‘Semicircle’ Proves the Go! Team Possesses the Fountain of Youth
Semicircle is a fantastic little album with exactly the sort of youthful, innocent drive that you rarely see from artists well into middle age.
Mike Schiller
Mike Schiller is a software engineer in Buffalo, NY. He has blogged and written music and video game reviews for PopMatters since 2004, and also spent a couple years editing the Multimedia section. He also spent five years writing regular game reviews for the Raleigh News & Observer, and has had freelance work published at The Escapist and Polygon.
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A Visual Encyclopedic Look at Mute Records
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Cut Copy: Haiku from Zero
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