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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.

The first half of The Order of Things is simply excellent, and amazingly modest in approach.

One of rock’s stranger listening experiences.

Despite much of the album’s rather gloomy sound, there’s nothing overwrought or melodramatic about it

A palpable sense of longing permeates the cryptic lyrics.

Listening to Roadside Monument becomes educational and challenging, while remaining emotional.

Probably one of most challenging things that Tooth and Nail Records has ever released.

Roadside Monument’s music is instantly accessible, but has enough depth, intensity, and emotion to keep me coming back.