Rumpus Sound Takes
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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: Take Three
Boris New Album (Sargent House) If, like a lot of Boris listeners in the United States, you were introduced to the band through its heavy yet accessible Pink in 2005, you’re probably aware of Boris’ ability to shift gears from…
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Sound Takes: Within Without
White Fence Family Perfume, Vol 1 & Vol 2 (Woodsist) The first thing you have to accept when you listen to White Fence is that Tim Presley sings like George Harrison.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Music for Libraries
Ben Von Wildenhaus Great Melodies From Around (Riot Bear Recording Co.) In Retromania, Simon Reynolds quotes Brian Eno from a 1991 Artforum article: “Curatorship is arguably the big new job of our times. … In an age saturated with new…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Band-aids and Stitches
Various Artists Luz de Vida (Fort Lowell Records) 1. A Little Context Tragedy can define a city, coloring not only the way it is perceived by outsiders but, inevitably, the way the city’s people see themselves.
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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: California Bubble Pop
Ty Segall Goodbye Bread (Drag City) Orange County native Ty Segall weaves garage, surf, glam, and psychedelic rock into a collage that plays as self-consciously with its sources as any post-1960s folk music.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Moving Backward, Forward
Steve Reich WTC 9/11 (Nonesuch) “It’s pretty much Different Trains but for 9/11.”
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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: In Our Rooms
Atlas Sound Parallax (4AD) I am not particularly attuned to my cultural moment when I listen to Bradford Cox’s music.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Inside Outside
Iceage New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?) Perhaps because the band consists of four clean-cut Danish teenagers, Iceage’s brash, discordant punk has made it the darlings of both the Pitchfork and the Maximumrocknroll sets.