Articles by Michael Rancic

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  Bosse-De-Nage

  All Fours

  PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2015

  Differences in musical styles can be subtle, but those subtleties are often definitive enough for lines in the sand to be drawn. Bosse-De-N...

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  Anamai

  Sallows

  PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2015

  Anna Mayberry's work in her minimalist folk project Anamai differs a great deal from what she does in noisy powerhouses HSY, a band that op...

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  Six Organs of Admittance

  Hexadic

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2015

  For his first record as Six Organs of Admittance in three years, Ben Chasny came up with a whole new compositional system, called Hexadic,...

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  Full of Hell

  Full of Hell & Merzbow

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2014

  Full of Hell's latest will ensure 2014 is remembered as a year of unlikely metal collaborations. After the Body teamed with the Haxan Cloak...

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  Single Mothers

  Negative Qualities

  PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2014

  Press around Single Mothers' debut record routinely invites listeners to compare the band to the Hold Steady or the Replacements, situating...

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  Electric Wizard

  Time to Die

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2014

  Let's just get this out of the way: Time To Die does not hold a candle to Electric Wizard's cult-classic Dopethrone. In the 14 years since...

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  Phobocosm

  Deprived

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2014

  Montreal's Phobocosm aren't pulling any punches on their debut record, Deprived. Though they've been together now for five years, this mate...

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  Lydia Ainsworth

  Right From Real

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2014

  Lydia Ainsworth's career path has brought her from Toronto to Montreal to New York and back again, but her debut record doesn't sound as if...