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Trail Mix
I'm a Mountain travels a decidedly dustier path than Harmer's previous record: Out are the drums, synths, and ambient guitars; in are the banjos, mandolins, and fiddles.
  
    Washington City Paper  |  
    Mario Correa  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: I'm a Mountain, Sarah Harmer
  Gone in Sixty Seconds
Scott Herren has distanced himself even further from the hip-hop of his early work, diving headlong into glitchy bleeps, bloops and splats.
  
    Washington City Paper  |  
    Anne Marson  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: Prefuse 73, Security Screenings
  All the Rage
BORIS' new disc, which gets a domestic release in a matter of weeks, sports its share of 70s-centric, stonerific hard rock.
  
    Washington City Paper  |  
    Brent Burton  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: PINK
  I Am Irony Man
There's little that's progressive or expansive an album that owes most of its prerelease buzz to hair-metal aficionado Chuck Klosterman.
  
    Washington City Paper  |  
    Brent Burton  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: The Sword, Age of Winters
  Early to Bedlam, Early to Rise
By the time you've finished this review, Arctic Monkeys will have broken up.
  
    Washington City Paper  |  
    Mark Jenkins  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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  Communication: Breakdown
As much as it extols pandemonium, this album always feels tightly controlled, its disarray always a little too contrived.
  
    Washington City Paper  |  
    Mark Jenkins  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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  Pop Fundamentalismnew
Matisyahu and Madonna embrace a holy plan.
  
    Boston Phoenix  |  
    Josh Kun  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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  Force of Naturenew
KT Tunstall aspires to be "a tomboy who can sing pretty if she wants to but has a really kick-ass, gnarly band."
  
    Boston Phoenix  |  
    Ken Micallef  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: KT Tunstall, Eye to the Telescope
  Doubting Thomas and Co.new
Germany's The Robocop Kraus don't have the answers, and they're not sure you do either.
  
    Montreal Mirror  |  
    Rupert Bottenberg  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: The Robocop Kraus
  Beyond His Inner Geeknew
Never before has a Destroyer album sounded
so accessible.
  
    Illinois Times  |  
    Rene Spencer Saller  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies
  Nature and 'Supernature'new
 
    
    Goldfrapp's modern retro spell captures the icy, hypersexualized zeitgeist.
  
    Los Angeles CityBeat  |  
    Dennis Romer  |  
    03-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: Goldfrapp
  Gelb's Gospelnew
Howe Gelb's 'Sno Angel Like You offers evidence of higher power at work.
  
    NOW Magazine  |  
    Tim Perlich  |  
    03-02-2006  | 
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    Tags: Howe Gelb
  Evolution of Electronic Musicnew
To some, this comprehensive collection may come across as highly dissociative, but in a microchip-satellite world, what is sound anyway?
  
    Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  
    Tony Ware  |  
    03-02-2006  | 
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  Their Muse is Boozenew
Watching this beer-soaked documentary, you begin wondering if throughout the world-renowned group's ascension, the dudes might actually have just tried out whatever because they were drunk.
  
    Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  
    Tony Ware  |  
    03-02-2006  | 
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    Tags: Mastodon, The Workhorse Chronicles
  Brit-Pop Melting Potnew
This British buzz band combines tautly coiled retro-contemporary 70s and a jangly, analogue Brit-pop bop.
  
    Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  
    Tony Ware  |  
    03-02-2006  | 
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