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Pinterest Board of the Week: Instrumental Indie

By Lorenn Kassel

Experimental instrumentals

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Metric announce new album

By Stewart Mason

Synthetica due out June 12

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Laetita Sadier announces new solo album

By Stewart Mason

Second post-Stereolab effort due July 24

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Light Asylum

Light Asylum

Brooklyn electro duo's haunting debut full-length.

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Meantime

Kwes

Taking pop to new places

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Cover of the Day: Fever Ray does Peter Gabriel

By Stewart Mason

Even spookier than the original

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Exercises

CFCF (musician)

Quietly haunting piano and synth tunes.

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Critical 5: Female Electronic Pioneers

By Dave Shim

The mothers of electronic music.

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Track of the Day: Purity Ring, “Obedear”

By T. Cole Rachel

Early summertime jam for any mood

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Instrumental Indie: New Directions in Noise

By Michael Wojtas

While a few choice noise, drone and experimental albums typically… >>

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Artist to Watch: Kwes

By Laura Smith

Producer turned performer drops the shy act.

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Critical 5: Female Electronic Musicians

By Dave Shim

Electronic music from a woman's perspective

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Video of the Day: Grimes on Later

By Stewart Mason

Jools Holland, not Carson Daly

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Next

JD Samson + MEN

Queer-identified dance floor jams for everybody.

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Cover of the Day: YACHT do Brigitte Fontaine

By Stewart Mason

Homage to a French treasure

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Track of the Day: Beach House B-Side

By Stewart Mason

The flipside to the new single

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Ben Browning releases solo EP

By Stewart Mason

Stream Cut Copy bassist's solo debut

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Track of the Day: Hot Chip

By Stewart Mason

More bounce to the ounce

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Chillwave 101

By T. Cole Rachel

It's not easy being a professional music journalist. It's also… >>

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Kraftwerk wraps up concert stand, hints at new recording

By Stewart Mason

We'll believe it when we see it

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Memory Motel: The Other Thomas Dolby

By Jim Allen

One-man band that should have made synth-pop history.

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Critical Picks: Coachella

By Stewart Mason

Are you going to Coachella this weekend or next? Or… >>

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Mr. Impossible

Black Dice

Somewhere in the universe, these songs are hits.

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Download of the Day: West In Dust label compilation

By Stewart Mason

14 tracks of hazy electronics

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Track of the Day: James and Evander

By Stewart Mason

Bedroom-synth duo preview debut album

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World, You Need a Change of Mind

Kindness

World, you need Kindness.

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Spooky Action at a Distance

Lotus Plaza

Deerhunter guitarist loosens the strictures for the better.

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Video of the Day: Black Moth Super Rainbow

By Stewart Mason

CM faves preview long-awaited new material

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Memory Motel: Tapping Into Telex

By Jim Allen

Satirical Belgian synth-poppers deconstructed rock classics.

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Video of the Day: Trust

By Stewart Mason

High point from an uneven but promising debut

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Critical Picks: Music for Spring 2012

By Stewart Mason

Five spring releases we can't wait to hear.

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Mixed Emotions

Tanlines

Underground pop that’s friendly and futuristic.

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Critical Mob at SXSW: Last Day!

By Anna Graizbord

Anna wraps up her stay in Austin

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Paul Williams announces Daft Punk collaboration

By Stewart Mason

A new kind of rainbow connection

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Beach House reveal new album details

By Stewart Mason

CM faves' fourth LP due in May

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Love at the Bottom of the Sea

The Magnetic Fields

Stephin Merritt gets back to basics.

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Washed Out announces tour dates

By Anna Graizbord

Straight chillin’.

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Track of the Day: Beach House

By Stewart Mason

CM favorites preview new album

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Bands We’re Looking Forward To at SXSW

By Stewart Mason

Still looking for the best bands to see next week… >>

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Peter Hook plots legal action against New Order

By Chris Payne

Hooky vs. his ex-bandmates

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Caribou announces tour dates with Radiohead

By Stewart Mason

Dan Snaith hits the road

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Track of the Day: The Smiths Go 8-Bit

By Stewart Mason

Mario hasn't got a stitch to wear

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Video of the Day: Grimes, “Oblivion”

By Anna Graizbord

What it’s like for a girl.

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The Best of February: Music

By Stewart Mason

Catch up on the last four weeks with this recap… >>

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Blur to headline Olympic closing ceremony concert

By Stewart Mason

Reunited Britpoppers join the sporting set.

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Kraftwerk Announce Career-Spanning Residency At MoMA

By Chris Payne

Eight albums, zero facial expressions.

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4AD announces complete Colourbox set

By Stewart Mason

Underrated dance trio get their due.

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Critical New Video: Nicolas Jaar, "Materials"

By Stewart Mason

Warning: contains clowns.

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Francis Harris premieres remix in advance of new album

By Stewart Mason

A great remix for a great song.

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Critical Divide: Lindstrom

By Stewart Mason

One album, three critics, three opinions.

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Luscious Jackson reunites, releases new single

By Anna Graizbord

Electro-indie reunion takes a grassroots approach.

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Track of the Week: Teen Daze, "Brooklyn Sunburn"

By Stewart Mason

Vancouver DIY producer harkens to summer's start.

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Toro y Moi to release singles box

By Stewart Mason

CM fave clears out the cupboards.

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Neon Indian release new video, announce tour dates

By Stewart Mason

Adult Swim assists Texas chillwavers.

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Björk emerges unscathed from Colbert

By Anna Graizbord

Björk talks apps and elves with Colbert.

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Chemical Brothers to release concert film

By Anna Graizbord

The Chemical Brothers experience on film.

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Future This

The Big Pink

Brit rockers reach for the brass ring.

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St. Etienne get back to the dance floor

By Stewart Mason

UK indie-dance trio back after a long absence.

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Rick Rubin “ruins” Justice for the better

By Anna Graizbord

Rubin amps up On’n’on.

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Strange Weekend

Porcelain Raft

Brooklyn-based one-man-band debuts impressively.

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Jacaszek’s dreamy new video

By Anna Graizbord

Urge to re-tile surfaces will rise after viewing.

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CREEP released new single featuring Holly Miranda

By Anna Graizbord

Holly Miranda gets CREEP-y.

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Austra debuts new video

By Stewart Mason

Beautifully austere song gets suitably creepy visuals.

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Nite Jewel previews second album, announces tour dates

By Stewart Mason

Ramona Gonzalez loves the '80s.

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No big surprises in Coachella 2012 lineup

By Stewart Mason

Indie kids on the high desert in 2012.

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Track of the Week: Lilacs and Champagne, "Everywhere, Everyone"

By Stewart Mason

Indie electronic duo trawl the VHS dregs.

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Creatures Of An Hour

Still Corners

Promising but evanescent debut LP.

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Leland

Francis Harris

Electro-acoustic music of love and loss.

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The 60 Critical Songs Of 2011

By Stewart Mason

To my mind, the single has always been pop music… >>

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The 30 Critical Albums of 2011

By Stewart Mason

The phrase that kept popping up as I was editing… >>

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Space Is Only Noise

Nicolas Jaar

An impressive debut for a college student.

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Feel It Break

Austra (Band)

Elegantly-constructed electronic indie pop.

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Dive

Tycho

Lovely summer nostalgia for the midwinter blues.

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Original Colors

High Places

Electro-ephemerists move, haltingly, toward the dance floor.

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Biophilia

Bjork

Dazzlingly produced, wildly ambitious, but unexpectedly flat.

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Replica

Oneohtrix Point Never

Quietly melodic electronic mood pieces.

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Black Up

Shabazz Palaces

Old school alt-rapper gets Afro-futuristic.

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Scintilli

Plaid (band)

Half skittering dance beats, half meditative instrumentals.

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Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

M83

Anthony Gonzalez makes his grand statement.

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Enough Thunder

James Blake

Diffuse but intriguing follow-up EP.

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Freaking Out

Toro Y Moi

'80s dance pop gets the chillwave treatment.

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In Heaven

Twin Sister

No, not Twin Shadow, the other one.

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W

Planningtorock

Initially forbidding, but with hidden avant-pop charms.

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Parodia Flare

Tropics (band)

British producer's Fender Rhodes-driven electronic shimmer.

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Sound Kapital

Handsome Furs

Jetsetting couple remembers to pack the synthesizer.

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The Golden Age of Apocalypse

Thundercat

Late night indie electronica.

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We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

John Maus

Profoundly weird and unexpectedly beautiful synth pop.

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Self-Referential Songs

By Stewart Mason

Join Us, the 2011 album by They Might Be Giants,… >>

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Player Piano

Memory Tapes

Chillwaver branches out but loses emotional impact.

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Within and Without

Washed Out

Bedroom beats for those who missed the 80s.

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Timez Are Weird These Days

Theophilus London

Former underground buzz goes mainstream in a big way.

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Shangri-La

YACHT

Cultish duo rethinks heaven, hell, dance-punk.

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It's All True

Junior Boys

Elegant dance pop for the smart set.

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Martin Rushent

By Jim Allen

Visionary U.K. New Wave auteur.

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Eye Contact

Gang Gang Dance

Indie experimentalists face the mainstream with grace.

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Smother

Wild Beasts

Just as beastly, but much less wild.

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Return to the Ugly Side

Malachai

Carnaby Street-era freakbeat goes electro.

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The Only She Chapters

Prefuse 73

A daydream with just a hint of nightmare.

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Jump into the Gospel

Jump into the Gospel

NYC indie up-and-comers debut.

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Xylos

Xylos

Promising debut from electronic Brooklynites.

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Boys and Diamonds

Rainbow Arabia

Indie electro-kids explore the world.

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Guest List: Elk’s Inspirations

While recording his debut album Let's Get Married (available now… >>

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James Blake

James Blake

Dubstep's soulful new poster boy.

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Summer Echoes

Sin Fang

Equal parts lovely and abjectly weird.

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The King of Limbs

Radiohead

Not bad, but...

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Verdugo Hills

Caroline

Subtle pop hooks twinkle through the ambient haze.

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Zonoscope

Cut Copy

More DFA-style synthpop from down under.

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No. 3

jj (band)

Lovely but fairly slight.

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The Brutal Wave

Frank (Just Frank)

'80s goth-pop gets a mod makeover.

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Jim Allen’s Top 10 Albums of 2010

By Jim Allen

From the '70s stomp of Wolf People's first proper album… >>

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Critical Mob’s Top 10 Albums of 2010

Musically, 2010 was a year of youth and vitality. There… >>

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See Birds

Balam Acab

Otherworldly and oddly familiar music from a teen chillwave prodigy.

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Archer on the Beach

Destroyer

Dan Bejar explores ambient electronica.

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There Is Love In You

Four Tet

UK electro-guru delivers his best yet.

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Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Brian Eno

Eno and Warp, together for the first time.

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Penny Sparkle

Blonde Redhead

Italo-Japanese trio forget to bring the noise.

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History of Modern

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

1980s synth-popsters reunite to surprisingly good effect.

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Down There

Avey Tare

Animal Collective member drifts into the ether.

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Beast Rest Forth Mouth

Bear in Heaven

Appealingly inscrutable noise gets bonus remixes.

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Building Bubblegum Castles in the Sky: Critical Ambient Pop

By Jim Allen

You're soaking in it: the dreamy, drifting-in-the-stratosphere sound of ambient… >>

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Anidea

Guido

A startlingly accomplished album in a singles-heavy genre.

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Critical Mob’s Top 10 Albums of 2010 (So Far)

Halfway through 2010, it's already shaping up to be such… >>

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Further

The Chemical Brothers

Dance music duo regain their groove.

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Crystal Castles (II)

Crystal Castles

Surprisingly fun, tuneful follow-up to an abrasive debut.

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Subiza

Delorean

Summer 2010's go-to party record.

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Can You Feel It?: Essential House

By T. Cole Rachel

Depending on who you ask, house music either started in… >>

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This Is Happening

LCD Soundsystem

James Murphy might be out of ideas.

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Summer Songs For Winter Nights

By Stewart Mason

Nothing warms the chill of a midwinter night like thoughts… >>

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Kairos

White Hinterland

Former piano-pop songstress takes the electronic route.

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One Life Stand

Hot Chip

This time around, Hot Chip make your heart swell instead… >>

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Give Up

The Postal Service

Indie and electro totally hit it off.

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Embryonic

The Flaming Lips

Sometimes a band has to drive straight into the thickest,… >>

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Dance Mother

Music Group

Stream-of-consciousness vocals and hypnotic, intriguing settings

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Manafon

David Sylvian

Some of his most intriguing lyrics and memorable melodies in… >>

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The Chemical Brothers

By T. Cole Rachel

The progenitors of Big Beat.

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Boards of Canada

By T. Cole Rachel

A true headphone band if there ever were one.

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Brian Eno

By Jim Allen

A "non-musician" who altered the course of musical history.

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Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future

The Bird And The Bee

A fizzy, intoxicating fusion.

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