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Album review: X-Ray Press “Uvb – 76″

Posted on December 16, 2010 by quartertonality

Prog-rock has been around for quite a long time now. Though its roots can be traced back to jazz fusion many bands eschew those undertones in search of a new sound that still retains the complexities in the music but … Continue reading →

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Album review: Pepper Rabbit – “Beauregard”

Posted on November 19, 2010 by quartertonality

Pepper Rabbit, with their most recent release, “Beauregard”, have produced a stripped down, folky version of ethereal dreampop with a bit of honky-tonk barstool blues added to the mix. The music has a familiar sound that is quite inviting, like … Continue reading →

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Album review: Motorifik – “Secret Things”

Posted on November 8, 2010 by quartertonality

Motorifik seem to be wasting no time with their debut album, “Secret Things”. Normally one would expect it to take a band at least a few albums to develop a unique and well formed sound. This is not the case … Continue reading →

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Braid re-releases on Polyvinyl

Posted on September 28, 2010 by quartertonality

Braid was a band from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois that can be categorized with other early 90′s acts with a guitar driven, aggressive sound. They have the energy and abrasive timbre of Snapcase, the edgy stop-start math rock leaning of Polvo and … Continue reading →

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Album review: Women – “Public Strain”

Posted on September 27, 2010 by quartertonality

Women’s latest release, “Public Strain”, is artier and more experimental than much of what is out  there right now. The album leans towards an early Sonic Youth aesthetic with its use of ambiance, noise, feedback drones and aggressive guitar attacks … Continue reading →

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Working for a Nuclear Free City – “Jojo Burger Tempest”

Posted on September 20, 2010 by quartertonality

Every once in a while an album comes along that can only be described as “massive”. Working for a Nuclear Free City’s double-disc “Jojo Burger Tempest” is one of those albums. Eighteen tracks that clock in at nearly an hour … Continue reading →

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Album Review: Grand Lake – “Blood Sea Dream”

Posted on August 17, 2010 by quartertonality

Oakland’s Grand Lake have presented a debut full-length that is fully formed in its sound, with variance from song to song but without taking huge leaps in genre in an attempt to please everybody. This clearly developed sound is obviously … Continue reading →

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Album Review: Paul A. Rosales – “Wonder Wheel I”

Posted on July 28, 2010 by quartertonality

With his debut solo album Paul A. Rosales creates a complex sound world that completely envelopes the listener from first track to last. With an understated guitar pushed to the background behind ever present vintage sounding synths and vocals treated … Continue reading →

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