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19 June 2007

The Mercury Program & Maserati - “Confines of Heat” Review

“Both arresting and moving, forming a virtually flawless collection of tunes. […] Steve Reich-inspired (but what isn’t?) melody lines drip with delay, coursing like electric veins beneath the humming subsonics of drums and bass; entire cities seem to rise from the ground and give way just as easily beneath the blurry, rain-slicked notes.”

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19 June 2007

Junior Boys - “So This Is Goodbye” Review

“Jeremy Greenspan’s high(ish) voice is stark, often distressing, and unbelievably compelling; on “In the Morning”, his words are inflected with pop sensibility and injected between heavily-saturated analog leads, while “When No One Cares” could almost have been the darker, grittier candidate for a James Bond movie theme– think Sinatra on downers.”

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19 June 2007

Shpongle - “Tales of the Inexpressible”

“…Flows with such grace and beauty across the cultures of the world that it becomes literally consuming, a vehicle of such velocity one almost can’t take it in. “Tales of the Inexpressible” is proof that there is still great music being produced, and that there is still (as always) more beauty in the universe than we can ever understand.”

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