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Austra – Feel It Break (Domino)

Austra – Feel It Break (Domino)

This is the one that I play over and over. It sounds big. It just sounds cold and big and that is exactly the sort of sound I prefer. It’s about choke sex, right? …

Mountains – Air Museum (Thrill Jockey)

Mountains – Air Museum (Thrill Jockey)

by >100…

Wild Beasts – Smother (Domino)

Wild Beasts – Smother (Domino)

Fantastic music makes me into a slutty slut face and that’s fine. …

Africa HiTech – ‘Out In The Streets’ (Warp)

Africa HiTech – ‘Out In The Streets’ (Warp)

entranced, volatile, enraged, elevated, attenuated, aggressive, aroused…

Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys! (Fiction)

Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys! (Fiction)

They're not afraid to make an album that whispers.…

James Blake – James Blake (Polydor)

James Blake – James Blake (Polydor)

Have you heard the news? Modern technology is turning us all into robots. …

Australian Beats EP Reviews Pt 1: Blunt Instrument’s ‘Twice Baked’

Australian Beats EP Reviews Pt 1: Blunt Instrument’s ‘Twice Baked’

Over the past three months, there has been an influx of EPs…

Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)

Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)

The kitchen-sink clattering of Youth Novels has been replaced by enormous thunderous drums, multi-tracked heavenly choirs, and melodies that come in great trembling reverberations.…

The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar (Atlantic)

The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar (Atlantic)

It's a discipline and a belief, this kind of guitar music and those who have tramped along to The Joy Formidable's live shows the past couple of years, hungry for this debut, know this.…

The Strokes – Under Cover Of Darkness (video and song)

The Strokes – Under Cover Of Darkness (video and song)

The video is barely worth mentioning. Everyone but Julian looks emotionless. Julian is perturbed. That's the video.…

My Own Pet Radio – Unidentified Flying Collection of Awesome (Mucho Bravado)

My Own Pet Radio – Unidentified Flying Collection of Awesome (Mucho Bravado)

If you're familiar with Ball Park Music, tune out for a bit. If you're not, well, Sam Cromack makes jangly, slightly off-kilter, overly self-concious and highly infectious pop tunes with his band mates in BPM.…

Radiohead – The King Of Limbs (self-released)

Radiohead – The King Of Limbs (self-released)

If you wanted hairpin changes of direction: this freewheels straight down the line. …

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