Sweet music to your ears. LP’s, EP’s and everything in between this is the place you will find out about the latest music and maybe even some oldies but goodies.
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Hurts: Exile
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Local Natives: Hummingbird
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The Rolling Stones: GRRR!
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David Jacobson: Come Around Again!
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Devalued: Plagues
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
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Grizzly Bear: Shields
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Deftones: Koi No Yokan
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Levek: Look a Little Closer
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The Killers: Battle Born
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Andrew Bird: Hands of Glory
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Chelsea Wolfe: Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
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Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
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The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth
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Roadkill Ghost Choir: Quiet Light
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Muse: The 2nd Law
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Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Meat and Bone
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The Vaccines: Come of Age
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Bob Dylan: Tempest
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Swans: The Seer
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The xx: Coexist
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Wild Nothing: Nocturne
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Animal Collective: Centipede Hz
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Circa Survive: Violent Waves
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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Mature Themes
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Krallice: Years Past Matter
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Overdue for Review: Beach Boys through Woody Guthrie
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Teengirl Fantasy: Tracer
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Bloc Party: Four
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Xibalba: Hasta La Muerte
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Praything: Her Skin Caught the Glow EP
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Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
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Nas: Life is Good
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Nachtmystium: Silencing Machine
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Purity Ring: Shrines
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Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
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Alexander & The Grapes: Hemispheres
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Baroness: Yellow & Green
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Aesop Rock: Skelethon
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Metric: Synthetica
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Gasoline Heart: Thanks For Everything
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Agalloch: Faustian Echoes
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GRANT: Beat Tape Vol. 1
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Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel...
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Hundred Waters: Hundred Waters
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Carrousel: 27 rue de mi'chelle
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Joey Bada$$: 1999
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Motion City Soundtrack: Go
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The Tallest Man on Earth: There's No Leaving Now
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Waka Flocka Flame - Triple F Life: Friends, Fans, & Family
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Cold Specks: I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
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2:54: 2:54
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Curren$y: The Stoned Immaculate
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Paul Simon: Graceland (25th anniversary reissue)
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Golden Curls: Warm Fiction
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Here
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A Blaze in the Southern Sky:
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Burzum: Umskiptar
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Japandroids: Celebration Rock
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Crocodiles: Endless Flowers
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Sigur Rós: Valtari
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The Walkmen: Heaven
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Overdue for Review: Bowerbirds through Toro y Moi
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The Cribs: In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
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Kimbra: Vows
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Hands: Massive Context EP
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Santigold: Master of My Make-Believe
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Best Coast: The Only Place
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My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (reissue)
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Pseudo Kids: Stay Glad EP
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B.O.B: Strange Clouds
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Beach House: Bloom
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mewithoutYou: Ten Stories
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Silversun Pickups: Neck of the Woods
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Off!: Off!
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Father John Misty: Fear Fun
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Death Grips: The Money Store
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Jack White: Blunderbuss
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Reptar: Body Faucet
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Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
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Miike Snow: Happy to You
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Battles: Dross Glop
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Rusko: Songs
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High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis
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Bear In Heaven: I Love You, It's Cool
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Tanlines: Mixed Emotions
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Odd Future: The OF Tape Vol. 2
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Drudkh: Eternal Turn of the Wheel
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The Shins: Port of Morrow
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The Men: Open Your Heart
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The Decemberists: We All Raise Our Voices to the Air
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Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
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Damien Jurado: Maraqopa
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Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral
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Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
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Fionn Regan: 100 Acres of Sycamore
Gang Gang Dance:Eye Contact
Tags: 4AD, Gang Gang Dance, Lizzi Bougatsis
4AD Records
8.5/10 dropps
Gang Gang Dance’s fifth album, Eye Contact, is nothing short of a journey through the cosmos. The experimental New York five-piece has created fluidity throughout this album, making it nearly impossible to break the tracks apart. The album’s opener, “Glass Jar,” stands out, however, if not for length alone. The eleven-minute opener sets the stage for the psycho-synth sounds of the transcendental adventure through the maze that becomes Eye Contact.
Haunting male vocals open the album, declaring: “I can hear everything. It’s everything time.” And everything time, it is. Gang Gang Dance has created an eclectic sound, blending soft synth sounds and chilling keyboard sequences with evocative percussion and the pleasantly shrill vocals of Lizzi Bougatsis to create a kaleidoscope of reverberation.
True to their underground roots, Gang Gang Dance has not created a consumer-friendly sound. They have, however, created an experience that beckons open minds.
Combining electronic, pop, post-punk, psychedelic rock, and a touch of Middle Eastern flare has posed no problem for the band. As the nine tracks play, fusing flawlessly into one another, the ground begins to disappear, leaving the listener floating in the air with a sense of extraterrestrial wanderlust. Eye Contact awakens the senses, showcasing the band’s growth as they move from experimental sound clash to flawlessly concocted musical explosion.
-Sarah Lashley
Wed Jul 20
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