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Wolves

2008-06-20T01:01:26Z

Dosh is another one man project, sometimes augmented by guests and collaborators (notably Fog's Andrew Broder, Andrew Bird, Bonnie 'Prince Billy', and others). His usual working method is to build songs layer by layer, armed with a drum kit, rhod...

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Everything Mends (I'm Glad We're Friends)

2008-06-19T05:12:46Z

Hello. Is this thing on? Test....test. So it's been a while. I used to keep up with this whole daily MP3 thing on this here little Vox blog, but it's been *checks archives* just over a year since I actually did anything here. In fact, I was 27 ...

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Phut of Plex

2007-05-23T23:49:05Z

Fizzarum's Monochrome Plural is one of those secret gems, an album that came out of nowhere, sold out it's initial pressing, and basically disappeared, only to be spoken of in hushed tones by the true fans. Comparisons to early Autechre are the e...

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Welcome To The Working Week

2007-05-22T00:51:55Z

How's Monday treating you? Mine presented me with 5:30am dogshit cleanup and a dead car battery. Then there was work...so here's a song about that. You know Elvis Costello, right? Sort-of-but-not-really punkish icon of British rock/pop, revived ...

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Quick Break

2007-05-17T03:01:51Z

Not feeling very inspired to write this week, plus I'm going camping this weekend, so I'm taking a quick break. But I have all sorts of new music to digest, so I'll see y'all next week.

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Through You

2007-05-14T01:48:26Z

Not sparse enough to be ambient, too many live instruments for techno, too loopy for post rock, not loud enough to be shoegazer/dreampop...where exactly does Seefeel fit? "Through You," from their first full-length, Quique, rides all of these ge...

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Lysine

2007-05-12T02:54:36Z

Let's hear it for educational synthpop! This song is just complete giddy fun, packing in funky basslines, beat freakouts, found sounds and female vocals by Becky Jacobs, the sister of Max Tundra (AKA Ben Jacobs). It sort of sounds like a glitchi...

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It's Kinda Funny

2007-05-11T03:06:31Z

Even their own liner notes can't resist making the inevitable Joy Division comparison. Well, the liner notes to the recent re-release of most of their catalog on Domino Records. At one point, Scottish post-punk band Josef K was a footnote in the ...

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When We'll Wait All The Tables

2007-05-09T03:16:33Z

Like their countrymen Disco Inferno, Hood has toiled in relative obscurity for most of the 90s and 00s, making music that combines savory pop with experimental material that some might consider unpalatable. Which is a shame really, since it's act...

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Even The Sea Sides Against Us

2007-05-08T02:59:11Z

I think Disco Inferno is one of the best band names ever, especially since it belongs to a band that is completely undanceable and challenging on all levels, practically the opposite of all that actual disco music championed. Disco Inferno is on...

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