Local Review: Rare Facture – Light In The Dark

Local Review: Rare Facture – Light In The Dark
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Rare Facture Light In The Dark Self-Released Street: 06.30 Rare Facture = OMD + Depeche Mode Here’s a novel notion, local musos: study and learn the genre you’re interested in until it becomes your passion—if not your love—then go and make an album. Seemingly without pretension, local synth duo Tom Cella and David Burdick have

Local Review: L’anarchiste – Giant

Local Review: L’anarchiste – Giant
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L’anarchiste Giant Kilby Records Street: 07.14 L’anarchiste = Sufjan Stevens + Bon Iver Giant, the electro-acoustic follow-up to L’anarchiste’s transitionary EP The Traveler, shows L’anarchiste stretching their orchestral-folk muscles as far as they can into an electronic realm. “Samundar” and “Hold Tight” are unashamedly Sufjan Stevens–influenced, with harmonies straight out of Stevens’ catalogue. The latter

Local Review: Golden Plates – Eugenics

Local Review: Golden Plates – Eugenics
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Golden Plates Eugenics Self-Released Street: 05.11 Golden Plates = (Lenny Kravitz x Monster Magnet) / The Strokes One of the toughest assignments I’ve had since I started writing for SLUG is the task of trying to define Golden Plates. Part blues, part distortion, part machismo rock n’ roll, it seems to be a music project

Local Review: Boone – Next Best Tapes

Local Review: Boone – Next Best Tapes
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Boone Next Best Tapes Self-Released Street: 06.26 Boone = Kid Cudi + Pink Floyd No, Next Best Tapes is not the latest hip-hop release from frontiersman Daniel Boone (however interesting that might have been), but instead a solid premiere for the rising Huntsville artist, Boone. In Next Best Tapes, we find a rapper who is,

 
 
Local Review: Atomic 45 – Cauterized

Local Review: Atomic 45 – Cauterized
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Atomic 45 Cauterized Self-Released Street: 04.04 Atomic 45 = System of a Down + Suicidal Tendencies + Corrosion of Conformity I love a band that goes for it unapologetically in their approach, not that they should be apologizing for anything. What I’m getting from Cauterized is an element of exuberance that wasn’t as present on

Local Review: Andrew Shaw – You’ve Got An Evil Place In Your Heart

Local Review: Andrew Shaw – You’ve Got An Evil Place...
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Andrew Shaw You’ve Got An Evil Place In Your Heart Self-Released Street: 07.07 Andrew Shaw = All-Time Quarterback / Bright Eyes Andrew Shaw makes the kind of lo-fi bedroom folk that flourished in the mid-2000s through artists like Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Bright Eyes. Shaw’s latest album, You’ve Got An Evil

Review: Gel Set – Human Salad

Review: Gel Set – Human Salad
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Gel Set = Chris & Cosey x Throbbing Gristle + Chromatics … read more

Review: Fear Factory – Genexus

Review: Fear Factory – Genexus
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Fear Factory = Godflesh + Napalm Death + Pitchshifter … read more