanded their reach by embracing the thematic concept record format and creating a standout work about “finding a home.”
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On September 7, 2012 the Storm Thorgerson exhibit will be opening at Public Works Gallery (1539 N Damen) from 7-10 PM.
To RSVP, click here.
