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I have a confession to make; I was looking for an “advanced copy” of Death Cab’s forthcoming album using bittorrent. I know, I’m ashamed but I need my fix. Well to my ecstatic surprise I found what I thought was a leak of Narrow Stairs, but after further investigation (ie reading other people’s comments) I found that some bush league blogger had put another band’s music up and called it Death Cab’s new release. That other band was Velveteen, funny how the internet works sometimes…

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Album: Black Sheep Boy

With Okkervil River’s latest release, The Stage Names, the band has received a fair amount of deserving publicity but I feel their greatest album was the one before this. Black Sheep Boy was a concept album revolving around the song of the same name by folk singer Tim Hardin. Front man Will Sheff wrote what is in my mind one of the greatest concept albums of all time. From start to finish Black Sheep Boy poetically describes the tension we we all live in between unchecked passion and depressing discontent. Like a disenchanted dream the album holds an ethereal weight that only grows as the album continues…

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Album: Bad Blood EP

There aren’t many bands that have the ability to make songs you instantly repeat after only one listen. In their debut EP Ultra Sonic Edukators are letting us all know they’re one of those bands. Expansive sonic landscaping characterizes much of Bad Blood with instruments taking center stage for over half the play time of some songs…

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Here’s a group of guys from Minneapolis who don’t seem to take themselves too seriously but they obviously know how to engineer a solid jam. In an unconventional move the band is made up of two guitarists accompanied by dual drummers. While I don’t know how much character this lineup adds to Hockey Night’s sound, it definitely doesn’t hurt…

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Album: Past Is Prologue

Don’t you hate it when a band you like always gets compared to a more popular band and is never “as good as fill in the blank.” So it is with Tycho, the moniker under which Scott Hansen creates gorgeous IDM/ambient music which is constantly being written off by Boards of Canada fans…

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Album: All Is Well

Yesterday Samamidon released this humble folk album and it’s one I encourage you to take a look at. Lyrically I like to think he draws from Sufjan Stevens although his musical style is quite different…

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Album: Glory Hope Mountain

When I first heard The Acorn’s latest album I felt slightly assaulted. I’m usually one who enjoys a fairly predictable song structure, but Glory Hope Mountain kicks off with “Flood Pt. 1″ in a bit of discorded chaos…

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