1 December 2008 :: stirring up anger problems you never knew existed

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Dom Sinacola
Associate Editor, The Heart of this Little Operation

e-mail: sinacola@cokemachineglow.com

Record Reviews:

Most Recent /

David Byrne/Brian Eno :: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
(Self-released/Todo Mundo; 2008)Crystal Stilts :: Alight Of Night
(Slumberland; 2008)Damien Jurado :: Caught In The Trees
(Secretly Canadian; 2008)Final Fantasy :: Spectrum, 14th Century / Plays To Please EP
(Blocks Recording Club / States Rights Records/Slender Means Society; 2008)Benoît Pioulard :: Temper
(Kranky; 2008)

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Crystal Stilts :: Alight Of Night Adem :: Homesongs Adem :: Love and other planets Anamoanon :: JOJI Antony and the Johnsons :: Another World EP Arthur & Yu :: In Camera August :: The Cellar Benoît Pioulard :: Précis Benoît Pioulard :: Temper Bonnie "Prince" Billy :: Lie Down In The Light Andrew Bird :: The Mysterious Production of Eggs Andrew Bird :: Soldier On EP Björk :: Medúlla Björk :: Drawing Restraint 9 Black Happy Day :: In the Garden of Ghostflowers The Black Heart Procession :: The Spell Black Mountain :: Black Mountain Blackalicious :: The Craft Blockhead :: Downtown Science The Boy Least Likely To :: The Best Party Ever Br. Danielson :: Brother Is To Son Bracken :: We Know About the Need Brightblack Morning Light :: Brightblack Morning Light David Thomas Broughton :: David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz EP Built to Spill :: There's Nothing Wrong With Love (OF) Busdriver :: RoadKillOvercoat David Byrne :: Grown Backwards David Byrne :: Live in Austin TX David Byrne/Brian Eno :: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today David Byrne/Brian Eno :: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Johnny Cash :: American V: A Hundred Highways Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds :: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds :: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! Chin Up Chin Up :: We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers Chin Up Chin Up :: This Harness Can't Ride Anything Clinic :: Visitations CoCoComa :: CoCoComa (NBH) Copperpot :: Chapter 7 CSS :: Cansei de Ser Sexy Danielson :: Ships Dan Deacon :: Spiderman of the Rings The Dears :: Gang of Losers Deerhunter :: Cryptograms The Delgados :: Universal Audio Dirty Three :: Cinder Dolorean :: You Can't Win Eels :: Blinking Lights and Other Revelations Elliott Brood :: Ambassador The End of the World :: The End of the World EP The Envelopes :: Demon SJ Esau :: Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse Andre Ethier :: Secondathallam Marianne Faithfull :: Before the Poison Final Fantasy :: Spectrum, 14th Century / Plays To Please EP The Flaming Lips :: At War With the Mystics Sage Francis :: Human the Death Dance John Frusciante and Eric Klinghoffer :: A Sphere in the Heart of Silence Fuck :: Those Are Not My Bongos Fuck Buttons :: Street Horrrsing Future of the Left :: Curses The Golden Dogs :: Big Eye Little Eye Half-handed Cloud :: Halos & Lassos Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová :: Once HEALTH :: HEALTH Tim Hecker :: Harmony In Ultraviolet Joan of Arc :: Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain... Scarlett Johansson :: Anywhere I Lay My Head Junior Senior :: Hey Hey My My Yo Yo Damien Jurado :: Just In Time For Something EP Damien Jurado :: On My Way to Absence Damien Jurado :: And Now That I'm In Your Shadow Damien Jurado :: Caught In The Trees Keren Ann :: Nolita Lackthereof :: My Haunted Liars :: Liars Lichens :: Omns Lil Wayne :: Tha Carter III Mixtape Mixtape Lil Wayne :: Tha Carter III Ludacris :: The Red Light District Ludacris :: Release Therapy Man Man :: Man In a Blue Turban With a Face Man Man :: Six Demon Bag Menomena :: Under An Hour Menomena :: Friend and Foe MGMT :: Oracular Spectacular Mount Eerie :: Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP Ms. John Soda :: Notes and the Like Mount Eerie :: No Flashlight Mount Eerie :: "SINGERS" Mount Eerie :: 11 Old Songs My Morning Jacket :: Ch. 1: The Sandworm Cometh (Early Recordings) My Morning Jacket :: Ch. 2: Learning (Early Recordings) Neon Neon :: Stainless Style Stina Nordenstam :: The World is Saved The Notwist :: The Devil, You + Me On! Air! Library! :: Self-titled The Perceptionists :: Black Dialogue Peril Hill :: Scream At the Jackdaw, Make Him Stop (NBH) Phil :: Whatever Happened To Your Loving Heart Phosphorescent :: Aw Come Aw Wry Phosphorescent :: Pride The Pink Mountaintops :: Self-titled The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers :: The Mother of Love Emulates the Shapes of Cynthia Sam Prekop :: Who's Your New Professor Prince :: 3121 Prince :: Planet Earth Prurient :: Pleasure Ground The Raconteurs :: Broken Boy Soldiers The Raconteurs :: Consolers of the Lonely Ratatat :: Classics The Rhombus :: Bupkes (NBH) The Rhombus :: Margins Gruff Rhys :: Yr Atal Genhedlaeth Gruff Rhys :: Candylion Max Richter :: Songs From Before The Robot Ate Me :: Carousel Waltz Roommate :: Songs the Animals Taught Us (NBH) Roommate :: New Steam EP Roommate :: We Were Enchanted The Ruby Suns :: Sea Lion Secret Machines :: Ten Silver Drops William Shatner :: Has Been Sigur Rós :: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust SkinnyMan :: Council Estate of Mind Something For Rockets :: Self-titled Sparklehorse :: Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain Bruce Springsteen :: Magic Stars Like Fleas :: The Ken Burns Effect Sufjan Stevens :: Illinois Sun Kil Moon :: Tiny Cities Sun Kil Moon :: April Super Furry Animals :: Phantom Phorce/Slow Life EP Super Furry Animals :: Hey Venus! Talking Heads :: The Name of This Band is Talking Heads Reissue Thanksgiving :: Welcome Nowhere Thee Silver Mountain Reveries :: Pretty Little Lightning Paw EP Titus Andronicus :: The Airing of Grievances Martina Topley-Bird :: Anything Valet :: Blood Is Clean Tom Waits :: Real Gone Tom Waits :: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards Comp M. Ward :: Post-War M. Ward :: Duet For Guitars #2 Reissue Various Artists :: Warm & Scratchy Comp White Rainbow :: Prism of Eternal Now Jim White :: Drill A Hole In That Substrate and Tell Me What You See White/Lichens :: White/Lichens Wolf & Cub :: Vessels Wzt Hearts :: Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones Yeasayer :: All Hour Cymbals

Co-authored ::

Frog Eyes :: Tears of the Valedictorian Sigur Rós :: Hvarf/Heim & Heima

[↓top rated albums of 2008 by this author] /

Lil Wayne :: Tha Carter III
(Cash Money; 2008) / Rating: 84 / Combined Rating: 78 Bonnie "Prince" Billy :: Lie Down In The Light
(Drag City; 2008) / Rating: 83 / Combined Rating: 75 Fuck Buttons :: Street Horrrsing
(ATP; 2008) / Rating: 81 / Combined Rating: 67 Lil Wayne :: Tha Carter III Mixtape Mixtape
(n/a; 2008) / Rating: 80 / Combined Rating: 77 Stars Like Fleas :: The Ken Burns Effect
(Hometapes; 2008) / Rating: 79 / Combined Rating: 77 Roommate :: We Were Enchanted
(Plug Research/Shrug Records (vinyl only); 2008) / Rating: 79 / Combined Rating: 80 Final Fantasy :: Spectrum, 14th Century / Plays To Please EP
(Blocks Recording Club / States Rights Records/Slender Means Society; 2008) / Rating: 78 / 70 / Combined Rating: N/A The Ruby Suns :: Sea Lion
(Sub Pop; 2008) / Rating: 78 / Combined Rating: 79 Lackthereof :: My Haunted
(FILMguerrero; 2008) / Rating: 78 / Combined Rating: 78 Neon Neon :: Stainless Style
(Lex; 2008) / Rating: 76 / Combined Rating: 75 Crystal Stilts :: Alight Of Night
(Slumberland; 2008) / Rating: 69 / Combined Rating: 70 Sigur Rós :: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
(Beggars XL; 2008) / Rating: 69 / Combined Rating: 72 Damien Jurado :: Caught In The Trees
(Secretly Canadian; 2008) / Rating: 68 / Combined Rating: N/A Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds :: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
(Mute/Anti-; 2008) / Rating: 66 / Combined Rating: 74 The Notwist :: The Devil, You + Me
(Domino; 2008) / Rating: 64 / Combined Rating: 71 Sun Kil Moon :: April
(Caldo Verde; 2008) / Rating: 64 / Combined Rating: 65 Andrew Bird :: Soldier On EP
(Grimsey; 2008) / Rating: 63 / Combined Rating: 70 David Byrne/Brian Eno :: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
(Self-released/Todo Mundo; 2008) / Rating: 60 / Combined Rating: N/A Antony and the Johnsons :: Another World EP
(Secretly Canadian; 2008) / Rating: 59 / Combined Rating: N/A Mount Eerie :: Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP
(P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.; 2008) / Rating: 59 / Combined Rating: 64

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