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Column / Jericho / V :: Fresh Sound, No Preservatives
Joel Elliott

This month: Joel speaks with Cedric Maridet, a Hong Kong-based sound artist specializing in both gallery installations and field recordings that explore social and cultural boundaries, history and transformation.

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Concert Review /
Lambchop
Concert Review /
The Magnetic Fields
Concert Review /
Atlas Sound

Podcasts

Fantasy Podcast / Fantasy Covers :: The '80s Part Two
The Staff

f/ Jenny Hval, Friendzone, ARMS, Miracle Fortress, .L.W.H., Dream Jefferson, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Jessica Jalbert, Hood Internet, New Animal, Algodón Egipcio, Little Jungles, and more

Recent Podcasts:

NBHcast /
XIX
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CXV
Podcast /
CXIV

Combined Ratings

A CR is the mean rating of at least two staff member's individual ratings. Here are some of the highest this year:

Record Reviews

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
review page link Pop Winds :: Earth to Friend
Calum Marsh

:: Way to make a great album, assholes.
review page link Keiji Haino / Jim O'Rourke / Oren Ambarchi
Imikuzushi

:: About as fashionable as a kick to the balls.
review page link Disasterpeace
Fez OST

:: "Boards of Japan?" No. "Aphex Twintendo?" Uh...Just listen.
review page link Astra
The Black Chord

:: 1973-ier than all of your uncles' mustaches combined.

Friday, 11 May 2012
review page link Zammuto :: Zammuto
Brent Ables

:: So many puns!
review page link Here We Go Magic
A Different Ship

:: May they forever be gently cradled by a 40-something British guy.
review page link La Sera
Sees the Light

:: RIYL: giving, taking, and breaking hearts.
review page link AlunaGeorge
You Know You Like It EP

:: Hundreds of emails, you say! Fascinating.

Friday, 04 May 2012
review page link Death Grips :: The Money Store
Kaylen Hann & Christopher Alexander

:: RIYL: that one Sleigh Bells album; POWERTHIRST videos; precisely shoving things into fish assholes.
review page link The Shins
Port of Morrow

:: + 5 points for the raptors.
review page link High on Fire
De Vermis Mysteriis

:: Translates from the ancient Babylonian as "the Mystery of Lemmy's Moles."
review page link Ty Segall & White Fence
Hair

:: Garage-rock playgrounds: nothing but beer and distortion pedals. And swings, natch.