Articles by Kevin Hainey

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  Christina Carter

  Living Contact

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  The latest in Kranky’s mission of reissuing all of Charalambides’ out-of-print past works, Living Contact is a remarkably personal account...

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  Mats Gustafsson, Sonic Youth and Friends

  Hidros 3

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Part of being an avant-garde guitarist is to know when to make short, aggressive jabs and when to freak-out all over the strings. Timing is...

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  Dion McGregor

  The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  The human mind and its forms of expression will never cease to amaze. These legendary ’60s recordings of a man dreaming out loud with rhyth...

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  Six Organs of Admittance

  The Manifestation

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  If anyone is suited (and equipped) to pay proper praise to the divine nature of our dear sun, it’s Ben Chasny, the man who’s been emitting...

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  Terrestrial Tones

  Blasted

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Two roommates who like to stay up late and explore the outer limits of electronic sound sounds like a ticket to Navel Gazing Park. But if t...

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  Lazarus

  Like Trees We Grow Up to be Satellites (The Backwards America)

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  It’s fitting that Lazarus’ sophomore effort has been released in winter, as it’s one of the saddest, most emotionally stirring albums I’ve...

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  Samara Lubelski

  The Fleeting Skies

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Samara Lubelski’s highly anticipated debut is causing quite the stir in New York’s psychedelic underground these days, and it’s easy to see...

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  OCS

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  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  You might not have guessed it from the blisteringly distorted garage-punk his band Coachwhips slice through with switchblade ferocity, but...