Articles by Aaron Levy

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  Feedle

  Leave Now For Adventure

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  Like shitty garage punk in the ’80s and ’90s, everyone is making laptop music in 2007. The warping of lyrics through "painstaking” vocal ma...

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  Fridge

  The Sun

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  If you’re only familiar with Kieran Hebden via Four Tet, you’re only marginally prepared for Fridge. Fifth album The Sun, their first in si...

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  Khan

  Who Never Rests

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  I have a few bona fide pet peeves: when an artist’s work blatantly resembles that of another’s (intentionally or not); and when a featured...

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  Proem

  A Permanent Solution

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

  The opening seconds of Proem’s A Permanent Solution are ambient and timeless. Then comes the bass. Throughout the first part of the album t...

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  Philipp Quehenberger

  Phantom in Paradise

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

  Forgive the cliché, but Austrian Philipp Quehenberger’s Phantom in Paradise,/i> is pretty mysterious. Being finally released alongside wick...

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  Chinese Food

  Toronto ON June 7 to 9

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

  Going on a whim for this band was definitely one of the best decisions of the fest. Walking into the set blind, they sound a lot like Wolf...

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  The D’Urbervilles

  Toronto ON June 7 to 9

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

  The D’Urbervilles showed their debt to the Springsteen rock feeling that the Constantines have developed over the years, and the emin...

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  The Flatliners

  Toronto ON June 7 to 9

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

  Fresh off of signing a deal outside of Canada with Fat Wreck, the Flatliners played to a lively crowd, adorned by cinematographers and frie...