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Joel Elliott
Staff Writer

e-mail: joel@cokemachineglow.com

Record Reviews:
Most Recent /
Shearwater :: The Golden Archipelago
(Matador; 2010)Beach House :: Teen Dream
(Sub Pop; 2010)Peter Evans :: Nature/Culture
(Psi; 2009)Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation des Samples :: Circulations
(Faitiche; 2009)Supersilent :: 9
(Rune Grammofon; 2009)
[↓see all] /
7k Oaks: 7000 Oaks (2008) Akron/Family: Love is Simple (2007) Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light (2009) Autechre: Quaristice (2008) Bar Kokhba: Lucifer: Book of Angels Vol. 10 (2008) Bauhaus: Go Away White (2008) Beach House: Teen Dream (2010) Black Dice: Load Blown (2007) Black Moth Super Rainbow: Eating Us (2009) Box: Studio 1 (2008) Tyondai Braxton: Central Market (2009) Brightblack Morning Light: Motion to Rejoin (2008) Charalambides: Likeness (2007) Circulatory System: Signal Morning (2009) Clark: Turning Dragon (2008) Cluster: Qua (2009) Leonard Cohen: Live in London (2009) D. Rider: Mother of Curses (2009) Do Make Say Think: You, You're A History in Rust (2007) Dungen: Tio Bitar (2007) Dungen: 4 (2008) El Perro del Mar: From the Valley to the Stars (2008) Elegi: Varde (2009) Elektronavn: Cosmic Continuum (NBH) (2008) Peter Evans: Nature/Culture (2009) Exploding Star Orchestra: We Are All From Somewhere Else (2007) Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra: Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra (2008) Explosions in the Sky: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2007) Faust: C’est Com…Com…Compliqué (2009) Fennesz/Sakamoto: Cendre (2007) Fever Ray: Fever Ray (2009) The Flaming Lips: Embryonic (2009) Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation des Samples: Circulations (2009) Ghost: In Stormy Nights (2007) Dennis González & Faruq Z. Bey: Hymn for Tomasz Stanko (NBH) (2009) Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country (2009) Arve Henriksen: Strjon (2007) I Heart Lung: Interoceans (2008) Giuseppe Ielasi: Aix (2009) Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern (2008) Philip Jeck: Sand (2008) Kangding Ray: Automne Fold (2008) Lansing-Dreiden: The Dividing Island (2006) Dominique Leone: Dominique Leone (2008) Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas: II (2009) Love: Forever Changes (Collector's Edition) Reissue (1967) Low: Drums and Guns (2007) Masada Quintet f/ Joe Lovano: Stolas: Book of Angels Vol. 12 (2009) Rob Mazurek: Abstractions on Robert D'Arbrissel (2008) Daniel Menche: Glass Forest (2008) MoHa!: One Way Ticket to Candyland (2008) Mokira: Persona (2009) Musiconspiracy: Do I the In? (NBH) (2009) Nalle: The Siren's Wave (2008) NOMO: Invisible Cities (2009) Odawas: Raven and the White Night (2007) Odawas: The Blue Depths (2009) Paavoharju: Laulu Laakson Kukista (2008) Arvo Pärt: In Principio (2009) Pjusk: Sart (2007) Pole: Steingarten (2007) Port-Royal: Afraid to Dance (2007) Roam the Hello Clouds: Near Misses (2007) Shearwater: Rook (2008) Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago (2010) Soap & Skin: Lovetune for Vacuum (2009) Sonic Youth with Merzbow and Mats Gustafsson / Original Silence: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth / The Second Original Silence (2008) DM Stith: Heavy Ghost (2009) Studio: Yearbook 1 (2007) Subtle: ExitingARM (2008) Sunburned Hand of the Man: Fire Escape (2007) Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions (2009) Supersilent: 8 (2007) Supersilent: 9 (2009) Surrounded: The Nautilus Years (2008) M. Templeton + aA. Munson: Acre Loss (2009) Mark Templeton: Inland (2009) Mark Templeton: Standing on a Hummingbird (2007) Tinariwen: Aman Iman: Water is Life (2007) Tinariwen: Imidiwan: Companions (2009) Amon Tobin: Foley Room (2007) Tomutonttu: Tomutonto/Tomutonttu Reissue (2006/2007) Ultralyd: Conditions for a Piece of Music (2007) Valet: Naked Acid (2008) Vladislav Delay: Tummaa (2009) Zu: Carboniferous (2009)

Co-authored:

Portishead: Third (2008) Radiohead: In Rainbows (CP) (2007)
[↓top rated albums of 2009 by this author] /
The Flaming Lips :: Embryonic
(Warner Bros.; 2009) / Rating: 88 / Combined Rating: 85 Circulatory System :: Signal Morning
(Cloud Recordings; 2009) / Rating: 86 / Combined Rating: 86 Sunn O))) :: Monoliths & Dimensions
(Southern Lord; 2009) / Rating: 85 / Combined Rating: 78 Musiconspiracy :: Do I the In? (NBH)
(Not Two; 2009) / Rating: 82 / Combined Rating: N/A Arvo Pärt :: In Principio
(ECM; 2009) / Rating: 82 / Combined Rating: 80 M. Templeton + aA. Munson :: Acre Loss
(Anticipate; 2009) / Rating: 82 / Combined Rating: N/A Peter Evans :: Nature/Culture
(Psi; 2009) / Rating: 81 / Combined Rating: N/A Tim Hecker :: An Imaginary Country
(Kranky; 2009) / Rating: 80 / Combined Rating: 80 Tinariwen :: Imidiwan: Companions
(Independiente/World Village; 2009) / Rating: 79 / Combined Rating: N/A Tomutonttu :: Tomutonto/Tomutonttu Reissue
(Ultra Eczema/Beta-lactam Ring/Fonal; 2006/2007/2009) / Rating: 79% / 83 / Combined Rating: N/A Elegi :: Varde
(Miasmah; 2009) / Rating: 79 / Combined Rating: 77 Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation des Samples :: Circulations
(Faitiche; 2009) / Rating: 78 / Combined Rating: N/A NOMO :: Invisible Cities
(Ubiquity; 2009) / Rating: 78 / Combined Rating: 78 Mokira :: Persona
(Type; 2009) / Rating: 78 / Combined Rating: 78 Antony and the Johnsons :: The Crying Light
(Secretly Canadian; 2009) / Rating: 77 / Combined Rating: 75 Dennis González & Faruq Z. Bey :: Hymn for Tomasz Stanko (NBH)
(Qbico; 2009) / Rating: 76 / Combined Rating: N/A Zu :: Carboniferous
(Ipecac; 2009) / Rating: 75 / Combined Rating: 78 Black Moth Super Rainbow :: Eating Us
(Graveface; 2009) / Rating: 74 / Combined Rating: N/A Giuseppe Ielasi :: Aix
(12k; 2009) / Rating: 73 / Combined Rating: N/A Fever Ray :: Fever Ray
(Mute; 2009) / Rating: 72 / Combined Rating: 73