Articles by Chris Wodskou

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  Ali Farka Toure

  Radio Mali

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  Ali Farka Toure was vaulted to the world music frontlines by recording Talking Timbuktu in the early ’90s with inadvertent world musi...

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  Bowery Electric

  Lushlife

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  The title of Bowery Electric inevitably harkens back to John Coltrane’s standard reading of the classic Billy Strayhorn ballad, and y...

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  Air

  Premiers Symptomes

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Premiers Symptomes is the hot, soothing bath your draw for yourself at the end of a long day. This mini-album was originally released by Ai...

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  Camper Van Chadbourne

  Used Record Pile

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Whether you take Eugene Chadbourne to be the wise fool or the village idiot of experimental rock, he remains as pure and spontaneous an ecc...

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  Mavericks

  Super Colossal Smash Hits of the 90’s

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  The Mavericks have lived up to their name throughout their ten-year existence and have usually made it work for them by becoming that rares...

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  Decoy

  Laser Thinking

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Two of the more endearing, or maddening, quirks of indie pop are the propensities to make inspired complexity sound like so many casually t...

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  Ganger

  Canopy

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Ganger are one of the lesser heralded, but entirely winsome in their own roundabout way, of the latest generation of precocious Scottish po...

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  Squeeze

  Domino

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Just as the ambitious sprawl of an album like London Calling redefined the capacity of punk rock to reflect and comment on an increasingly...