Articles by Alex Molotkow

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  Scout Niblett

  This Fool Can Die Now

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2007

  One of the supposed highlights of this album is a set of guest appearances by Will Oldham. It seemed like a long overdue collaboration — no...

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  Robert Wyatt

  Comicopera

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2007

  Robert Wyatt, a former member of Soft Machine, is an old master. His latest project (an opera in three acts) is not only ambitious but high...

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  Beirut

  The Flying Club Cup

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2007

  It was hard to determine where Beirut would go after last year’s Gulag Orkestar. After establishing himself as something of a prodigy, Zach...

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  Gravenhurst

  The Western Lands

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2007

  Gravenhurst’s music is unsettling but you have to listen carefully in order for the creeps to set in. They’re akin to a British Slint: dark...

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  Black Lips

  Good Bad Not Evil

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2007

  After seven years, the Black Lips have evolved from a party band to a band serious about being a party band. Though their live shows are hi...

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  Blossom Toes

  We Are Ever So Clean

  PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2007

  We Are Ever So Clean is long overdue for reissue treatment. Worshipped by record collectors and ’60s music buffs, this album is just as goo...

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  Life on Earth!

  Look!! There is…

  PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2007

  Life on Earth! are the side-project of Dungen’s Mattias Gustavsson, and he seems to have picked up where Dungen left off after Ta Det Lungt...

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  Michaelangelo

  One Voice Many

  PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2007

  Michaelangelo’s One Voice Many (originally released in 1971) may not be the unearthed gem of the year but that doesn’t make it anything les...