Hailing from sunny Southern California, Norse Horse is Ryan Beal. Employing melodic guitar riffs, synths, and layered vocals, Norse Horse’s Grids EP was released digitally on December 8th by Polyvinyl Records. The EP, spanning five tracks in length, imparts a dynamic sense of mood change, with upbeat tracks like Sun Corridors giving way to...
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Last night I was watching some “Maniac Cop” with a good friend of mine. I needed some 80′s nostalgia, but that has little to do with this review. I mentioned “Community” to him and a few phrases later he said “You know that dude is Childish Gambino, right?” “No way!” said I. Through the...
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M83 (Anthony Gonzalez, more or less) have been around since 2001. I remember listening to Saturdays=Youth my freshman year in college and loved the dreamy “Kim & Jessie”. The album was pretty damn good, but I have to admit, I forgot about the band a few months later and didn’t care to revisit their...
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M+A is an electronic duo from Italy who are an average of 20 years old between the two (19 & 22) – 20.5 if you’re an asshole. Things.Yes is part ambient and part electronic. If it was a noun, which it is, I would say it is a place. The place? Remember that episode...
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Speculator is the brain-child of Nick Ray who loves his lo-fi about as much as I love red licorice. This album is entirely ambient so if you’re looking for a “pop” record, you came to the wrong place. Noise (But really, it all sounds like this) Speculator: “(It’s on) Every Channel” by alteredzones Pros...
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Noxious Foxes is a band from Brooklyn who joined together after meeting in college. Never heard that story before. Anyone Can Play Guitar Pros Well, we have another math-rock band playing with time signatures with no vocals. On Wherever Hugo, Guido, I enjoyed some of the playful palm mutes and bass lines. O…k…...
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The hip-hop underground scene has melded into slam poetry put over a ghetto beat. Folks like Sage Francis and Aesop Rock have made their way into a more “visible” underground by doing it really well. The Wine Thieves both have the voices to pull off a decent record, their flow is decent, but the...
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It has been a good long time since I was a pop punker. Years since the last time I attended my once annual tradition of The Warped Tour. I shaved off my last Mohawk the better part of a decade ago, and these days all of my skateboarding is done almost exclusively for the...
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Valter (Paul Pitkin) is a singer/songwriter who released this EP in a less traditional way than his previous. According to his biography, he decided to go with the flow and not necessarily stick to traditional song structure. For this EP, I’ll be doing a track by track review to trace some of the things...
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When you put on a Bob Dylan record, whether it’s Blood On The Tracks or Under The Red Sky, you know it’s a Dylan record though the two albums have little in sonic relation. It’s rare to find an artist with such a strongly developed core sound that isn’t afraid to switch the formula...
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