October 2011
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Meg Baird - Seasons On Earth
If the name Meg Baird is familiar to you then chances are it’s as one of the founding members of cultish psychedelic group Espers, who released a trio of great albums of dreamy and doomy folk over the last decade. In-between which Baird released one solo album in 2007, Dear Companion, which combined unique takes on traditional folk songs and cover versions for the most part. Here though...
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Toro Y Moi - Freaking Out EP
We can probably drop the whole “vanguard of chillwave” shtick for Toro Y Moi now, right? Unlike his peers, Washed Out and Neon Indian, who’ve perhaps prematurely been touted as outgrowing the tag, Chaz Bundick seems to have truly transcended his micro genre beginnings. His second album, Underneath The Pine, embraced a much more expressive style of full band instrumentation melded to that same...
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