Articles by Farah Barakat

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  Summer Hours

  Closer, Still

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

  Following 15 years of music making, indie-rock sweethearts Summer Hours release their final hurrah, Closer, Still, an album of deliriously...

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  E.D. Sedgwick

  We Wear White

  PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2012

  The visionary artist known as E.D. Sedgwick (formerly "Edie"), aka Justin Moyer, shed more than just the last two letters of her moniker fo...

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  Bambi Lee Savage

  Darkness Overshadowed

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2012

  This record is a properly titled homage to Bambi Lee Savage's career as a musician. In the span of 25 years in the business, Savage is nota...

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  Self-Evident

  We Built a Fortress on Short Notice

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2012

  Imagine Shellac's 1000 Hurts stripped of its hardcore elements. Keep the driving guitar, but make it more textural than pummelling, and the...

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  The Johnstones

  Suck

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2012

  The Johnstones have morphed into all-out pop media moguls, so it's hardly a surprise that a busy year ends with a new album from the punk/s...

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  Mother Mother

  The Sticks

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2012

  After a mere year-and-a-half away, Quad Island quintet Mother Mother are back with their fourth full-length. The Sticks possesses a sense o...

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  Thee Oh Sees

  Putrifiers II

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2012

  This is San Francisco, CA garage punks Thee Oh Sees' 14th LP and third in the last two years. Vocalist John Dwyer's unmistakeable high-pitc...

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  Niki & the Dove

  Instinct

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2012

  Goth-tinged electro-pop duo Niki & the Dove hail from Sweden, where debut single "DJ, Ease My Mind" has received rave reviews since 2010. C...