8.0
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The Flowers Of Indulgence and Nick Ray Reviewed

The Flowers Of Indulgence – 2 Dollars and 99 Cents  Similar artists: The Black Keys, The Band Genre: Folk, Classic Rock Bands and artists releasing their b-sides, demos, or previously disregarded material is nothing new. Hell, some bands go as far as to…
8.0
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Zrada and Mary Middlefield Reviewed

Zrada – Wedding Similar artists: Gogol Bordello, Queens of the Stone Age, Fucked Up, IDLES, PUP Genre: Post-Punk, Folk rock Time is money in the really rich countries or those that used to be rich for a long time. That’s why things like birthday parties…
7.5
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Rubberband Girl and Clash Valian Reviewed

Rubberband Girl – Taller Genre: Indie Folk, Folk rock, Alt Pop We should start missing being bored. Great things spring out of it. All the great artists started out by being royally bored, by being so sick of the tedious world around them that they needed to…
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Claudio Cipriani - Meek 

Modern folk often like to look at people living in the countryside or in developing nations with derision and a particular brand of fake modesty. Yet, it doesn’t take a very complex analysis to realize that they’re living out in the way that humans were built…
7.8
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Rose Hotel and Bryan McPherson Reviewed

Rose Hotel – Not Like That Similar artists: Neighbor Lady, Erin Rae, Courtney Barnett, Sharon Van Etten, Julia Jacklin Genre: Indie Folk, Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock Self-reflection is a mighty dangerous thing. It might force you to think about things such as…
7.8
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Aquamarine and Large Brush Collection Reviewed

Aquamarine – Looking In Similar artists: Mapache, Spencer Hoffman, Ryan Pollie, Real Estate, Buck Meek Genre: Indie Folk, Psychedelic Rock Singer-songwriters are a bit like the folks who obsessively visit flea markets. On most of their incursions, they will…
8.0
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Päter and Brent Amaker & the Rodeo Reviewed

Päter – Fear of the Dead Similar artists: Adrianne Lenker, Haley Heynderickx, Bat For Lashes Genre: Lo-fi Rock, Alternative Rock There are plenty of terrible times to think about terrible things like …death. If you’re a pilot flying a plane, you don’t…
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Backstrom (feat. Bart Topher) - Backstrom

There’s a reason why some of the great novelists don’t attempt to write their debut until they are well into their 50s. They need, at least, one great story to tell, and without having lived enough, there’s no reason to expect that a tale of this importance will just…