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Father Murphy | ... And He Told Us To Turn to the Sun

Aagoo (2009)
Harking back to an America where one's own lonely voice was the only radio and a BBQ meant a spit in the middle of the desert, Torino's Father Murphy hide detuned industrial textures within stripped-down, spacy folk instrumentation, like a man in a black hat picking up a bullet-riddled guitar with which to serenade his captives.
By DEVIN KING  |  July 29, 2009
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The moving pictures

Pattern Is Movement reanimate the past
If one way that bands tie themselves to the past is through sonic reference — Fleet Foxes calling forth Crosby, Stills and Nash, or Animal Collective channeling the Grateful Dead — then there's been a number of bands who tie themselves to the past through cultural reference.
By DEVIN KING  |  May 12, 2009
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Slideshow: Vintage photos inspire Pattern Is Movement

Pattern Is Movement's latest album inspired by these photos  
Pattern Is Movement's latest album inspired by these photos  
By PHOENIX WEB STAFF  |  May 12, 2009
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Sincerely yours,

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's new homonymous album is filled with well-worn lyrics.
There is a surge in polyglot music, but despite its force, a strain of conservatism (one that has always run through indie rock) is keeping pace.
By DEVIN KING  |  March 12, 2009
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2008 Listravaganza Part 2

The lighter side of music in 2008
Everything you wanted to know about the year in music, in tidy lists of 10.
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  January 05, 2009
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2008 Listravaganza!

An absolute glut of cruelly reductive Top 10 lists from our dedicated staff of tirelessly enthusiastic writers
We are not at all sick of bands with animal names yet and seem to have a soft spot for Erykah Badu that we kept very hush about all year.
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  December 31, 2008
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Review: Various Artists | Instro Hipsters A Go-Go!

Throwback Throwdown
Psychic Circle (2008)
By DEVIN KING  |  December 15, 2008
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Luomo | Convivial

Huume (2008)      
Known also for his more ambient work as Vladislav Delay, Luomo is the house-music moniker of Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti.
By DEVIN KING  |  November 11, 2008
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Wilderness | (k)no(w)here

Jagjaguwar (2008)
This could prove strenuous, but the album is more contemplative than didactic — a (k)no(w)here that’s difficult to study but easy to inhabit.  
By DEVIN KING  |  October 28, 2008
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School of Seven Bells | Alpinisms

Ghostly International (2008)
School of Seven Bells piece together two points of reference: the electronic music made popular by the Postal Service, Volvo ads, etc.; and the tightly controlled feedback of shoegaze.  
By DEVIN KING  |  October 27, 2008
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Pedal | Pedal

Staubgold (2008)
Any undergrad who has a few Satie discs in his or her collection — for studying and making out! — would find the same passive ambiance on this album.  
By DEVIN KING  |  October 15, 2008
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Growing | All the Way

Social Registry
You get the sense that Growing have been looking more and more toward the other side of the drone spectrum — that of the tiny computer.
By DEVIN KING  |  September 10, 2008
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Brian Wilson

That Lucky Old Sun | Capitol/EMI
Brian Wilson and his karaoke-smooth backing band the Wondermints have instead given us something on par with 1970s Beach Boys.
By DEVIN KING  |  September 02, 2008
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Hollerpalooza

Eli Reed says he’s better than Otis
Eli “Paperboy” Reed seems dubious about my following him for a few hours before and after his five o’clock Lollapalooza show in Chicago’s Grant Park last Sunday.
By DEVIN KING  |  August 05, 2008
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Mars

The Complete Studio Recordings, NYC 1977-1978  | No More
Career-spanning records usually mark a band’s evolution; this outfit existed for just two years, so the material sketches a near-perfect first and sole album.
By DEVIN KING  |  July 29, 2008
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Women

Women | Flemish Eye
Women initially sound like most Beach Boys- or Kinksinfluenced bedroom pop.
By DEVIN KING  |  July 22, 2008
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Mission Of Burma at Pitchfork Music Fest, Union Park, Chicago, July 18, 2008
The band, as always, sounded fantastic, especially if you’d been listening to the record all week in preparation.
By DEVIN KING  |  July 22, 2008
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Sic Alps

U.S. Ez | Siltbreeze
U.S. Ez , emboldened by all sorts of sloppiness, works in the way of Lomax’s porch recordings, forcing rock and roll back into a folk tradition.
By DEVIN KING  |  July 15, 2008
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Paper Thin Stages

Magic Jar of Jar of Animal | Self-released
For their new album the band wrangle originally non-discrete material into 11 song-like morsels.
By DEVIN KING  |  July 08, 2008
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Spontaneous celebrations

Oxford Collapse get friendly
Last week, after dinner with Oxford Collapse, we walk back over to Chicago’s Empty Bottle to watch the openers.
By DEVIN KING  |  June 26, 2008

Sun City Girls + Fire on Fire

Friends of legends
The two remaining members of Sun City Girls, Alan and Richard Bishop, will pay tribute to their recently deceased bandmate, Charles Gocher, at Friday's event.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  June 18, 2008
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Scorch Trio

Brolt! | Rune Grammofon
Brolt! | Rune Grammofon
By DEVIN KING  |  June 17, 2008
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Praising Arizona

Sun City Girls survey an unwieldy legacy
As a tribute to the man and a goodbye to the band he was a part of for more than 20 years, the Bishop brothers, as Brothers Unconnected, are touring the country, and playing an acoustic set of Sun City Girls songs.
By DEVIN KING  |  June 10, 2008
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Gas

Nah Und Fern | Kompakt
Kompakt label head Wolfgang Voigt re-releases the four discs of his Gas project — long hailed as some of the best albums in ambient techno — along with a double LP of extended material.
By DEVIN KING  |  June 03, 2008
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Collections of Colonies of Bees

Birds | Radium
If one extension of math rock is Battles’ experiments with poppy aggression, Collections of Colonies of Bees prove that the genre doesn’t have to sublimate angst into vocoded aggression.
By DEVIN KING  |  May 20, 2008

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