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Religious Knives – The Door
Religious Knives – The Door Ecstatic Peace! October 14, 2008 What It Sounds Like: Indie guy/girl duo that spent one to many nights sneaking out of their parents houses, only to head to the park under...
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Ex Models – Chrome Panthers
Ex Models – Chrome Panthers Troubleman Unlimited September 27, 2005 What It Sounds Like: Straight up clanging noise kids want to prove to you that no-wave actually has some artistic merits. They...
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Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain
Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain Load Records October 18, 2005 What It Sounds Like: Straight up noise rockers using overly distorted bass, screeching guitars, and incessant pounding drums....
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The Men – New Moon
The Men – New Moon Sacred Bones Records March 5, 2013 What It Sounds Like: Much less harsh and abrasive than their previous work, New Moon finds The Men shifting their sights from less noise rock to...
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Colossal Yes – Acapulco Roughs
Colossal Yes – Acapulco Roughs Ba Da Bing Records February 28, 2006 What It Sounds Like: Lush piano melodies and lazy afternoon woodwind arrangements from the ex-drummer of Comets On Fire. If you...
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Slug Guts – Playin’ In Time With The Deadbeat
Slug Guts – Playin’ In Time With The Deadbeat Sacred Bones Records July 24, 2012 What It Sounds Like: Give credit where credit is due. In an online review, a man named Charlie Quaker describes the...
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!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Louden Up Now
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Louden Up Now Touch And Go / Warp Records June 7, 2004 What It Sounds Like: Dance Punk. Dance Rock. Dance Punk. Dance Rock. Whimsical lyrics, dance beats from a full band, and...
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Death House Chaplain – Of Asthma
Death House Chaplain – Of Asthma Lujo Records March 11, 2008 What It Sounds Like: A blend of mid-energy lo-fi garage rock mixed with bits of quirky instrumentals and minimalistic blues tendencies....
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My Morning Jacket – Z
My Morning Jacket – Z ATO Records October 4, 2005 What It Sounds Like: ———————————————– I’m not a fan of starting things off thinking they’re not going to go well, but to be fair, how does one expect...
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Gross Magic – Teen Jamz
Gross Magic – Teen Jamz Fat Possum Records October 11, 2011 What It Sounds Like: Fuzzy 1950s sunshine pop meets garage rock with heavy influence from the 80s as well – and the kid was only born in...
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The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage Chemikal Underground January 26, 2009 What It Sounds Like: Scottish Indie Rock scattered with various bits of experimentation, psychedelia, extended instrumentals,...
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The Luyas – Too Beautiful To Work
The Luyas – Too Beautiful To Work Dead Oceans February 22, 2011 What It Sounds Like: Hazy, experimental, electrical, and atmospheric, this dream pop foursome weaves sounds to guide you as you glide...
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Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana
Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana Carpark Records July 9, 2013 What It Sounds Like: Disjointed indie garage guitar pop, full of fat-bellied riffs and chunky noise, all led by a Hayley Williams sound-alike....
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Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals
Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals Mom + Pop Music October 8, 2013 What It Sounds Like: Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller polish up their noise pop shreddings, bringing us a record that isn’t as chaotic and...
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Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary
Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary Sub Pop September 27, 2005 What It Sounds Like: Experimental indie rock with heavy doses of post-punk and new-wave revival. A couple weeks ago, I finally...
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Iran – Dissolver
Iran – Dissolver Narnack Records February 17, 2009 What It Sounds Like: Brooklyn’s Iran trades in a majority of their experimental noise routines in favor of a more 70s guitar driven, clean-cut,...
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Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine – Rampton
Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine – Rampton Southern Lord April 2, 2002 What It Sounds Like: Supergroup brings together members of Napalm Death, Sun O))), Goatsnake, and Electric Wizard for one of the...
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Bambara – Dreamviolence
Bambara – Dreamviolence Emerald Weapon April 30, 2013 What It Sounds Like: A noisy clash of post-punk, continually searching (or not) for its footing. Dreamviolence is a mess. I understand their...
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The Dismemberment Plan – Uncanny Valley
The Dismemberment Plan – Uncanny Valley Partisan Records October 15, 2013 What It Sounds Like: How does anyone even begin to describe the sound of The Plan? Let’s try the...
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My Top 18 Records Of 2018. #10. The Men – Drift
10) The Men – Drift From the scuzzy punk rock of their earliest releases, to a complete embrace of Americana, to the county and surf-ish mashup of 2013’s New Moon (I know, it sounds horrible, but it’s...
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