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Tue May 1

Reptar: Body Faucet

Tags: afro-beat, album review, Athens, Body Faucet, Electronic, Georgia, Indie Rock, Reptar, Robert Miller, Vagrant Records

Vagrant; 2012 Dropped by Robert Miller Reptar, hailing from Athens, GA, are a band that wield electronic, afro-beat, Caribbean and rock-n-roll like a child wields party favors
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Thu Apr 26

Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Tags: album review, Fat Possum, James Pierce, Robert Miller, Spiritualized, Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Fat Possum; 2012 Dropped by Robert Miller Spiritualized have been making albums for nearly two decades to the tune of everything from dance punk to garage rock
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Mon Apr 23

Miike Snow: Happy to You

Tags: album review, alternative pop, Downtown Records, Electro, Happy to You, Lexi Senior, Miike Snow, music review, percussion, Universal Republic

Downtown / Universal Republic; 2012 Dropped by Lexi Senior Defining produced sounds is sometimes complicated, but Miike Snow’s latest alternative-pop album, Happy to You, makes finding the
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Fri Apr 20

Battles: Dross Glop

Tags: Battles, Dross Glop, Gloss Drop, Tyondai Braxton, Warp Records

Warp; 2012 Dropped by Zachary Scout Dross Glop, the latest musical aggregation of the American experimental group Battles, is exactly how you might perceive it: an assorted conglomeration of Battles’ remixes that comport themselves in a whirlwind
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Wed Apr 18

Rusko: Songs

Tags: album review, Dance, Downtown Music, dubstep, Electronic, Lexi Senior, Mad Decent Records, Music, rusko, songs

Downtown / Mad Decent; 2012 Dropped by Lexi Senior For lovers of the dirty, industrial, filthier-than-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-can-think-of dubstep bass drops—you won’t find them on Rusko’s latest. The “brostep”
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Fri Apr 13

High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis

Tags: album review, De Vermis Mysteriis, E1, ear dropps, High on Fire, Matt Pike, metal, Robert Miller, stoner metal

E1; 2012 Dropped by Robert Miller De Vermis Mysteriis begins on a lightning-fast double-bass ridden note and ends in a thunderous droning piece of theatrical doom-esque metal,
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Mon Apr 9

Bear In Heaven: I Love You, It’s Cool

Tags: album review, Bear In Heaven, Brooklyn, Dance, Electronic, I Love You It's Cool, Indie, New York, Pop, prog rock

Home Tapes / Dead Oceans; 2012 Dropped by Robert Miller Since the 2009’s Beast Rest Forth Mouth, the Brooklyn trio Bear In Heaven have nearly reached an
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Wed Mar 28

Tanlines: Mixed Emotions

Tags: album review, Brooklyn, ear dropps, Mixed Emotions, New York, Robert Miller, Tanlines, True Panther

True Panther; 2012 Dropped by Robert Miller Born out of a dance-punk group, Tanlines is the Brooklyn duo, Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm’s, synthed-out dance-pop cabaret, and
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Mon Mar 26

Ear Dropps Come Lately

Tags: 2012?, black radio, Burial, Cursive, doom metal, fin, gee rock, gone & goner, Hip Hop, I Am Gemini, Indie Rock, jazz, jazz fusion, john talabot, kindred, metal, pallbearer, Reign of Terror, robert glasper experiment, Robert Miller, Rock, Sleigh Bells, sorrow and extinction, travis shettel, Zach Frimmel

To no surprise, we can’t extensively cover all the amazing/egregious albums that are released every Tuesday, so this tentatively named column will be designated for belated and abridged album reviews. This is our first stab at it, though we’re hoping
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Fri Mar 23

Odd Future: The OF Tape Vol. 2

Tags: Frank Ocean, Hip Hop, Hodgey Beats, Odd Future, OFWGKTA, Sarah Lashley, The OF Tape Vol 2, Tyler The Creator, Wolf Gang

Odd Future Records; 2012 Dropped by Sarah Lashley Odd Future’s highly anticipated debut studio album The OF Tape Vol. 2 has finally arrived—and it is exactly what
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