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The album’s at its best when the music is more atmospheric and cinematic.

Like a set of old, grainy family photographs you stumble across, not so much comforting as haunting.

90% of this comp is filled with beautiful, lo-fi treasures.

Criticizing John Ringhofer for making strange music is pointless because it’s obvious he has no intent to do otherwise.

Oar is a spectacular achievement of truth and beauty, an example of raw emotion reduced to its purest form.

Mark Protus goes from hard rock to country without flinching.

A nice EP offering 3 quite different tracks.

Echo Orbiter have made a good record that uses a lot of old tricks, but in relatively new ways.

A collection of stark, regretful vignettes of longing, loneliness, broken dreams, and haunting memories.

Badly Drawn Boy seems to look for any excuse to break the conventional song set-up.

Unfortunately, the album lacks the tunes to keep up with its masterful lyrics.

Songs in a Northern Key shows an artist at the height of his powers.

Like both the albums that preceded it, Neu! 75 offers what are at times, frustrating glimpses of possibilities.

Perhaps Radiohead’s most intense, experimental, and unconventional album to date.

These compositions move and flow like giant pools of color, shifting at the same graceful pace as the landscape’s colors when the moon slowly moves over it.

Aereogramme always seems to introduce a fatal flaw into their songs.

There’s very little here, politically or musically, that’s worth caring all that much about.

Explosions in the Sky takes what should be a tried and true musical formula and turns it into something primal and affecting.

Harding makes no bones about his desire to make music of only the most gossamer nature, and over the course of 37 minutes, he makes very convincing arguments for his claim.