Rumpus Sound Takes
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Creeping Familiarity
Essentially a one-man band—the project of Oregon native and current Oxford, Mississippi resident Deepak Mantena—Junk Culture here explores traditional pop song forms in lieu of the heavily sampled dance music Mantena created on two previous EPs.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Share
“When you’re writing something original, you aren’t really being entirely original. There is so much intentional and unintentional stealing.” —Meg Baird
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Rumpus Sound Takes: In the Lap of Victory
Touring on the reissue, and building on the success of Kaputt, Daniel Bejar has the chance to give Destroyer’s Rubies the victory lap it deserves. Each song is anthemic, and the audience knows every word, taking particular joy in repeating…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: After the Moonlight the Morning Can Be Too Bright
Jakob Olausson’s Morning & Sunrise makes me wish I were writing about the album while on a plane, descending through clouds at dusk. A lucky wish, because that’s exactly what I’m doing.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Fade to Blue
There is something inherently brave about the instrumental album: the lack of a vocal line causes the listener to focus on the musical elements, to experience the abstraction of notes and rhythms as they mingle. Valley Tangents, the fourth record…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Spectra in the Walls
The opening track on MV & EE’s recent LP, Space Homestead, is a lovely, spacy instrumental called “Heart Like Barbara Steele.” It’s like something your massage therapist would put on before dimming the lights and telling you to undress and…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Woods in Amps, Amps in Woods
Amps for Christ / Woods s/t (Shrimper) The liner notes for the new split LP by Woods and Amps for Christ suggest that if you listen over and over you’ll detect a “subtle ESP” between the artists, and that’s true,…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Post Taste
oOoOO Our Loving Is Hurting Us EP (Tri Angle) Pop music rewards prejudice. Discerning listeners operate under the assumption that certain sounds, production tricks, etc., are off-limits, and in so doing spare themselves a lot of schlock.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Phases and Stages
Plants and Animals The End of That (Secret City) Rock bands age reluctantly, if at all.
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Rumpus Sound Takes:
Passionate ImpasseThe Men Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones) If we were to come up with a taxonomy of ways people praise music, a lot of the categories would surely focus on some extramusical rupture the record caused.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Coming Apart Together
Various Artists We Are the Works in Progress (Asa Wa Kuru) Songs that belong together make each other better.