The latest from veteran power-poppers Sloan, Parallel Play, is in a strange position of being a follow-up to a breakthrough album-- 2006's ambitious Never Hear the End of It-- that never really broke through.
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Actress Scarlett Johansson unveils her anti-vanity vanity project, a record of Tom Waits covers (with one original) that belongs as much to its producer, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, as it does to the Lost in Translation star. If this isn't weird enough already, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner and David Bowie are among the guests.
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Far from the runaway-mine-car frenzy that defined some of their early work, the husband-and-wife duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel opt for slower tempos, multi-instrumental arrangements, and overdubbed harmonies on their fifth full-length.
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Death Cab's second album for Atlantic and sixth proper LP overall is one of the darkest and most muscular in the band's discography, as they move from the undergraduate longing of their earlier work and the looming mortality of Plans to a more generalized existential angst.
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Given its title, it's fitting that this self-produced record attempts to emulate both the gauzy atmospherics of My Bloody Valentine and the sparse efficiency of the Velvet Underground.
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Now, more than ever, Spiritualized are less about the trip into the outer limits and more about the frailty of love and mystery of individual existence.
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Of couse the music's fantastic, but if we actually needed another Joy Division compilation, why not an expanded version of the purposeful singles collection Substance, or at least the British Best of, which included a second disc of Peel Sessions?
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