Review

The War On Drugs: Lost in the Dream

It takes some kind of wonderful for a band to be able to turn something familiar and dated into something classic and refreshing.

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Wild Beasts: Present Tense

Wild Beasts’ fourth studio album was given shape in vastly different circumstances than its predecessors.

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Cibo Matto: Hotel Valentine

It took 15 whole years before the duo of Miho Hatori and Yuka C. Honda decided to reunite after a breakup-slash-hiatus to release a third album.

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VMPRMYTH: HEROINe

It is difficult to understand the statement being made on HEROINe, but it’s also equally clear that one is being made.

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Bombay Bicycle Club: So Long, See You Tomorrow

Bombay Bicycle Club is one effing clever band. With their fourth full length, they prove that bandwagon-jumping is key to longevity in a hipster’s playlist.

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Actress: Ghettoville

Darren Cunningham’s career as Actress might just be performance art by way of music production.

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East India Youth: Total Strife Forever

A debut album that bursts with beauty and boldness that will keep strife away forever.

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Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven

Computer music made emotive and thought provoking.

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Laurel Halo: Chance of Rain

It’s not as challenging as some critics have made it out to be, not when Halo’s grilles of beats can so easily ensnare you, body and mind, like how sheets of rain catches a child in awe.

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Nils Frahm: Spaces

Both conceptual (in the incorporation of audience and ambient sounds) and not highfalutin (the longest, loudest track is titled ‘For – Peter – Toilet Brushes – More’) it’s neo-classical minimalist musique concrète that’s quite a quiet delight for the senses.