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• Memory Tapes, 'Grace/Confusion' (Carpark)

  December 4, 2012 – Imagine a dance album where every track has something in it that's guaranteed to clear a dance floor. In both form and tone, the third studio album from Memory Tapes, Grace/Confusion suggests the Pet Shop Boys' 1988 work Introspective, which in turn harkened back to late-'70s disco LPs via six tracks so long and substantial they didn't require DJ-generated extensions. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Rage Against the Machine, Ke$ha, Sufjan Stevens, Mogwai

  November 28, 2012 – Another bounty of full-album streams is upon us. Clear your day and hit that play.1) Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine XX. "Their debut seethes with revolutionary fury, and it still sounds fresh on the lavishly ... remastered redux that includes demos [and] B-sides." - SPIN (via Spinner)2) Mogwai, A Wretched Virile Lore. …
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  Monster Mash-Up: Diplo, Black Lips, Lil B, and More of 2012's Essential Halloween Mixtapes

  October 31, 2012 – The Internet is rife with Halloween mixtapes today, both from bands and DJs offering up their favorite seasonal selections and ambitious rappers flooding DatPiff with demented freestlyes about despicable things. …
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  Memory Tapes, 'Player Piano' (Carpark)

  July 5, 2011 – A guise of former Hail Social singer Dayve Hawk (also known as Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes), Memory Tapes specializes in low-budget electronica for underdogs trying to survive yet more disappointments. Player Piano's handcrafted tales of loneliness and bad romance draw quiet power from Hawk's charmingly reedy vocals, while the layered synths and other scruffy keyboards evoke subliminal longings and anxieties. …
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