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Introducing
ListenIntroducing by Brilliant Colors

Brilliant Colors' sound of choice seems to appear on a 23-year cycle. In the early '60s, that sound ...

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Phrazes For The Young
ListenPhrazes For The Young by Julian Casablancas

For someone who doesn't seem to care much for his own generation, the album title Phrazes For The Yo...

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Xenophanes
ListenXenophanes by Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Word of yet another new solo album by the super-prolific Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (lead guitarist and pr...

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In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea

Explore....Alt/Punk

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Small Black EP

What Is Glo-Fi?

Hypnagogic Pop. Shitgaze. Chillwave. And, oh yes, Glo-Fi. These are the punny, dumb, possibly satirical terms that have come to define a strange and insistent 2009 sound. So what is it exactly? It is low-fi, certainly, recorded in basements and bedrooms and makeshift home studios. It is also gorgeous and diffuse and in some cases influenced by nostalgic ephemera, be it an ’80s Saturday morning cartoon’s theme song, ’70s cheese pop or the narcotizing serenity of New Age. It’s electro, but retro. Rock, but never rawk. ...
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