TAG: Flaming Lips

Jun09

Here We Go Magic – Pigeons (Review)

Here We Go Magic

Pigeons

Released by Secretly Canadian


Here We Go Magic’s history so far reads a bit like a indie success story, even fairy tail. Here was a band (or rather, initially a solo bedroom project by one Luke Temple) whose 2009 self-titled debut, though it seemed to have come out of nowhere, was noticed, and liked, by enough people to eventually get the now-actual-band on the road with Grizzly Bear, and a record deal with Secret Canadian.
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Dec01

Yura Yura Teikoku – Hollow Me / Beautiful (Review)

Yura Yura Teikoku

Hollow Me / Beautiful

Released by DFA


In their native Japan, Yura Yura Teikoku are twenty-year psych-rock veterans, beloved above-ground vets with a ten-album discography revered for the sort of obstinate high quality of Sonic Youth more so than the fitful, morphing back catalogs of the Flaming Lips or Butthole Surfers. On Hollow Me / Beautiful, their tenth record, they ditch some of the prog and punk leanings of earlier stuff to pillage instead 1970s AM gold, in the process creating warped, dreamy pop-rock. It is as much fun as it is brazenly insane. The first ...

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