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Album Review: Baikonour – Your Ear Knows Future

December 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-rock, Alternative, Electronica, Music, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia, Shoegaze

FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Back to the future 6/10 ‘Your Ear Knows Future’ is the sophomore effort from Baikonour – aka Brighton’s French-born Jean-Emmanuel Kreiger – a veritable one-man band whose debut ‘For the Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos‘ was a heady blend of space rock and electronica. Where that first [...]

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Do Make Say Think – You You’re A History In Rust

June 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Alt-rock, Alternative, Best of 2007, Folk/Acoustic, post-rock, Psychedelia

Rustin’ Men 8.5/10 Apparently recorded in old barns in remote parts of Canada, post-rockers Do Make Say Think’s ‘You You’re A History In Rust‘ should be considered as one of the Great Albums Recorded in a Wooden Outhouse (TM), along with My Morning Jacket’s ‘It Still Moves‘ (Grain Silo) and Bon Iver’s ‘For Emma, Forever [...]

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Minotaur Shock – Maritime

July 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Ambient, Best of 2005, Electro, Electronica, Music

Shock waves 7/10 Minotaur Shock’s second full-length will surely raise his reputation to the level of some of his more overrated peers, namely Four Tet and Manitoba, both of whom seem to have been unjustly hogging the electronica limelight for the last couple of years. ‘Maritime’ take a naval theme as its core imagery but [...]

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Midwest Product – Specifics

March 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Electro, Music, post-rock

Middling product 6/10 Midwest Product’s ‘Specifics’ is a funky and rhythmic album that pitches live instrumentation against studio manipulations. Largely pitched as New Order-influenced electro, it is a clean, propulsive production but one that heralds few surprises. Think of Two Lone Swordsmen, then think of Out Hud, and imagine an act somewhere in the middle. [...]

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Bark Psychosis – Codename: Dustsucker

January 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Alt-rock, Music, post-rock

Decent album, terrible name for a record 7/10 Unfamiliar with Bark Psychosis’ apparently seminal debut ‘Hex’ I can provide a semi-objective review of this album. Lush instrumentation, enhanced with electronics, with hushed male and female (alternating) vocals – often distant in the mix – make for a rich listening experience that is brooding and languid [...]

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