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Jackie Clark
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The Last Book I Loved: nineties by Lucy Ives
Our parents showed up to retrieve us. They wanted to know why we would do such a thing. My friend and I looked at each other and just shrugged our shoulders.
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SOUND TAKES: IMPLICIT INFLUENCE
Snowblink Inner Classics (Arts & Crafts Records) Sometimes ascribing a name to something (a painting, a song, a poem) becomes easier after creation. One may not realized the extent to which her subconscious has been influenced by outside factors (e.g.,…
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Sound Takes: Lateral Desert Shifts
Laura Gibson La Grande (Barsuk; Jealous Butcher) I recently heard someone on NPR use the term “desert noir” to describe the band Calexico. Having never heard the term before, I immediately took to it.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Baritone Depth
Sean Rowe Magic (Collar City) It might be hard to get past the first song on Sean Rowe’s Magic it if you have a real aversion to guitar-based songs written in what is commonly referred to as “adult contemporary” style:…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Cosmic Range
Reverb and other effects make Angel Olsen’s voice, accompanied only by guitar, sound otherworldly on Strange Cacti.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: As If It Were The First Time
Cass McCombs Humor Risk (Domino) The thing I have noticed about Cass McCombs, or rather the thing I think is a telling parallel to his music, is that he never really looks the same in pictures.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: The Eleanor Friedberger Solo Theme Park
Eleanor Friedberger Last Summer (Merge) Last Summer, the first solo release from Eleanor Friedberger, half of the Brooklyn duo The Fiery Furnaces, is, for better or for worse, a summer record.