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2008: Brandon Bussolini


Dusted’s Brandon Bussolini ranks 10 albums from 2008 that made up in aspirations what we lacked in expectations.

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2009: Brandon Bussolini


Dusted writer Brandon Bussolini’s 10 favorite records of the year tried their best to remain ambiguous.

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2010: Brandon Bussolini


Dusted contributor Brandon Bussolini learned to stop worrying and ignore the rock this year. Here are the 10 records that piqued his interest and held on tight.

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2011: Brandon Bussolini


Our New York correspondent didn’t bother with themes, trends or movements in 2011 ... but he did keep a list.

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2012: Brandon Bussolini


One of Dusted’s electronic music fans highlights 20 releases that fucked with his efficiency in 2012.

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Destined: Deerhunter


Dusted's Brandon Bussolini profiles Atlanta's controversial avant-rock outfit Deerhunter.

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Destined: Invisible Conga People


Dusted's Brandon Bussolini fleshes out New York's Invisible Conga People.

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Playing possum with Townes Van Zandt


Dusted's Brandon Bussolini looks for signs of life in four Townes Van Zandt reissues.

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Stored up & in Store


Brandon Bussolini ponders the consequences of the institutional voice while praising a dozen records from 2007.

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Waiting to Exhale (Brandon Bussolini)


Brandon Bussolini spent 2006 waiting for some marquee albums to drop. He wasn't disappointed.

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Reviews


Artist: Abe Vigoda

Album: Skeleton

Label: Post Present Medium

Review date: Jul. 3, 2008

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Artist: Ada

Album: Adaptations Mixtape #1

Label: Kompakt

Review date: Aug. 27, 2009

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Artist: Ada

Album: Meine Zarten Pfoten

Label: Pampa

Review date: Jul. 5, 2011

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Artist: Aerea Negrot

Album: Arabxilla

Label: Bpitch Control

Review date: Oct. 5, 2011

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Artist: Africa Hitech

Album: 93 Million Miles

Label: Warp

Review date: Nov. 10, 2011

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Artist: Afrobutt

Album: Wonderbutt

Label: Electric Minds

Review date: Feb. 11, 2009

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Artist: Agoria

Album: Impermanence

Label: InFiné

Review date: Apr. 7, 2011

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Artist: Dave Aju

Album: Heirlooms

Label: Circus Company

Review date: Jun. 4, 2012

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Artist: Ellen Allien

Album: Watergate 05

Label: Watergate

Review date: Feb. 16, 2010

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Artist: Alva Noto

Album: For 2

Label: Line

Review date: Apr. 19, 2010

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Artist: Apparat

Album: DJ-Kicks

Label: !K7

Review date: Oct. 25, 2010

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Artist: ARG

Album: Animali

Label: Creative Sources

Review date: Mar. 24, 2009

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Artist: Arp

Album: In Light

Label: Smalltown Supersound

Review date: Oct. 24, 2007

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Artist: Arp

Album: The Soft Wave

Label: Smalltown Supersound

Review date: Sep. 9, 2010

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Artist: Arthur & Yu

Album: In Camera

Label: Hardly Art

Review date: Jul. 13, 2007

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Artist: Robert Ashley

Album: Now Eleanor's Idea

Label: Lovely

Review date: Nov. 15, 2007

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Artist: Baby Dee

Album: Safe Inside the Day

Label: Drag City

Review date: Jan. 22, 2008

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Artist: Baby Dee

Album: A Book of Songs For Anne Marie

Label: Drag City

Review date: May. 14, 2010

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Artist: Basic Channel

Album: BCD-2

Label: Basic Channel

Review date: Jul. 21, 2008

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Artist: Belbury Poly

Album: The Belbury Tales

Label: Ghost Box

Review date: Apr. 26, 2012

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Artist: Belong

Album: Common Era

Label: Kranky

Review date: Mar. 21, 2011

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Artist: Andrew Bird

Album: Armchair Apochrypha

Label: Fat Possum

Review date: Apr. 27, 2007

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Artist: Bjork

Album: Biophilia

Label: Nonesuch

Review date: Oct. 11, 2011

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Artist: Black Dice

Album: Repo

Label: Paw Tracks

Review date: Apr. 8, 2009

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Artist: Black Lips

Album: Good Bad Not Evil

Label: Vice

Review date: Sep. 27, 2007

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Artist: James Blake

Album: Overgrown

Label: Universal Republic

Review date: Apr. 12, 2013

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Artist: Blondes

Album: Lover/Hater

Label: Rvng Intl.

Review date: May. 24, 2011

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Artist: Blondes

Album: Blondes

Label: Rvng Intl.

Review date: Feb. 17, 2012

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Artist: Mike Bones

Album: A Fool for Everyone

Label: The Social Registry

Review date: May. 21, 2009

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Artist: Gui Boratto

Album: III

Label: Kompakt

Review date: Sep. 15, 2011

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Artist: Thomas Brinkmann

Album: When Horses Die...

Label: max.Ernst

Review date: Mar. 12, 2008

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Artist: Thomas Buckner

Album: New Music for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble

Label: Mutable

Review date: May. 13, 2008

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Artist: Steve Bug

Album: Fabric 37

Label: Fabric

Review date: Feb. 13, 2008

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Artist: Burning Star Core

Album: Blood Lightning 2007

Label: No Fun

Review date: May. 8, 2007

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Artist: Jennifer Cardini

Album: Feeling Strange

Label: Kompakt

Review date: Apr. 1, 2008

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Artist: The Caretaker

Album: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

Label: History Always Favours the Winners

Review date: Jun. 14, 2011

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Artist: Castanets

Album: In The Vines

Label: Asthmatic Kitty

Review date: Oct. 17, 2007

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Artist: Cat Power

Album: Sun

Label: Matador

Review date: Aug. 28, 2012

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Artist: Austin Cesear

Album: Cruise Forever

Label: Public Information

Review date: Nov. 7, 2012

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Artist: Sylvain Chauveau

Album: S.

Label: Type

Review date: Nov. 14, 2007

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Artist: CHLLNGR

Album: Haven

Label: Green Owl

Review date: Aug. 8, 2011

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Artist: Clark

Album: Totems Flare

Label: Warp

Review date: Nov. 18, 2009

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Artist: Cluster

Album: Qua

Label: Nepenthe

Review date: Jul. 17, 2009

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Artist: Maya Jane Coles

Album: DJ-Kicks

Label: !K7

Review date: Apr. 27, 2012

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Artist: Conforce

Album: Escapism

Label: Delsin

Review date: Feb. 6, 2012

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Artist: Cooly G

Album: Playin’ Me

Label: Hyperdub

Review date: Aug. 14, 2012

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Artist: Eric Copeland

Album: Alien in a Garbage Dump

Label: Paw Tracks

Review date: Aug. 18, 2009

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Artist: Cul De Sac

Album: ECIM

Label: Strange Attractors Audio House

Review date: Oct. 31, 2006

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Artist: Daphni

Album: Jiaolong

Label: Merge

Review date: Oct. 16, 2012

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Artist: Darkside

Album: Darkside

Label: Clown and Sunset

Review date: Mar. 28, 2012

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Artist: Darkstar

Album: North

Label: Hyperdub

Review date: Oct. 19, 2010

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Artist: DeepChord Presents Echospace

Album: Liumin

Label: Modern Love

Review date: Jun. 21, 2010

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Artist: Vladislav Delay

Album: Kuopio

Label: Raster-Noton

Review date: Jan. 29, 2013

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Artist: Delorean

Album: Subiza

Label: True Panther

Review date: Jun. 10, 2010

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Artist: Die Trip Computer Die

Album: Die Like a Rock

Label: Alcohol

Review date: Oct. 17, 2006

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Artist: Dirt Crew

Album: Blow

Label: Mood Music

Review date: Nov. 24, 2009

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Artist: Dirty Projectors

Album: Rise Above

Label: Dead Oceans

Review date: Sep. 19, 2007

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Artist: DJ Mehdi

Album: Lucky Boy

Label: Vice

Review date: Jun. 5, 2007

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Artist: Kyle Bobby Dunn

Album: Ways of Meaning

Label: Desire Path

Review date: Jun. 2, 2011

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Artist: Margaret Dygas

Album: Margaret Dygas

Label: Perlon

Review date: Aug. 4, 2011

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Artist: The Dø

Album: A Mouthful

Label: Six Degrees

Review date: Apr. 12, 2010

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Artist: Efdemin

Album: Chicago

Label: Dial

Review date: Jun. 22, 2010

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Artist: Elyse

Album: Elyse

Label: Isota

Review date: May. 14, 2006

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Artist: EMA

Album: Past Life Martyred Saints

Label: Souterrain Transmissions

Review date: May. 5, 2011

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Artist: Emika

Album: Emika

Label: Ninja Tune

Review date: Oct. 24, 2011

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Artist: Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams

Album: Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Label: Warp

Review date: Oct. 28, 2010

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Artist: Dominik Eulberg

Album: Diorama

Label: Traum

Review date: May. 3, 2011

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Artist: Excepter

Album: Streams 01

Label: Fusetron

Review date: Jun. 15, 2007

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Artist: Experimental Dental School

Album: Jane Doe Loves Me

Label: Cochon

Review date: Jun. 6, 2008

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Artist: Ben Frost

Album: By the Throat

Label: Bedroom Community

Review date: Dec. 2, 2009

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Artist: Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek

Album: Bird, Lake, Objects

Label: Faitiche

Review date: May. 19, 2010

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Artist: The Golden Filter

Album: Voluspa

Label: Brille

Review date: Jul. 29, 2010

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Artist: Goth-Trad

Album: New Epoch

Label: Deep Medi

Review date: May. 18, 2012

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Artist: Growing

Album: All the Way

Label: The Social Registry

Review date: Sep. 4, 2008

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Artist: Hair Police

Album: Certainty of Swarms

Label: No Fun

Review date: Aug. 26, 2008

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Artist: Hecker

Album: Neu CD

Label: Editions Mego

Review date: Aug. 6, 2010

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Artist: Matthew Herbert

Album: Score

Label: !K7

Review date: May. 24, 2007

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Artist: The High Llamas

Album: Can Cladders

Label: Drag City

Review date: Apr. 26, 2007

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Artist: Holy Balm

Album: It’s You

Label: Not Not Fun

Review date: Oct. 18, 2012

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Artist: Howlin Rain

Album: Wild Life

Label: Three Lobed

Review date: Jun. 26, 2008

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Artist: Jenny Hoyston

Album: Isle Of

Label: Southern

Review date: Aug. 24, 2007

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Artist: Indian Jewelry

Album: Free Gold!

Label: We Are Free

Review date: May. 5, 2008

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Artist: I’m From Barcelona

Album: Let Me Introduce My Friends

Label: Dolores

Review date: Sep. 10, 2006

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Artist: Nicolas Jaar

Album: Space is Only Noise

Label: Circus Company

Review date: May. 18, 2011

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Artist: Jatoma

Album: Jatoma

Label: Kompakt

Review date: Nov. 9, 2010

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Artist: Philip Jeck

Album: An Ark for the Listener

Label: Touch

Review date: Sep. 27, 2010

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Artist: Jennifer Gentle and Kawabata Makoto

Album: The Wrong Cage

Label: A Silent Place

Review date: May. 21, 2008

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Artist: Jóhann Jóhannsson

Album: Fordlândia

Label: 4AD

Review date: Jan. 13, 2009

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Artist: Junior Boys

Album: Begone Dull Care

Label: Domino

Review date: Apr. 6, 2009

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Artist: Kangding Ray

Album: OR

Label: Raster-Noton

Review date: Aug. 19, 2011

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Artist: The Knife in Collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock

Album: Tomorrow, In A Year

Label: Mute

Review date: Apr. 5, 2010

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Artist: Kode9 + The Spaceape

Album: Black Sun

Label: Hyperdub

Review date: Apr. 18, 2011

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Artist: Nina Kraviz

Album: Nina Kraviz

Label: Rekids

Review date: Mar. 20, 2012

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Artist: KTL

Album: KTL 2

Label: Mego

Review date: Jul. 27, 2007

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Artist: Justus Köhncke

Album: Safe and Sound

Label: Kompakt

Review date: Feb. 19, 2008

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Artist: R. Keenan Lawler

Album: Music for the Bluegrass States

Label: Xeric

Review date: Feb. 16, 2007

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Artist: Lawrence

Album: Until Then, Goodbye

Label: Mule Musiq

Review date: Dec. 10, 2009

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Artist: Dominique Leone

Album: Dominique Leone

Label: Strømland

Review date: May. 22, 2008

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Artist: Lindstrøm & Christabelle

Album: Real Life is No Cool

Label: Smalltown Supersound

Review date: Jan. 21, 2010

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Artist: Robert Lippok

Album: Redsuperstructure

Label: Raster-Noton

Review date: Feb. 9, 2012

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Artist: Little Dragon

Album: Ritual Union

Label: Peacefrog

Review date: Jul. 25, 2011

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Artist: Loscil

Album: Endless Falls

Label: Kranky

Review date: Mar. 1, 2010

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Artist: Love Is All

Album: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night

Label: What's Your Rupture?

Review date: Nov. 17, 2008

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Artist: Low Motion Disco

Album: Keep It Slow

Label: Eskimo

Review date: Jun. 19, 2008

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Artist: Luomo

Album: Plus

Label: Mood Music

Review date: Jan. 5, 2012

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Artist: Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks

Album: Real Emotional Trash

Label: Matador

Review date: Mar. 3, 2008

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Artist: Cass McCombs

Album: Catacombs

Label: Domino

Review date: Jul. 7, 2009

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Artist: Cass McCombs

Album: Wit’s End

Label: Domino

Review date: Apr. 25, 2011

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Artist: Mohn

Album: Mohn

Label: Kompakt

Review date: Jul. 11, 2012

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Artist: Mokira

Album: Persona

Label: Type

Review date: May. 7, 2009

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Artist: Momus

Album: Ocky Milk

Label: American Patchwork

Review date: Nov. 12, 2006

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Artist: Monolake

Album: Silence

Label: Imbalance Computer Music

Review date: Mar. 11, 2010

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Artist: Mountains

Album: Choral

Label: Thrill Jockey

Review date: Feb. 19, 2009

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Artist: Múm

Album: Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy

Label: FatCat

Review date: Oct. 31, 2007

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Artist: Nôze

Album: Songs on the Rocks

Label: Get Physical

Review date: May. 7, 2008

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Artist: The Paper Chase

Album: Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1

Label: Kill Rock Stars

Review date: May. 20, 2009

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Artist: Pelt

Album: Dauphin Elegies

Label: VHF

Review date: Aug. 8, 2008

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Artist: Dax Pierson & Robert Horton

Album: Pablo Feldman Sun Riley

Label: AA / Nosordo

Review date: Mar. 9, 2007

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Artist: Pinch

Album: Underwater Dancehall

Label: Tectonic

Review date: Nov. 29, 2007

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Artist: Benoît Pioulard

Album: Lasted

Label: Kranky

Review date: Oct. 11, 2010

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Artist: Planningtorock

Album: W

Label: DFA

Review date: Jun. 22, 2011

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Artist: Plastikman

Album: Kompilation

Label: m_nus

Review date: Dec. 1, 2010

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Artist: Porter Ricks

Album: Biokinetics

Label: Type

Review date: Mar. 29, 2012

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Artist: Professor Genius

Album: Hassan

Label: L.I.E.S.

Review date: Oct. 30, 2012

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Artist: Purity Ring

Album: Shrines

Label: 4AD

Review date: Aug. 3, 2012

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Artist: Max Richter

Album: Memoryhouse

Label: FatCat

Review date: Nov. 5, 2009

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Artist: John Roberts

Album: Paper Frames

Label: Dial

Review date: Nov. 14, 2012

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Artist: Roedelius

Album: Selbstportrait, Vols. I & II

Label: Bureau B

Review date: Feb. 8, 2011

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Artist: Rubies

Album: Explode from the Center

Label: Telle

Review date: Jul. 8, 2009

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Artist: Laetitia Sadier

Album: The Trip

Label: Drag City

Review date: Sep. 20, 2010

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Artist: Erik Satie

Album: Cubist Works 1913-1924

Label: LTM

Review date: Jun. 20, 2007

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Artist: Gil Scott-Heron

Album: I’m New Here

Label: XL

Review date: Feb. 9, 2010

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Artist: Scuba

Album: DJ-Kicks

Label: !K7

Review date: Nov. 4, 2011

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Artist: Shackleton

Album: Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs

Label: Woe to the Septic Heart

Review date: Jun. 21, 2012

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Artist: The Shaky Hands

Album: The Shaky Hands

Label: Holocene

Review date: May. 7, 2007

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Artist: Signaldrift

Album: Two Agents

Label: Audraglint

Review date: Jul. 8, 2010

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Artist: Judee Sill

Album: Live in London: The BBC Recordings 1972-1973

Label: Water

Review date: Jul. 24, 2007

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Artist: Mike Simonetti

Album: Capricorn Rising

Label: Italians Do It Better

Review date: Nov. 29, 2011

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Artist: Sistol

Album: On the Bright Side

Label: Phthalo

Review date: Aug. 26, 2010

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Artist: Ivan Smagghe

Album: Live at Robert Johnson, Vol. 3

Label: Live at Robert Johnson

Review date: Oct. 1, 2009

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Artist: Steven R. Smith

Album: Owl

Label: Digitalis

Review date: Jan. 31, 2008

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Artist: Solar Bears

Album: She Was Coloured In

Label: Planet Mu

Review date: Jan. 10, 2011

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Artist: St. Vincent

Album: Marry Me

Label: Beggars Banquet

Review date: Jul. 16, 2007

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Artist: Stars of the Lid

Album: Music for Nitrous Oxide

Label: Sedimental

Review date: Apr. 22, 2009

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Artist: Steffi

Album: Yours & Mine

Label: Ostgut Tonträger

Review date: Feb. 23, 2011

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Artist: Sten

Album: The Essence

Label: Dial

Review date: Sep. 9, 2008

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Artist: Supermayer

Album: Save the World

Label: Kompakt

Review date: Sep. 26, 2007

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Artist: T. Raumschmiere

Album: Random Noize Sessions Vol. I

Label: Shitkatapult

Review date: Feb. 21, 2007

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Artist: Taken By Trees

Album: Open Field

Label: Beggars Banquet

Review date: Sep. 10, 2007

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Artist: Tape

Album: Revelationes

Label: Hapna

Review date: Mar. 15, 2011

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Artist: Telepathe

Album: Dance Mother

Label: IAMSOUND

Review date: Jun. 5, 2009

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Artist: Terre Thaemlitz

Album: You? Again?

Label: Mule Electronic

Review date: Oct. 18, 2007

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Artist: Thao

Album: We Brave Bee Stings And All

Label: Kill Rock Stars

Review date: Feb. 4, 2008

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Artist: The Thermals

Album: Now We Can See

Label: Kill Rock Stars

Review date: Apr. 1, 2009

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Artist: Tiger & Woods

Album: Through the Green

Label: Running Back

Review date: Jul. 15, 2011

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Artist: Tussle

Album: Telescope Mind

Label: Smalltown Supersound

Review date: Oct. 22, 2006

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Artist: Tussle

Album: Cream Cuts

Label: Smalltown Supersound

Review date: Aug. 27, 2008

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Artist: V/A

Album: Girl Monster

Label: Chicks on Speed

Review date: Oct. 31, 2006

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Artist: V/A

Album: International Sad Hits, Volume One: Altaic Language Group

Label: 20|20|20

Review date: Dec. 4, 2006

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Artist: V/A

Album: Dynamite! Dancehall Style

Label: Soul Jazz

Review date: Apr. 5, 2007

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Artist: V/A

Album: Pop Ambient 2008

Label: Kompakt

Review date: Jan. 15, 2008

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Artist: V/A

Album: Full Pupp Presents The Greatest Tits, Vol. 1

Label: Full Pupp

Review date: Sep. 24, 2008

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Artist: V/A

Album: 2010

Label: Dial

Review date: Mar. 22, 2010

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Artist: V/A

Album: Shangaan Shake

Label: Honest Jon's

Review date: Apr. 11, 2012

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Artist: Mika Vainio

Album: Life (...It Eats You Up)

Label: Editions Mego

Review date: Aug. 22, 2011

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Artist: Jean-Claude Vannier

Album: L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches

Label: B-Music

Review date: Oct. 1, 2006

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Artist: Vetiver

Album: Thing of the Past

Label: Gnomonsong

Review date: May. 8, 2008

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Artist: Ricardo Villalobos

Album: Dependent and Happy

Label: Perlon

Review date: Sep. 24, 2012

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Artist: Levon Vincent

Album: Fabric 63

Label: Fabric

Review date: Jun. 6, 2012

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Artist: Wolfgang Voigt

Album: Freiland Klaviermusik

Label: Profan

Review date: Jun. 4, 2010

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Artist: Imaad Wasif with Two-Part Beast

Album: Strange Hexes

Label: self-released

Review date: Mar. 18, 2008

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Artist: Xeno and Oaklander

Album: Vigils

Label: Wierd

Review date: Feb. 7, 2011

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Artist: The xx

Album: xx

Label: XL

Review date: Oct. 7, 2009

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Artist: The xx

Album: Coexist

Label: Young Turks

Review date: Sep. 10, 2012

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Artist: Yo La Tengo

Album: Popular Songs

Label: Matador

Review date: Sep. 9, 2009

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