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Animal Collective: ‘Centipede Hz’ (2012)
Animal Collective reached the apex of their popularity and creativity in the late 2000s. Though much of the eccentricity peaked on Danse Manatee, they still had a little left for the chart topping...
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Ty Segall Band: ‘Slaughterhouse’ (2012)
The Ty Segall Band puts all of Segall’s lo-fi 60s psychedelic rock revival to shame with thick, rollicking, noisy garage rock on Slaughterhouse that is worthy of standing with his heroes....
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Tame Impala: ‘Innerspeaker’ (2010)
Tame Impala is a psychedelic rock band born out of the warm glow of the sunny and lazy days of meandering youth. For their debut, Innerspeaker, they mined the Nuggets box set for the psychedelic pop...
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Neptune: ‘msg rcvd’ (2012)
On msg rcvd Neptune continues to create a restless desolation of 70s industrial rock, the kind that was bred from man and machine fusing together in an endless anxious dance slightly diffused by the...
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Azita: ‘Disturbing the Air’ (2011)
Azita’s How Will You? was significant step forward in Azita’s songwriting by taking a step back. Disturbing the Air retreats even further into that regression with a similar trajectory, stripping away...
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Azita: ‘How Will You?’ (2009)
Azita (Youseffi) made a dramatic departure in her solo career of mainstream piano pop/jazz from her time in the noisy bands Scissor Sisters and Bride of No No. Her first solo album Enantiodromia...
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Dan Deacon: ‘America’ (2012)
The bits of electronic sound that Dan Deacon put together to make hollow, lifeless, motionless garbage were crashed together to make the manic episodes of Spiderman of the Rings (2007), a set of...
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The Vaccines: ‘Come of Age’ (2012)
After the mediocre Please, Please Do Not Disturb, the Vaccines put out another set of shallow and careless indie rocker anthems albeit more personal sounding with Come of Age. The songs are slightly...
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The Vaccines: ‘What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?’ (2011)
The Vaccines fill vacuum of British pop-rock bands of the 2000s like the Libertines and Arctic Monkeys with What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? Slightly reminiscent of the Jesus and Mary Chain dry,...
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Colin L. Orchestra: ‘COL’ (2012)
The Colin L. Orchestra’s (Colin Langenus, The USA Is A Monster) final installment to the three part series of albums that began with Infinite Ease and Good God comes with another hour of trippy...
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor: ‘’Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!’ (2012)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor regrouped early in the 2010s and released another set of lengthy cinematic post-rock with ‘Alleluja! Don’t Bend! Ascend!Instead of just mailing in a grrreatest hits with a...
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Divorce: ‘Divorce’ (2012)
Divorce is a noise rock band from Glasgow that deals in an overindulgence of noise, folding it many times over into a haze of hysterical guitars, syncopated rhythms, and violent, possessed vocals,...
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Supernatural Christians: ‘Momma Through The Window’ (2012)
Supernatural Christians debuted with Momma Through the Window, a short set of frail and dreamy songs, crooning on a razor’s edge of a dream and eternity in the hands of whores, psychotic country hicks...
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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan: ‘YT//ST’ (2011)
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan floats in and sustains as soft as the cute feminine (prominently Eastern) vocals in the intro “Raccoon Song” but has an ever-present growl that gives the cute psychedelic jams...
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse: ‘Psychedelic Pill’ (2012)
Neil Young team up with Crazy Horse in 2012, putting an end to his dry spell of fluffier albums post-Greendale with the cover album Americana, full of classic folk tunes polished with the distinct...
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Aluk Todolo: ‘Occult Rock’ (2012)
Aluk Todolo greyed the pure and somewhat empty darkness from Descension and Finsternis with the enormous Occult Rock, which is a little more than twice the length and breadth of the previous two...
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Goat: ‘World Music’ (2012)
Goat’s World Music mixes eastern melodies with rhythms that stretch from the heart of Africa to American soul and funk music, sometimes jumping and other times blend the two, all refracted in that...
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Maria Bamford: ‘The Special Special Special!’ (2012)
If you must, Maria Bamford’s new special The Special Special Special! filmed in her living room with more members in the crew than in her audience, which is comprised of her parents Joel and Marilyn...
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Richard Ringer: ‘An Album About Dying With Your Family’ (2013)
An Album About Dying With Your Family was apparently a temporary release by Richard Ringer. Ephemeral and passive aggressive, the lifespan and nature of the album came and went like a daydream on the...
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My Bloody Valentine: ‘m b v’ (2013)
My Bloody Valentine’s new release m b v ended up being more hype than any leap forward from the album that made them underground and sheltered psychedelic heroes. Their electronic counterparts updated...
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