Category: Reviews
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Leave it to Grimes and friends to concoct a super fun and highly amusing post Christmas jam!
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29. PLASTISCINES: BACK TO THE START Now a trio, the French group Plastiscines released one of the year’s finest pop rock albums from any country. And you shouldn’t let the French thing keep you away because most of these songs are in English. Plus, these are some of the most well-produced, energetic tunes this year.…
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45. UNWOMAN: CIRCLING I’ve heard Unwoman’s Circling categorized as steampunk music. I’m not sure I understand what that means, but I certainly know that the way she – her real name being Erica Mulkey – married her cello with vivid electronic soundscapes was as enchanting as anything this year. Add to that her spell-binding voice…
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Paola Iezzi is one half of the famous Italian sister duo Paola & Chiara, who are easily my all-time favorite duo, and who I would place in my top 5 if I made a list of my favorite artists. Suffice to say I’m entirely biased here. But I’m the publisher of this site, so I…
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Super synthy, semi dark, sugary sweet… One of iamamiwhoami’s finest songs now has a video. And it’s positively creepy. For those of you who aren’t digging the Christmas music.
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It’s no secret that I love Christmas music. But what you probably don’t know is that I’m a collector of songs about California. Now that I’ve added this one, I have a total of 235! And this is now my third favorite song about Christmas in California. My #1 is The Killers’ “Christmas in L.A.”…
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If you like light-hearted country tunes with lots of banjo, you’re in for a real treat here. As always, The Band Perry deliver top notch country music about, what else, love; sure to lift the spirits of anyone who listens. Unless, of course, you happen to hate banjo. But we’re down with the banjo, which…
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Ormonde is a duo who call Seattle, Washington their hometown. They are Robert Gomez and Anna-Lynne Williams. They met when Anna-Lynne traveled to Denton, Texas during the summer of 2008 to record a duet with John Grant, which was being recorded with Midlake in their studio. Robert was there recording guitar parts for the same…
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First of all, you have to check out the video above. It was directed by Syndrome and it’s quite fascinating and creepy; we won’t try to describe it because you should just watch it and see for yourself. In any case, “American Beauty/American Psycho” is one hell of a tune.