Mew, 'No More Stories...' (Columbia)
Forward, it’s enticing -- but in reverse, it’s sublime. Not just “New Terrain,” the vocal-looping and tape-rewinding opener of Mew’s fourth album, but
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Amanda Blank, 'I Love You' (Downtown)
Don’t you hate pants?
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Yim Yames, 'Tribute To' (ATO)
After George Harrison’s death in November 2001, a grieving Jim James of My Morning Jacket recorded this small, sad tribute EP to the Quiet Beatle. The result is spare and somber -- just that windy Americana tenor against a squeaky acoustic guitar.
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Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard, ' 'Em Are I' (Rough Trade)
What's that they say -- a Moldy Peach gathers no moss?
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Little Boots, 'Illuminations' (Elektra)
What if Caligula sang post-rave dance pop?
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Sonic Youth, 'The Eternal' (Matador)
How nice it’d be to come home to her / And sit by the fireplace and she in the kitchen / Aproned young and lovely wanting my baby / And so happy about me she burns the roast beef,” angrily riffed an unhitched Gregory Corso in his 1959 poem “Marriage.” So perhaps it’s with empathy that on Sonic Youth’s 16th album, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore leave a simmering, wistful offering on h




