Recently Buzzed Music
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Elephant Shell
Many songs on this spiky Canadian quartetâs full-length debut are best appreciated with a Websterâs Unabridged Dictionary close at hand â especially with lines like âDead lovers salivate/Broken hearts tessellate.â Tokyo Police Clubâs 2006 EP, A Lesson in Crime, earned them copious blog love and frequent comparisons to the Strokes, but Elephant Shell makes clear that the bandâs ambitions are as much literary as musical.
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Supreme Balloon
Ever since the IDM scene they emerged from in the late 1990s withered away and died, Matmos have thrived, in the process making a compelling case for themselves as electronic music's resident white coats. Beginning with 2001's A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, the combined output of Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel so far this decade has seen them work within the form of some pre-established conceptual constraint.
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Water Curses EP
Animal Collective have followed each of their last three albums with a short companion EP closely related to its predecessor. Right on schedule, here's Water Curses, containing three tracks from the Strawberry Jam sessions and another recorded at Brooklyn's Rare Book Room studio.
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Santogold - Santogold
On her awesome genre-blurring debut, Brooklyn singer-MC Santi White (a.k.a. Santogold) wrestles with the challenge of self-determination. As she puts it, âI pay for whatâs called/Eccentricity and my will to evolve.â Her set celebrates the joys, and burdens, of making weird-ass street jams like âCreator,â a dancehall joint engorged by overmodulated freak beats.
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Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Drug addiction is bad, but drama addiction might be worse. That is the lesson of "Shoulda Known", Atmosphere's salvo at that stock character, the enabler. Taken from Minneapolis duo's fifth studio album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, the song is more dramatic monologue than soliloquy-- one of those rare moments when Slug isn't plumbing the depths of his favorite subject, Slug.
All the Buzz About Music*
*Artists are ordered by Descending BuzzRank
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| Disturbed |
| U2 |
| Placebo |
| Led Zeppelin |
| Metallica |
| Pink Floyd |
| Coldplay |
| Linkin Park |
| Foo Fighters |
| Korn |
| Snow Patrol |
| Portishead |
| Slipknot |
