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Best of 2017: Staff Picks

December 31, 2017

It is December 31st, and 2017 is quickly drawing to a close. As you prepare to celebrate with family and friends, take a minute to read about and listen to the RC staff's favorite 2017 releases. Here is the accompanying Spotify playlist.

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COLDMAN - My Dick Works Fine!

November 19, 2017

New York City based Coleman Hughes, under the alias COLDMAN, opens his second full length album, My Dick Works Fine!, with “Intro”, which begins with Coleman reflecting on a conversation with an old teacher . . .

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Florist - The Birds Outside Sang

March 24, 2016

The Birds Outside Sang is about the desire to hold onto golden light and birdsong in a physical world of blood and bones.  

Illustration by Casey McSherry

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Mold Boy - Endless Dream

December 4, 2015

Mold Boy is Alex Calder, the Mac Demarco-affiliate seen in Columbia University's basements, and shirtless on the winter streets of Montreal.

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Giant Claw — Deep Thoughts

November 30, 2015

Rather than submerge itself in the inevitable, eclipsing darkness of ultra modernism, Deep Thoughts plumbs the idea of moving forward with a deliberate cognizance, unsure whether temporal passing and technological progress merit exaltation or despair.

Illustration by Willa McDonald

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Tags Giant Claw, Deep Thoughts, Electronic, Electronica, Keith Rankin
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Lightning Bug - Floaters

November 10, 2015

Floaters is a collage of bright synths and ambience that doesn’t decide on a destination point.

Illustration by Mel Wherry

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George Clanton - 100% Electronica

October 30, 2015

George Clanton has long made music that managed to distinguish itself inside vaporwave without abandoning the inherent constraints of the genre; on 100% Electronica, the newest record from the Brooklyn-based artist, Clanton emerges with his strongest work yet. 

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Tags George Clanton, Mirror Kisses, Vaporwave, Chillwave, Coldwave, Electronic, Electronica, Pop
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Le Havre — vidéo EP

October 25, 2015

Le Havre's vidéo EP is more than a sonic tapestry, the product of some interwoven linearities à la Steve Reich"  — it is "multi-dimensional, the result of the simultaneous dynamism of musical intricacies."

 

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Tags Le Havre, Album Review, video EP, electronic instrumental, electronic, jazz
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Album Premiere: PRO TEENS S/T

October 1, 2015

Listen to the debut LP of the Phoenix-based group

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Shari Heck. Illustration by Maya Marie Lin-Bronner

ÒOR - S/T

September 20, 2015

Heck’s lyrics have the fuzzy intimacy of diary entries, her hushed vocals the inflection of secrets whispered at a sleepover. 

 

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Tags CBMC, Cyberbully Mom Club, Shari Heck, OOR, bedroom pop
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Ash Koosha - GUUD

September 3, 2015

Ash Koosha's GUUD is "an album whose diverse and dynamic set of sounds can be felt, followed, and replayed, but never transcribed."

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Tags Ash Koosha, GUUD, Olde English Spelling Bee, OESB, Iran, Experimental, Classical, Electronic, Hirad Sab
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Bodega Bay: Our Brand Could Be Your Life

August 31, 2015

Critique or metacommentary? Graham Johnson breaks down Bodega Bay's thorny debut effort.

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Tags Bodega Bay, Bodega Bay Review, Our Brand Could Be Your Life Review, Review, Brooklyn, NYC
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Pure Trick - x3

August 6, 2015

A strong first release that mixes a composer's skill with a beatmaker's passion. 

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Helvetia - A Dot Running for the Dust

July 28, 2015

"The album, which was presumed dead after frontman Jason Albertini’s computer 'exploded after sitting in a hot van for too long,' would have been a shame to lose. "

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Tags Helvetia, Brazilian Money, Portland, psych, psych rock, review
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Car Seat Headrest - How To Leave Town

July 27, 2015

How To Leave Town is full of Will Toledo's signature brand of meandering psychological analysis and self-aware introspection, and is easily one of his strongest releases yet.

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Tags Will Toledo, Seattle, Car Seat Headrest, Pink Floyd, Review, Car Seat Headrest Review
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Eternal Summers - Gold And Stone

July 17, 2015

Despite moments of catharsis, Eternal Summers' fourth album doesn't take many risks. 

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Gretchen - Oblique Contours

July 15, 2015

Oblique Contours is a "sheer articulation of postmodern anxiety," in which angular guitar lines serve as a protective expression of "despair and unease."

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Tags Calgary, Gretchen, Egg Paper Factory, Women
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Timeboy - Vox

July 2, 2015

Rather than have an explicit lead, rhythm, or harmony, most of the tracks on Vox have foreground, background, color, and texture.

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Franz Rosati - Ruins

June 26, 2015

Ruins is a clear demonstration that sound art is not merely intellectual self-gratification posing as contemporary art but a form capable of immense expression.

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Chrissybaby Forever

June 19, 2015

Chrissybaby Forever is a record with an incredibly ambitious mission statement: to succeed within a counter-cultural indie art scene by challenging all of its assumptions about art.

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further reading
Regarding Rockism Parts Two & Three: The Progress of Poptimism and the New Rockism
Jan 28, 2016
Regarding Rockism Parts Two & Three: The Progress of Poptimism and the New Rockism
Jan 28, 2016
Jan 28, 2016
Regarding Rockism, Part I: Black Truths and Noble Savages
Nov 23, 2015
Regarding Rockism, Part I: Black Truths and Noble Savages
Nov 23, 2015
Nov 23, 2015
Just An "EP": FKA twigs and the Rise of the Extended Play
Sep 4, 2015
Just An "EP": FKA twigs and the Rise of the Extended Play
Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015
The Sinister Pop of PC Music
Apr 29, 2015
The Sinister Pop of PC Music
Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015
Let Us Now Praise Unknown Cult Figures
Apr 3, 2015
Let Us Now Praise Unknown Cult Figures
Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Oh Boy: Christopher Owens, Headspace, and the Benefits of Artistic Irony
Jan 28, 2015
Oh Boy: Christopher Owens, Headspace, and the Benefits of Artistic Irony
Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015
Merriweather Post Pavilion’s Six Year Anniversary and The Decline of Cultural Ubiquity in the Internet Era
Jan 6, 2015
Merriweather Post Pavilion’s Six Year Anniversary and The Decline of Cultural Ubiquity in the Internet Era
Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015
Comfort and Pleasure: The Galiano EP
Jan 1, 2015
Comfort and Pleasure: The Galiano EP
Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015
Best of 2014: "Tongue Slips" and the Young Sinclairs
Dec 24, 2014
Best of 2014: "Tongue Slips" and the Young Sinclairs
Dec 24, 2014
Dec 24, 2014


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