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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Cat Power, Animal Collective, Crypts, More!

  August 30, 2012 – Teh Internetz are rife with previewable music this week. For your ease of unpaid listening, we've rounded up the 10 records you've gotta hear now, even though they aren't out yet. You don't want to be caught at the proverbial water cooler trying to talk about 2 Chainz or Swans, do you? Those albums are so (literally) yesterday. Have fun clicking through the 103 songs we've amassed below. 1) Cat Power, Sun, out September 4 on Matador. …
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• Azure Ray, 'Drawing Down the Moon' (Saddle Creek)

  September 1, 2010 – Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor dissolved Azure Ray in 2004 to pursue projects that closely recalled their band's sad, soothing sound, and this reconvening offers few surprises. Mannered, wistful melancholy abounds: When pulses quicken (as on "Don't Leave My Mind" and "In the Fog"), Azure Ray can prick ears. When relying mostly on their beautiful voices, as with "On and On Again," they become Indigo Girls for the indie-rock set. …
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  Orenda Fink Talks About Her Favorite Book

  May 15, 2009 – Artists like Gang of Four and Bob Dylan have famously referenced the work of Flannery O'Connor in their songs. So it was only a matter of time before a musician in our ongoing Book Club series would praise the Southern Gothic author, whose short stories and novellas made her one of America's most critically admired writers before her death from lupus in 1964, at age 39. …
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