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Six Organs of Admittance: Hexadic
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Six Organs of Admittance: Hexadic

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 / 18 February 2015
While Six Organs of Admittance do an admirable job of crafting big walls of feedback and drones over which to jam, the tracks on Hexadic tend to meander and stumble around without really going anywhere.
Pharmakon: Bestial Burden
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Pharmakon: Bestial Burden

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 / 16 October 2014
Bestial Burden really knows how to work a mood, and beat that sense of claustrophobic misery right into the ground.
Caribou: Our Love
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Caribou: Our Love

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 / 10 October 2014
By tweaking the sound of his previous record, Caribou's Dan Snaith has created one of the most enjoyable, crowd-pleasing records of the year.
Getting Lost in the South: The Hopscotch Music Festival 2014
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Getting Lost in the South: The Hopscotch Music Festival 2014

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 / 26 September 2014
Did I truly experience "the Real South" over the course of the Hopscotch Music Festival weekend?
Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa: Savage Imagination
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Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa: Savage Imagination

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 / 26 September 2014
Almost every single moment of Savage Imagination is pretty and melodic, but these tracks tend to just drift by before dissolving into the next pretty, sweet bit of noodling.
Tricky: Adrian Thaws
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Tricky: Adrian Thaws

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 / 12 September 2014
Adrian Thaws is one of Tricky's most successful attempts to achieve reconciliation between the strengths of his established sound, and his need to progress as an artist.
Various Artists: A Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music
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Various Artists: A Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music

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 / 5 August 2014
A Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music does a tolerably good job of giving the listener a healthy taste of what this tradition is all about, without drowning the listener in five or six CDs.
Tiësto: A Town Called Paradise
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Tiësto: A Town Called Paradise

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 / 27 June 2014
Most of the material on Tiësto’s A Town Called Paradise sounds like a Pepsi commercial.
Ben Frost: Aurora
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Ben Frost: Aurora

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 / 27 May 2014
Ben Frost makes music that is at once overwhelming in its sonic intensity and at the same time, poignantly beautiful.
Yann Tiersen: ∞
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Yann Tiersen: ∞

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 / 21 May 2014
No one making music today merges the worlds of popular music, experimental music, Western classical music, and European folk music as expertly as Yann Tiersen, and ∞ is one of his most fully realized projects.
King Dude: Fear
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King Dude: Fear

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 / 8 May 2014
King Dude sings about the devil, the open road, wild women, and hard times, and if that’s not the essence of rock ’n’ roll I don’t know what is.
Cynic: Kindly Bent to Free Us
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Cynic: Kindly Bent to Free Us

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 / 14 April 2014
Cynic makes technical, progressive sounding music sound fun and emotional. These guys are masterful technical musicians, but more importantly, they are great song writers.