January 2011
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the bigger lovers: The Bigger Lovers reunite for... →
These guys are pretty much unbelievable (they’re friends of mine). Don’t let their catalog or forthcoming single pass you by.
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Five seasons and change after closing up shop, The Bigger Lovers are reuniting to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our instantly out-of-print 2001 debut, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying” (originally issued on Black Dog Records on March 13,...
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Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga! offers a wealth of the...
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WatchI was pretty blown away by Solar Bears’ Inner Sunshine EP, which Planet Mu released early in 2010. Split into two red LPs (with no digital download card, WHAT?), She Was Coloured In followed — it’s the Irish act’s debut album. Packaged like a campy sci-fi movie, some of the film score-type compositions on this warm, psychedelic opus more than fit the bill. Washes of synths...
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2010 Favorites: "Besides..."
“Besides…” is Diego Bernal’s second full-length LP. I wrote about it for Blurt Magazine earlier in 2010 (when it was free, incidentally). Bernal swipes a few notes from the Shadow/Cut Chemist/Madlib playbooks, but he’s his own producer, and these beats sound closer to mid-’90s NYC hip hop than any of the breaks records this Texas artist discovered in his...
