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Andy Battaglia

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Articles: 89

Andy Battaglia writes about music and culture of various other kinds from a home base in New York. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Wire, the National, SPIN, Artforum, New York, Pitchfork, and the Onion A.V. Club, among other publications. He’s also one of the organizers of Unsound Festival New York, a festival for experimental, electronic, and progressive music from around the world.

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Six Degrees of The Rapture…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

HTRK, Work (work, work)…

HTRK’s Work (work, work) is a curious mix of dark and light. The ov… more »

Laurel Halo, Hour Logic…

Like many other young musicians who work with old synthesizers (see also:… more »

Brian Eno, Drums Between the …

From the beginning, when he started lacing the spectacle of rock with ide… more »

Various Artists, Mad On Acid …

Sizzling inside the cold hearts of machines, the acid house heard on Mad … more »

Animal Collective, Water Curs…

Water Curses is comprised of four songs that were recorded during the ses… more »

Animal Collective, Strawberry…

Strawberry Jam assumes its place in a paradoxical trajectory that has fou… more »

Flying Saucer Attack, Rural P…

Flying Saucer Attack spread the rush and rustle of rock thin and wide on … more »

No Kids, Come Into My House…

Ever wondered what Sufjan Stevens would sound like over a chamber-music b… more »

Burial, Untrue

We all know about the "Difficult Second Album" — the oft-rushed rec… more »

Modeselektor, Happy Birthday!…

More than just an album on which Thom Yorke appears (though the presence … more »

AFX, Analogue Bubblebath…

Greeted as a genius when he started tooling with the more "musical" aspec… more »

Raymond Scott Quintette, Manh…

The work of Raymond Scott lends invaluable context to an electronic-music… more »

Various, An Anthology Of Nois…

It always helps to start at the beginning, and it would be hard to go bac… more »

Sufjan Stevens, Illinois…

There are songwriters and then there are songmakers — artists whose… more »

The Sea And Cake, Everybody…

Ever since they sashayed out of the Chicago post-rock scene in the mid … more »

Elk City, New Believers…

The members of Elk City have toiled somewhere in a nowhere-zone of indie-… more »

radicalfashion, Odori…

Mesmerizing like an ambient electronic album but rigorous and tender in a… more »

Arthur Russell, Springfield…

Among the most bumptious and thwacking of the many Arthur Russell gems ex… more »

Colleen, Colleen Et Les Bo…

The only instrument more inherently mesmerizing than a music box is the g… more »

Animal Collective, Hollinndag…

Recorded at live shows before it was clear whether Animal Collective play… more »

Swan Lake, Beast Moans…

Swan Lake is a conglomeration of three Canadian songwriters with similarl… more »

Elf Power, Back To The Web…

After long lurking in the shadow of more momentous Elephant 6 collective … more »

Vitalic, OK Cowboy

A suitably overdriven and over-everything example of the dance genre know… more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »

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