Dan Raper

Dan Raper has been writing about music for PopMatters since 2005. Prior to that he did the same thing for his college newspaper and for his school newspaper before that. Of course he also writes fiction, though his only published work is entitled "Gamma-secretase exists on the plasma membrane as an intact complex that accepts substrates and effects intramembrane cleavage". He is currently studying medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia.

YACHT: See Mystery Lights

Chester French: Love the Future

Maher Shalal Hash Baz: C’est La Derniere Chanson

WhoMadeWho: The Plot

Various Artists: Kitsune Tabloid by Phoenix

Regina Spektor: Far

Alan Wilkis: Pink and Purple

Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer

Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer

For all its layered structures, Sunset Rubdown’s Dragonslayer has a starry-eyed innocence about it; this may be a large part of its appeal.

God Help the Girl: God Help the Girl

Ghislain Poirier: Soca Sound System

Lewis & Clarke: Light TIme

Ross McLennan: Sympathy for the New World