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		<title>solely in my chest is my heart a drum of water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms

Having listened to Secret Machines&#8217; 2008 self-titled album made it clear that Benjamin Curtis had absconded from the band with all their atmosphere and mathematical complexity. When I realized that he had done so in favour of starting an electronic/dream pop act, I was certainly intrigued. There are only the faintest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=351&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sound sent shivers down my back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blitzen Trapper: Furr

It is the thread of surrealism and disjointed old west violence that runs through Furr that makes it more intriguing to me than similar albums. Blitzen Trapper are a band that operates in that state of studied anachronism that is common to the indie crowd these days, particularly those that dabble in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=320&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your skin has turned blue and your hair has turned white, must be the voodoo&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magnetic Fields: Distortion

I&#8217;m sure it was some martini-soaked evening with Stephin Merritt lying in a barcalounger listening to Loveless in some profound stupor that the idea of Distortion hit him. The album is not far removed from other Magnetic Fields albums &#8211; the same elegantly phrased lyrics about damaged love, self-abasing, morose humour and chiming, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=304&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me anything you want, any old lie will do</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes

Nothing is forgotten, nothing gets crossed out. Fleet Foxes are all about historicity. They trade in memory and nostalgia, without any falsely romanticized view of the past. There is a common fallacy in similarly aimed art of looking to the past as a history of the present, as if the endpoint is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=252&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>one belt loop away from Sunday night&#8217;s news</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation&#8217;s Dark

The rich history of mythic America has been the Drive-By Truckers&#8217; palette for the past few albums, in particular with their wildly imaginative Southern Rock Opera of the South from John Henry to Sun Records. Brighter Than Creation&#8217;s Dark has a similar scope, a vastness that crosses state lines, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=223&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t let me hesitate, don&#8217;t sit around and wait while the others are having fun.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port O&#8217;Brien: All We Could Do Was Sing

If there has been a song released this year more immediately, infectiously gratifying than this new version of &#8220;I Woke Up Today&#8221; then I haven&#8217;t heard it. Man, what a rush. It&#8217;s the same stomping, wild fervor that imbued the classics that bands like The Rolling Stones built [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=138&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fever! Breathe in your own cool, blue air&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges

Evil Urges is not so much a departure as a consolidation. It takes the dance-oriented rhythms that characterized Z and bonds them with a return to the massive guitar heroics of their earlier albums. Gone for the most part is the alien keyboard sound that made Z so startling and different, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=108&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The capillaries of the community are hemorrhaging on everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 06:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islands: Arm&#8217;s Way

Look closely at the cover of Arm&#8217;s Way, this magical world we look in on is through a ragged hole blasted through flesh splashing bones, blood, and cartilage. Their first album was breezy and Caribbean-influenced, but this time out, Islands are rather darker-hued, and their imagery is violent in its rending of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=43&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t think I won&#8217;t remember who should get the middle finger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 21:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prolyphic &#38; Reanimator: The Ugly Truth


Reanimator has some experience producing for Sage Francis, in particular the standout apocalyptic boom of &#8220;Sun vs Moon&#8221; on A Healthy Distrust, and he brings to The Ugly Truth thick, inventive sonic textures, shuddering drums with vicious undertow, sampling from sources as unlikely as Ministry&#8217;s &#8220;So What&#8221; (on the brilliant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=41&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is what it is, because of what it was</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 03:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Roots: Rising Down

I credit The Roots as the act that drew me back into hip-hop after several years disillusioned from it. They are notable as a band who play their own rock instruments while remaining more hip-hop than Kurtis Blow. With each of their albums, they bring something different, each has its own tone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=23&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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